I've lowered the chassis at the front, shortened the back and measured things up so that I know roughly the body is going to fit. The only issue I have is that the engine is sitting 40mm too high, making it all difficult with the rear window of the rear body section. If I can get the engine and body relationship to be as the Tornado car then I can use their exhausts too.
I check with Andy Sheldon at Tornado and he gives me some critical dimensions. It definitely needs to go down 40mm. Obviously the lower the engine goes the better anyway. I had previously got it as low as I could given the restraints of the output shafts and the chassis rails. Here is my problem, the only way to get it lower is to cut out the chassis to allow the output shafts to go lower but it is all right where the lower wishbone mounts are. It's going to require cutting and strengthening in a different way. Not only that, I need to do the same with the cross member to allow the transaxle to drop by 40mm.
I've got to go down 40mm and maintain the integrity of the chassis
Out with the grinder
I plasma cut out enough material to allow me to drop the 40mm
Looks better now!
I weld in new rails behind and create room for the bell housing to drop down by sculpting the new chassis rails
Having created the space I then turn to the actual engine mounting rail. That's in the next post as I have reached my picture limit!
I check with Andy Sheldon at Tornado and he gives me some critical dimensions. It definitely needs to go down 40mm. Obviously the lower the engine goes the better anyway. I had previously got it as low as I could given the restraints of the output shafts and the chassis rails. Here is my problem, the only way to get it lower is to cut out the chassis to allow the output shafts to go lower but it is all right where the lower wishbone mounts are. It's going to require cutting and strengthening in a different way. Not only that, I need to do the same with the cross member to allow the transaxle to drop by 40mm.
I've got to go down 40mm and maintain the integrity of the chassis
Out with the grinder
I plasma cut out enough material to allow me to drop the 40mm
Looks better now!
I weld in new rails behind and create room for the bell housing to drop down by sculpting the new chassis rails
Having created the space I then turn to the actual engine mounting rail. That's in the next post as I have reached my picture limit!