Gen 2 Megabusa

[Rob]

Getting it wired by Andy Parkinson and his dad, they are familiar with the 929 engine in sevens and also Andy put his own car through what was SVA. Looking forward to planning it all out with him, though the IVA regs need to be followed closely, as there are some weird and wonderful rules on lighting etc.

Talking of which, just ordered my headlights which are 5 in 1 units comprising side lights, DRL's, dip, full beam and indicator. E Marked for IVA and also have a projector lens which means I can run HID's after IVA. Same as below except with an all black bezel.

 

[Chris Mac]

Looks fantastic Rob coming on very well

 

[EF Ian]

Looks awesome sitting built up, coming together well now.

 

[Rob]

1 piece back panel just needs a little more tidying but has worked out well

 

[Ollie]

I saw your garage build thread on Garage Journal a while back, good to see the car progressing too, some top work being done.

Dont mean to be nosey but have you a link? Love a good shed!

 

[KeithRobinson]

Awesome work @Rob

 

[RoniN]

Dont mean to be nosey but have you a link? Love a good shed!

Start at page 3 of this thread.

Coming along nicely @Rob

Cheers

 

[Reno_LV]

Love this thread!

 

[mcmurray]

Where do I sign up for a passenger run in this?

Love this thread.

 

[Rob]

Any time! When its finally on the road I think I'll be only too happy for an excuse lol. Thanks guys

 

[IL]

Any time! When its finally on the road I think I'll be only too happy for an excuse lol. Thanks guys

You'll never be out of it, I'm going to have to try to get home more often so we can get out a blat!

 

[Rob]

Sounds good to me

 

[Rob]

Things are now progressing nicely with the car, some updates from the past couple of weeks..

Fluids bought. Only thing I couldn't find locally was the brake fluid, the rest were from Halfords, which means if I get caught short at a weekend or on race day, I don't have to wait on parts coming mail order.

Filled the diff - coat hanger and an old bit of pipe worked perfect.

Fuel jugs and measuring jug bought

Longacre rear view mirror fitted. Will need some attention to pass IVA to hide the sharp edges of the brackets. Great wide angle vision

Chassis plate fitted. Picked up this nicely engraved carbon item from an eBay seller

Finished off the water and fuel pipe plumbing

Plumbed in the oil cooler - after much deliberation on cost vs benefit I took the advice from Think Automotive and used aeroquip rubber hoses with barbed push fittings. Apparently good for 250psi which is a lot more than I will throw at it. Assembly was a doddle, the fittings push easily into the hose but won't pull out again. Though, from reading some other forums I think I will add a jubilee clip onto each fitting as an extra level of security.

Next up I got a sump plug adapter machined by a local engineering company to accept my Stack temperature sender

Unfortunately, when I added half a litre of oil to test, it leaked And worse still, it broke off in the sump when I went to undo it. So today I will have to remove the sump and have the engineering firm weld the adapter on. Thankfully I managed to recover all of the oil (££), you can just see the broken adapter on the ground with the temp probe in it.

Then it was onto electrics. I picked up some nice multi function single rear lamps off Bolt On Bits, with universal lamp pods.

Unfortunately the lamp pods don't fit the standard Westfield location, so required some modification to suit the angle of the rear arch. This looks worse than it actually is - I used a belt sander to remove an even portion of material and keep it square. The end result is absolutely spot on perfect.

Then it was onto the dash. All in the name of the "finer detail" I sourced some black button boots to replace the standard silver Stack items, to tie in better with the dash. Switches are made by APEM, boots available from RS Components for anyone interested..

Carbon dash blank by Mickmade was measured and cut to size, then trimmed with the belt sander, great handy tool for this job

And then marked and cut for the steering column and Stack

And then marked out and bored for the various switches, which incidentally are direct from Caterham from the R500.

The finished product

 

[pablo]

LIKE just doesnt cut it any more! So much win in the last update

 

[Boydie]

Some awesome work there Scrob - loving this project!

 

[Cooper]

Love the dash scrob, can't wait to see this on the road.

 

[Chris Mac]

This is absolutely fantastic!

 

[EF Ian]

Awesome, more nice work.


Still jealous of your workshop, can't wait until I have a workshop/Mancave of my own.

 

[PeteMoore]

What did you pay for the circuit breakers? I have hundreds in stock, could also have done a nice deal on the fluids

 

[Rob]

Circuit breakers?

 

[PeteMoore]

oh sorry, they are push button switches, my bad

 

[Andy_A]

Not long now Rob!

 

[KeithRobinson]

Still jealous of your workshop, can't wait until I have a workshop/Mancave of my own.

It's a great space to work in, but you wouldn't be jealous of the fact it's absolutely freezing at the moment LOL!!

Great update Rob!

 

[Jason]

Great work!! Some tidy skillz!!

 

[EF Ian]

It's a great space to work in, but you wouldn't be jealous of the fact it's absolutely freezing at the moment LOL!!

Really?

Heres my workshop: