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Good work, interesting to see how you done the fiberglass repairs

Standard frame with bottom arm pins



VS ti frame, this doesnt use pins

Wow ! That’s some weight saving there.

Phil.

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I'm sure Carl has a photo somewhere of one of his daughters as a youngster holding one of the Ti frame above her head! Its very very light!

Wow! Anyone else got one these 2nd hand sittin about like this lucky sods gone n got!? ;-P

If so PM the shit outta me!

Edited by D4VE on 15th Jan, 2019.

Hahaha i could imagine that, it is very light. Much lighter than it looks. Amazingly stiff compared to the standard one to.

I think at this rate, the car might just hit 500kg.

I missed the bottom of the last page! Thats some more good savings! What had u done to ur subby? I guess youd roughly saved 2-3kgs but cant see any obvious holes from the last shot of the front cut off

Been a little while! I made some steady progress, then had about a month of doing other stuff, Including smashing my face up 🤣. Much to many’s amusements!

Got the front end GRP fillered.



Etch primed.



Then high build.



Got the frame back in to trial fit the engine.



With a lot of faffing about it went in, had to add some shims under the engine mounts to get it to clear a few bits of the frame but it’s all good.



I then got the front end on again and realised the frame hangs quite low at the front. Apparently this is normal.



Wasn’t to keen on it so I have added a front lip, bolted to the frame. Again not to keen, but I will probably re visit it. Will give some needed downforce!



Lip and oil cooler location, will have to duct the cooler through the lip.



Knocked up some Ti engine steady brackets to go off the front.

Edited by jonny f on 2nd Apr, 2019.

Is it just because of the shallower lines of the minus?

Love it. Let’s hope you can reach 500kg.

Phil.

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Looking good

I run a supercharger and I don't care the TB is on the wrong side.
VEMS + 12 PSI + Liquid Intercooler = Small Bore FUN!

Oh 😳 thats a shame, when ya see stuff like that hanging down its normally a dead giveaway for some ugly honda, redtop or bike conversion..

Im sure you'll make that splitter work tho 👍

In an effort to make things easier, I’ve relocated the oil filter.

Made a take off.



Completed and hung of the frame on the drivers side.



Rad roughly in place. I am changing the feeds so it’s on the drivers side.



Added an extra return lip around the scuttle to add some strength back in and when the fronts fitted it will look correct through the panel gap.



Then painted it!

M

A nice little weight saving here. Going from big stainless bolts to Ti studs on the subframe.





Got the frame back in again mounted up with new spreader plates against the body etc.

Back up to date now. Spending next couple of days on it so hopefully get a lot done.

Edited by jonny f on 3rd Apr, 2019.

Looked real good at the weekend jonny... really would like to know how does it drive compared to the old set up?

The ever improving minus, it's getting better all the time Jonny.
Are you keeping away from them little blue cones? 😁.

Roy B

Looks incredible.

In the 13's at last!.. Just

Dave, Cheers! Should of said hello. I’ve not had it set up properly yet so couldn’t say for sure if it’s improved it. Definitely feels more rigid than the steel frame.

Roy, I dodged them on the L2B! Did ground out and get stuck on a rock though!

Lizard, cheers fella.

I shall do an update on here soon. As it’s all done now pretty much.

Bit of a catch up. It's done (again) and on the road.

The intercooler was made up by TCK and bigger with a pro alloy core so should be more efficient.



I made up a nice alloy duct for it.



Which fitted like so.



Had a bit of a clearance issue.



resolved!



Front end all fitted up.



Is a bit low!



Got a new gear linkage sorted with some welding help from a mate.



Went to Blyton park, had a good day. Although i hadn't set up the wheel alignment quite right so handling was a little off. managed to punt it into a cone at one point! Thankfully i hadn't painted it so could repair the damage easy enough.

Edited by jonny f on 27th May, 2019.

Very nice indeed!

Got a new passenger seat mount sorted again with some welding from a friend.



Got the new front end painted. Its a fair bit lighter than the old one. Roughly saved 4kg.



Now back up to date and looking good again. Did the London to Brighton and got runner up in SNS highly modified.

Looking good as always.

Phil.

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