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RE: Whats on your bench ... - Mazda - 9th-Jan-21

(9th-Jan-21, 01:22 PM)Top Down Wrote:  Just spotted this. 

PM winging its way to you post haste thanks. 

You have PM disabled.

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RE: Whats on your bench ... - Top Down - 9th-Jan-21

Uh? I'll take a look. It shouldn't be. 

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RE: Whats on your bench ... - Top Down - 9th-Jan-21

  Thanks for letting me know. Should be OK now. 

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RE: Whats on your bench ... - Top Down - 14th-Jan-21

Brilliant. 

Thanks to fellow Forumite Mazda, I now have the means - and options - to complete the Cheetah. A set of clear and body coloured headlight covers arrived a few minutes ago (14/01/21), along with the missing headlight.

Thank you!   
Restoration might still take some time though, as stripping the paint revealed the rear pan to have several hairline cracks. I think the paint was structural! 

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RE: Whats on your bench ... - KensRedZed - 19th-Jan-21

(16th-Dec-20, 03:03 AM)mickey thumbs Wrote:  So you decided to get serious, heh?   Can’t wait to see what you produce with that baby!

Machining a 1mm recess in a 1.5mm thick aluminum chassis is a snap these days. The right tool for the right job. You won't do this with a file.

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RE: Whats on your bench ... - Anthony B - 19th-Jan-21

That really looks good Ken

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RE: Whats on your bench ... - BAracer - 19th-Jan-21

Must be a real pleasure now.

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RE: Whats on your bench ... - KensRedZed - 19th-Jan-21

Thank you very kindly, Anthony and Jeremy.

It's becoming quite a bit of fun to do this stuff. 

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RE: Whats on your bench ... - Savage GT - 22nd-Jan-21

(15th-Dec-20, 11:49 AM)964rh Wrote:  Update no 2 on my Frankenstein lorry build/bodge!

Progress has been really slow, mainly due to work taking over my day, me not making up my mind on what colour/livery its eventually going to have and a 5 teething month old.

I think the colour scheme will be cream and an electric blue (bit like the Masarati MC12) with track services livery, might try and detail paint the engine/5th wheel bits if I can find a reference pic.


I have made a start on the driver and dash


And rather than go for headlights, found a really small light bar so that'll be mounted on the roof 


Holiday coming up and then 3 months of parental leave so hopefully it'll get finished at some point!

I was just thinking about a track clkleaner of some kind, then I saw this !
Keep us updated as I may copy you once you have built it and ironed out any teething issues 

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RE: Whats on your bench ... - Top Down - 11th-Mar-21

Barely qualifies for 'What's on your bench .... ' but here are a pair of Caterhams sourced from the FOR SALE section, resurrected at minimal cost.

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On the left the blue car in particular really shows the dust gathered 'resting at the back of the pits'. After a good 'wash and brush up' - disassembly, clean in soapy dishwater and re-oil - I opted to remove the remaining headlights and front indicators and simply invested in a pair of mudguards for the yellow car to bring them both up to 'Track Day' spec.

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The missing tailpipe on the yellow car was replaced by drilling deep into the silencer' inserting a plastic tube and bending it to shape before securing it with liquid cement. The blue car is missing a front wishbone and rear lights. neither bother me but I may bend up a wire wishbone at some point. Guides are yet to be re-braided. Three of the four rear wheels needed a spot of CA to keep them in place and they might just get wrapped in fresh 'rubber' slicks. We'll see how they go first.

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Looking respectable and all ready for some track time again 

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