MadaboutKitcars

How long does the shipping take, 2months?

Hi gary, transit 38 days. Customs clearance....
I'll tell you when i get it!!

Hopefully not a Christmas present...

Not a lot of visible progress. inlet is cleaned and in place. However the set screws dont line up with the mount points on the headers. why are they there anyway? They seem only on the mk2.

Its good to see you have as many bins as i do... the car is looking good, too.

Been thinking of an engine upgrade, maybe a honda 1.6
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Been thinking of an engine upgrade, maybe a honda 1.6. Should have enough power

Maybe not as the hours i just spent on these hs2s with 600 wetand dry would go to waste.


One jet broke in transit but vendor sent me another 2. However they are visibly different jet hole size. Lucky one is a match (86 thou) to the ones i already have, so it will b one red one black but same on the inside.

my first bit of original manufacture, fairly simple to start, a heat sheild:

Very nice. Fabrication is good for the soul.

Good stuff!

You'll soon be making all sorts of complicated rubbish just like me!

Thanks. Im working on deeper grease caps made from a peice of al pipe conector. I hope to build most little ducts and fairings from hammered aluminium rather than grp. But we'll see how that goes!

Keep up the good work 1iTim the heat shield look's just the job, are you going to round the corners off.

It's a big learning curve is metal bashing and practice makes perfect as they say, there's also plenty of vids on you tube.

Looking forward to see what else you make.

Swifty my wife said " is it finished?" When i proudly showed her. i have since cut out a bit to enable the dipstick (and folded edges over neatly) all other corners will wait for the body and bonet before trimming and edge finishing. It will be polished too. I'll post about the gease caps when they r done and work!
Tim

Any movement forward recently T?

Hi pj nice to hear from u, no progress, waiting on the kit from mike
Best, tim

Hope there hasn't been a problem at customs Buddy . Should you consider looking into it's whereabouts ?

no problem at customs, i'll keep you all posted as i can.

merry christmas all!

1iTim

Merry christmas my internet friends, and may the new year see many happy registrations!

Tim

Nice to be in the Build Cue.

Nice to read your build diary 1iTim.
I'm just behind you with my build. All my suspension parts have been cleaned and painted, the chassis been cleaned and painted. One coat to the top and three coats to the underside. I've had assistance to turn the chassis right side up now, but its been so cold and I really want to give the top side another paint layer before I start my build.
I have also been distracted with renovating a set of 15" wire wheel I purchased early December, which I want to try and renovate myself. If I fail then I can get them done professionally as there is a company a couple a miles away.

Thanks carib. I got the chassis blasted and powdercoated, worked out not much more than the self paint option, and then it looked so good it has lifted my quality ever since.
Just waiting on the body now. If you are talking to mike say hi from me.
Tim

My custom grease caps polished and in place. Made from a 42mm dia al pipe

And the carby piston dome things:

(before and after...)

Cool solution for the grease caps and you can't beet a bit of serious polishing, the carb dash pots will look great, are you going to polish the carb bodies?

No, just the tops. The bodies and floatchambers would need a lot of work to prepare for polishing, lots of cast flashings and stuff to file off. So no. Would look awesome, anyone done it?

Was going to put the carbs on today but first need to plumb some kind of crank ventilation to replace the open vent. Then i can get them on and linked.
t