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[rosco454]

Just a quick one to say that im thinking about making a few dimple presses like the one used to make the bits on my car,if anyone is interested just give me a pm.


Cheers Ross.

[mhamps]

Just a quick one to say that im thinking about making a few dimple presses like the one used to make the bits on my car,if anyone is interested just give me a pm.


Cheers Ross.

I was actually going to ask what you used to do that! how much were you thinking of selling them for?

Matt

[rosco454]

Got the drivers side door dressed back today,neater welds took no time compared to the passenger side which was a nice bonus.




I went back to the garage later on and hung the passenger side door to check the fit.Its pretty well everywhere bar the bottom which is fine at either end but bows outwards about 10mm in the centre.It wont bend back so once the centre of the door is cut up I will have to cut and reweld the bottom area,not a big deal but would have been better if it wasnt needed.

At this point I couldnt be bothered to start hacking the door about so I had a go at making a door card instead.The dimples follow the line of the door bars and im pleased with how it turned out but it looks a little busy with the small dimples around the hole,I did these near the beginning though so will have to make my mind up weather to stick with it or not.Will do the other one without those dimples and see which looks best.





Cheers Ross.

[mhamps]

I really do like that look of the door cards, keep up the good work.

Matt

[Bmc_998]

Right,theres been no updates for a while as I tend to work on about 10 things at once instead of one at a time.I have just about finished one bit bar a bit of final tidying up so thought I would pop some picture up.I needed to make something to hold the brake reservoirs in place as I wasnt happy with what was already on the car.I found a tilton reservoir that looked amazing but it was around $700 plus delivery from the states which is just far to steep to me!The others I found were either bloody awful standard looking things that I didnt like the look of.With that in mind I set about making something to hold the small girling style reservoirs and look half decent at the same time.

Heres what it started off with,basically a bracket to hold 2 of them in the wheel arch area and a metal ring to hold one in the bulkhead area.As usual the pics are rubbish so get your specs out!







I quite liked the metal ring idea so the plan was to remove the existing one & have three of those in the wheel arch area,first plan was to have the bottom of an oversize tube plated over to provide a mount and catch any spillage.





Decide I didnt like the look of this once the reservoir was in place so plan changed to having 3 rings of the same size as the outside of the reservoir same as the original one in the bulkhead was.However the outside is inbetween readily available tube sizes so bought the next size up and reduced it a bit.

Tube as cut to length.


Cut.


Welded.


Fitted.


Did 3 of these then got onto mounting them up which just turned into a disaster,I had a couple of ideas that had looked great in my head but just looked awful in real life.After trying about 5 ways of mounting them up and all five looking crap I gave up left it for a good few weeks.





While getting on with other bits of the car I had a better idea for the reservoirs that would tuck into the back of the bulkhead and not take up much space.Also means its not going to get covered in crap like it would in the wheel arch.

I didnt take many pics during making it but here it is tig welded up.


Shaped to fit the contours on the bulkhead.


In place in the bulkhead.


In place with an old reservoir.The fit to the bulkhead is better than the photo shows as I had to move it along slightly to get some light into the photo.



Pretty pleased with how its turned out especially the dimples so it matches in with the rest of the car,it will be painted same grey as they rest of the engine bay when the car is sprayed.Also got some rubber trim on order to go round the bottom to stop it rattling once its mounted up.

Will update some more once the bits im making are finished.

Cheers Ross.

Hey great project! just 1 question did you by any chance get the cover you made tig welded up at aliweld in ryton?

[rosco454]

Yes I did! I presume your the nice blue/green b reg saloon that parks opposite?I keep seeing it knocking about and it looks like a lovely car.

Cheers Ross.

[dougie1142]

Looks like nice welding!

[rosco454]

Cheers for the comments Dougie.

Second effort at the door cards came out better,made the hole in them smaller and moved it along a bit to get the pattern of the third door bar pressed.They just need the corners trimmed off and some mounting holes drilled.

Drivers side.





Passenger side.





Cheers Ross.

[mhamps]

Cheers for the comments Dougie.

Second effort at the door cards came out better,made the hole in them smaller and moved it along a bit to get the pattern of the third door bar pressed.They just need the corners trimmed off and some mounting holes drilled.

Drivers side.





Passenger side.





Cheers Ross.

Looking really good mate, hope it goes well fitting them.

Matt

[MJWarren]

update?