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| AdeV:
Thanks chaps, your kind comments are - as always - much appreciated and highly motivational :nrocks: Dave - to answer your specific point - yes, this IS the Mk1 sump, however, overall racing plans have changed. Dad & I will now be sharing the Capri, whilst hopefully also building a new race car from the chassis up. That second car will also have an M5 engine, and one of my dry sumps... There is a specific reason I'm being ultra-cautious around these measurements... and it's due to another mistake I made over a year ago... when I calculated the angles for the head drains (here), I somehow ballsed up the angle & cut them deeper than I expected. I didn't realise at the time, it was only when I first started looking at the slope calculations that I realised I might run into trouble. The next one will be much easier to make I think, as I know what to watch out for... Anyway, there's a change of plan... I still need to round the corners off the front, and - as with the wax model - it's much harder to clamp it in the right place once the slopes are cut.... so I shall be using the rotary table tonight instead of the angle plate... PS Ralph: "Holy four little asterisks" - that made me laugh too, I did notice it, honest! |
| Davo J:
I am still following you build, your doing some great work and will be one of a kind. Dave |
| jatt:
Looks way too good to be stuck under a car!!!!!!!!!!! Progressing along well. |
| jim:
excellent work :thumbup: |
| AdeV:
Thanks lads, I'm sure you could all make one of these (given the same gear I've got, at least)... but it's nice to be on the home straight I must admit. No machining tonight, it took over an hour to get the sump set up on the rotary table, and then I discovered I'd got the wrong bl**dy radius! So trying to set it all up again now, it's a frustrating job and it's not quite there yet. At 9.15 I called time. And just to add insult to injury, the damn day job is getting in the road as well. Grrr! Lots of weekend coming up, though, and no plans to go anywhere - except the mill that is :) |
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