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New door offered up for the first time . Not too shabby it’s got a couple of small storage dings and it needs a little bit of tweaking to get the fit spot on but nothing that can’t be dealt with at the bodywork stage. Main thing is NO rust !!!

Btw The front wing Is loose. That’s why the panel gap is so far out. The Next bus due through that gap is the 16.35 to Stoke

Great stuff Loo!

Carbs rebuilt (40mm Weber’s) Under bonnet decal kit

Where Do you keep your Sud ??
Mines in the attic !

Nice tidy attic Lou.
I need to board out my new loft and sort stuff that is currently in it balancing on the joists

Thanks Keith it’s not as tidy as it looks I’d like to board more of it tbh. There’s half a midget up there aswell.

Nice work on your carbs!

Thanks Muf. I’ve gone with 40s as they Should compliment the Fast road cams and BV heads I’ve got in mind. The bottom end is almost finished I’ll post a photo when the engines done .

LooLooSud33Spider wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 10, 2020 6:01 pm

Thanks Muf. I’ve gone with 40s as they Should compliment the Fast road cams and BV heads I’ve got in mind. The bottom end is almost finished I’ll post a photo when the engines done .

Ball park what do you expect it to put out BHP wise?

Apart from a few small details the bottom end is now back together and ready for heads . Which I’ve yet to do
Also got a big prezzie coming that will help with progress in the bodywork
Details to follow

New (home made) inner wing splash flaps. As per original design Little By little we’re getting there .

Hi Lol
Splash guards look good. Did you use mudflap material? Which side should they go? wheel side or engine side of car flitch?

Rsfruitbat

Hi Ade. They fit on the engine side of the inner wing. The material is just some 1.5mm rubber sheet off eBay. It appears to be tough enough but I guess time will tell and yes the originals were only stapled together !
I used my old grotty ones as a pattern. I’ve got 1.4m of the sheet so If you need some I can knock you a pair up I think they were the same on sprints

Thanks for the offer Loo
Will let you know.

Rsfruitbat

LooLooSud33Spider wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 26, 2021 11:49 am

New (home made) inner wing splash flaps. As per original design
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Little By little we’re getting there .

Spot on !!
They look the part.
Engine block looks nice as well .

Thanks Keith.

Started installing the shell on to the Rottiserie today’s. Has anyone else used one and did you have any problems with your chosen mounting points . At the front I’ve made some beefy brackets that pick up on the crossmember points so that should be ok it’s the rear that I’m wary of.

Well it’s on ! Seems to be well enough balanced when I rotate it and its all noice n toight .

Looks great Lou

You beat me to it Kev

Rsfruitbat

Thanks Chaps. I have to say this was made in the UK he’s only in Telford. By a guy called Ade Foreman at AF light engineering. I turned it through 90deg this afternoon and wow it’s going to make the repairs to the underside so much easier and therefore better. I’ve now got to decide how far I go with the underside do I

A) make repairs where needed and then try to match the original under seal just where needed

B) remove all old underseal make repairs reseam seal and then spray with paintable underbody protection and have the underside painted body colour

Thoughts welcome
Lou

A/ Sensible

B/ Too tempting.

As you say Lou, it makes the repairs so easy it's hard to resist getting carried away...

So B

I’m tend to agree Kev. As I’m trying to do the best job I can .The only problem is that sometime you can end up with a car that’s so nice you never end up driving it because you don’t want it to get dirty or splashed . It’s daft I know but where we live we’re surrounded by small country lanes so there’s always muck and shoite about from the local farms. I will be fitting arch liners to the front to help keep it from getting to bad. So I guess it’s B

Yes, agree you can fall into the trap of making it look too good to spoil. Been there, done that...
But consider it another way. Make it nice, all fresh, sealed and painted so it looks nice.
Then still blast along the lanes safe in the knowledge that you can safely hose it down underneath as there's no dodgy areas

I think that’s a sensible approach Kev . Btw what undercoating would you recommend? I guess it needs to be a soft drying and paintable ?

Lou,
have you moved to Oirland?

Oh no Dave that I haven’t Begorra.

Etch primer, seam sealer, stoneguard then topcoat over that.

Thanks Kev