back to the rx8, i have a fairly long list of snags to get through. one of which is the seals on the driver side rear caliper no longer seal, so a new seal kit ordered. the wheel arch liner is falling off, so that needs dealing with, the undertray needs remaking in aluminium, (plastic is so last sea...

it was always possible, i dont actually get beached and could probably get away with it. but im not a fan of scraping my sills along the floor

test loaded the 8 today, i have a new issue, the new issue was similar to my old issue.  i miscalculated when i did the beavertail and ended up cutting too much out, so the angle (of about 5*!) is still too much for the near zero groundclearence my car has. this wasn't particularly surprising, and i...

todays job was to unload and sort through this lot...









took a while

its FINISHED! well, mostly :mrgreen: rear marker lights added, now i can actually see where the ass of the lorry ends (how are these not a legal requirement?) https://i.imgur.com/hOkutpk.jpg https://i.imgur.com/TN4pQUl.jpg https://i.imgur.com/9nhqtci.jpg generator wiring added https://i.imgur.com/PX...

its FINISHED! well, mostly :mrgreen: rear marker lights added, now i can actually see where the ass of the lorry ends (how are these not a legal requirement?) https://i.imgur.com/hOkutpk.jpg https://i.imgur.com/TN4pQUl.jpg https://i.imgur.com/9nhqtci.jpg generator wiring added https://i.imgur.com/PX...

list of things done today include.. work lights https://i.imgur.com/GL6a4wx.jpg https://i.imgur.com/zGtcIAz.jpg gene box moved and braced. https://i.imgur.com/yqGujHo.jpg clips for the ramps https://i.imgur.com/JRZiJPK.jpg https://i.imgur.com/ruQUWpx.jpg a hole to stop the ramps sliding out when dri...

debit card refund..

yesterday my ipad battery went flat hence no post. i finished all the fab work. and painted the new panels https://i.imgur.com/1BXdM5v.jpg https://i.imgur.com/Bb497mX.jpg https://i.imgur.com/TGCtCzK.jpg https://i.imgur.com/WE2N1Jc.jpg https://i.imgur.com/PWY5nH0.jpg https://i.imgur.com/bTdOnn6.jpg h...

which just makes a even more twichy r1

i never thought id say this, bit, it is possible to have too much power!

and put it on full slicks..... r8 here we come!

and without mains electricity either! (well, 100m of extension so i can run a grinder but any big tools not so much...)

nice evasive action there clive

i was planning on finishing the fab work and painting the unpainted parts today, until at about 1pm i got a call from my parents, who had gone to a farm machinery auction and bought a quad and trailer (drove there in the merc slk) and then wondered how they where going to get home. so most of the af...

ramps shortened, hinges swapped to the top so they fold the other way, rear panel fitted and braced to the chassis.

nearly done!

ramp frames completed, just gotta shorten the ramps and fit the end panels and lights...

got started on the ramp slides/runners/storage today.





a lot of fabrication work goes into stuff like this, so im not ever half way on one side, predominately because it was raining all day...

god im tired! multiple jobs completed today, worked on the lorry all day then home and fitted a new turbo to the laguna... first thing i did was build the corners of the column up. then i fabricated (fancy word for cut a bit of 2mm sheet up and drilled some holes) a body capping to cover the transit...

luke murdoch is mobile. and travels the entire country.

i would ask a specialist to either recover the car and repair it or ask one of the mobile rx8 specialists to come to you to fix it, whilst in theory any garage can do it, i wouldnt trust just anyone...

20! .... 20! ....

its 11

floors in.... https://i.imgur.com/eebX7uQ.jpg which might turn out to be a mistake, i think ive just made my life far harder than it has to be sorting the ramps... but it was raining so i did what i could in the dry :D also dismantled and added a section to the door. https://i.imgur.com/2SMTIsA.jpg ...

also worth noting, except where i started and stopped, no filler rod was needed for the entire weld.

yeah the corner part was hard to get the torch height constant. hence the porosity. ill work on that

ive got the next two weeks off to finish the lorry, seems a bit excessive now, considering its nearly done ! side profiles have now been cut, fiberglassed and gelcoated (grey, cos i had it left over from my garage roof, 4 years ago!) and glued in: https://i.imgur.com/K0FMn3h.jpg https://i.imgur.com/...