johns tvr rebuild

[900T-R]

Great work! Will you be making & selling the pre-serp SC pulleys for other Tivvers to buy, too?

[450Nick]

John, absolutely fantastic work - and some lovely fabrication. I only wish I had your machine shop! How long have you had your Chim? I used to work up at the Bacton plant and lived in Wroxham for a while, so used to blast through the area about 3 years ago. If you're free this weekend, I'll be down at Snetterton with the TVR Racing guys for the Tuscan Challenge racing. Feel free to head down and say hi - there are some fantastic cars out this weekend, and if you need any info on Emeralds and SC Chims come and find me!

[Engineer1949]

thanks for the offer nick,will be ther on the sunday got stuff on tomorrow,had the car since the begining of this thread bought as basket case.


john

Edited by Engineer1949 on Friday 31st August 19:42

[Engineer1949]

another day at the mill finished the front of the engine off belt on and tensioned bracket made for the timing sensor gearbox mounted to engine and engine now all bolted up and in the chassis seems to have been a long haul looking back hopefully the body will come together as well


john

Edited by Engineer1949 on Friday 31st August 19:18

[Engineer1949]

the modified kit for the preserp will be available hopefully through sc power as they supply the bulk of the equipment required, i will fabricate the parts as you see them plus be available for advise and help or indeed instalations.


john

Edited by Engineer1949 on Friday 31st August 19:22

[haircutmike]

John, I would sort out your heater pipe connections before you drop the body on as access there is poor behind the plenum!

[Engineer1949]

good advise will do


john

[SILICONEKID340HP]

Looking good is it stadard procedure to fit the trigger wheel sensor on that side ,mine is close to the exhaust on the other side,im wondering if mine can be moved..cheers

[Engineer1949]

i dont think you can fit the wheel behind on the serpentine engine not sufficient room,i had originally fitted the trigger to the front of the pulley myself but felt that having it behind away from the heat would be a better bet and as this is all new development i try to get it right for the outset.



john

[900T-R]

Engineer1949 said:

the modified kit for the preserp will be available hopefully through sc power as they supply the bulk of the equipment required, i will fabricate the parts as you see them plus be available for advise and help or indeed instalations.


john

Cool, all of three enquiries I had so far for SC systems were for pre-serps for whatever reason...

[Engineer1949]

well bodywork time now got the offside front wing all repaired filled and faired ready for primer then the rest of the body tub,seats dash centre console door cards all at the trimmers plus have sourced some nice braided conduit for the engine bay,all the paints and primers turned up today from movac cant wait to get some colour on.


john

[edo]

what colour?

[Engineer1949]

The colour is going to be orange with black wheels similar to the repsol honda colour.



John

[Grey Ghost]

Engineer1949 said:

The colour is going to be orange with black wheels similar to the repsol honda colour.



John

We really should have guessed that from the colour you have painted the engine and other parts, sound choice

[Engineer1949]

repairs finally finished just a couple of pin holes to fill looks so much better with the etched primer on,also got the last of the shock bushes pushed in and the remaining diff mount done, off the the north york moors for a week so no updates till we are back.


john

[dbv8]

Stick a nut on the back of that diff bracket bolt.

Top job btw.

[CHIMV8]

Engineer1949 said:

repairs finally finished just a couple of pin holes to fill looks so much better with the etched primer on,also got the last of the shock bushes pushed in and the remaining diff mount done, off the the north york moors for a week so no updates till we are back.


john

Glad yo are coming to Gods country...you may never go back...time for a PAS installation

[Engineer1949]

That is the very next job on return
Nuts fitted just took pic a bit early.

John

[Engineer1949]

well the much awaited power steering mod is all complete, the brackettery is finalised the unwanted pieces from the power unit hve been removed to clean it up and the control unit has a new home as it impeeded the left foot to the clutch for size 11 like mine, have taken it all out again for paint looks neat and if it where meant to be.

john

Edited by Engineer1949 on Wednesday 19th September 21:44

Edited by Engineer1949 on Thursday 20th September 19:52

[chris2002hk]

How much would this car cost me to buy off you when done? I need a perfect example to export !