Hats off its beautiful!!

P.s I hate bodywork just spent today panelling the rear and it sucks!! nowhere near as engineer'd or as technical as yours and I hate it!

Any news on next years Nationals??
 
owl said:
Aluminum is pretty easy to work especially if you anneal it. To do the curved flange I cut the panel out with a jig saw, them marked the wheel arch curve on the inside. I then folded the straight top edge to help keep the panel straight, then put the panel on my welding table outside down with the wheel arch lip over the edge of the table. I put a heavy piece of angle (with no sharp edges) on the panel near the edge to be folded and worked around the edge with a selection of dollies hammers and mallets (wood and hide mallets are best) because of the way it is curved you will need to stretch the flange in various places with a planishing hammer to keep the panel flat and if the panel work hardens as said anneal it.
do this with a gas torch/blow lamp, draw on one side with soap and heat the other until the soap turns black and leave to air cool.
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Perfect, thanks for that. I may have to give it a go at some point.

Keep up the good work! :D
 
jai_landrover said:
Hats off its beautiful!!

P.s I hate bodywork just spent today panelling the rear and it sucks!! nowhere near as engineer'd or as technical as yours and I hate it!

Any news on next years Nationals??
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I heard that there won't be a nationals next year
 
AFAIK the ALRC are trying to do a deal on land for the nationals, I am told that there are 3 possible sites but it is still all up in the air so we shall see.
 
Owl I heard the same about the 3 possible sites and something about the year after at Eastnor might have some sorting out to do but we shall see. I think one possibility is very close to me almost walk there the other two sites I'm not sure about. Keep checking the home page but no updates.
 
Today I have started a job I have been putting off, the radiator cowling which is quite complex as it needs to be shielded from the occupants, route the pipes in and the fan box side sealed around the rad plus easy to remove the rad if need be. I also have to mount an expansion tank quite high up.
the whole thing will be covered, I think I will make a composite cover. I also need to make a separate covers for the fuel tank and battery.

 
Yup see lots of challenge truck with the header tank at heat height exposed i wondered how they got through scruteneering. However they seem not to be following any regs.

We saw a motor with a crushed main hoop at the indoor Donnington and that had been competing for the last couple of years like it by all accounts
 
I hope the weather isn't to bad end of May, it is very open at Stainby and when I was there last April you needed thermals on the rain was horizontal.
 
Well thats a wee bit closer to us than Belvoir eh Jai! :)

Not sure of that site but it does look exposed, I enjoyed the Metheringham Nat's back in '95 just up the road. The campsite backed up onto RAF Digby, where at the time my Brother in Law was Station Commander, so my brother and I got to camp out in the big Hoose :bounce:

Well thats May sorted :fighting2:
 
I've been doing my radiator box this week and what a mission it turned out to be and it isn't done yet. :(
It needs to be a reasonable seal around the rad so the fans pull through the core efficiently and the occupants need to be shielded, also the rad and shocks need to be easy to remove.
I'm topside now on this job but I wish things would go a bit quicker.
Now I need to find some BEHR quick connects, RR hoses are a bit tooooo pricey to cut up, I have been looking online but can't find just the fittings.



 
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