Andy's build thread - 1275GTS
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It lives on the drivers side. At the moment it's slung on the bulkhead

Longer term it will be fastened to the driver side inner wing.

Now that's what you call a removable grill!!

Yep, getting the slam panel out from under the wings is going to be fun...

Got a bit more done with the front.

Chopped the rest of and fitted the head light panels and the slam panel.



Then I got on with adapting the valance to take a fiat radiator.







Looks OK with the valance offered up to the car. Going to try and drop the rad a little more at the passenger side and make a permanent top bracket, but on the whole I'm happy with it.



All fits in rather nicely, and if my engine plans ever change there is still room for some more goodies



I've also thinned the number plate mounting brackets down, but looking at it I might remove them all together and make some thing below the lower opening. Can have more go faster holes then

It would need to tilt out a bit more at the bottom, but I think it looks OK. Leaves room for 2 more air/speed holes.

Looking good.

I see Rob-H has infected you with swage-atitis

"So wat we gonna do tonight Brain?"
"Same thing we do evernight Pinky!"
"Try to take over the world!"

Thanks. You've seen nothing yet, there's loads of metal left to come of that front end!

Sticking to my theme of doing one job at a time and getting the shell finished, I've bought an MPi block and sent it of to Fast Carl for some work doing.








The rather long list of work:

Supply and fit centre main strap.
Drill/Tap oil galleries for threaded plugs.
Oil fed thrust conversion.
Drill/Tap head and block for 11 head studs.
Drill/Tap for BMW under crown oil jets (they are quite sexual as far as little squirters go!)
Supply and fit dry deck ports.
Turn up and fit a cylinder head thermostat bypass port.
Turn up a blank for the crank sensor hole.

Top work as always Carl, thank you.

I'm going to have a go at dry decking the block and head myself, shouldn't be a problem

Dry decking, oil jets, a metro thermostat sandwich plate plumbed back to the heater take off on the bottom hose with this in line should help keep everything nice and cool:



It will be wired with a timed relay so that it will run on a little after the ignition goes of, hopefully avoiding heat soak.

lurvely

Yes i moved to the darkside

Instagram @jdm_brett

I see one killer clubby on the horizon !

"So wat we gonna do tonight Brain?"
"Same thing we do evernight Pinky!"
"Try to take over the world!"

Thanks.

Don't know about killer as I'm initally using a suck through supercharger setup so power will be limited. Horizon is probably optomistic too with the speed I work, but I plan on making some progress over the summer.

I'm trying to build a bullet proof bottom end. Even cooling above, around and below the pistons will help with that. That way I can bolt what ever I want on top of it when I get that far and the world is my oyster so to speak...

EDIT:First person to spot my wife in one of the pictures gets a free bacon sandwich on Sunday morning at Avon

Edited by apbellamy on 7th Jul, 2010.

I know which one it is but ill let somebody else win the sarmie

"So wat we gonna do tonight Brain?"
"Same thing we do evernight Pinky!"
"Try to take over the world!"

lol shes in the pic of the head bypas port

Yes i moved to the darkside

Instagram @jdm_brett

Brett wins, you can have one of John's butties

On 7th Jul, 2010 apbellamy said:
Brett wins, you can have one of John's butties

If something is worth doing, it's worth doing half of.

mwahahaha

Yes i moved to the darkside

Instagram @jdm_brett

wrong thread...

Edited by apbellamy on 11th Jul, 2010.

Got the radiator alignment sorted, fitted a proper top bracket for it and and a panel to force the air up through the rad. Then stuck it to the car.

That radiator looks really low compared to mine, although mine's a glassfibre front.

Is the bottom edge of the radiator below the top of the front subframe rail ???

Schrödinger's cat - so which one am I ???

It sits 1" above the front of the subframe and 6" below the base of the slam panel. My future plans involve the need for an intercooler so that's an ideal space for one.

Apparently my glassfibre front is deceptive then - my radiator is only 10mm above the front subframe rail and with the intercooler sitting on top I thought I was running out of height.

Your's is looking good though, obviously a lot of new panels there.

Schrödinger's cat - so which one am I ???

Edited by apbellamy on 7th Aug, 2010.

More progress. I've made up some brackets to hang the number plates at the bottom of the valance, added some more air holes for the radiator, enlarged and swagged the wiring holes for the side lights, cleaned up all the welds and put it back on it's wheels.



It's only taken me 6 months to swap the front. At this rate, I'll have it finished for Avon 2020 :$

I think it needs more speed holes in the lower part of the valance, behind the number plate.