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 6745 Posts Member #: 828 Post Whore uranus |
19th Jun, 2022 at 07:48:10am
blimey ..that is glossy. Medusa + injection = too much torque for the dyno ..https://youtu.be/qg5o0_tJxYM |
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 608 Posts Member #: 1106 Post Whore Hungerford, Berks |
18th Jul, 2022 at 01:18:56pm
Moving on from Glossy to matt…
On 9th Jun, 2020 Graham T said:
On 8th Jun, 2020 Nic said:
Looking good, despite the set backs of the front panel. Regarding the brace bars; you have just reminded me that we welded on some plates to the side of the subframe to bolt the brace bar to. (I may be mistaken, these possibly also went to the side of the tie bar mount??) The brace bar then went from this to the damper mount Thanks Nic. Seeing as I appear to have a gap between subframe and frontend bracket on the “better” side, I will probably bolt the brace bars to the front of the subframe to act as a spacer, but your method is always an alternative, depending on the final fit of the front panel. The passenger side now has no gap between the front panel bracket and subframe at the bottom and a 4mm gap at the top (of the subframe front cross member). So the subframe is slightly out of shape, where as the driver side I still had the even gap that I had intended the brace bar to fit between. So ultimately, I ended up having to make more modifications to the wings to get them to fit against the A Panel and I had change my idea’s on mounting the Brace bars. Now I have ended up with this: 
As yet I cannot actually make the bars up to the inner wing because I have no idea on clearance for the wheels and also the Damper hangers, so that will have to wait until the subframe is built and in place. I the meantime, the next job is to complete the colour coat on the front end again so that it can go live back on my Spare bed for another indeterminate amount of time. Edited by Graham T on 18th Jul, 2022. ’77 Clubman build thread
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 428 Posts Member #: 10128 Senior Member Dorset |
19th Jul, 2022 at 10:10:05am
That's a massive pain given the work that went into the front.
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608 Posts Member #: 1106 Post Whore Hungerford, Berks |
19th Jul, 2022 at 04:00:57pm
On 19th Jul, 2022 e5tus said:
That's a massive pain given the work that went into the front. Yeah, frustrating, but hopefully now sorted. On 19th Jul, 2022 e5tus said:
Yes to the black anodised fasteners, but you already knew that! I have to admit I was swaying that way despite the massive costs involved - But I just wanted to see if anyone was awake out there 
Edited by Graham T on 19th Jul, 2022. ’77 Clubman build thread
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6745 Posts Member #: 828 Post Whore uranus |
22nd Jul, 2022 at 08:19:46am
gawdamighty ! Medusa + injection = too much torque for the dyno ..https://youtu.be/qg5o0_tJxYM |
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608 Posts Member #: 1106 Post Whore Hungerford, Berks |
11th Aug, 2022 at 12:43:56pm
A little more momentum now building up…
Edited by Graham T on 11th Aug, 2022. ’77 Clubman build thread
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608 Posts Member #: 1106 Post Whore Hungerford, Berks |
16th Aug, 2022 at 05:17:40pm
Rear End and Passenger side now in colour.
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 971 Posts Member #: 3228 Post Whore North of the Netherlands |
16th Aug, 2022 at 10:04:47pm
Nice progress
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608 Posts Member #: 1106 Post Whore Hungerford, Berks |
17th Aug, 2022 at 02:55:40pm
On 16th Aug, 2022 Yo-Han said:
Nice progress So much work involved to get a good end result... Yes, there certainly is. This is the part though that I least enjoy... And to think I am going to have to rub the whole thing down again 
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608 Posts Member #: 1106 Post Whore Hungerford, Berks |
17th Aug, 2022 at 02:55:43pm
Double post.
Edited by Graham T on 17th Aug, 2022. ’77 Clubman build thread
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608 Posts Member #: 1106 Post Whore Hungerford, Berks |
17th Aug, 2022 at 02:55:49pm
Edited by Graham T on 17th Aug, 2022. ’77 Clubman build thread
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 55 Posts Member #: 11761 Advanced Member Worcestershire |
18th Aug, 2022 at 10:24:51am
Wow, some fantastic work and a man of many talents. from the roof gutter to electronics, you clearly have great patience and attention to detail. look forward to seeing this car going back together.
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608 Posts Member #: 1106 Post Whore Hungerford, Berks |
18th Aug, 2022 at 12:50:24pm
On 18th Aug, 2022 Jd24-7 said:
Wow, some fantastic work and a man of many talents. from the roof gutter to electronics, you clearly have great patience and attention to detail. look forward to seeing this car going back together. Great to see this kind of work coming out of peoples garages and sheds. Thanks. “ Jack of all and Master of none” is a fairly accurate description I think… I have been very fortunate to have had a lot of help and guidance from some very clever people over the years - most of them on here (at least they were in the past). ’77 Clubman build thread
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6745 Posts Member #: 828 Post Whore uranus |
19th Aug, 2022 at 02:01:32pm
lovely colour . Medusa + injection = too much torque for the dyno ..https://youtu.be/qg5o0_tJxYM |
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608 Posts Member #: 1106 Post Whore Hungerford, Berks |
20th Aug, 2022 at 04:54:50am
On 19th Aug, 2022 robert said:
lovely colour . Gonna assume you are talking about the colour coat, which is Brooklands Green (HYF98 / BLVC1265), rather than the primer coat, which is primer grey with a hint of British racing green (gn29). That was the third colour I tried (Brooklands). I originally thought it was too dark, but now I am pleased with it, especially now I have the matt black sorted for the door furniture, etc. ’77 Clubman build thread
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 (2)[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/150672766@N03/]Rod Sugden[/url], on Fli) 5988 Posts Member #: 2024 Formally Retired Rural Suffolk |
29th Aug, 2022 at 03:47:01am
Good to see you are still carrying on.
Schrödinger's cat - so which one am I ??? |
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608 Posts Member #: 1106 Post Whore Hungerford, Berks |
29th Aug, 2022 at 11:25:40am
On 29th Aug, 2022 Rod S said:
I'll probably get back in the garage this winter but not until I've installed a whole bank of solar panels on the roof.... We Had 21 off 410w solar panels fitted back in April (1 array of 10 on the garage roof and another array of 11 on the house). We have pushed 2905kWh out to the grid so far and used about 350kWh. If Scottish and Southern had got their act together, we might well have been able to sell some of what we have exported, but as it stands we are still waiting on a certificate (G99) to be able to get a feed-in tariff. Even then Octopus will only buy at a despicably low 7.5p per kWh. The combined array output is supposed to be 8.4kWh, so we had to have a limiter fitted to stop the export going above 3.688kWh, so that 2905kWh export would have/ should have been much, much higher. Until Scottish and Southern get the certificate sorted, we cannot have the limiter remove either. Also, because I was “umming and ahhing” about the expense for 2 days too long, all the batteries were sold out by the time I did place the order. We finally got the Batteries last Monday (8.7kWh capacity) and since then we’ve only bought 7.6kWh from the grid and exported 80kWh (which we are not getting paid for.) – most of that which we have bought is me using the compressor in the evening. So far it’s working fairly well, it will just be interesting to see how it actually performs as the days get shorter. Edited by Graham T on 29th Aug, 2022. ’77 Clubman build thread
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5988 Posts Member #: 2024 Formally Retired Rural Suffolk |
29th Aug, 2022 at 12:19:46pm
You have obviously gone into it in a much more serious way.
Schrödinger's cat - so which one am I ??? |
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608 Posts Member #: 1106 Post Whore Hungerford, Berks |
2nd Sep, 2022 at 05:25:44pm
So from green energy to Green shell.
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 2629 Posts Member #: 1246 Post Whore Lowestoft, Suffolk. |
2nd Sep, 2022 at 10:19:48pm
Glad to see progress is still being made.
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608 Posts Member #: 1106 Post Whore Hungerford, Berks |
2nd Oct, 2022 at 10:32:41am
On 2nd Sep, 2022 shane said:
Glad to see progress is still being made. please keep the updates coming. Shane Yes, progress is still being made, just slow… So the last few weeks have been a mixed bag of success and mostly failure… I got the Matte paint on the roof. It looked nice, but… it marks easily – too easily. Press on it too hard or with a fingernail and you get a mark which cannot be removed. 
So next attempt was to add a layer or two of Matte clear coat in hopes that it would be harder. As I was about to use a Matte clear coat, I decided rather than waste the small amount matte Black paint I have left, I would use the satin black paint which I had for the subframes. At this point I started getting little lumps of crap in the paint, so although the finish was much more resilient to touch, it just looked plain crap. So I stripped the roof back, had a clean down in the garage and tried again - same thing, except some what worse… (yes yes, typing it out now it is so obvious what the problem was, but at the time I just could not get my head around it, completely sure the issue was airborne dirt.) After cleaning the gun, checking and replacing the filters in the airline, stripping the garage out and completely cleaning through - even nicking the floor mop from in the house and washing the floor down, then hoovering - I still had the same issue. The problem is that with Matte paint, you can’t just polish out the little (and Large) bits in the paint, so it really is a pain in the arse. I was on the verge of giving up and going gloss, which would have meant re-painting all the other bits I’ve done in the Matte Black and spoiling (in my view anyway) the theme of the car colour scheme. Luckily, Dad to the rescue… “You need some tights” WTF? he’s lost the plot… “strain the paint with tights as you pour into the gun”. Perfect (-ish) finally. 5 attempts later and I am happy with the finish. Sue is not so happy that her tights are now not really wearable, but I am sure that deep down she is pleased that in some small way she has helped with the rebuild effort. Anyhow, the Matte clear coat is not as matte as the matte black paint, but I can live with it. 
That little episode has set me back another couple of weeks, so now I am frantically racing against the weather and time to get the rest of the panels painted. I’ve made up a small frame to hold the doors while they were getting sprayed (yes, it more upcycling of that decking…) 
Both doors are now finished 
A little heavy with the clear coat, so I am now resigned to the fact that I am going to have to use the mop on the whole car – something I’m really not that keen in. Just the bonnet, boot lid and front end left to go. Thankfully they are all prepped, so that should speed the process along a bit. Edited by Graham T on 2nd Oct, 2022. ’77 Clubman build thread
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428 Posts Member #: 10128 Senior Member Dorset |
4th Oct, 2022 at 08:22:52am
Looking great, glad you kept with the plan, I think the roof is great and the effort taken would have put most off.
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6745 Posts Member #: 828 Post Whore uranus |
7th Oct, 2022 at 09:58:14am
will mop pretty easily i think graham , and well worth it . Medusa + injection = too much torque for the dyno ..https://youtu.be/qg5o0_tJxYM |
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608 Posts Member #: 1106 Post Whore Hungerford, Berks |
16th Apr, 2023 at 08:39:01am
So just over 6 months later and I’m back on it.
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2629 Posts Member #: 1246 Post Whore Lowestoft, Suffolk. |
16th Apr, 2023 at 09:29:10pm
Good to see some progress with this Graham.
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