hi all again, its been awhile but been doin alot of little things to the ute, been making a tub floor, just using 1mm zinc got a bloke at the moment pressing some beads in it to match the pattern in the tubs. also had some really good news, had a engineer come over yesterday to take a look, i first spoke to him on the phone and told him what i got and he said its doable, but when he came over he was surprised i did it the way it had to be legal so will get him to do it when needed. so good to know i can have my ute engineered and roadworthy and fully insured with no worries of cops, he told me to put some bracing in the rear chassis so heres a pic of that. im not a great welder but have a certIII in mechanical engineering means that my welds are ok for the engineer.

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nice!!! that looks like it fits sweet...

finished fitting radiator today heres a quick pic. fits good.

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been awhile since ive done anything major to car but found some time to cut the front out to fit the intercooler and radiator, got some ideas of scott at maddat with ways to make mount brakets etc, which was great help. been doing small things aswell like cleaning up some bits and pieces too, so painfully boring.

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hi again wifes-ute , not shure how the engineer is going to like that you moved the rails at the back inwards , down south that is a no no. also the position of the panard bar why so high? and so short? may be ok for a drag car but it wont go around corners ,the roll center is way too high and you will have no rear side grip , don't want to spoil all the other awsome work you have done but i think you will be dissapointed with the bad handeling this will give you . WARDS

Hi wards, this stage it will be registered on the road and take to drags and get some good practicing in to hopefully do a 10 sec pass as I've always wanted. Then I'll just keep driving it on the road and enjoy it, and still use it as my first intensions were and run greens to dump etc. After ed75mnd got me thinking I'll be adding some gussets and fish plate couple of sections just to be safe guess the chassis can never be too strong, as the missus put her foot down and said this is my last car I do so will make sure it lasts

Hi Wifes-ute what is the end use of your project? are you going to try and register it? is it just a straight line weapon? i have a lot more questions but would like to see what your end goal is. thanks Wards

I thought a 4 link bracket in that area could have acted as a gusset at the same time but it looks well thought so Im sure you moved them there for good reason.

anyway top build, and great work. look forward to more progress.

Cheers

Ed

yeah unpicking the chassis would be an option but the new clip is unreal mate, everything works and theres no need to
work around the existing structure.
gotta love qld!lol

keep it up mate gonna be a gun ride!

Good ideas ed74mnd will deffiately look into it, I fully understand what your talking about, where your talking about putting a gusset at the vertical, it's actually has on the front side cos I was going
to run the 4 link bracket on the back side of that vertical but changed it. I have a mate up here who builds rods as well so will double check with him again with my work. Thanks for your concern.