Here’s a Formula Ford chassis I had in recently.  It’s had a hard racing life from the look of it!

I made up a new floor section from 1″ square tube.

Old floor section cut out and new section clamped in, then brazed together as per the original.

 Part of top rail replaced also and brazed in.

New seatbelt threaded inserts fabbed using the original as the pattern.

New floor panel welded on and to the belt mounts. Mountings for the side mounted coolant radiators added too.

All ready for the powder coaters.

A Simple little job from the other day.

A Battery hold down bracket in a customers race car.

All done except paint and a bit of plastic edging strip.

Inbetween fabrication projects I’m busy looking after this car in the Renault Clio Cup UK, driven by Dan Zelos and run by Ciceley Motorsport. The same team runs Adam Morgan in the British Touring Car Championship in his Mercedes A class.

Here we are at Thruxton Race Circuit.

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More modifications to the Puma.

Fitting the Racing Puma bodykit required cutting out the original rear arches and extending the inner arch out to meet the new outer arch.

The drivers side was quite straightforward, as it just required a strip of steel shaping to fill the gap and welding in place.

The passenger side, however, had the fuel filler neck mounting to deal with. Once the old neck assy had been removed a similar strip of steel was shaped to fit up to the neck position, then a separate, wider piece made up to cover over the hole. Then the new outer arch could be simply bonded and riveted into position.

Relocating the fuel filler inside the car required the filler neck being enclosed inside a fireproof enclosure.

Here are some pics of the filler poking through the floor panel, and the construction of the enclosure complete with latch to keep the lid closed.

Hi everyone.

New for this season is the requirement for rally crews to wear HANS  (head and neck support) devices.

This may entail modifications to the rollcage fitted to the vehicle as the shoulder straps need to be level or a max downward angle of 20° behind the seat.

This rallycar is in the workshop for the fitting of a bespoke harness bar to meet the new regs.

In this pic the new tubes have been cut and notched to fit neatly in between the current cage tubes. They will be fully welded and then the shoulder straps of the harnesses can be looped around them.

Check yours before the season starts!

Cheers

Al

Harness bar all fitted, along with some loops to stop the harnesses sliding about on the bar.

This headlight mounting had seen better days. So I made a new one.   Simples!

A couple of little details of a cage I fitted to a 4 door saloon.

To add a little additional rigidity I attached the cage to the B post (top & middle) with a couple of neat fabricated gussets. This is in addition to the six feet mountings and A post gussets down the side of the windscreen pillars.

Cheers Shortly.

Generally my preferred way of working underneath – no more lying on the cold floor!

This Sunbeam has just received some new sills and jacking point.

This is the fuel tank I’ve fabricated for a customer’s Sierra racecar, which incorporates a sump underneath so it doesn’t need a separate fuel swirl pot and pump. The enclosure in front of the tank is for the dry sump oil tank, with a hinged lid for access.

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