FX Holden Race Car Project

[Holden202T]

had a pretty quiet weekend for once, so was able to get a few things done on the car whilst streaming goodwood festival in the shed

Managed to get a hole cut in the guard with the hole in the right spot it still needs a bit of a trim and the pipe needs a trim also, but I am going to wait till I have finished with a few other body mods to make sure everything is locked in before cutting.

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I pulled the dummy motor out as its soon going to be replaced with a proper motor so while it was out I took the opportunity to modify the sump to clear the stud girdle, thankfully it didn't take too much hammering to get the clearance I needed!

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Also while the motor was out I finished off a few welds on the roll bar connection to the chassis, and I added the mounts for the brake lines, I then started on the hard lines from there to the master! I need to get some more hard line but its a good start

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I plan to get some more hard line in 1/4 as the rear line on these are larger than the fronts, I also need to get a flexible line made up to go from the diff to the chassis.

[heff0018]

Nice one, makes me want to get out my stud girdle and fit it just cause I can. Ha, I spent all my free weekend time finishing off installing my eave framing and painting fibre cement sheets. Would much rather be playing with cars, maybe next weekend.

[Holden202T]

yeah we all have weekend full of chores

[Holden202T]

So with the new car I had a quick look at mounting my old coil bracket, and while I could do it, it was going to be fairly hard to find a good spot for it, and also take up a lot of room ..... so I found this coil mount which should save a bit of space, now I just need to decide if I want to mount it to the engine or the chassis...

below pic shows the coils on the old mount compared to the size of the new one.

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[firebug]

That looks like a much neater arrangement...

[heff0018]

Sure takes up lots of room but lots of sparky.

[Holden202T]

yeah in the gemini it fit really well above the brake booster, but not so much in the FX ... but should be mint now!

[Holden202T]

found a suitable spot for the coils AND! I can use the original leads I had without any mods! Will just need to get some cable management for them.

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[Holden202T]

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!

[jenko]

at last you can sit in it and make engine noises