Andy's build thread - 1275GTS
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there cool where could i get some???

You'll have to look more closely at the pic's

Wheels look great,lucky bugger!

Quarters look spot on,glad you got it sorted after the nightmare with the previous panels.Looking at the pics thats a nice spacious workshop you have there,very envious!

This is probably a strange request but if you get chance could you measure the length of the torch lead on your 160 please?Im thinking of ordering a 160 but the torch seems pretty short in the pics ive seen which is putting me off a bit.

Cheers Ross.

Edited by rosco454 on 30th Dec, 2010.

Really pleased with the quarters, turned out much better than I had hoped.

The pic's are deceptive, it's a small double garage with far too much crap in there. In that last pic, the mini is just about touching the metro van which is almost against the wall. Just gives me enough room to work.

Edited by apbellamy on 31st Dec, 2010.

Matty and Flame Red have got a lot to answer for



I'm starting to get an irrational fear of drilling spot welds.

Well thats a large expanse of nothing!

this weight saving is getting silly

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lol

Matty and flame have nothing to prove yet untill you get the new one in.lol

Rick

Piece of cake

Sticking to the body work some more, I've had FastCarl work me a crank and set of rods.



It's wedged, back drilled, the O.D. has been turned down to 125mm, cross-drilled big ends and hand clean up.



They've had the big ends faced off, little end radius' machined, main caps radius' machined, little ends reamed for floating pins, balancing and hand finishing.

Top work as always.

On 6th Jan, 2011 apbellamy said:
Sticking to the body work some more, I've had FastCarl work me a crank and set of rods.



It's wedged, back drilled, the O.D. has been turned down to 125mm, cross-drilled big ends and hand clean up.

Rusty by nature

Haven't weighed it yet, will have to dig a standard one out for comparison. I will be getting the whole rotating assembly balanced, so it shouldn't be an issue.

The turning down etc is all to reduce weight, I asked Carl not to knife edge it as I wanted some weight left in to help the engine rev down a bit with it being a road car.

Nice work, its a good stage to get to when you get the rear quarters on. Ive done bugger all on mine, those manifolds are taking up all of my spare time at the moment. :(

Looks like I have some more competition of who can replace the most panels.

Are you going for a mk1 back panel now?

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1/4mile in 13.2sec @ 111 terminal on 15psi

some nice work keep it up

Craig

my mini van http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/index.php?p=vt&tid=448248

Thanks.

I've got a N.O.S. MK 2 genuine rear panel down the cellar. I don't think MK 1 lights would look right on a clubby. There's light at the end of the tunnel, just the bits you can't see in that last pic left to stick on. I think you win with the panels Matty, mine is only about 50% new

Mine hasn't been touched for almost 6 weeks now. The cold weather and too many opportunities to socialise have got in the way, so well done for making the progress you have.

It's amazing how many panels go into that boot floor area isn't it? Matty won't understand half the work we have to go through with all the seatbelt brackets and mig welded reinforcements which are annoyingly difficult to remove on later shells!

Does the Mk2 rear panel have a different gutter to your car? My Mk2 drains from 2 small cut outs along the bottom of the gutter rather than the gap above the seam the later Mk3s use. It wouldn't make much difference but it just makes me think a NOS Mk2 panel would be worth more than a Heritage rear panel would cost. That is a complete guess though, I'm probably wrong.

Good luck with the rest of it, you'll have the shell done before me at this rate. I think I'd better try and put some hours in soon!

Ta. Just the 4 rear subby closing panels and the arch stiffeners on mine as it's a MK3ish shell. No rear belts either

Just had a look at the rear panel. It has no gutter drains what so ever. I'm sure I read somewhere that the dealers had to drill the gutter holes on early cars when they where delivered to them.

As pictures can describe this far better than I can. This is the rear of my 1990 car, I expect yours will be the same.

This is my Mk2 (it was impossible to get the the back but it is a very similar design)


As you can see the gutter on the Mk2 looks almost continuous with little slots for it to drain from, the later Mk3 has a gap at each seam.

You don't know what your missing with the seatbelt mountings! I had a great time trying to remove the boot floor from them.

My car is like the top picture, but the new panel has the gutter all the way round to the join. I guess it will need to be trimmed to open the gap up. My old '75 clubman had gutters like your MK 2.

I've still got a load of grinding to do, so it will be no quick job getting the floor fitted with out the luxury of a spit...

looking lurvely, you having the rods shot peened or leaving them?

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not sure yet, loads of time for that...

im going to leave mine

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