Used to be Blue's Valiant

ANTON · Post by **ANTON** » Fri Sep 26, 14 4:25 pm

Surprised you haven't drilled lots of holes in the outer tube to lighten it.

GJUK · Post by **GJUK** » Fri Sep 26, 14 4:47 pm

ANTON wrote:Surprised you haven't drilled lots of holes in the outer tube to lighten it.

And the cage

Don't forget the cage

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Fri Sep 26, 14 6:11 pm

Trev suggested roller bearings funnily enough, too heavy for me. Case weighs nothing as it is, so no point drilling it...

Carl · Post by **Carl** » Fri Sep 26, 14 6:57 pm

Coming a long Blue, your work is quite inspirational to me, gives me ideas

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Wed Oct 08, 14 5:45 pm

Screen & dash stripped out ready for the front half of the cage and 'glass dash install. I'll strip out the loom and all the other odds and sods tomorrow. Then I guess I'll be firing up the hole saw again, I see weight...

terryr · Post by **terryr** » Wed Oct 08, 14 5:59 pm

Watch that Waterbag john ,the motor is to much for the pipe,I had one and it kept blowing off,your passengers will get a shower

Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Thu Oct 09, 14 8:47 am

That's his colostomy bag Terry. It was very rude of you to draw attention to it.

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Mon Oct 13, 14 6:34 pm

Mocked up the fibreglass dash this afternoon and made the mounts.

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Mon Oct 13, 14 6:40 pm

Looks cool Blue!

terryr · Post by **terryr** » Mon Oct 13, 14 6:45 pm

I do hope you are leaving them nice door cards

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Wed Oct 15, 14 7:02 pm

Back of dash, end mounts bonded on and riveted, Dzus bracket added to mount the electrics panel to, I'll mount a couple of small braces from that to the back of the plenum to stop flexing. Gauge mock up Tomorrow, looking forward to that!

autofetish · Post by **autofetish** » Thu Oct 16, 14 4:41 am

I just want to wait till this project is finshed as I keep thinking why did I not do that

Great work as always

Master

db · Post by db » Thu Oct 16, 14 7:02 am

Lovely stuff dude!
I've always liked Dzus but they're a bit of a mystery to me. There seem to be loads of different types, mounts, etc?

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Thu Oct 16, 14 6:27 pm

Dzus fasteners are pretty straight forward. The self ejecting type come in 2 diameters, the larger you would use for fitting big panels such as a bonnet, the smaller for the kind of thing I'm doing here.
Both sizes come in various lengths, you measure the thickness of the 2 pieces you want to fasten together and choose the nearest length, you can tweak the springs a little either way so it's not super critical.
Each length has it's own matching spring.

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Thu Oct 16, 14 6:52 pm

So, electrics panel now fits neatly to the bottom edge of the dash, gauge holes cut and column back in to make the cover panel. Gauges are period Stewart Warner, the speedo is very faded so I have a better one on it's way. These gauges are still made today so the temp. gauge is new. These were Sox & Martin's gauge of choice. Just need to decide which tach I'm going to use and then I can mount that. I have a matching Stewart Warner as well as several versions of the Jones Motrola, which were alway's reckoned to be the very best back in the day, but they weigh a bit. All cable driven of course.