More chassis refurbishment porn at Willow sports cars

More chassis refurbishment porn at Willow sports cars

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portzi

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Tuesday 27th December 2011
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With the battery in place, Nick will fit a strap around the battery, specially made by his friend Tim an up-holstery by trade. My garage at work does not have power, so I will simply lift out the battery and put on charge. The wood that covers the battery will of course be carpeted, and either attached by good old velcro or a hinge of some sort?








Nick has put some more upgrades to the chassis. He has put some outrigger protectors which simply bolt onto the chassis outriggers, with some clever brackets he has manufactured. smile These too will get powder coated.







Edited by portzi on Tuesday 27th December 22:54


Edited by portzi on Tuesday 27th December 23:03

Twistygit

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152 months

Tuesday 27th December 2011
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Hi thanks for reply, battery is a very good idea, all looking good.

SILICONEKID340HP

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Tuesday 27th December 2011
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portzi said:
With the battery in place, Nick will fit a strap around the battery, specially made by his friend Tim an up-holstery by trade. My garage at work does not have power, so I will simply lift out the battery and put on charge. The wood that covers the battery will of course by carpeted, and either atached by good old velcro or a hinge of some sort?








Nick has put some more upgrades to the chassis. He has put some outrigger protectors which simply bolt onto the chassis outriggers, with some clever brackets he has manufactured. smile These too will get powder coated.







Edited by portzi on Tuesday 27th December 22:54
Keep the pictures coming, where is he connecting the earth and what is the route for the live. How is he extending the two brown live feeds from the fusebox area..



Edited by SILICONEKID340HP on Tuesday 27th December 23:02


Edited by SILICONEKID340HP on Tuesday 27th December 23:04

portzi

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Tuesday 27th December 2011
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Twistygit said:
Hi, if you don't mind me asking approx. how much would it cost for a body off outrigger replace? Also what will they do with the thin and holed bits of chassis at the shocker mounts?
Nick has cut that area away completely and welded a new piece of steel in there. I will take a pic tomorrow and put it on.smile

portzi

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Tuesday 27th December 2011
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SILICONEKID340HP said:
Keep the pictures comming, where is he connecting the earth and how is he extending the two brown live feeds from the fusebox area..
I will ask Nick tomorrow Daz.

SILICONEKID340HP

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Tuesday 27th December 2011
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portzi said:
SILICONEKID340HP said:
Keep the pictures comming, where is he connecting the earth and how is he extending the two brown live feeds from the fusebox area..
I will ask Nick tomorrow Daz.
Cheers Im about to put mine in the boot but in stumped with the two brown wires..

how to connect ,what size etc

Twistygit

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Monday 2nd January 2012
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hi, how's it going any further developments hope u continue to keep the photo's coming

andydw

255 posts

154 months

Tuesday 3rd January 2012
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Interesting stuff. What sort of cost are we looking at for a full body-off chassis refurb? Like to get this done on my cerb and uprate the suspension at the same time.

Dr Mike Oxgreen

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164 months

Tuesday 3rd January 2012
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Ball-park figures:

£1500-ish for replacing the outriggers

Another £1500-ish for shot-blasting, zinc primer and powder-coat of whole chassis, including wishbones etc.

Budget another £500-ish for stuff that gets discovered along the way, plus the stuff that you'd be mad not to do at the same time. Little things like replacing fuel lines etc all add up. The "where do you stop" line is a blurry one!

M@H

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271 months

Tuesday 3rd January 2012
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Interesting numbers smile how do they compare against buying a whole new chassis - they are under £3k iirc ??

M@H

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Tuesday 3rd January 2012
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TJC46

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Tuesday 3rd January 2012
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M@H said:
If the rest of your car has been upgraded quite recently, then this would be a viable option. The thing is, while the body is off you dont just "sort" the chassis out, you end up renewing fuel lines, brake lines, rebushing all round, new diff bushes,new shocks,new handbrake cable, drop and change the diff oil, the gearbox oil, and on, and on...........

M@H

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Tuesday 3rd January 2012
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Agreed, but you'd be doing those things whether you were replacing the chassis or fully re-furbing the existing chassis so I don't quite see your point ?

TJC46

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Tuesday 3rd January 2012
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I may be reading this all wrong, but i assumed 3.5k was just to supply the chassis. You would still have all the cost involved labour wise, to swop over, plus all the cost of everything else you have done whilst you have the "bodyoff".


M@H

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Tuesday 3rd January 2012
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Ah I see what you are driving at - I have assumed that you couldn't do this lot:
3 posts earlier said:
"Another £1500-ish for shot-blasting, zinc primer and powder-coat of whole chassis, including wishbones etc."
..without stripping the engine, transmission, running gear etc off it anyway - its going to come back bare on a trailer from the paint shop I reckon. smile

Dr Mike Oxgreen

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Tuesday 3rd January 2012
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My reading of the link is that it's £3475 + VAT to supply a chassis. To fit it, you'd have to do a full body lift and strip everything: engine, gearbox, diff, etc etc. If you've got the time and skills to do all that yourself, then a new chassis looks like a good option, being only slightly more than the refurb.

But my rough figures were for getting someone like Nick at Willow to do everything for you, all disassembly and reassembly included. I think the refurb option is sensible if, like me, you're largely incompetent - I'm not sure I'd drive any car that I'd disassembled and reassembled myself!

portzi

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Tuesday 3rd January 2012
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Dr Mike Oxgreen said:
My reading of the link is that it's £3475 + VAT to supply a chassis. To fit it, you'd have to do a full body lift and strip everything: engine, gearbox, diff, etc etc. If you've got the time and skills to do all that yourself, then a new chassis looks like a good option, being only slightly more than the refurb.

But my rough figures were for getting someone like Nick at Willow to do everything for you, all disassembly and reassembly included. I think the refurb option is sensible if, like me, you're largely incompetent - I'm not sure I'd drive any car that I'd disassembled and reassembled myself!
Hi Mike, nick did a superb job on your chassis, with some unique upgrades, and that was the main reason for getting mine done. The labour is the biggest expense on this exercise so adding nearly 4000, for a new chassis was not an option for me, unless the chassis is so badly corroded that it is not useable. Also you have to added knowledge thats Nicks expertise is doing the work for you. smile I would have loved to do it myself and had the satisfaction of it, but I,m affraid my Trevor would have been off the road for far toooooo long for to bear with smile.

My phone ran out of charge today, so was unable to update with more pics will post some more tomorrow.

Edited by portzi on Tuesday 3rd January 21:30

portzi

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Tuesday 3rd January 2012
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SILICONEKID340HP said:
Cheers Im about to put mine in the boot but in stumped with the two brown wires..

how to connect ,what size etc
Daz, Nick has told me that he is just simply extending the 2 leads to the battery, I told him about your brown wires. Are these the positive and negative connections to the battery terminals? As mine are red and black.

SILICONEKID340HP

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Tuesday 3rd January 2012
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portzi said:
SILICONEKID340HP said:
Cheers Im about to put mine in the boot but in stumped with the two brown wires..

how to connect ,what size etc
Daz, Nick has told me that he is just simply extending the 2 leads to the battery, I told him about your brown wires. Are these the positive and negative connections to the battery terminals? As mine are red and black.
There not mate ! the two brown wires are two live cables which disappear in to the abyss towards the fuse box .

After doing some research they need upsizing. if there being extended.

andydw

255 posts

154 months

Tuesday 3rd January 2012
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Does anybody know if there are any improvements that could be carried out to the cerb chassis during a restoration eg improved suspension geometry that sort of thing?