Windscreen yet again
Well I worked all day on the screen. I finally realised that what I was trying to do, was not in fact "do-able!
If I had welded the drivers side bracket the same as the nearside, I would not have been able to lift the screen clear of the body.
My brackets would have been too wide to clear the body aperture.
I needed a new cunning plan!
Decided to weld captive nuts to the drivers side, so that there would be no brackets to foul the body as the screen lifted out on that side.
This extra work took hours to complete, but the system works, and I am that much ahead on the build, so it was worth the effort.
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Sometime during the build the battery which came with the donar car quietly passed away.
Now the better weather is here I tend to drive it out of the tent for working on more often so I fitted a new one yesterday.
I now get a more satisfying noise when I push the starter button!
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Couldn't agree more Mick, my short cut answer to that was to drill holes on the lead posts and fit bolts in (Big self tappers)
Hopefully will get round to modding it properly, but seem to have so much else to do!
Next Project
My son got me interested in the Jaguar F Type, and along the lines of this forum I got thinking about making a copy.
I think I now know what my next project will be.
The MG TF is very similar in shape to the F Type, and with a decent turbo engine in the rear, it would go quite well. I think I would extend the nose about 9 inches or so, but did not do this on the following picture.
It has got me quite interested in having a go at doing it.
MG TF's are cheap as chips to buy as well......mmmmmmm
Comments most welcome................
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Well you must have heard of the seven P's Seanick?
Prior Planning and Preparation Prevents Piss-Poor Performance.
We have to plan ahead and also dream some times?
Absolutely brilliant stuff Mr Towed, (as usual)
Not wishing to appear as a merchant. (Rhyming slang) you've almost put me off it already!!
Towed you crack me up!!
I didn't put what you wrote above, in case the bloke who built it was on this forum!!
ou are still spot on though!!
today
After all my attempts at centering the petrol cap aperture prior to bonding the body to the Spit tub, somehow during the process the body moved slightly.
Not much, but enough so that the petrol hose is 3 or 4 mm out of centre.
This is not noticeable, but has the effect of leaving a 2 mm gap at the offside of the petrol cap when it is in place.
This means the rain could get in. I did not want to fill it with sealer so, have had to rework the edge to close the gap.
Again, all extra work I had not expected.
I also did some reworking to the heater ducts which serve the dash.
They were far too big and unwieldy for my liking, which would have made them difficult to refit. So I did a number on them.
They should be a doddle to fit now.
I have some pictures but it looks like photo bucket has a problem and right now I cannot get the pics.
I will post them when I can. Watch this space...........
Yesterday
I did some small odd jobs yesterday, one of which was to sort out the luggage rack.
I had only fitted it so I had the holes in the boot-lid prior to painting.
When I got it ( it came with the donar car) it had horrid elephantine rubber feet on it which did not suit me, so I binned them and have ordered some small neat elegant ones more suited to the job.
Also, although the rack is well made from stainless steel, the four feet have mild steel captive nuts which tend to rust, I think its possibly electrolysis between the two dissimilar metals.
Anyway, before fitting, I had brushed the rust off and put some kurust on.
The rack has been on the boot a couple of months perhaps, but when it came off yesterday, the rust was as bad as when I first got it!
This time, I gave it my best shot and hopefully have cured the problem.
As ever I am using stainless bolts to minimise the issue.
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Second session today
I wanted to get my exhaust system on and all bolted in place today, but as usual all sorts of snags slowed me down. But I have progressed quite a lot.
I trial fitted the system ages ago when I first made it, and could not get a gas tight fit between the flexi pipe and the 4 into 2 into 1 pipe.
The flexi manufacturer assured me it was possible but he was wrong.
To solve the issue I welded a slight reducer to the flexi, cut a couple of inches off the main pipe to compensate, and I have a reasonable gas tight fit now.
I need to fit the whole thing, including the heat shield and all so I have all the holes ready prior to painting the body.
But this will not happen today! Bollo! (the x remaining silent)
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Well Ollie a 1500 Triumph engine is never going to sound like a Jag straight six at full howl, BUT, I reckon the car will weigh in at not much more than 500 kilos perhaps 600, and the engine should with a few tweaks be producing around 80 BHP.
At 600 kilos the power to weight would be over 130BHP, the car is going to fly with the miserable 1.5 lump.
I have a GT6, but the engine weighs almost trice what the Spit engine does, but does not produce twice the power, only perhaps 20 or 30 BHP more.
I am not really a fan of the Triumph straight six, as its too heavy.
Of course this is only my feeling. A lot of folk love them.
A Rover 1.4 K series engine produces the same power as the GT6 engine but weighs half as much.
To be honest, The engine I have in the car which came with it, is almost new, starts first time on the button, and I cannot be arsed to change it!
Bit of a long answer, but that's how it is.
I should have added: with that stainless exhaust I have made, the engine sounds nothing like a little 1500!
It sounds very beefy and muscular!
Hope it gets through the Mot sounding like it does!
Hi Paul,
Yeah, I think where strength is required the bonding paste is the dogs business, but can be a bitch to sand, so I always put filler over the top on external bodywork, because I'm lazy, and don't want extra labour!
As if I've not got enough to do........
Electric fan
Some time earlier in the build when I fitted the electric fan, and ditched the crappy little fixed fan that Triumph (bless them), had fitted, I knew that eventually I would have to wire it in to the system so it actually worked.
Recently, it has occurred to me that as the original fan ran continuously
because it was driven by a belt attached to the engine, there was no electric controller present for my new fan.
I trolled the net like we do, and came up with an absolute little gem of a controller, which not only looked the part, but had a really easy- to- work dial, to set the desired temperature for the fan to kick in.
And unlike some ( the most expensive one I came across was £124)
this one was very good value at £20 including postage!
I tested it in a cup of tea I had just made, and sure enough, it kicked in at 80c when I spun the dial around.
Really handy to have one in the kitchen if you want to know the temperature of your beverage in order to avoid a bad scald in the mouth :-)
I guess that in the winter you could dial in and reset the system to run a bit hotter in order to make the heater a bit more violent!
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I appreciate your efforts WCA, top marks for that, but when I hit the link, "it will not be found" notice comes up, could you double check, otherwise we have nothing!!
Absolutely fabulous stuff y cymro!!
I must admit that whilst reading the story, I felt an extremely difficult-to-resist urge to masturbate!!!!!
HOWEVER I did resist, and somehow remained in control.
But, you never know, in a weak moment I could always go back and read it again................
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