few pics of project

[al 350i]

thought i'd post a few pictures of my little project, she's a 400se 44k two owners but got parked up outside for 10yrs. colour is now alloy pearlescent, wheels are a work in progress! new carpets should arrive next week (black), dash and door cards have also been re colonised black and i have a set of mazda RX-8 seats in theory they are narrow enough to fit but need to fabricated new mount for runners.

[Mike Brewer]

Great find .i will watch with interest ...Mike

[al 350i]

[carsy]

Very nice. I know i am a Griff man but got to admitt those SE and Seac Wedges are awesome looking cars.

Any more pics.

[al 350i]

tried to upload a few pics but will only let me do one at a time, then the site was down!!!!! will try again tomorrow

[JMF894]

Hey Alex!

Have you started the wheels yet? I see the front chassis looks nice and clean and white behind the front wheels there. Did you do that? Did you lift the body off this at some point?

If so then the wheels should be a doddle for you. I'm getting tyres fitted on Tuesday then i hope to get some pics of the car with it's new refurbed wheels.

Jimbo

[al 350i]

hi jim no i didn't lift the body, the chassis was strangely in really good nick so just crawled around underneath with wire brush and tin of white hammerite! the only thing i found strange was the outriggers are square tube and rest is round, i know the previous owner well and he bought the car from 4yrs old and never had any chassis work done, must have been a friday afternoon in the factory when built!!!

got to wait til the end of month before Laser have got stock of 10 point sockets before i can tackle wheels. did have semi success with lights today, both light pods go up and down, although drivers side is twice as fast as passenger and goes up and down twice before the passenger side has caught up!

[stainless_steve]

Looking great,keep up the good work

[al 350i]

[al 350i]

[al 350i]

still plenty to do!!!!!!!!

[Lean Machine]

Funnily enough my 400SE also has square outriggers. The section to check for rust though is just above the triangular plate where the outrigger bar meets the round bars from the chassis. Get well underneath with a good light and look above the plate. It's well concealed with the body in place. If it's OK in this area the rest is probably fine too. Nice car and a nice colour too. Keep up the good work.
Tony.

[al 350i]

[blaineuk]

Round chassis, and square out diggers is how they should be. Looks very nice though, got me looking in classifieds, may be time for another one.

[JMF894]

blaineuk said:

Round chassis, and square out diggers is how they should be. Looks very nice though, got me looking in classifieds, may be time for another one.

Yep was gonna say my outriggers are square section.

For the record when i was cleaning/waxoyling my chassis earlier in the year i noticed that the area described above the triangular plates at the end of the outriggers was the worse. I think crap collects there as my car has rubber pieces in there between the body mounts. I cleaned it all out and sprayed black waxoyle in there for England!

Jimbo

PS Alex i can post you my rim sockets if it helps you out in case you dont want to wait? My new rim bolts are 12 point so a regular socket fits.

[al 350i]

yhm

JMF894 said:

Yep was gonna say my outriggers are square section.

For the record when i was cleaning/waxoyling my chassis earlier in the year i noticed that the area described above the triangular plates at the end of the outriggers was the worse. I think crap collects there as my car has rubber pieces in there between the body mounts. I cleaned it all out and sprayed black waxoyle in there for England!

Jimbo

PS Alex i can post you my rim sockets if it helps you out in case you dont want to wait? My new rim bolts are 12 point so a regular socket fits.

[GV]

al 350i said:

Who did your paint job - looks good.

[Campbell]

That rood pannel looks realy sweet Al.

The car is looking rather good.
Look forward to seeing how the inside turns out.

Cambelt

[barrington]

looks great id better get back out in the garage and get on with my 400 resto

[al 350i]

GV said:

Who did your paint job - looks good.

paint was done by http://www.carbondesign.co.uk/cd/index.php/index.p...

guy's name is rob (07711 611880) has done quite a few TVR's for me, always a great colour match and good price. also painted Dan Taylors Chimera, done a nice T350 headlight conversion to a griffith, does work for Kent highperformance (ferrari), GT40 replicas, Facel vega, porsches. he does insurance work as well on TVR's when insurance companies are on the verge of writing someones pride and joy off. Also does replacment outriggers in conjunction with Taylor TVR.

Edited by al 350i on Monday 14th November 09:45