The Fake Jaguar Thread

[Ulu]

Squaring everything up again, with string, long rulers, big squares, little plumb bobs, and tape.

I had to trim things twice before I could line it up well enough to tell anything.

Looks like this 3/8” “sliver” trim will get things square. It might all still need to get a bit shorter.

I believe that I calculated the steel tunnel at the crossmember will need 1/2” trimmed off, But I can’t recall if that was from the long end or the short end of the floor, because it’s not square.

 

[Ulu]

Today I am down to the part of my chassis mods that I have dreaded.

In order to trim the floorboards I have to assemble the weldment and then mark the interference points and then disassemble it and then trim.

Then I have to do the whole thing again and again: disassembling and trimming, and assembling and marking, until I get the whole thing to fit.

The good news is that after several rounds of this it is almost in alignment.

Just a few more trims and it will be ok.

 

[Ulu]

Well after five more trims, I figure I still only have about 10 to go now.

I’m at that point where I’m chasing dimensions in a circle, trying to make everything come out all at once.

A tiny little deviation at one point in the floor pan can throw the rail off a whole inch at the back end.

Everything is difficult to measure and I was planning to build myself a trammel to help take care of that. It hasn’t happened yet however.

 

[Ulu]

I am having great difficulty making the cross corner measurements on my chassis. I need to get this car square.

So I have decided I could build a trammel and I did. Over 12 feet long.

It’s difficult to photograph. Also crude. No micrometer adjustments. A sliding pointer:

I find that My car is off over 1/2” from corner to corner. (I thought it would be much worse!)

I need to take some more diagonal measurements, but everything thing else is pretty much possible with a tape measure.

Then, Back to the marking and trimming.

 

[GeePig]

!/2" is not bad, many production cars used to be within 1".

I remember when I built my 3-wheel Lomax, once I got the chassis square it was then a problem to fit the fibreglass body...

 

[Ulu]

!/2" is not bad, many production cars used to be within 1".

I remember when I built my 3-wheel Lomax, once I got the chassis square it was then a problem to fit the fibreglass body...

I do think this might be a problem that the body has taken a set over the years and will be slightly twisted and banana shaped.

Maybe I will have an excuse to cut the whole car through the passenger compartment and add 2 inches to the wheelbase.

This car steered pretty straight & when I originally measured it out it was only off about a half inch then. But it wasn’t stiff.

 

[Ulu]

BTW, still assembling and disassembling.

I forgot to take the rear heater control tubes out of the tunnel. So today I have strip it down in order to get in there. Plus, I decided it was time to finish cleaning inside of the tunnel and shoot some paint in there.