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[george91]

Thanks for the replys guys, yeah well pleased with, also on closer inspection i noticed that its an Oselli inlet manifold, not sure but possible rare? Thanks for the offer scott im ok at the minute but i'l get back to you if i do, cheers.

[ScottyBoi]

No problem mate...

always here to try and help haha.. Mine come already jetted for a 1380 so i got to re jet minie

[leaky]

Looks good. Liking the weber. I was thinking of getting one of those but have now decided to do a swift conversion in a few years so wont bother. Keep up with the progress.

[george91]

No problem mate...

always here to try and help haha.. Mine come already jetted for a 1380 so i got to re jet minie

Yeah remember you saying, what are they like to work on, is it much of a job? Haven't done anything to mine yet other than polish it lol.

[BenH]

Looking good George, love all the bits your collecting.Cant wait to see them on the car.
Damm i wanted a weber 45, still on the lookout for mine!

[george91]

Looking good George, love all the bits your collecting.Cant wait to see them on the car.
Damm i wanted a weber 45, still on the lookout for mine!

Thanks ben, i'm going to update later, just need to fit the new arches for the wheels, keep looking for the weber they pop up from time to time i just snapped mine up as soon as i saw it, it was only 15mins down the road in the end.

[george91]

Ok so the new weller wheels are on, temporary standard plastic acrhes at the moment until new front end is on and i've sorted all the holes where previous arches were!









Also got rid of that horrible sound deadening stuff from the floor, done the front so far and will do the back at some point, anyone got any tips how to get rid of this crap stuff that remains?

Anyways, next up is a fibreglass front end with A-panels and a mig welder to do some of the fixing and modifications that i want to do to the shell. Comments would be great, cheers.

[Tim1970]

Very nice mate,
Wheels look lush great job.

[george91]

Very nice mate,
Wheels look lush great job.

Cheers, just need the new front end next, then it won't look so jacked up at the front! The previous owner fitted 7x13" wheels and hacked the front arches to bits, i had to cut a part of the plastic arches off just to get them to fit properly.

[roofless]

coming together very nicley love the grille .

not meaning to sound cheeky - but are you selling your old arches ?

Edited by roofless, 10 February 2010 - 12:05 AM.

[Tim1970]

Cheers, just need the new front end next, then it won't look so jacked up at the front! The previous owner fitted 7x13" wheels and hacked the front arches to bits, i had to cut a part of the plastic arches off just to get them to fit properly.

Exactly the problem i've got with mine, although i don't have the money to replace the panels at the moment so i'm going to be welding in repairs to bring them back to where they should be and then hopefully replace everything properly in the summer.
Look forward to seeing it when it's done.

[george91]

coming together very nicley love the grille .

not meaning to sound cheeky - but are you selling your old arches ?

Thanks roofless, unfortunately i let the buyer of the old wheels have the arches, but they were in a pretty rough state with no hardware or anything so you didn't miss out on anything really.

Cheers, just need the new front end next, then it won't look so jacked up at the front! The previous owner fitted 7x13" wheels and hacked the front arches to bits, i had to cut a part of the plastic arches off just to get them to fit properly.

Exactly the problem i've got with mine, although i don't have the money to replace the panels at the moment so i'm going to be welding in repairs to bring them back to where they should be and then hopefully replace everything properly in the summer.
Look forward to seeing it when it's done.

Thanks mate, yeah its nighmare actually, there was so much removed that it was impossible to fit the plastic arches. Its more money reasons why i'm going glassfibre with my new front end, not because i can remove it or flip it or what ever its because its much cheaper to buy and easier to fit as i can do it myself. Good luck with your repairs.

Edited by george91, 10 February 2010 - 09:35 AM.

[Tim1970]

Cheers mate,
Sounds like a good plan and it's some extra weight loss and will never rust aswell.
Are you going to have it flipping or mount it solid but removeable?

[george91]

Cheers mate,
Sounds like a good plan and it's some extra weight loss and will never rust aswell.
Are you going to have it flipping or mount it solid but removeable?

Yeah and that too, the only negative point to me is that its not original but that doesn't matter, i'm going to fit it bolted on ideally so that if i need to i can remove it but isn't quick release.

[Tim1970]

Yeah i think that's the best way of doing look forward to seeing it done mate.