V8S Rebuild begins!

[Barkychoc]

This thread follows on from my body off thread HERE


Fresh back from the powder coaters this morning, it's beautiful!



Powder coated

Chassis
Trailing arms
Front Wishbones
Swirl Pot
Radiator Housing
Diff carrier
Front chassis crossbar (V8 only, V6 is fixed)
Air intake pipe bracket
Fuel filter bracket
Fuel Tank Cradle (not shown)
Engine Mount Brackets
Various small items

£100 the lot! (Mates rates)

Previous Shotblasting was £95+vat

Edited by Barkychoc on Thursday 26th February 10:01

Edited by Barkychoc on Sunday 17th May 20:20

[S2Andy]

Hi

That is really nice and good value too. Can you post the contact details of both shot blaster and powder coater please. I'm not far from you (Loughborough) and am planning to do body off in the Autumn. Did they pick your chassis up or did you use a trailer.

Thanks and Good Luck.

Andy J

[Gerald-TVR]

Its a pity to cover it up - almost a work of art

[tozerman]

S2Andy said:

Hi

That is really nice and good value too. Can you post the contact details of both shot blaster and powder coater please. I'm not far from you (Loughborough) and am planning to do body off in the Autumn. Did they pick your chassis up or did you use a trailer.

Thanks and Good Luck.

Andy J

I can reccomentd a good blaster in Derby if it not too far for you, try ringing a company called Metal Finishers and ask for "Tinny" he only does blasting not painting so the quality is very high, good luck........Tony..

[Barkychoc]

Got the wishbones fitted yesterday - with all new polybushes.

Edited by Barkychoc on Wednesday 22 May 19:35

[clarenceboddiger]

Barkychoc said:

Got the wishbones fitted yesterday - with all new polybushes.
What a pig they were to fit, turns out our friends in Devon should have sent some PTFE grease to fit them with, no wonder it was so sodding difficult!
So now they need to come off again and I need to get the grease.

Look on the brightside Chris, at least you'll be fully conversant having done it TWICE before when you give me a lift doing mine.
Sorry forgot to say it looks great Chris , well worth the effort your putting in.

Edited by clarenceboddiger on Sunday 29th June 14:14

Edited by clarenceboddiger on Sunday 29th June 14:29

[ketvrin]

Looking good Chris...

K

[Sweet Thunder]

That chassis looks far too good to hide under the bodywork. Have you considered hanging it on the wall in the living room, as a work of art?

[Tant]

Very nice job there Chris..should be a spur to getting her back together....never knew there was such thing as chassis envy until now..

Cheers
Ant

[Dave_M]

Sweet Thunder said:

Have you considered hanging it on the wall in the living room, as a work of art?

You are not going to be popular with Mrs BC! Chris might just go for that and they already have a V8S body hanging from the garage.

[Sweet Thunder]

Dave_M said:

Sweet Thunder said:

Have you considered hanging it on the wall in the living room, as a work of art?

You are not going to be popular with Mrs BC! Chris might just go for that and they already have a V8S body hanging from the garage.

You mean he already has aquired two sculptures from the artists collective that call themselves TVR. That could be the start of a great collection!

[Longers]

See you've been busy while I've been away Chris! Got it all back together yet....?

[Barkychoc]

Yep all done. Honest.

[Longers]

I see you decided to fit your old wheels and original seats in the end then

[Barkychoc]

Erm erm.

I have fitted the wishbones to the chassis.
Then I discovered I'd chucked away a couple of shims for the front suspension, so I made a couple of new ones today.
I may get a bit further tomorrow, it may even end up with the front wheels on.
I need to get the bushes fitted to the rear trailing arms, so no rear wheels can be fitted yet.

Chris

[Barkychoc]

Before



Now

[pies]

Looking good,can you roll it my way please

[Barkychoc]

Well today I gave up trying to clean up the diff.
I went and bought a tin of silver smoothrite.





and driveshafts too

[Barkychoc]

There are two rubber mounts on top of the diff carrier to mount it to the chassis - I discovered last night one of mine is broken, the steel baseplate is cracked right through.
I'll post a pic of it, it's very poor bit of design & worth checking if you have the opportunity.
I've had to order new ones from TVRcarparts - over £70 with VAT & delivery

[ketvrin]

Looking good Chris...

K