What did you do in the garage yesterday?

[jojackson4]

Just rap it tonight and paint and hope it's not too loud

Cleaned welded and painted ready to go back on

[OleVix]

jojackson4 said:

Just rap it tonight and paint and hope it's not too loud

Cleaned welded and painted ready to go back on

Good job, doing the same. Hi temp paint that cures once its hot?

[jojackson4]

Old school put it on with a brush and no oven bake

[Tyre Tread]

Oldred_V8S said:

Tyre Tread said:

Decided to board up the headlights.

That is one gorgeous looking car, I would really love on of those, the Chim looks OK too.

They're not expensive at the moment and just beginning to rise a bit in value. Simple to maintain and most parts easily available if you buy the V8, obvioulsy as the engnes in the two cars in the pic are the same, just tuned to a diffenet level.

[Chuffmeister]

jojackson4 said:

Well done for getting it to fit... Looks like Aladdin's lamp though!

[jojackson4]

Chuffmeister said:

jojackson4 said:

Well done for getting it to fit... Looks like Aladdin's lamp though!

It will look like the one on the top by T time

[jojackson4]

[phazed]

You'd never know that you've been in there;)

How about welding on a wide band boss for the future?

[Chuffmeister]

phazed said:

You'd never know that you've been in there;)

How about welding on a wide band boss for the future?

^^^^ even if you don't change your ECU, it will be useful for mapping!

Edited by Chuffmeister on Wednesday 14th January 17:55

[jojackson4]

Yep the boss whould have been a good idea but hay ho it can be done later

I have yet to hear it , it may be going in the bin
As soon as I get my engin mounts from Simon the spanners will be flying
And a test will be done

Tractor or nice V8 ?

[mattgtd]

Andav469 said:

Winter surgery has started, although the interior on mine was in good shape, I've never been happy with the fake leather interior, so today it went from this



To this



Keeping the same colour scheme but going 100% leather

Then a nice new dash going in when the interior comes back

That new dash section looks gorgeous, where is that from?

[Andav469]

mattgtd said:

That new dash section looks gorgeous, where is that from?

I bought the dash from TVR MADS £240 delivered, the gloss finish is flawless

[mattgtd]

Andav469 said:

I bought the dash from TVR MADS £240 delivered, the gloss finish is flawless

Cheers I'll have a look at that, be sure to post some good pics when you're finished please!

[carsy]

Opened up the inlet manifold to 45mm.




So it can take one of Jools`s blendid bases.





Just need to polish them up now. First one done.

[db484bhpv8]

Very nice, makes mine look like crap

Have you ported right through the inlet?

I never bothered taking mine to a polished finish. I thought a sanded finish would be enough and negate fuel dropout or whatever its called. Maybe this only applies to the heads.

[carsy]

Just gone as far down as i could, basically up to where the port goes square.

The head end of mine has been polished nicely for about 1.5 inches in. Presume this was done by TVR. This end nicely matches the heads so dont want to open it up any.

I`m sure your sanded finish is fine Derek. I suspect the polish i`ve done wont have much effect on power but it does look nice.

[jojackson4]

Very nice
At the risk of being a cock where do the vac pipes for the servo and carbon go
On the blended bace

[carsy]

Same place as the original.

[mk1fan]

Thanks to phazed for the use of his post lift. That enabled me to sort out the knocking exhaust. Put the ACT backbox back on too.

Arrived whilst is was snowing. Left in glorious sunshine, so roof down. Still cold though.

[Richard 858]

Today, removed this (it's been redundant for a while)


Then relocated washer bottle


Front now looks like this (now refitting the horn)