Project Igor- Europa Content

Here is your challenge, finish yours before I finish mine!

You have a head-start, but mine is staying "original".

RichardSIA said:

Here is your challenge, finish yours before I finish mine!

You have a head-start, but mine is staying "original".

The only head start I have is in time. Certainly not approach.

More progress please! Need more Europa content.

Melting some metal

Big fan of this new toy

MMM.. more metal melted

Tied the front of the my subframe together to the chassis with a couple pieces of square tube.  Guessets for everyone this weekend!

Never thought I would see the day that I would be unhappy to be working on one wild ride rather than another!

But the Europa IS a bit special for me. Going to try to at least get the engine done this year, as I fear Renault TS parts may dry up sooner than some of my other makes and models.

Igor is getting his cavities filled.

On second thought, that doesn't sound right. Make of it what you'd like. Igor is a bit of a freak.

Sonofa... I didn't have the rear support triangle installed when welding up the driver side patch and the back frame rail pulled in 1/4". Dang it.

The frame horn only functions to support the body. I think I'll leave it as is and see how badly the body doesn't bolt up. I expect to have to cut the horn, bend it back into place and reweld. There's a chance both have moved, but luckily it's a quick fix that I can do when the body is on the chassis.

Put some heat into the outside of the rail and cool it quickly and it'll straighten up again.

Or bottle jack and 4x4 and leverage off the triangulated side.  

I doubt it would take much to get it to move back.  

Progress looks great!

I was able to get the bolt in with some wrangling, before. I flipped it over and welded the bottom seams.  It might be ok now. If not, cold working is probably where I'll go once I can drop the body on and see exactly where.it needs to be.

Edit: my garage is a disaster.

Igor has a problem. We will work though this together. With some corrective surgery and rehab, he'll be better than new.

Yup, it's only welded on 3 sides for the S2.  Quick surgery.

Cracks ground out and welded. Gussets added and unwelded seam fixed.  I think the surgery was a success!

In reply to Brotus7 :

Welds look good.  Remind me what wire diameter and welder you're using ?

Thanks. It's a mix of mig and Tig.  This was TIG, trying to get used to it again, using 1/16" for both the tungsten and wire, burned with a Miller Diversion 180.  I used a small WP9 flex head torch since the position was awkward, but I generally use the a bigger torch and 1/8 lanthinated tungsten since it's easier to hold when grinding.

For the MIG, I use .030" wire and a Millermatic 180.

I think I'm almost done with the chassis.  I want to box in some of the control arm mounts, then clean up the bulkhead at the tail end of the chassis backbone. After that, sand blast?

It's 4 degrees outside.  We'll see if I can get the garage warm enough to work tonight so I can start working gussets and fixing the hacked bulkhead at the rear of the backbone.  In the mean time, ordered up the goods to build my fuse/relay panel.

Next step is to finish filling out the harness, lay out the additional sensors (oil temp, pressure, intake air temp prior to intercooler), PIdash.  Probably forgetting other stuff, but I want this to be as modular as possible - I know I'll want to add/revise circuits.

EDIT: can't get a decent resolution upload for the wiring diagram I'm working on in TinyCAD.  Sorry for PotatoVision2021

Managed to get a couple hours in the garage, even got to balmy 60 degrees despite being like 12F outside!

I started the day by hooking up my cool new gas lens and Pyrex cups to my small TIG torch, and what better way to break it in than welding a couple gussets.  Hooked up the new gas bottle I've had and off I went, except it just wasn't welding right.  Played with the cups, seals, tungsten, re-cleaned everything... no matter what, I was getting contamination.  Until I remember the gas bottle.... Last year, I swapped out my empty small argon bottle for a MIG mix since I wasn't TIGing much at the time.  Welp, that'll do it.  Don't try TIG welding with a CO2-Argon mix.

Wasted half an hour figuring that out, then switched to the MIG.  Zapped in a bunch more gussets, then decided to stare at the rear bulkhead.  When trying to fit the shift cables, I had to hack away at it.  Slide in the water pipes, shifter cables and bracket... I think I to install the engine to figure out where the cables want to sit before I commit to making anything out of metal.

My daughter's birthday was yesterday, and this guy turns 2 in a couple weeks!