Midas kit car RWD project

[miniswift]

Hi,

Yes, my friend has one of BRM in his garage after cam belt snapped.
He is fixing it now so will be OK.
He also has about 7 other cars!

Cheers
Atchi

[miniswift]

After speaking with Alan about width of mk1 Midas wheel arches, I decided to reduce width of rear subframe by 100mm.
I have measure to make sure where centre line is and gave 2" masking tape 2 widths.


Then cut it up and welded it up.



After tidying up, I was going to do more but run out of welding gas. So I have to get hold of carbon Dioxide bottle again!

I think I will get it sand blasted, then either etch prime or Zinc primed. So that I can use it as it is or make a jig from it!

Cheers
Atchi

[Nimminz]

Nice work there mate!

That lad didn't know what he wanted for torque tube when i asked him. Has gear linkages attached. I'm going up at some point to get an anti-roll bar from him so will find out for you.

[miniswift]

Thanks Matt.
I think my bell housing will be ready soon, so I can start to cut it up.
It will be good job to have a spare torque tube, just in case I balls it up!

Cheers
Atchi

[340GLT]

Looking good mate, nice to see what the parts are being used for.
Adam

[miniswift]

Hey Adam,

Aye, the gearbox I bought off you will be used for this project and I'm getting LSD made abroad.
I will be cutting up the torque tube to shorten it and using it with Mazda MX-5 back suspensions.
It should work but I got too many projects going at the moment. How is yours coming along?

Cheers
Atchi

[Nimminz]

Hi mate, got you a working set of gear linkeges complete with reverse gear stop bracket and reverse light switch and gear knob. I also now have the spare torque tube of durham lol but am going to swap them round soon. Just let me know if/when you need it. I can bring you the linkages pretty much any time

Cheers,
matt

[miniswift]

Hey Matt,

Thanks for that!
My MIG welder is down so I can't do any welding as yet. Do you know the torque tube has good working order bearing or not?
I think I will have spare time tomorrow so I shall cut up mine and see if I can mod it easily.
I have now a working order rear suspension setup with rear disc brakes from MX-5.

Did you get bottom arms?
If you do, bring it over.

Cheers
Atchi

[Nimminz]

as far as i can tell its ok, the prop turns very easily inside the tube
looks in better condition than mine!

well, i have the spare crossmember and 1 bottom arm - but the crossmember is rusted through in places so i think i'll wait till i find another.
did start thinking a whole new one could be made from scratch lol

[miniswift]

Hi,

My mate gave me this link to show me how welding is coming along.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/11473969@N ... hotostream

He will be finishing off and I hope it will work OK.

Cheers
Atchi

[Nimminz]

Looking good, As long as it works, that's all that matters. I thought there was a much bigger difference in size where the two pieces meet

[miniswift]

Hi,

I'm getting my subframe sand blasted, bell housing is now welded and picked up and on it's way.
So I should have everything I need by tomorrow!
With bell housing, I can start to measure and cut my torque tube to length and lay out what it will look like.
All I need now is for me to get hold of the LSD, I'm getting it made.

Watch this space .

Cheers
Atchi

[miniswift]

Hi,

I have been busy with my work but meanwhile, my mate has been busy on behalf.
He has finished welding bell housing of Swift Gti to a Volvo 360 torque tube adaptor.




I can start to measure few other bits with this item now!

Cheers
Atchi

[Nimminz]

Looking good!! Nice to see it starting to come together!

[miniswift]

Hi,

I trial fitted my modified bell housing to my torque tube to see what length I need to cut.



New bell housing is 186mm in length and I need to have my shaft which is 8mm short of the engine mounting face.
I need to cut 300mm to shorten it as well as whatever length I need to adjust.
So, it will be 300 +7mm in total to adapt my Volvo 360 gearbox to my Swift Gti G213B engine.

This is the other side(gearbox end).



This is my connecting end of the gearbox.



Next, I have to take out a prop shaft out of the torque tube. Cut torque tube to the length and weld back together.
I have to get new splines(Swift Gti) cut into a shortened prop shaft.

Cheers
Atchi