Ancestors

Written by Lewis on 2024-09-08 at 16:39

So, here are my weird looking rails for the engine. They're not finished (need to finish boxing them in at the bottom and then tidy everything up) but the idea is here. Leftmost pickup point boxes out a suspension mounting point so I'd hope that's solid. I might reinforce that further once I have remade the crossmember over immediately to the left (rear) of it.

And then it hit 2pm on my 9th day in a row of working on this and I said "that's enough car for the day".

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Toot

Written by Lewis on 2024-09-08 at 16:48

In "clearance" news, no, the alternator won't fit with the new rail. It's hard against it. I thought this might be the case.

The fact it ALMOST fits hints at a solution which is not "top mount it". While I could recess the rail just a tiny bit to clear it, I don't know for a fact that this alternator works and would probably want to replace it anyway. So, a more compact alternator will definitely solve this.

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Descendants

Written by Lewis on 2024-09-08 at 16:54

In other "clearance" news, I'm just going to pretend that the lack of space around the steering box is not going to be a problem.

The pretend heads for the stunt engine are down the container and I couldn't be bothered to get them, but eyeballing this suggests the factory manifolds aren't gonna work. I don't know how to solve this; I can see enough room that some solution to this feels possible.

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