Tinkers with stuff. Building an LS1-swapped Rover P5. Cat dad.
While I was there I replaced the silly flexible mounting bushes with solid ones. They never made any NVH difference, but they did make the steering rather vague.
My fear was that with no slop in the bushes, if there was any misalignment in the unibody or the subframe (e.g. from a crash at some point in its life, which I think it may have had) the solid ones would be unforgiving where the originals were forgiving and the subframe might no longer fit. It's fine!
Today I got the front subframe back under the P5, partly because it was in the way where it was out of the car. But partly because I'm planning ahead for a particularly stupid potential subproject after the next couple and I need the (stunt) engine in its final place to figure out if my idea will work at all.
@tubemapper good smile! :D
@vwdasher Thank you! Yep, and more importantly for me, do them in any order I feel like doing them. It all needs doing eventually, so whatever keeps the motivation high and the wins coming in. It's worked for me; I've been spending basically all my free time in the last year+ on this and that's the longest I've worked on something consistently ever.
@lewis it's the way to go, tackle it one bit at a time or you get overwhelmed. Looking great though! Mmm carbon fibre.
Retrowave Fox 🦊🌭
A companion design to my popular Retrowave Coyote!
https://www.straysongdog.com/s/search?q=retrowave
@zackloup you know, I almost never wear anything with a design on it these days, but for SOME reason this pushed my "impulse purchase" button so hard it went through the earth's crust ;D
@janusfox yes, this is the second best time to have found out this fact!
@MLE_online I see a new Emily miniproject incoming ;D
@janusfox No need! If you use grit-like cutting tools on it (even thin angle grinders discs, they love it), 2mm sheet like this is actually really pleasant to cut.
@janusfox This is one of two reasons I'm doing it if I'm honest. (The other being that I might need that space up front for something else.)
@lewis It just screams "racecar" and I love it.
@janusfox make a circle on cardboard, trace circle onto the carbon sheet with a paint pen, Dremel. I'd have used a jigsaw but I made a mistake and glued in the studs for mounting the fans first and so there was no room.
Wasn't that bad. There's actually like a 5mm margin for error here because of the design of the fans. And I aimed to cut out slightly less than I needed to and then Permagrit-block sanded it back.
@janusfox thank you!! Trust me that it's 10 foot good; it really was just cutting shit up and sticking it together. I love it though!
Anyway, the only way a project as large as the P5 can be at all manageable for me mentally is for me to break it into lots of tiny projects. I still think systematically, but everything is its own project.
So, although I still have things to do adjacent to it, I can call that little "put a radiator in the wrong end of a Rover P5" subproject done.
:)
I'M SO FANCY
Funny thing is nobody's going to see any of this because the radiator is mounted at 45 degrees with this face angled down and I've spent way too much making this just so I can say "carbon fibre".
@chilort Oh yeah that'll do ;D
@chilort @Basmitharts it's a superpower, literally shooting lightning from your fingertips like the Emperor in Star Wars
@chilort let's fucking gooooo
