slimyroadster

Time to start with my first build job... OK, I've been at it quite a while and done a fair bit to get to this point, but as I was prepar...

As they say, paint covers a multitude of sins. But it's air tight which was the main thing I was after. The red is just the standa...

Well, that took a long time!! Five months apparently since I started the tank. And now it's finished. There were a few issues. The swi...

I'm currently welding up my fuel tank. Whilst it's a little slow going due to available time, it's not really bringing up any is...

...And just like that, two months have gone by. I often thought I'd have more time to do stuff as I got older, turns out there's jus...

Well, the extenders have arrived, I reckon I spent all of five minutes before I had to try them on for size, and five minutes after fitting ...

Let's talk seats. Since the start of the build when I got my donor, I knew that I wanted to reuse the seats. They were from the V spec e...

OK, so lets talk track rod ends. When I was building my roadster, I knew that steering was a challenge. Lots of options had been explo...

Now I've got my HSR body (woohoo!) and my bike has been sold (boohoo!), I can finally get round to fitting the body and seeing what work...

The body has arrived; I didn't realise the kit came with a dashboard blank or aeroscreen, so that's an added bonus. I ...

The steering column is now in place, along with the 10 degrees of deflection required for IVA. Obviously this pic exaggerates the angle; ...

The steering rack is now in place and bolted up, and I have a problem... As part of the IVA regs the steering column needs to have a defle...

A while back I bought a vernier caliper from Aldi. It worked well, but the digital aspect of it was not designed for a garage, and died pret...

I had to post a picture of this, it's a remarkable piece of kit. It fits exactly as expected, and with bolt cutouts on both splines a...

I think my next job is steering, so there's a few things to sort here. First thing is mounting, the standard bracket is renowned for ben...

A while back I purchased some rollers that were designed for 3d printing, but they fit brake pipes almost perfectly. So I was going to make ...

Chassis painting went ok, the welds look decent in the right places (some of the caps to seal the tubes are a bit 'rough', but...

Well, that's the uprights finally finished. This cold weather was making painting very challenging, the hammerite was drying but stay...

The hubs are coming along nicely, a couple of coats of red oxide and then gold top coat (yep, sticking with the iron man colour combo!)...

It is with regret that I must announce the passing of the brake disc shields. I did all I can to save them but they were too far gone... T...