Cossy sold and Jag bought - the hard work begins next week

[magpies]

Chassis scalloped to raise the exhaust. Paint removal continues to check for rust - none found.



Then checked the powder coated trailing arms and found a layer of light rust under the coating.

Edited by magpies on Saturday 23 March 23:08

[Alan Whitaker]

All extra work, you going to get them re blasted and then paint or powder coated

[magpies]

Alan Whitaker said:

All extra work, you going to get them re blasted and then paint or powder coated

A few layers of paint. I'm unhappy with the powder coating and there were only a couple of tiny rust like blemishes, I had been in two minds as to whether to investigate or not. Obviously glad I did.

Judging by the abuse I gave some of the chassis tubes when jacking the car and that did not produce any rust, I'll stick with paint.

Oh and I'm welding 'jacking' strips to protect the tubing.

[Fefeu52]

magpies said:

I'm unhappy with the powder coating

There is several types of powder coating. TVR used the cheapest one, only one layer of polyester powder. The layer is UV and water proof, but as soon as you have a little hole is the layer, the rust can run under the layer. And frequently, the rust was already under the powder coating.

If you want something durable on a car chassis, you have to ask for a 3-layer treatment (known as triplex powder coating). The first layer is a zinc powder to give a cathodic protection. The second layer use an Epoxy powder for the barrier effect, and the last layer use a polyester powder for it's UV resistance (no colour distortion) and water resistance.

But as you wrote, you can also use paint. I would advice to use an Epoxy paint for the fist layer.

[magpies]

Both engine mounts, gearbox mount and alternator upper and lower month completed and painted. Good day

[Alan Whitaker]

You might just want to beef up the gearbox mount, looks a bit thin to me

[magpies]

Looks thinner than the 6mm steel it is. There will be room the weld in an angle iron if need be.

[GreenV8S]

If those bobbins are bolted to a rigid chassis member then it will be a cantilever beam in effect, so it will be much stiffer than it looks.

[magpies]

New propshaft has arrived



New home for the antiroll bar

And drawing of new fuel tank to be made next week to include in tank pump.

[Alan Whitaker]

What's the pump from Mick

[magpies]

Alan Whitaker said:

What's the pump from Mick

from the original Jaguar tank

[magpies]

Exhausting work today. Temporary mounted the diff, propshaft and exhaust box to see how to route the twin 2" pipes from the box to the rear end. Needed to remove the chassis cross member in front of the tank and loose the ends of the unused diff mounting. The crossmember will be replaced 2"higher and a pair of vertical struts to reinforce that area. Means the exhaust will be above the lower edge of the chassis with the only exemption being the silencer which hangs about 5mm lower even after using a press to flatten it a little .
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[magpies]

[phillpot]

Inspired my Marcos? 😃

[Alan Whitaker]

Which on did you have Mike, I had the 3.L GT with the fore Essex engine (still have the spare engine in bits) Was yellow, wish I still had it.

[magpies]

Bit of therapeutic painting today


Also Mike has started on the exhaust manifolds

[magpies]

Trailing arms off to be blasted and powder coated again. Last done about 10 years ago before I purchased the car. Don't think that they were prepared correctly as now have rust under the coating.

[Alan Whitaker]

I can only turn my head so far Mick

[magpies]

Alan Whitaker said:

I can only turn my head so far Mick

I don't understand it as the photo's are the correct way up on my phone

someone else may be along to sort them out - hope they say how to do it too.

[phillpot]