Repair and Rebuild Begins

[Alan Whitaker]

Hi.
My list of things to coat is mounting up, been looking at these, not seen any of there work as yet.

http://www.performance1coatings.com/pricing/

Alan

[magpies]

let me know what you need measuring

[mk1fan]

Afternoon magpies,

The body shop has asked for a sketch and dims of your mod. Could you PM it to me? Thanks muchly.

[magpies]

Hope this is good enough together with the photos.



I also added some strengthening plates to where the new box section joins the original. Obviously the under bonnet area will need to be trimmed back depending on how open you want the bonnet to go. Also the photos show the pneumatic struts - most 'hatch back' type should do.

Edited by magpies on Friday 19th December 18:12

[Alan461]

The rhs stay marked #1 on the drawing has a dimension 650.
150 maybe?

Edited by Alan461 on Friday 19th December 19:08

Edited by Alan461 on Tuesday 23 December 17:42

[mk1fan]

Cheers magpies.

Is the 650mm dim correct?

[zombeh]

From the other thread that was in the 650 is supposed to be 165

[magpies]

Hi
sorry - I seemed to have corrected the dimension everywhere but this thread

yes on my car that is 165mm not 650mm - so not that far out then!!!!!!

appologies

I recon that all of the steel work (beacause of the sizes) should be available from your local fabricators scrap bin so should work out very in-expensive.

[mk1fan]

Quick update;

Spoke to the insurance company last week and they wanted some further breakdown of costs (on a £125 section of the quote) but didn't seem to baulk at the overall price. So looks like Samy won't get written off.

Should have a few parts turn up this week so I can sit down and decide what bonnent is going on. I also need to write up the job sheet of the other things I should [need / want to] get done!

[mk1fan]

Oh, and Tamy is [finally] going in on the 21st to get her windscreen changed - again over a month - so I may have a roadworthy TVR by the end of the month.

[magpies]

[v8s4me]

Which bonnet are you going to put on? With an S4 and the other one (showing my ignorance) to choose from you'r spoilt for choice.

[mk1fan]

Haven't decided yet. I like the Tuscan one and I like the S4 one but which one is best? There's only one way to find out ....

[v8s4me]

mk1fan said:

............ There's only one way to find out ....

So you're going to fit each one in turn? Good man!

[Alan Whitaker]

Hi All
It's all down to what you want it to look like, do you want it to be the same as all the others or something special, I like the word special just has that ring to it


Alan

[v8s4me]

Would you leave the vents in if you used the Tuscan one?

[mk1fan]

The three slats in the front? Yes. Also a small naca vent next to the relocated air filter.

Some goodies arrived today for me to evaluate possible alteration to the bonnets.

[mk1fan]

Right, had an engineer from the insurance compnay around to check the car on Monday. Should know tomorrow if they are going to write the car off. Time seems to be skipping by at the moment.

[glenrobbo]

Stewart, I sincerely hope you get the right outcome from this.

Looking forward to seeing Samy reincarnated ASAP.

[Kie s2]

Hi Stew , good to have a chat with you yesterday , fingers crossed that the engineer shares your will, to repair the S , as you demonstrated with him, your commitment of a long term ownership with the improvements you intend to make ....and spare parts already bought ..
As with The S, it's always the cost of repair , value of car argument ?

On a sad note as you explained that your chosen body shop repairer , may not be in a position to facilitate for some time the repair of your car , then give me a call , I know GF repairer and painter , who is one man band , which keeps cost to a reasonable standard ..


Kie