Any progress since i saw it?
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Any progress since i saw it?
Non At all, i have recently handed in my notice at one job and started another. The scale of my new job is just out of this world, but it also means i am in a totally different world compared to what i was used to.
Once we have got rid of the tv crews the first time i should be able to back off alot and have a few good quiet spells to make some serious progress, although i wont hold myself to that to harshly as this year has been a complete topsy turvy one so far. Those nearest and dearest know the score and would agree the way things are and have been would dictate anyone the same :)
We know full well you have to allow a good 3 hours a night for your body to expand back to normal size once Ally cuts you out of your shirt every evening if thats what you mean lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Dan
Dang, thats a lot of cutting shirts..... 7 x 52 = 36..... a lot lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Lee
SHe has to stich him into it in the morning, as buttons just dont cut it lol
Come ooooooonn......................................... ....
lol
I dont want him to crack on with it, the shells being quite a handy shed at the moment lol
Ok time for a small update :eek: It has come to pass that whilst its abit quiet in my new job the boss man decided it would be a good shout to get the nova here and work on that for a while instead (paid lol)
Why am i doing this update at almost 4am i hear you ask, well charles is due down at the crack of dawn so we can stitch weld the shell so i am working through the night to prep all the seams for him (so they are nice clean metal) and set the cage up ready for fitting.
During the last week or so thanks to dar bringing the car here i have been diddling away with the body work. I lost alot of the original pictures that showed the task ahead, but basically the arches needed blending into the sills, the rear bumper and rear lights being previously blended meant that i had to repair the rear arches/ blend then into the bodywork and generally try and get it all back pretty again (remember i have never done bodywork in my life lol ) I also found that the front wings had been extended on the front corners which meant they stuck out way past the headlights and looked odd, so they also needed grinding back and remoulding to suit.
The following pictures show where i am at the moment, they are not the final article before paint but they give a general idea of how i am getting on (those that know what the car was like will understand more so).......
The sole surviving pic of one of the rear arches with the damage to it
http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/f...arch/boot2.jpg
rear qtr blended
http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/f.../Photo0207.jpg
Front arch blended
http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/f.../Photo0206.jpg
Rear bumper trial fitting along with rear lights after rear arch repair
http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/f.../Photo0174.jpg
http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/f.../Photo0200.jpg
And theres more
So, with the last batch of pics i continued to fettle......
Heres the trial fit of the front bumper/lights/bonnet (and also when i realised the wings had been extended forwards past the lights)
http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/f.../Photo0172.jpg
http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/f.../Photo0188.jpg
http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/f.../Photo0190.jpg
http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/f.../Photo0202.jpg
And after i had attacked the wings to drag them in line with the lights once again
http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/f.../Photo0211.jpg
http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/f.../Photo0209.jpg
Obviously there is still loads to do, for starters double check and fine tune all of my blending before i even get onto the main jobs, but atleast it is getting somewhere now and i am fairly pleased with how things are going considering it a different angle for me to take work wise compared to normal when i let someone else do the fiddly bits
Good work fella and on here till gone 4am.
still waiting on your shopping list of parts to save mate.
I think i can remember most of it fella.
Its looking good man :thumb:
Good work dude, looks like it fits really well.
Good stuff Dan, it should all come together nicley now :thumb:
cool...
cant wait to see some proper progress on this...
Looking good Dan. You don't fancy your old GTE grill back, do you? If all goes to plan I could drop it to Christian this weekend.
ok, now this wont become a habit as obviously working on the car at 'work' will have to be balanced thus making the project slow at times. Although whilst i have had the chance i have crashed in in normal fashion.
Following the last update of me working straight through friday night prepping the seams for charles i finally got finished about 5am (an hour after my last update) so decided to tinker with some other parts as charles was due circa 7am. Sure enough he arrived on time so after a banter and some well deserved coffe we cracked on with the welding and setting the cage up etc. (The welded area's were the usual internal area's, some parts of the engine bay stoo had some of this partially done previously) This carried on for most of the day adjusting and sorting bits along the way aka fitting door bars blah blah blah.
finally I had chance to run around all the welds with a nice thick layer of red oxide primer. I chose this route for a change as with previous efforts as many others can confirm with thier cars the welding can sometimes allow water to pass through the joints on wet day and form a pond in the rear boot well lol. By brushing on the thick oxide primer it enabled me to blob it into the normal suspect area's to minimise this ten fold.
Here's a few pics of what we got up to (i didnt take to many pics as obviously we were busy 90% of the time)
http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/f.../Photo0213.jpg
http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/f.../Photo0215.jpg
http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/f.../Photo0216.jpg
http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/f.../Photo0217.jpg
http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/f.../Photo0218.jpg
http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/f.../Photo0219.jpg
http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/f.../Photo0220.jpg
Finally at this stage i would like to thank Charles (CP) for his help once again:D , the guy is a true legend who has helped with my trackday shell prep over the years and always understands/agree's with the majority of my idea's and thoughts, aswell as having his own experiences to chuck into the hat.
Also as a abit of a twist, i rang Ash after reading his above comment and my old grill has been accepted back off of him, making this my third trackday car build that the same grill has been a part of so a big thanks there also :thumb:
bet your glad youve finally got some progress done dan. and plenty of progress it is at that.
glad isnt the word, considering it has been a year give or take a week since i originally got hold of the car its been a long time coming. The final colour scheme and 'stickered' finish has been determined by my boss already so the last bit of progress may be the longest as that is out of my control
Looking good Dan, are all the seams gonna be welded?
Cage looks good, gonna tag it to the pillars?
Didnt notice till now the filler in the shut..
how the hell am I gonna fit in that with the narrowed doors lol
Suck it in and do your belt up tighter..lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Stuart
Looking good mate, about fukking time too!!
Did you get sorted what we discussed, i never did recieve a follow up call haha!
Stoo
yes i did mate, all sorted. Your call is still due, was just trying to make sure everything was right for charles etc before he come down aswell as staying awake the for 37hrs lol
will prob ring tomorrow :thumb:
No worries matey.
Glad to see you cracking on anyway, passenger ride bagsied
Good to see some progress on this :)
Nice one Dam,glad to see some work on her, where's the cage from? thought most pre-fabed one's were painted thats all.
Scott
Its an OMP, and they come unpainted :DQuote:
Originally Posted by scott.parker
Cheers Lee, im guessing then that Rob77 must have painted the one in mine :thumb:Quote:
Originally Posted by Lee
an absolute shame.
you've gone big block.
terrible, terrible terrible!
but
in all fairness, you will make this a proper track car and it will be very interesting to see what results you get from it.
have to let me know when you are out on track with this one, i'll make another journey to have a look.
now stop talking to people on the phone and do some work lol
looks good!!! good progress any way mate!!
lol I'm just waiting to see the look on Dan's boss's face when he comes back in off the track after a quick razz round Castle Combe in this new creation once its finished. He's pretty keen at the moment but I'm not too sure he really knows what he's going to be letting himself in for -the term footdown might come to have a slightly different meaninglol :D
I'm really looking forward to seeing this project finished and on track. Its got some interesting and different ideas and as usual Dan has carefully costed it to give very good performance VFM:thumb:
Right then, i have started prepping ready for paint, no pics of that as its just the norm and i will blow some etch primer over ready for the proper coats, BUT, What i have realised is that having a room inside a room means no extraction for all the dust etc or even ventilation which is a bugger when sanding the car.
So i knocked up a simple device where i took my rad fan, attached it to a tunnel i made out of 2x2 and wrapped said tunnel in black plastic, the result?, a damn good extraction unit. So mnuch so i have had to refix some of the plastic walls as its trying to suck my little room inside out lol lol lol
Here's some pics of said device and the now still stretched but secure plastic walls lol (notice the blue tarp pic, at the top where it is pulling it away from the timber)
http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/f.../Photo0230.jpg
http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/f.../Photo0232.jpg
http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/f.../Photo0227.jpg
http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/f.../Photo0229.jpg
http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/f.../Photo0228.jpg
I used a few rad fans to cool our generator down, and theyre more evil than you might think! Im surprised you can still breath in there, as id expect it to extract ALL the air and create a vacuum lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Dan
thats awesome
awesome
lol Ace!
lol more pics of your home made blower than the car.
Looking good chap, great to see some progress :thumb: