Tools 101:
Screw drivers:
Types:
1. Phillips no.1 (small) no. 2 (bigger)
2. Flat head
3. Robinson (Square) - not used on cars.
Sockets/Socket Wrenches:
Metric & Imperial
Most common:
1/4 in very small
3/8 inch Smaller components only for wrench and back side of socket.. Sockets come with many different shapes and sizes to fit different nuts and bolt
1/2 inch bigger parts E.g. suspension
Can add extensions, short and long of you can’t reach a bolt.
Torque Wrench:
It measure amount of tightness (torque) that a nut/bolt has.
(Sometime very specific on cars)
Measured in Foot pounds (American)
Meter kilograms (Canadian)
To make sure some nuts and bolt must be tightened to a very specific torque so everything goes together properly:
Wrenches:
Do not use crescent wrenches on cars! (Adjustable)
Fixed sizes: Same fractional sizes as sockets wrenches.
Top = open end.
Bottom = box end.
Better to use box end.
No striping of the bolt.
Ratchet wrench:
Combination of socket wrench and wrench (Not good for bolts that are very tight)
Handy for smaller bolts with lots of threads.
Do not use vice grips unless you have a stripped a bolt and need to clamp it on to take it out.
Pliers:
Types:
-Regular
-Needle nose pliers
-Wire cutting pliers
-Sheet metal cutters
3 colours:
Yellow = straight cut
Green (like starboard) = right angle curve
Red (like port) = Left angle curve
Allan wrenches:
Many different sizes sometimes used on cars lost on motorcycles.
Allan keys:
Many different sizes sometimes used on cars lost on motorcycles.
Canada Custom Laws:
There are 5 components as I stated in my plan which must be made or bought in Canada. This is because Canada won’t allow a full complete car to be shipped over the border. Thus said Factory Five Racing has a smooth process which helps you get the papers done faster and get your car to you sooner. Factory five also supplies two kinds of the Mk4 Roadster kit, the complete kit and the base kit. The five parts of the car that must be bought or made here are as follows:
1. Engine and transmission assembly.
2. Driveshaft.
3. Ford 8.8” rear end assembly w/quad-shocks, springs and control arms.
4. Ford front and rear brake assemblies, w/master cylinder.
5. Ford front wheel spindles and lower control arm.
Since we are having the parts made in Canada and we are not using a donor car which is a 1987-2004 mustang and we are technically buying the complete kit because everything is new and not out of a pre-owned mustang. But they have classified our kit as a base kit so Canada Customs won't have a fit when we try to bring it over the border. If you have no problems with getting these parts and customs move the crate across the border successfully you should have no other problems getting the crate to you house within 2 weeks of ordering it. Although some parts may be on back order because the factory did not have them at the time your car was shipped and so those parts will arrive as soon as they get more of them and send them to you.
The 5 Systems:
I have decided that because my project is really based on learning the basic mechanics and functions of how these systems work within a car, I will explain what each of these systems do in firstly my process journal as I am putting these systems together in the car and so I can really identify what I know and what slipped past me as I built the car. As well as once all of my information about these 5 systems is compiled in my process journal I will write all i know about them in my Personal Statement.
Isn't there a lot more research about how a car works?
Yeah there is, I had to go to school for 3 days to learn how to build this car. But that was really a crash course of building the car and the key tips which are very helpful and will save lots of frustration when it comes down to it. My whole project is learning how a car works and so I could spend hours and hours reading what each part in a car does and reciting it in my research or I can build the car and recite all of my hands on research which I will learn a lot more from doing which is why I am doing this project. So my process journal is all about each step I took to piece together the Mk4 Roadster and exactly what I have learned each day from building this car. The next page on the build school is another part of my research just the hands on part of it where I describe what I am doing each day and what I learned from it.