corazon
Well-Known Member
I’ve got some good lockdown day job work in the form of a large
project that arrived a week ago.
It’s a movie car. Was built for a movie called Adventurer:Curse of the Midas Box, starring Sam Neill.
It’s also mostly made of MDF.
My job is to recreate in steel/upgrade and make more functional.
A few days stripping it down with my colleague got it down to its bare bones, hurried construction signs everywhere. It was built for one purpose so can’t be too critical about how it was built, but lots of things left unwelded, and corners cut.
It’s based on a series 3 landrover, with a stretched chassis. Front wheels are original steels welded into larger steel spoked constructions. The giant rear wheel on the floor is the same design but an absolute monster, very heavy.
It arrived with no steering.
Today we mostly sorted that. It had extremely inefficient linkage geometry which had broken the poorly welded pipe they’d used to extend from steering box to engine bay.
So steering box moved up from pedal area, output shaft extended properly with solid bar going through chassis to shortened drop arms allowing a simple straight and level path for main rod to front in engine bay.
Plenty to follow!
project that arrived a week ago.
It’s a movie car. Was built for a movie called Adventurer:Curse of the Midas Box, starring Sam Neill.
It’s also mostly made of MDF.
My job is to recreate in steel/upgrade and make more functional.
A few days stripping it down with my colleague got it down to its bare bones, hurried construction signs everywhere. It was built for one purpose so can’t be too critical about how it was built, but lots of things left unwelded, and corners cut.
It’s based on a series 3 landrover, with a stretched chassis. Front wheels are original steels welded into larger steel spoked constructions. The giant rear wheel on the floor is the same design but an absolute monster, very heavy.
It arrived with no steering.
Today we mostly sorted that. It had extremely inefficient linkage geometry which had broken the poorly welded pipe they’d used to extend from steering box to engine bay.
So steering box moved up from pedal area, output shaft extended properly with solid bar going through chassis to shortened drop arms allowing a simple straight and level path for main rod to front in engine bay.
Plenty to follow!