Dave's la(te)st buggy build...

Just changed my avatar to a temporary one...!



LOL :lol:

: had this mad idea a good while ago, but thought it would suit this buggy build...

Ummm, ok, our friends across the pond in the United States have what they call a "Buritto Box", so when they go out wheelin' on the trails, they shove a Buritto into the box that lives on the exhaust headers, they drive for a few hours, and then when they stop for lunch (sorry Brett! :lol ), they get a hot Boritto out of the box...

Ok, but we're in the UK, and we don't really eat Burittos that much?....

So we need... a pie box!

Ok, the ingredients...



A "Bain Marie" pot, the kind you normally see in restaurants in a vat of hot water to keep the food warm, and a pre-cut cardboard template...



Use the oval to find the gap in the inner skin of the bonnet..



And draw around it...



Drill four holes to mark the extremities, and then close the bonnet...



Use the outer of your template to follow them there holes...



So we have the oval and holes to attack the bonnet with a jigsaw...



And then the pan should fir in perfectly! :lol:



And in the engine bay... the pan hangs just above the exhaust headers!



I then drilled the pan with four holes, and two through the lid as well... two bolts go up, and two go down, the two going up have halfnuts on them...?



To secure the lid! :laugh:



There it is in the buggy's bonnet...



Nip into the shop for a prop! So we get a pastie or a sausage roll (other pastries are available ) wrap it in foil, and pop it in the pie box... go greenlaning for the morning, and then stop (briefly Brett, I promise! :evil: ) to retrieve the pastry for lunch!



I just need to tidy up the edges under the bonnet....

LOL :lol: hope you like my mad idea!!!

Are you going to explain to the forum why I seem to have been mentioned TWICE in this crazy idea!!

Surely a bigger "pot" would've contained two pies, or perhaps for getting the Chinky on the way home for the family?!!

No loose sandwich fillings aloud :laugh: :laugh:

maverick wrote: Are you going to explain to the forum why I seem to have been mentioned TWICE in this crazy idea!!

Surely a bigger "pot" would've contained two pies, or perhaps for getting the Chinky on the way home for the family?!!

:lol: :laugh: :lol: We're not usually allowed to stop much!... so it had to be a "quick release pastie" :evil:

I didn't stop there!... more holes!...



I marked the top recess holes with more drill holes...



And then...



Drew inside a Keithy-brand (c) Bonnet Vent to make a template...



And then used that...



And the alignment holes to work out where to cut with the grinder and jigsaw...



For the two bonnet vents to join the pie-box...



I did modify Keiths vents a little :blush: just to save relocating the windscreen squirters... so I'll paint that little 'triangle' black, and the rest of the bonnet yellow!



SORTED

Many thanks to Keithy