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[ger]

As promised at last I've made a start on welding the front end.

 

First on was the front panel.

 

Plug welded.

 

Cleaned up and primed.

 

Next both A-panels.

 

Both cleaned up, the lip folded over and primered.

 

Ger

[ger]

Drivers wing welded on. Made a start in grinding gown the welds but not finished yet.

 

 

 

Ger

[ger]

Welds ground down and primered.

 

 

Passenger wing and two pipe clips are all thats left to weld on - I think.

 

Ger

[Rocket.]

Lovely work! Looks spot on

[jamesquintin]

Don't forget the a-panel -> wing stiffener...

[ger]

Don't forget the a-panel -> wing stiffener...

Yer cheers for that. I almost forgot.

 

Ger

[ger]

A milestone was completed this w/e.

All The welding has been completed. 

 

Passenger wing on, welds ground down and primered.

 

Strengtheners made for the A-panel/wing joint, welded on ground down, and primered.

 

Back on the jig ready for seam sealing.

 

 

Ger

[spraybeater]

Looking good! guess your glad all welding is now complete, marathon seam seal 

job then on to paint 

well done

[johnR]

Looking good.

Wow a two fire extinguisher garage!!

This is a man who appears to have membership of both the AA and the RAC (going by the badges in the first pic - he doesn't take chances!

[ger]

Apologies for the lack of updates, been a lot going on and a lot getting done. I'll break up the rather large update into smaller ones so that you're not over whelmed.

 

So here we go

 

All this takes place from March 2017 to present.

 

Seam sealing done.

 

Next was to send the engine away to have a refresh - or so i thought.

 

It went to Thomas Classic and Modern and when stripped down wasn't good.

 

So anyway that had to be sorted.

The following is the new engine/gearbox spec. Needless to say she's not a 1275GT any more but a 1380GT.

 

Engine Rebuild by Ross Thomas of Thomas Classic & Modern Dec 2017

 

 

Bored to 1380 cc

New Crankshaft

Calver ST unleaded big valve head with stainless steel MAR Motorsport valves

MAR Motorsport pistons

Duplex timing chain

MED lightened flywheel, pre verto clutch with orange diaphragm

AC Dodd RT fast road cam

Lucas 45D distributor, AC Dodd recurved with Luminition electronic ignition module

HIF44 carb, AC Dodd serviced and tuned for fast road

Xpin diff with 3.1 final drive

Blueprinted oil pump

Maniflow LCB Stage 2 manifold with Volcanic Black ceramic coating by Performance 1 coatings

Fletcher stainless steel side exit exhaust with stainless steel link pipe

2 Core aluminium radiator

I think that's all.

 

Underneath epoxy primed, coated with Raptor then at least 4 coats of black coach paint.

 

Epoxy primer.

 

Raptor.

 

Coachpaint.

 

Then off to the bodyshop for her paint.

 

I will continue and complete the update to where she is in the coming week.

 

Ger

Edited by ger, 09 December 2018 - 02:49 PM.

[ger]

As the shell was away at the bodyshop it was time to get all the other jobs done.

 

1st was to strip down the front subframe.

 

And buy a new rear subby.

 

Both were then sent for blasting and powdercoating.

 

And while they were away the front suspension arms, front and rear hubs and radius arms were stripped and painted.

 

Nice and painted.

 

All back together with new bearings/swivel pins.

 

And with cv joints, disks and driveshafts ready for front subframe rebuild.

 

Same goes for the rear subframe.

 

All ready to be put back together.

 

Ger

[ger]

More refurbing, this time the startermotor.

New brushes and a coat of paint

 

Made new extended seat brackets.

 

And had those powdercoated as well.

 

Also made a bracket for a brake bias valve that I will be fitting to the bulkhead cross member as I'm fitting a later servo unit to uprate the brakes as well as a bracket for a fuel filter/regulator.

 

Servo bracket and pedal box powdercoated and reassembled.

 

Servo stripped down and a service kit fitted (that was a bugger to get back together).

 

Here you can see the brackets and where the brake bias valve was situated (at the bottom of the servo to the left). I later moved the fuel filter to the other side of the bulkhead nearer the fuel pump as you can see from the next pic.

 

Now as the fuel filter was where the original washer bottle was I got one from an SPi and fitted it to the inner wing by the brake servo.

 

Next was an electrical repair of the indicator stalk. Nasty connectors from the previous owner were removed and new cable was used and soldered in.

 

All finished off with loom tape.

 

Ger

Edited by ger, 10 December 2018 - 06:05 AM.

[Vinay-RS]

Lovely work on the subframes and fittings! They look great! I really like the seat extender brackets that you made and the bracket for the fuel filter. I'd love to make seat extender brackets like that. 

[CAU998]

Awesome! Glad to see some updates!

[ger]

And as she was away getting painted there was a lovely empty garage so I thought I'd get the spray gun out and paint the wheels, tank and grille.

 

Finished wheels, by no means perfect. I'll see how they go and might get them powdercoated next year.

 

The finished grille.

 

Also went shopping and bought complete Fletcher stainless steel exhaust, alloy radiator, Maniflow LCB Stage 2 manifold and new front and rear wiring looms.

 

The picture doesn't do the tailpipe justice.

 

Looms.

 

I had the manifold ceramic coated in Volcanic black by Performance 1 coatings in Oxford.

 

Ger