FX Holden Race Car Project

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That is coming together very nicely!!
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Cant believe how nice that cage is turning out! Good work mate...
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Seeing stuff like this makes me wish I was able to weld. :cry:

Brilliant work Sam.
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thanks Dave, and just so you know, I once wasn't able to weld, I bought one and just started playing around! best way to learn is to get out there and have a go!
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I've been undecided about the seat location for a long time, and one of the reasons for getting the location sorted out was so I could work out where the main hoop had to go for the roll cage, which I did a while back, so I thought i'd work on the rest of the seat location and mounting.

Got the harness out and started to fit it all up
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I also wanted to make a upper securing mount, the seat whilst probably strong enough, still moves around if you push your shoulders back, with this its solid as!
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upper belt attachment, need to get some spacers to locate the belt mount in the middle of that stud, and i will add gussets on the sides, but otherwise its pretty well worked out.
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I'm in the process of making some mounts for the lap belt, but I have a feeling one of them is going to have to mount in the tunnel, so I might not be able to finish them off just yet, and as it works out the sub belt will go nicely into the chassis rail!
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Unsure if that floor pan will pass roady man :lol:
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patience Jonno! :)
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Jonno wrote:Unsure if that floor pan will pass roady man :lol:
How else can he see where he is going with the front wheels in the air? :lol:
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Let the new motor assembly begin :)
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Good weekends worth of progress!
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Motor is getting closer, I have to weld the fittings to the top of the rocker cover, also waiting on pushrods, but on the home stretch!
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Once again it has been faaaaarrrrrr too long in between updates, life and work has been far to hectic lately, but I do have some videos that might go some ways to making up for this lack of updates :)


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time for a well overdue update since the previous pics this is the latest.

pic of the engine bay, a lot of tidying up to do but mainly all complete.
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Finally got to ordering some coil overs, so that's just about the rear end complete!
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And after drinking copious amounts of beer I had enough cardboard to make some templates :)
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Transferred the template to tin, with some minor trimming the floor is in, and you can also see the tunnel is in too.
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flipped the template and trimmed slightly to suit the passenger side floor.
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Did a lot of work of repairing rust in the wheel arch and then I was able to attach the tubs and then make this section on the front of it to seal up the wheel arch, I did it like this so I can get easy access to the 4 link brackets and adjusting bolts.
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