Post Croix - Monza GSE

Message par **MANTAO** » sam. 17 oct., 2015 19:01

The BBS weels come from an Astra G OPC, it's 17" 5x110 ?

Bstardchild · Message par **Bstardchild** » sam. 17 oct., 2015 21:12

MANTAO a écrit : ↑sam. 17 oct., 2015 19:01The BBS weels come from an Astra G OPC, it's 17"Â 5x110 ?

17 x 8 & 5 x 120 BMW Rondell 058's

I have a set of genuine BMW 2 piece split rims they have a bit better offset so will fill the arches better

Message par **MANTAO** » sam. 17 oct., 2015 21:58

Bstardchild · Message par **Bstardchild** » dim. 18 oct., 2015 10:53

I have a mixture of frustration and excitment

- The front end came down when the shell went back about 5mm

It stopped when it hit the top of the pedal box

- I removed the top section of the pedal box (need to fab something to replace that but right now it's not a priority)

It dropped another 10mm but stopped when it hit the roll bar at the front of the cage

It's the one going from one side to the other in this picture

As you can see it has a cranked profile up across and down again - replacing this with a straight bar will allow maybe 20mm further drop but at that point the pedal box will once again come and spoil the party - I can fix that by recessing the scuttle to accomodate further drop) but once that's done I am really stuffed for any further drop.

The two sills are getting closer alignment wise (I think it's better than this right now but I haven't taken a recent picture - will do that later)

but I'm beginning to think that my original target point of the bottom of the two sills being aligned is both unrealistic and unachievable.....

Mycroft · Message par **Mycroft** » dim. 18 oct., 2015 17:32

what's the height difference from both cars ?
Seems to be the prime point to know, it is not ?

Bstardchild · Message par **Bstardchild** » dim. 18 oct., 2015 18:24

Mycroft a écrit : ↑dim. 18 oct., 2015 17:32what's the height difference from both cars ?
Seems to be the prime point to know, it is not ?

Hmmm that made me think and made me wander out to the garage to check one thing

So the roof is pretty much on top of the cage so the shell is over as much as it can be (with a little movement still available)

the sill depth (door step to lowest fixing) on a Monza is much deeper than the Commodore (about 1 1/2 inches or around 30 cm)

Bstardchild · Message par **Bstardchild** » lun. 19 oct., 2015 22:44

In other news

Well digging in my spares pile I had a Carlton Sill (well a section of one) still easily sourced (Albeit from Germany cos that's where you have to get most bits for what are actually Opels badged as Vauxhalls)

A quick bit of measuring up and it looks like the commodore middle sill fold will sit nicely with the flat section on the outer sill and they are long enough and also correctly shaped at the front wing end. Not really sure why I didn't think of looking at that before......

So for the rest of the evening I've been chopping

Front section of the scuttle removed - makes access nice and easy to stich the fire wall to the bottom of the scuttle

Pedal box has had some more chopping

Still a few mill left however I have lost the Monza uppper fixing so I could have a lot of unwanted pedal box movement if I left it like that

Luckily the Commodore Pedal box whilst smaller and more boxy uses two fixings on the scuttle

So I can remake the top of the pedal box and fix thro those instead

Anyway all that chopping means the front of the roll cage - bar at the top of the windscreen is now arguing with the roof so it's a low as it can go (well actually not quite but I'll cover that in a bit)

So to stop myself leaping in with the welder (and because I'd reached my noise curfew time I dragged one of 5 wheels (destined for this project) down from the loft and spent a pleasant few mins fitting the one wheel that still had a slightly oversize tyre.....

Yep I really do need arches on the rear - not silly large - just narrow box arches pit pictures of up earlier in the thread

Mycroft · Message par **Mycroft** » mar. 20 oct., 2015 08:02

good news

Bstardchild · Message par **Bstardchild** » mar. 20 oct., 2015 22:30

Mycroft a écrit : ↑mar. 20 oct., 2015 08:02good news

It's getting there - thanks for the support and encouragement

Right - I think I've got there - I won't know absolutely for sure until I roll it out of the garage in daylight but I like where I am

Pedal box got another chisel

Now the bulkhead looks right

The sills are pretty near parallel

The front wheel arch has 4 fingers front and rear and 3 on top

The roll cage is against the roof (both sides same place)

But actually none of that matters cos when I look at it in the confines of the garage it looks right (rubbish pic)

Mycroft · Message par **Mycroft** » mer. 21 oct., 2015 10:08

I like crazy project like yours