Between the rain and wind, this September hasn’t really been conducive to Frasering but in the factory it hasn’t slowed us down!
Poor old DMOFSR has taken a bit of a hammering on a hire and unfortunately will be off the road for a bit while we repair it. She hit a kerb at an indeterminate speed which has bent the front suspension and cracked the chassis so we will need to remove one of the side panels to get in there and fix it. Not to worry, we have done this plenty of times before so we will have her back up and running again in time for summer!
Darren has his beautiful 1971 Dodge Demon in the shop for a few mods and maintenance. We are giving the brakes a bit of a birthday and fitting an aftermarket brake booster, along with seatbelts and new upper control arms to increase castor and make it drive a bit better. This car has the 340 V8 and sounds just perfect, not too loud but that quintessential American V8 noise!
Good progress has been made on Stephen’s 3SGTE powered Fraser after its initial LV inspection. We have come up with a solution for the handbrake, which was non existent and lots of small jobs that should allow us to get the car on the ground shortly. There is not a lot of standard Fraser parts on his car so every little thing needs to be thought about properly to avoid future problems down the line.
Llewellyn’s Factory 5 hot rod that we built a while back is back in the shop to remedy a fault in the gearbox. After not seeing it in a while, it is easy to forget how wild this car is. Although not the easiest car to get the gearbox out of, we are now just waiting for the box to come back from the specialists so we can throw it all back together again.
A big milestone for Geoff’s BMW 2002 restomod has been reached with the front suspension coming together. After we 3D scanned the front underbody of the car, we CAD modelled the suspension over the top of the scan to allow us to check clearances and mounting positions. We then sent all the modelled part off for lasercutting and CNC folding, then fastidiously fitted them to the car. A final check of wheel alignment proved that everything was exactly where we thought it would be, followed by a huge sigh of relief! Next Bruce has begun raising and moving the front upper suspension points to where we want them and then we can bolt the front suspension into the car and begin to work on the steering.
DMOFSR2 is getting close to sending it to dyno for tuning. The windscreen has been fitted and last of the engine bay details finalised. It has been programmed and the digital dash set up so it won’t be too long before we will be able to test drive it finally!
Rodney’s F150 is looking sharp with all the engine bay panel installed and the smoothed front bumper and custom rear bumper delete fill panel painted and installed. We have a couple of details to confirm with the tuner before it goes to the dyno and then work can continue with the interior.
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