Used to be Blue's Valiant

Ivor · Post by **Ivor** » Wed Nov 27, 13 10:35 am

Nice one Blue, I can see you've thought about that...simple and practical, though that piano hinge looks a bit heavy!

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Wed Nov 27, 13 11:12 am

....and you need to attack the base plate with a big hole saw....

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Wed Nov 27, 13 12:21 pm

I will be once it's been "populated"...

Ivor · Post by **Ivor** » Wed Nov 27, 13 12:22 pm

...and make the tray out of carbon.

I'll get me coat.

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Thu Nov 28, 13 8:31 pm

Covers on and a decent set of leads, misfire still present

will deal with that another day. Spent a few hours today scraping off undercoating in preparation for the sawzall coming out....

Steve · Post by **Steve** » Thu Nov 28, 13 10:24 pm

Thats a great idea Blue....did you fab that tray up from scratch? Did you roll the crease in yourself? Watched them rolling these in on a floor pan patch panel on Fantom show on telly...I was mesmerised and would love a go at that..

MrNorm · Post by **MrNorm** » Fri Nov 29, 13 11:47 am

Very nice Blue!! Looking great already and only going to get better!!

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Fri Nov 29, 13 6:54 pm

Steve, Yes I did. I had a mate roll the bead as I don't have a bead roller these days. Done plenty of it in the past though, always makes you sweat a bit, especially if it's taken you a long time to make a panel 'cos if you cock up the bead the panel is scrap. It adds quite a bit of rigidity to a panel, it's not just for decoration.

Anyways, I'm a happy camper today, my registration document finally arrived today after a month of playing postal ping pong with the DVLA....

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Fri Nov 29, 13 7:08 pm

I have a bead roller - great fun; we will be doing MattH's Posey "Snowplough" spoiler for him at some point.

We did the firewall on the Barracuda in steel, it is a lot easier doing Aluminium....

autofetish · Post by **autofetish** » Sat Nov 30, 13 4:42 pm

Great work keep the updates coming

Q. What's the red grommet stud thing you have installed inside on left on Ali tray ?

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Sat Nov 30, 13 6:10 pm

It's an MSD firewall feed thru for the coil lead,

http://www.msdignition.com/Products/Coi ... ,_Red.aspx

You can get something similar for the starter cable as well, which I'll probably use.

autofetish · Post by **autofetish** » Sat Nov 30, 13 6:35 pm

Very cleaver

looks like I will be taking my heater box back out

Jim · Post by **Jim** » Sun Dec 01, 13 2:09 pm

Looking good Blue.

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Sun Dec 08, 13 6:09 pm

Long day Yesterday. Took the Valiant in to work at 6am for some chassis work, individual wheel lifts are great for this sort of thing, unrivalled access. Chassis ties in first, 2"x 2" box section. I tried something different this time, I cut a slot out of the bottom of the rear chassis section right back to where the spring mount is. The box section sits flush with the rear floor and hangs below the rear rail by about 3/4", making welding very easy. I had to grind down one of the ribs in the rear floor for a good fit and I can also weld the floor to the box section from inside the car.

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Sun Dec 08, 13 6:27 pm

Dropped the axle out next complete with the wheels, springs, shocks the whole shooting match. Notched the frame for the spring relocation boxes leaving the outer side of the frame intact. I mounted the boxes a little lower than usual so they sat level with and butted up to the chassis ties. I shaped the boxes to match the original frame profile for a more stealthy look in these BIVA ridden times. By the time I've ground some of the welding flat and covered it in stone chip, it shouldn't look obviously modified to the untrained eye. Really happy with the way it turned out, so I slung it all back together and drove home at 4pm totally knackered...
I'm not ready to inboard the springs yet, but the prep work is done. More cutting this week....