Dutton Kit Cars and their owners
S1 Rebuild(s)
some pics of the rebuild process,
the top trailing arm bracket is broke......
the diff is sloping back a little (looking up) so that will need sorting.......
As you can see there isn't a lot of bracing in an S1 chassis, that will be sorted.
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Permalink Reply by Dave Adams on
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Oh...and the wheels i currently have on the car are 14" but with 80 profile tyres (standard profile on a radial tyre) it is planned for the car to have either 70 profile or 65 profile tyres....that will give a little more clearance from the tyre top to the mud wing.....
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a change to 70 profile give a reduction of diameter of 37mm.....but down to 65 profile its in the range of 56mm!
thats over an inch on the radius........it would be all i need for mud wing clearance and reduce the clearance from road to spoiler from about 5" to 4" the minimum to clear speed humps
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James. ....here it is.:-)
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Just ordered a new propshaft for my car from D+F Propshafts in Leeds.......just tell them the length and the gearbox type as well as the diff. they Quoted £120 + VAT so £145 for a custom propshaft.
that seems a good price, they will even courier it to me for £12 if needed.
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Permalink Reply by James Doulton on
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What gearbox are you using, Dave?
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Type 9
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p.s. if anyone has a spare Zetec inlet manifold kicking about i could use one.......just message me....thanks.
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Permalink Reply by John Allen on
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Dave. Might be able to help. Have a spare silver top.
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Great........text or phone me we can sort something out...
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Made and fitted a throttle pedal today......
A little more work to the pedals they will be perfect.
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There is over 2" more room than the standard S1 for the pedals. The clutch and brake are standard mk2 cortina spacing.
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Also started on my inlet manifold. The ford plastic plenum and injector rail have been cut off and I now need to make a adapter plate and weld some tubes to it and to a 4" pipe as a plenum. .....
It's a bit of hassle....
Going to order a 500mm long 100mm X 3mm flat bar from eBay. .....should make a good adapter plate.
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