Well time for another update………
Been kind of busy here at Sandcroft Acre for a while trying to get all the spring/summer things done, the garden has been a real frustration for us with late frosts then drought followed by deer eating everything that is growing and now things are perhaps too wet, never mind the ongoing covid thing yak, yak, yak.
To be honest my lovely wife handles most of the garden stuff, I would most likely kill everything, I just try to do what she asks me to do.
Oh ya! This is supposed to be a car forum so I had better get on to that part.
I have not done much more in the way in the way of actual metal fabrication on the chassis.
I have done a bit of research for my next parts buying adventures and think I will go with Shell Valley for my windshield assembly needs, some reading indicates folks seem to be happy with them, the FFR ones are cheaper but seem prone to cracking ( it could be bad installs too)
I considered one from Brasscraft in England, I am sure they are beautiful but buy the time you crate and ship it here it’s twice the price. Reading between the lines I would guess Shell Valley supplies a bunch of windshields to other vendors via their wholesale company International Wholesale.
If anyone has any different ideas about windshields I would like to hear them.
I was able to do my layout drawings in ½ scale ( still need a long table) and then move on to the finer details and full size drawings for the control arms. A bit of a challenge and compromises always need to be made given I am using existing hubs and uprights and wanted to use the original rear lower arm mountings as they are nicely incorporated into the rear tower assembly.
I had more freedom with the front mounts but the uprights have their own unique challenges too. But the rear is the biggest challenge, trying to get an upper arm into the design and the coil over shock working within the confines of the original suspension area.
I believe I have come up with a workable design although my roll centers are a bit lower than I had in mind originally, I have done my best and am confident it will work. I will add the mountings for anti-roll bars front and rear but not add any bars until I drive the car without them first. I would prefer to not have them for ride quality reasons but if I need to I can add them.
I was hoping to be building arms and such this weekend but I am lacking a 1 inch cutter I ordered, but it is coming ( I hope), it’s one of the drawbacks to living next to the middle of nowhere, you can't just pop out and pick up a 1 inch annular cutter, fortunately you can order one.
So here are a few of crappy pictures of my drawings, a bit hard to see on the brown kraft paper but I needed really long paper and that was in stock at the dollar store so.....
Next time something in metal....I hope
P.S. I noticed on posting this that I have made a revision to the lower arm layout since I took this so it won't look exactly like this as upon reflection it seemed over complicated for the loads that will be involved. Compromises, compromises..........