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The economies of scale in these kinds of processes is mainly in the design, setting up the data/command input, and the people doing the physical...
Or laser relief engraving, direct to metal.
Having said what I said elsewhere about builds which don't recognise the original engineering concept of a car, I've long had the idea of...
A different approach to de-gaudying a '79 Coupe de Ville, more of a, what if sanity had prevailed at the time? [ATTACH]Generally cleaned up to get...
I remember seeing a magazine article about a Morris Minor — I think it was a Traveller — on a Citroën BX diesel floorpan. I remember the...
Very quick exploratory stab: [ATTACH] Obviously not finally sorted.
Do you mean the '66-'67 or the '68-'70? I need to have a go at that. Just not today. I've got an off-the-wall idea which may or may not work.
Though it has a cult following. It's one of those movies some people have a tradition of watching annually.
I didn't see this thread before now, and this morning I was about to start the exact same thing. Thanks @JimSibley! I sporadically daydream about...
This is an idea that has occurred to me before. It should work in theory: whether it works in practice would depend on things like component...
It's been discussed from time to time — for instance:...
I wouldn't know where to start looking, but I could reconstruct the latter easily enough in Photoshop (Gimp actually): [ATTACH] I like to revisit...
Two drawings I did about 30 years ago, neither of which I can put my hand to right now: one was for a local drag racer who was putting together a...
Are "engine conversions" only swaps? I can think of many conversions to engines. Some are OT, like a BMW "brick" motorbike cylinder head on a BMC...
For argument's sake let's assume your driveshaft is 1200mm between the UJs. With 32mm vertical offset and 32mm horizontal offset, the overall...
It wasn't a specifically British thing. It was done whenever it was necessary to get two people into the narrowest possible open body. And that...
I suspect that packaging considerations militated against the underslung front axle fairly early. The impracticalities are e.g. the radiator...
Vauxhall were taken over by GM after the inspired but overambitious and underdeveloped 25-70 of 1925, and immediately moved downmarket.
Glycerine. It's often used in fluid-filled instruments.
1. Your A's front axle is laterally located by the spring shackles. Wobble isn't a lateral-location issue. You do have bump steer, but depending...
I met my wife only after the Morris Minor had gone into storage, so no pics of her with any on-topic car of mine. Besides, being a keen...
I believe "track bar" was '30s/'40s Ford factory terminology for a rear Panhard bar?
A Panhard bar is one of several possible lateral locating devices. Others are a Watt's linkage, a WOBlink, a Mumford link, and a Satchell...
Cross steering requires that the steering arm on the passenger side spindle move in an arc as the suspension moves, or bump steer will result. A...
Manual — but I'd probably put way more thinking into it than it warrants to position the crank where it's easy to operate while driving, without...
A lot of the stuff I post is pure what-if. I do it because it's interesting to me, an end in itself rather than a means of dealing with an...
Depends on how it's designed, surely? Or will any spindle other than a '37-'41 Ford spindle, even one of the same era, look wrong?
I got to thinking about this again in response to my speedometer/tachometer thread. The question of where to take speedometer drive from led me to...
That is exactly what I wanted to know: thanks!
Any diesel vehicle with a vacuum brake servo should have something adaptable. Another idea I've had was to run the vacuum wiper motor on positive...
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