Granville thats very kind of you, and I'll take you up on that offer in the new year.

Behave yourself 

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Next up was the steering linkage at the front of the car.

My ERA suffered early on from unwieldy steering partly due to the steering arms not being level enough.  Coupled with this, my welding on the steering linkage bracket was a bit crap, so these two issues were rectified early, and I took the opportunity to reposition the bracket to help.  It's not perfect on the ERA, but it's ok.  I wanted this to be better on the Minx, and the steering column also needed to clear the pedals.

Please don’t judge my welding!  It’s not welding really…it's more metal glueing.

Quite a bit has happened, so I will update here in stages.

The chassis is as standard as they come, so it was easy to put together.  It does taper to the front, but not as acutely as the ERA, and it’s also slightly shorter by a couple of cm.

I wanted to make my front axle myself, but I knew the geometry would be difficult to achieve.  My ERA uses a Gemini axle setup and works really well from a camber and Ackerman perspective, so I decided to replicate this using Gemini yolks, kingpins and stub axles, but use my own axle.

This meant I had to make the brackets for the springs and notch the axle at each end to 16’ to accept the kingpins from Gemini.  I built a rig on my drill press to notch the axle.  This was quickly abandoned after the whole saw bit into the piece, the axle broke free and smacked me across the head…so I went and bought a proper notching tool.

To be honest, the axle really tested me with the cutting, welding and keeping everything totally square (and keeping my head out of the way). In the end, I made it twice.

The springs are from the rear of a Morris Minor, cut down, bolted and clamped to the chassis.  I wanted these to be adjustable.

More to come shortly…

Looking great, I've not used clay before so I will be pestering you for info next time we meet up