Project - 1978 1275 GT (25/06/09) Small Update, shell nearly ready for shotblasting
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Hi,
Looking good, what spec is the engine going to be?
Cheers,
Gavin :)

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bonnet pins should do you good,

wow, thanks for the quick replies - i've recently bought a K1100 head, and plan on turboing it. If i'm honest i'm not 100% sure what im doing engine wise i'm trying to concentrate on the body for the moment.

Thanks rubicon - i have bonnet locks as apposed to the pins i think i need some courage to drill through the carbon :/

mask the area up first and drill sloooooowly....

waaaaa! The bonnet looks awsome :)

Keep it up mate

liking it, good work, keep it up

no longer a series, but still 1.3 turbo.

nice work keep it up

your a big gay bear! loving the pics mate, hoefully in the next few weeks i will have a clear garage again... then off to terry :) i cant rember can he still weld stainless?

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While Ollie eats the maltesers i will post this for him. we did abit of work to his mini today taking his front subframe out. also took his calipers off and the steering rack//wheel. and placed his car ontop of a pallet. pics are below :)

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Cheers for the help Paul - looking back i think we spent more time breaking the pallet up than actually removing the subframe, lol.

Now it's out of the car (after a strip) i can have it blasted and re use it - the back off to welding!

mine hasnt been taken to terry as im skint! but has been moved forward about 2ft now as you know :) thank you :)

also spot the hidden person!

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Good to see some progress.

Look like quite a tidy little car.

Edited by Rob H on 26th Oct, 2008.

looking good guys, love the gas bottle! is it going back to be welded now the subbies are off or are you going to fix any future welding yourself?

Another little update today i helped Ollie to strip his front subframe ready for us to sand blast it 2moz... well try to :)

enjoy









and some original dunlop D1's

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Once Again another update, started doing some sand blasting. started off with the KN wheels which were in very very bad condition, will be doing the subframe very soon once we have a new hose!














got a few of the subframe which we started doing before it got abit dark

how it started








the sandblasting workshop!

Edited by Paul R on 29th Oct, 2008.

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Just a very brief update on the front subframe, after removal and the stanges up to being lightened.






thanks to the search button i managed to research all the work that went into the subframe so thanks guys :)

the only thing i saw mentioned but couldn't find any pictures for the life of me was the enlarged hole for the driveshaft.

when it came to looking into making it bigger, we didn't really see where it would be possible unles you went towards the back of the subframe?

So left that for the moment. If someone could give a brief explanation or a little picture it would be greatly appreciated.

Cool project, coming on nicely. So how much weight did you save from the front subrame? I guess what im thinking was ‘was it worth it’ ?

looking good. Love the bonnet. Where did u get it from?

you sly fox i missed this the other day, looking good mate. i get paid soon and you know what that means!!!!!


On 26th Aug, 2008 Paul R said:
hopefully in the next few weeks i will have a clear garage again... then off to terry

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-Rover 100 VVC #2 - track project

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Good job with the subframe mate,theres still a bit more to come out of it if you ask me..

I drill holes in everything..!

Sweet

It's probably about time I updated the slow progress that has been made to my project car!

Although not alot appears to have been done, the stage of shotblasting the whole shell is getting nearer now. And i'm hoping this will not uncover any other areas that will need welding :) haha.

Since the last batch of pictures (before Pauls random ones, I had most of the panels done, but as i'm sure all of you know - it's the last "small" jobs that become the longest ones.

Firstly, before I post up the pictures, i'd like to thank Neil (Wolfie) for shifting my car to his welding friend about 10x in the last 2 months! - Thanks mate, really appreciated.

One of the first tasks was to put on the slam panel. I did have a heritage part but ideally wanted something a little different (and as I don't have need for the lock, it could just be as simple as a 90 degree ally angle and some holes drilled) Which it was :)



Next stop was some mountings for my seats (please do not look if you are seeking an example of lightweight development, lol)



Once the seat mountings were in place, I could fix the seats in to see where abouts i could mount my nitrous controller once in my driving position, after a few options I decided to have it on the right hand side just below the bottom dash rail.

A bracket was then fabricated to suit:



and it sat here:



While the seats were in place, the eyelets for the harnesses could be positioned and put in place:





A few months ago i treated myself to a few bits of carbon from the carbon weezel, one of the items was a rear parcel shelf.

I didn't really see the point in buying it and just sitting it on top, so a 30mm lip was left around the outside to allow for fixings.



another imtem i treated myself to was the clubman bumper and underrider set, must say im more than impressed with the quality and weight difference to original!



I spent this evening stripping out the last few little parts that were left in for bracket positioning etc. Paul aided in this, thanks mate :)

Thats all for the time being, but I still have a list of stuff that needs to be completed before the shell is ready to be stripped to bare metal. I'll try to keep this updated with any future stuff I do.

Any comments/criticisms/advice would be much appreciated. Even if its negative. As i've said previously, I don't have half as much knowledge as most on here - so if someone can see a potential problem with anything let me know so i can adapt it if needed

Cheers

Ollie

Edit: I excelled myself and placed the same image a few times instead of the correct ones

Edited by Ollie on 26th Jun, 2009.

how much was the parcel shelf mate if you dont mind me asking.

oh and nice work

Thanks Stef,

Its listed on his site at £95 mate, it fits like a glove!

looking awesome mate! 95 for a parcel shelf WOW! a quick lay up job and a quick cut out... pricey pricey.

Besta' luck with it, i wish i had lightened by subby when i had the chance and before it went to the powdercoaters