That's useful to know - thanks mate.
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Rust update ... she's off to get welded up! Auto Classico spend their time rebuilding classics and keeping old jags on the road, plus they're only a few miles away. Should hopefully get it back in a few weeks...
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Sounds like it’s in safe hands, it’s a nice feeling once it’s done :)
She's back!
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Happy days :thumbs:
Good stuff :)
Mad it's only done 24k miles since I sold it 10 years ago!
Yeah, she's been a bit neglected over the last 4 or 5 years, it's barely left the garage. That's about to change... though it's a track car now and won't be driven daily.
Been spending a bit of time re-undersealing, tidying up the interior, getting everything properly sorted. Pics to follow.
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Major update!
After a busy few years with me away a lot for work, over the last 12 months I've knuckled down and got the car essentially finished (for now...).
Started with a failed MOT in Sep 18, predominantly because of rusted sills stemming from some poor repairs and treatment in the past.
Got this sorted to a very high standard in Feb. Now the outer sills look like this (side skirts to go back on):
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This was previously more hole than metal:
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The garage also found some work to do around the rear wheelarch, which was all sorted.
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With all the structural repairs complete I spent a bit of time addressing any blemishes on the underside and re-undersealing with Hammerite Waxoil. The subframes and suspension will need to be re-powder coated one day but the chassis is now looking sweet:
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In parallel, I made a Mk2 gauge panel using a 3D printed blank bought from the US via Ebay.
I cut the holes and made a plate to hold the AVCR:
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Wrapped it in some carbon-esque vinyl, which looks a bit shit but less shit than the 3D printed finish:
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I built a custom control unit which take the Stack gauge alarm triggers and activate a buzzer and flashing LED installing on the roll cage a-pillar (in addition to the gauge flashing itself - which I'm worried I'd miss with a helmet on):
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Whole thing assembled:
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Installed:
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Then I stripped the interior paint because I was getting weird reactions from previous Hammerite touching up. Utter pain in the arse!
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Etch primed and drainage holes covered by some bonded-in some aluminium blanks:
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All painted up with Rust-oleum Hard Hat Satin Black (way better than Hammerite!):
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Made some treadplates for the footwells:
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Also made some blanking interior panels out of lightweight foamboard:
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Re-wrapped and re-ran the interior loom), installed seats and harnesses.
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Done a few shake-down runs and she's absolutely flying.
Also decided to weight the car via 12x cheapo Argos scales and some woodwork.
1210kg, 57:43 weight distribution. Bit disappointed with the weight, but to be expected given the full cage I guess. I'd like to get it below 1150kg one day, and even off the weight distribution a little, perhaps via GRP wings, battery relocation and ABS delete. But for now I just want to use it.
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So she's back. First real test will be Blyton Park on 14 Sep. This is the first time she's been on track in 5+ years and since then I've changed a tonne of stuff.
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Plan now is to get a few trackdays done and then think about some BC coilovers (with DIY corner-weighting, of course).
Top work mate, the interior looks great :thumbs:
You wanna watch that chequer plate dont fall out while driving down the road mate. Loads of sparks and it could go flying away!!
Good update, looking great! I was beginning to think it was just gathering dust somewhere. Hope it goes well at Blyton!
Yes Davey! How'd it go mate?
Cool! No issues with noise then?
I quite like my BC's. Sure there's better suspension but for the money it's hard to beat imo. I never found my ABS intrusive. It deleted itself on track and I quickly learnt to drive without so removed it later. Free's up some space around the turbo but I wouldn't be in any rush to bin it unless it's misbehaving.
Doesn’t it play up if you spin out? I know a lot of people disable it for track work