Canuck 289 scratch build

[krausewich]

I have footboxes, trunk trays, and chassis drawings. Reach out if you want to compare notes. Your footbox outer sides should rivet to the cowl tube before their flange, so there is something wacky with all that space in between. Way to keep moving forward. Your foam plugs are nice work!

[old willy]

Hi there,

Thanks for the offer, I may need to ask a question or two.

I really don't completely understand where the issue is but there certainly was one. As I mentioned before, I just need to proceed and make this work with what I have on hand, so long as it looks good in the end.
I have no other 289 cars to compare anything with so perhaps some of the issues have more to do with my body.

I am fairly certain it is a Johnex body and was modified from a mold taken from an 80's Aurora that was apparently molded from an early 260 body so that is a lot of room for error.

But as for the foot box being too wide for the chassis, both being built from drawings from the same source I have no idea what's up there, I have my theory's and suspicions but until I talk it over with the provider I am reserving judgement.



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[old willy]

Just a quickie, wink, wink, nudge, nudge…….

Alright time for part 2 of one step forward two steps back.

I would say there may also be steps to the side and…….. Ok I don’t know what it all means either, I hate redoing things but it was bound to happen and I am sure it may happen again before this is over.

I think I have some real trust issues now, and I find myself rechecking a lot of things, but moving on…..

With the body back off I am left with some major reworking but also some nice new frame work I can finish weld and such.




I then turned my attention to the pedal box issue. I cut the old mounting free and jigged it up a bit so I could move things around and check the location until I was happier with things. I so wished I had not finished welded this area, I figured it was all correct based on the drawings but…….. Oh, well



I believe I mentioned before there was an error of about 1 ½ inches fore and aft and a bit side to side too. I ended up moving it forward the 1 ½ inches and settled on moving it out 1 ½ inches too, it is a bit more than Chuck said it was out but I liked the idea of a bit more room between the gas and brake pedals.

So knowing those measurements I went ahead and braced the cowl tube with some angle iron and cut out the lower section, arrrrggghhh!



I set up my old 105 bender again and using a new drawing bent new lower sections to fit it.



I also needed to make new lower gussets and increased their length by 1 ½ inches as well. I welded it all in and braced, cut and replaced the driver’s side too.




This time with the pedal box in what I hope is the correct location.

Time to recheck the fit with my cardboard footbox mock up.




Looks much better now , I guess I am happy?? with that, however it still would have been better not to do it at all but….

Now I need to move on to something else but what?

I wanted to deal with the floor supports but they need to fit the seat rails and without the seats in hand (that’s another story) so I really don’t want to commit to a location yet.

That’s OK, I have lots of other things to keep me busy so I will move on to some of those…….

Till next time, have fun, enjoy the sun,

Hudson





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[PDUB]

Good progress!