Elma fud
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I fitted new wings and front panel and they are much thinner than the originals which means they can dent and deform easily, l too reused the reinforcement and it took a while to get them to fit nicely, had to use quite a bit of filler because they easily deform due to heat from puddle welding, l have also found they twist near the bonnet catch because they are so thin
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Think the wing panels are also different because the head lamps are smaller on the vitesse.
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Surely a second hand hood would have already been stretched so fitting will be different, some would say easier because all you have to do it match up the hole and hope it fits your body because you don't have any spare material second hand headers in good condition are like hens teeth l got a second hand one that need repairing, you can buy new ones think their around 200 quid last time l looked.
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Surely a second hand hood would have already been stretched so fitting will be different, some would say easier because all you have to do it match up the hole and hope it fits your body because you don't have any spare material :B second hand headers in good condition are like hens teeth l got a second hand one that need repairing, you can buy new ones think their around 200 quid last time l looked.
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a lot of people use catch tank because it stops the valves and plugs getting oiled up, as you generally get more vapour from older engines.
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Welcome ! that's an early dash without the recessed heater/choke controls, certainly not 13/60. Body doesn't look too bad, hope is all there :)
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This is the stage that will test your metal as you could find you assembly everything and nothing aligns :-/ and you just think what the ..... l've just taken it apart and put it back together again, but as said above it will twist and settle a bit so you will probably find you have to add spacers to get a reasonable body fit. You also haven't said if its a saloon or convertible which makes things worse :B Good luck :)
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This is the stage that will test your metal as you could find you assembly everything and nothing aligns :-/ and you just think what the ..... l've just taken it apart and put it back together again, but as said above it will twist and settle a bit so you will probably find you have to add spacers to get a reasonable body fit. You also haven't said if its a saloon or convertible which makes things worse :B Good luck :)
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Valencia blue was common colour.
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10492 wrote:Looks well that Herald. Where did the seats come from and how did you go about fitting them? Cheers. Thanks Willow, this is what they looked like before... I did have some modern seats but they were very heavy so found these cheap on fleebay and they looked narrow enough to fit as my transmission tunnel is slightly wider due to the auto box, they were as l said Wolfrace branded seats, l did not want to use MX5 or MGF because most of them have to be wound forward to get rear access which l thought would be a pain so l made sure l got seats that tilted with a lever. They came with runners so l made some bracket to weld to the floor to mount them to.
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My brother recoverd the seat in my herald for me came up a treat considering how bad they were :) These were wolf race after market seats but they have the tilt function ;)
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This is a TR3 tank fitted to my Herald, the filler is in the middle of the rear deck, used the TR tank because it has internal baffles which should help stop fuel starvation with the fuel injection, but l did add a swirl pot and fuel pump from the escort tank. I chucked a tin of tank seal afterwards which was worthwhile because there were a couple of tiny hole :B
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A trick for welding a fuel tack is to run the exhaust from a car through it for about an hour or so this will purge any fuel residue out of the tank, but if you get an tank that has not been used for a few years you will be safe. You could fit a spitfire tank under the scuttle weld up the filler and just run two pipes to it about inch bore from the herald tank...
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2748 wrote:Picture of my Vitesse back in its cosmic and 165/70x13 days. those wheels look very nice but aren't they slog mags?
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490 wrote: I would think a few sizeable tweaks, given the width of an XJS compared to a Herald… :) XJS is a reverse tardis big on the outside and small on the inside so they fit ok, while modern car seat are often too wide