The 'Mazzer' roadster is Wil de Groot's unique, custom built dream car. An 'after hours' labor of love of the automotive variety. Based on a Maserati Quattroporte donor car and loosely designed in the spirit of a Maserati 450s, our blog details the entire process of building a car from scratch. This is NOT a replica and does not pretend to be a Maserati, rather a deliberate union of vintage and modern elements and style.
Friday, April 3, 2009
Where the steering shaft passes through the front bulkhead is just where it happens to have a universal joint in it which complicated sealing the shaft opening to keep hot engine compartment air from coming in. I wanted to use the steering components from the donor car with as few changes as possible and the bulkhead doubles as a stiffener for the engine mounting structure so where the U-joint wound up was a little problem that needed a solution . I made and showed photos of the aluminum bellows mounting pieces earlier. Here they are, mounted ahead of the driver's foot-well bulkhead before sliding the hose up. I originally planned to make the bellows out of insulation cloth but then remembered that I had some high temp flexible brake duct which should work well as a bellows.
The rear sub-frame was removed and modified and the rear body-work fits much better now. Once again, now that everything fits, I'm planning to sand and repaint the red rear sub-frame black before riveting the rear bodywork back on. I didn't bother with pictures since it's just more of the same thing. I'm looking forward to moving onto the next stage.
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