V8S Rebuild begins!
Discussion
Chris, you can't knock my hotels, last saturday was £220 each (and overcharged on top), Monday was, erm, £9 for the room with no possibility of spending anything - which is great!
Anyhow, seen the pictures now, she looks fantastic. You have done really well and should be proud, particularly as I suspect you have inspired people
Anyhow, seen the pictures now, she looks fantastic. You have done really well and should be proud, particularly as I suspect you have inspired people
Longers said:
Bloomin eck Chris, you put the body on on your own?! I was hoping to come over and see the shiny shassy before the body went back. Don't suppose you could lift it off for me again could you 
It's looking good mate. April will be here sooner than you think
Yes the body is on - I know its been the longest body off in history but I'm getting there!It's looking good mate. April will be here sooner than you think
Hoping to get the brakes & steering connected this weekend, I'm really feeling like its getting there now.
It may sound daft but just wheeling it outside and giving it a wash made it look like a car again instead of a dusty pile of bits!
Need to save up my Xmas pennies for the engine bits now. Yes I'll be doing that aswell. I can screw it up as well as any garage!
Anyway Longers, about S Club....
Chris
OK a mini update.
Not done much over the last few weeks as its been too damned cold, even with 3kW worth of heater going flat out in the garage.
What I have done is stripped all items off the bulkhead, cleaned & polished it all up and now started to put the items back on.
The coolant expansion bottle is refitted after a serious clean, though its still not perfect.
I took the brake servo off to paint it, unfortunately there was a horrible reaction between the paints and it all wrinkled up. I finally stripped it all off again today and repainted it, its still drying but is looking OK.
Got the rear brake valve bolted onto the bulkhead & the rear pipe fitted to it.
Will try to get a pic tomorrow, its too cold, dark and snowy now.
Chris
Not done much over the last few weeks as its been too damned cold, even with 3kW worth of heater going flat out in the garage.
What I have done is stripped all items off the bulkhead, cleaned & polished it all up and now started to put the items back on.
The coolant expansion bottle is refitted after a serious clean, though its still not perfect.
I took the brake servo off to paint it, unfortunately there was a horrible reaction between the paints and it all wrinkled up. I finally stripped it all off again today and repainted it, its still drying but is looking OK.
Got the rear brake valve bolted onto the bulkhead & the rear pipe fitted to it.
Will try to get a pic tomorrow, its too cold, dark and snowy now.
Chris
an insperation to many, seemed a shame to put the body back on thoughBarkychoc said:
brakes all done, bled,
Interested to note that you had run flexable hose from the end of the solid brake lines to the plates on the front suspension and then a solid (I think) line to the caliper. The front brakes on the S I am breaking has stainless, quite thin, running from the fixxed pipes on the front cross member to the calipers through the plate where your flex hoses terminate. I was wondering why you had stuck with the original type hoses and layout, are there an benefits?Will add a pic tomorrow of my brake runs
Norman, there's a short flexi from the caliper, then a solid bit of pipe, then the long flexi hose at the front, pic below.
I went for the original setup for a few reasons - one is that I like to be able to see what condition my hoses are in - maybe I am worrying unnecessarily but I don't like the idea that you can't see the hose inside the braiding.
The second is cost - I'd like to do the rebuild with the best of everything but the braided lines are quite expensive for the V8S (more than V6 ones) and I wanted to go all metric with the pipe fittings; I wasn't sure what the braided hoses would give me.
Finally I've seen the routing of the braided hoses at the front and I have to say I'm not that keen on it.
Again I'm probably worrying about nothing, but its one less mod to declare to the insurance.
Anyway on with the show.....
Servo & master cylinder all fitted & connected.
Still some final routing to be done on those front pipes.
The engine bay will look a lot better when I replace the heat shielding.
Edited to add the servo and master cylinder are painted with Halfords Very High Temperature Metallic Black paint (aerosol).
The temperature bit is immaterial but whats good about it is that it covers brilliantly - and has a sort of graphite final effect that I quite like (it certainly isn't black!).
Finally if anyone is interested to see one here's a couple of pics of the rally design forged UJ (£2 more than the cheaper pressed steel one, so I've just contradicted myself on trying to save a few quid!).
You need a longer bolt for this than the original one (documented in the bolts list - not supplied with the UJ).
I went for the original setup for a few reasons - one is that I like to be able to see what condition my hoses are in - maybe I am worrying unnecessarily but I don't like the idea that you can't see the hose inside the braiding.
The second is cost - I'd like to do the rebuild with the best of everything but the braided lines are quite expensive for the V8S (more than V6 ones) and I wanted to go all metric with the pipe fittings; I wasn't sure what the braided hoses would give me.
Finally I've seen the routing of the braided hoses at the front and I have to say I'm not that keen on it.
Again I'm probably worrying about nothing, but its one less mod to declare to the insurance.
Anyway on with the show.....
Servo & master cylinder all fitted & connected.
Still some final routing to be done on those front pipes.
The engine bay will look a lot better when I replace the heat shielding.
Edited to add the servo and master cylinder are painted with Halfords Very High Temperature Metallic Black paint (aerosol).
The temperature bit is immaterial but whats good about it is that it covers brilliantly - and has a sort of graphite final effect that I quite like (it certainly isn't black!).
Finally if anyone is interested to see one here's a couple of pics of the rally design forged UJ (£2 more than the cheaper pressed steel one, so I've just contradicted myself on trying to save a few quid!).
You need a longer bolt for this than the original one (documented in the bolts list - not supplied with the UJ).
Edited by Barkychoc on Wednesday 4th February 15:09
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