BiTurbo228
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Hah! I read that last sentence as 'I'm hoping the joint I bought him he'll let me swap for another' :S Do you have an ammeter to test how much the starter is pulling when it's engaged?
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Great work! It's inching steadily closer and closer Great idea welding tabs onto the bolt as well. I'll have to remember that one...
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Wow loads of progress since I last swung by If the dampers are too short to be usable at the ride height you want then I've read about Mini 1275 GT shocks having a min length of 7.5" which is pretty short, and GAZ and other such folk can weld different eyes onto shock bodies no problem. Thought exactly the same thing
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Modest as ever
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So, judging by your progress so far this'll be 2 project car's you'll have finished before I've done 1... Cracking work
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Yeah definitely go with the new boot then should fit in very nicely with the rest of the interior. Third brake light is a great idea too. What with all the 7' tall tanks people drive nowadays I doubt they'd be able to see the standard brake lights!
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Very nice work How does the colour tie into the rest of the interior? What other bits will be in the grey vinyl? I can understand the sentimentality I was thinking of trying to salvage an old badge from my original car to stick somewhere as a momento of where it's come from...
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I like it the wood carries around nicely from the dash to the tops of the doors. Personally I'd think stick with the black piping as it's a continuation of the black dash pad, and chrome would lose the distinction against the silver(?) underneath the wood...
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Nice work and lucky escape with the parked cars :S
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Well you certainly don't do things by half! Nice progress if you're done before me I'll be most annoyed must get back in the garage...
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I've got one of those! Piece of rod with a slot cut in the end. Sounds simple, but there's actually some tricks to making one. Turns out, if you cut the slot with an angle grinder it's often too wide so it's really hard to get a right-angle lip (slips off when it gets to ~45 degrees). Hacksaw or die-grinder would be better
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A K-Series G15! Now that would be a brilliant little car very much looking forward to that possibility. Yeah the slightly different PCD is a definite kludge. I know people fit BMW wheels on big Jags with a similar slight difference, but it's not something I'm particularly keen on.
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Nice work I'm saving all of these pics of chassis reinforcement just in case I ever pick one up If you have real difficulty with the wheel offset, could you use 4x100 PCD wheels with wobble-bolts (not the most confidence-inspiring name I'll grant you). I think a lot of older BMWs are 4x100.
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Yeah I've bought it now so it's not going to change...unless it dries out before I've finished the thing...
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Now that's a pretty colour I've never been a fan of greys on modern cars, but the metallic ones can look stunning on classics (something about the grey accentuating the bloatedness of modern sheetmetal). You've got me questioning my decision for Valencia Blue now...
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Looking really good! What colour will it be in the end? I can't help but feel it'll be a bit of a shock if it's not painted 'matte olive drab'
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Looking very nice! You've definitely got a knack for this sort of work
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Huh. The reason I like working on Spitfires, and old British cars in general, is that they often have enough flaws that I can really make a difference to them with little improvements that are within my capabilities. Sounds like a G15 is the perfect candidate! Also, I tend to go for the cheapest possible cutting discs I can find seeing as I go through so many of them. I found some on eBay that were £9.39 for 25! Don't seem to be inferior to the store-bought ones either...
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You mean the t-shirt and thick trousers I'm wearing in my profile pic aren't good enough? I think by that point I'd at least learnt that if you put suncream on your hands they don't burn from the UV when you have the welder on full whack...
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I've watched those welding youtube videos too. The aluminium TIG ones are especially optimistic I've found. Video: 'Just put your torch at a ~45 degree angle, strike your arc and methodically work your way along adding filler material as appropriate. Result, a beautiful cupped weld' Reality: 'Put torch at ~45 degree angle, strike arc too close and tap the metal with your tungsten...re-grind and start again. Once you've finally got that right, attempt to methodically work your way along adding filler material as appropriate. Because there's no visible feedback of temperature (like with steel) either fail to heat up the ally enough to bond with the filler so you just park a blob on top of the gap, the arc jumps to that and you melt it completely and it drains through, or blow straight through leaving a gaping hole you can't fill because of the aforementioned problem. Attempt 3 or 4 more times with a similar effect before begrudgingly coming to the conclusion that the £120 TIG welder you bought from eBay might possibly not be up to the job. Scrap the idea of a home-built aluminium intake manifold and start researching the price of silicone tubing'. I'm also immensely enjoying the annals of your little garage assistant. When I get one of my own one day they'll be trained up post-haste (although my dad tells me he tried this and I was put off by spatter from the MIG welder...).
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Just weighing in to say that as always I'm thoroughly impressed by your panel repairing skills. Having done a fair bit of welding pressed-steel panels recently it's an utter ballache and a real learning curve to stop them warping. Yeah. Very impressed
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Nice work looking good. An electric bread knife is a genius idea for cutting seat foams
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Nice work so far, and nice to know a bit of the history behind it. Sounds like a pretty unpleasant experience for the PO. I'll second the motion for adding another section to the forum for 'other makes and marques', and that John should stick around
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Looking very nice I shall definitely have to get my mate to buy one of these (there's one on eBay at the moment). Plenty of room for improvement
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Really looking forward to this rebuild I suppose they could argue that as it's such a light car it doesn't need as beefy construction, which although technically true doesn't quite justify wobbly suspension mounts... Looking forward to picking up where these can be improved as one of my mates was looking for one as his first classic car rebuild. Huh, it never occurred to me to look at it that way. Maybe that's why I like cars from the British Leyland era so much (as well as the same era of Alfas and Lancias with the odd Maserati Biturbo thrown in). There's so much for me to improve I feel very useful indeed!