project--rustowagen mk1 caddy

thermal wrote:

curtis_caddy wrote:

jealous much?

they gunna sit under the 14s man?

ha more than likely, thought you may approve man. depends, can use them with 256mm set up and 280 i think. i need to make adapters or buy some so see, i no i need to space my wheels as there blooming wide beasts! need to sort your bottom hose out too dude. still havent got mine tacked up to test fit it

curtis_caddy wrote:

thermal wrote:

curtis_caddy wrote:

jealous much?

they gunna sit under the 14s man?

ha more than likely, thought you may approve man. depends, can use them with 256mm set up and 280 i think. i need to make adapters or buy some so see, i no i need to space my wheels as there blooming wide beasts! need to sort your bottom hose out too dude. still havent got mine tacked up to test fit it

Yeah man it was the width that was the problem for my 6 pots!

im sure you will prevail though man

yeh man, they come with adapters but unsure what for so its a bit of a start i suppose.

curtis_caddy wrote:

yeh man, they come with adapters but unsure what for so its a bit of a start i suppose.

did you say you only paid £120 for them?

thermal wrote:

curtis_caddy wrote:

yeh man, they come with adapters but unsure what for so its a bit of a start i suppose.

did you say you only paid £120 for them?

thermal wrote:

curtis_caddy wrote:

yeh man, they come with adapters but unsure what for so its a bit of a start i suppose.

did you say you only paid £120 for them?

Bargain of the century!

Looking good Joe, I've said it before and no doubt I'll say it again,can't wait to see this finished piece!

max wrote:

thermal wrote:

curtis_caddy wrote:

yeh man, they come with adapters but unsure what for so its a bit of a start i suppose.

did you say you only paid £120 for them?

Bargain of the century!

Looking good Joe, I've said it before and no doubt I'll say it again,can't wait to see this finished piece!

wheres the fun in that?

looking good Joe. Engine bay done now?

Lupton_20vt wrote:

looking good Joe. Engine bay done now?

cheers blad. maybe, then again maybe not

I was going to make some tubular wishbones, but didnt bother in the end for the reasons i said

but i got as far as drawing some up, so if you do decide on making some your welcome to steal the design. Im not 100% on the middle joint, i think there will be too much stress.





Obviously the hub, brake and shock is just for mockup. I never got round to working out an arb mount, but i doubt a front arb would make any difference on a pickup...

yeh does look a bit weak that. unsure what im doing atm, going to get the brakes mounted and see if i need spacesr and go from there. gotta start savings again for disks and pads to get them mocked up

phils running 14" th comps and g60 discs, so maybe you will be ok too?

g60 set up is 280mm theres no way you can get that in a 14inch wheel surely! 256mm is maximum on a 14 as far as im aware

i thought 256mm was max you could run with 14s joe
did you work a braket out
oh and sent you a txt
and ive started rebuilding bits at last haha

curtis_caddy wrote:

g60 set up is 280mm theres no way you can get that in a 14inch wheel surely! 256mm is maximum on a 14 as far as im aware

thats what i thought too, then i saw phils car!

ive always said phils mk1 has 280s fitted

When i got the car it had 17s on so it so i wasnt an issue but they fit will a mm to spare

caddyman wrote:

i thought 256mm was max you could run with 14s joe
did you work a braket out
oh and sent you a txt
and ive started rebuilding bits at last haha

samesame man, yeh got some sorted, well not to make but dan said he can do me some will drop it back off when i bring the paper work over. my phones going crazy man!

thermal wrote:

curtis_caddy wrote:

g60 set up is 280mm theres no way you can get that in a 14inch wheel surely! 256mm is maximum on a 14 as far as im aware

thats what i thought too, then i saw phils car!

crazy, ile wait til i see it, ile bring my tape measure phill

drill

hammer time

nearly there...

oh who needs a clutch pedal bracket?....ooops


who said they dont fit?....

more to come over the next couple weeks as i start to make the propper mounts to hold it in properly. just tacked in there in teh position at the moment so i can make brackets while it hangs there. propper chuffed. also thanks to dad for giving me much hands and willing to hold my pedal box and get burnt arms from weldings whilst i tried welding it! ha

Keep it up joe, cant be much longer before it goes for paint

CaddyRage wrote:

cant be much longer before it goes for paint

HA!

CaddyRage wrote:

Keep it up joe, cant be much longer before it goes for paint

maybe a while yet, this is one of the big jobs to get that bit close though

billybug wrote:

CaddyRage wrote:

cant be much longer before it goes for paint

HA!

shut it you

more progress with the pedal box, finaly its in propperly! one mount down 3 togo!

scrapped the first plan with the one threaded boss, took up to much room that i didnt have and wasnt going to be strong enough. so lower mounting points and another boss. ended up with this......

it bolts onto what will become the box that goes around and over the top of the pedal assebly

under side shot, each boss is welded all the way around excpet for the bolting face


all of which attached to the main brace and mouting point, which gets welded in solid to the car.


again nice weldings



so after, i sand blasted the bracket and a coat of weld through primer


more bits to cut out that got in the way of the bracket i made, this is part of the original bracket for the pedals and columb



shot blasted all welding areas and then once again weld through primer


bracket tacked in place


boom boom pow pedal box in

will start on the other mounts this week ready to go in, in a few weeks time.

also cut the S2 dash brackets out and rested my brown S1 dash in


and a nice dishy shot to finish up with.....


thanks for looking all comments welcome

looking good Joe

Dremel worked fine too

Looking tops, that welding is ace too! Did you do that yourself???