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I used the yellow passivate kit on previous projects, results really good. Nickel plating might be an option for you, not as glossy as chrome but if you do some you tubing it polishes up quite nicely.
Thinking about it, it might be worth seeing if you could get a local company to nickel plate your nuts..
Paint them silver and move onto finishing the car, sometimes the details can overtake you.
You can always go back to fine details later.
80 pages and still not in paint!
But if it drags on too long you lose the momentum and it can become very disheartening.
Anyway if it continues at this pace Scottie may not live long enough to see it finished!!
(and he still has that Mk2 in his garden to finish)
I've been on this site just over a year, some people take two, three ,or even five years to complete some builds,I don't think I'm doing that bad at present.
Like Landmannn says, rushing it does not always help.
I am trying to do a good job with it and that always takes time
It's about enjoying it and getting it how you want.
The fact that you share your travails daily is informative, entertaining and motivating for those of us who will definitely take longer than you (I've just entered year four). In a twisted way, I shall be disappointed when yours is finished! You will just have to build another.
Hey, thanks for the heart warming words Ox.
I am still hoping to be done by next Spring so I can enjoy the car in the Summer, but each thing I do takes so long!
I think you will have to endure my build until the Spring at least!
So many people take years to build their dream car, but like Nick says, its not a race.
By the way, how is your build going? Did you fit the Monza/Aston fuel cap?
I should if I were you, I did, and am pleased with the results.
A big thank you to Paul (lately) and the other lads that gave support at the appropriate time. Whingeing and whining, has no place on this forum, and I think you all made that quite clear.
Okay, moving on, so today I finished off welding up and painting the scuttle, or rather dash support frame, which is needed to replace the obvious Spitfire H frame.
The frame I have made up hopefully should be hidden anyway, and what I was trying to avoid, was a Spitfire owner looking at the interior of my car, and recognising it as a Spitfire donar.
When I have finished, there should not be one single thing inside the cars interior, which is Triumph made.
Every Triumph thing has been hidden, modified or replaced, to create a one-off Jaguar style cockpit.
I have used mainly genuine period Jaguar parts from the 50's and 60's
which I have collected and hoarded over the years, especially for the day when I decided to build a Jaguar one-off car.
I still have a 4.2 Jaguar E-type engine complete with triple carbs totally, and I mean totally re-built with new pistons and everything, plus a manual gearbox, back axle etc etc. which was to go in my XJ13 replica, but as I said earlier, the company went bust taking my 2.5k deposit with them.
All this stuff is no good to me now as the Triumph chassis will not carry all that heavy Jag equipment.
But what I will end up with will be a super one-off classic car that is ultra light weight, cheap to run, cheap to insure and repair, registered as an historic vehicle, tax-free, and does an awful lot more to the gallon than a Jaguar ever could, plus it will be very quick off the mark too.
Which are all the reasons I decided to build it in the first place.
Of course unlike a Jaguar-based car, it will not be worth telephone number
amounts of cash, but I'm not building it for profit, but to enjoy it.
Hey Scottie if you don't use the frame in the car you can always use it to tone up that bod of yours with some press ups, those frames go for big bucks on the free view shopping channels.
Have you been trimming the bush there seems to be some remnants in the corner of your picture. LOL
Keep up the great work, it's entertaining as ever and i look forward to reading your daily exploits.
Scottie, Echo the above positive comments about your build 80 pages of banter and building oh and some important medical information. There is a fine line between madness and genius don't think you crossed it yet, but hay what do I know I liked the small "VW" camper van idea, but was already working on a big version planning was on fitting a modern VW beetle boot lid to the front of my 1976 Mercedes 206d camper it looks like a bay window from the rear, there is the word mad in the title of this site maybe we have all crossed the line. Oh well!
I have no use for it WCA, so the answer is yes.
It has been bored out, has 6 new pistons, new oil pump, crank reground, all new bearings, new timing chain, tensioner, etc
The engine has never been even started since rebuild, but I turn it over with a spanner twice a year
to check that its moving freely.
