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

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

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magpies

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189 months

Saturday 23rd March 2019
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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

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189 months

Monday 25th March 2019
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All extra work, you going to get them re blasted and then paint or powder coated

magpies

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Monday 25th March 2019
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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

199 posts

73 months

Wednesday 27th March 2019
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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

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Friday 29th March 2019
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Both engine mounts, gearbox mount and alternator upper and lower month completed and painted. Good day smashbiggrin



Alan Whitaker

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Saturday 30th March 2019
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You might just want to beef up the gearbox mount, looks a bit thin to me

magpies

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Saturday 30th March 2019
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Looks thinner than the 6mm steel it is. There will be room the weld in an angle iron if need be.

GreenV8S

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291 months

Saturday 30th March 2019
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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

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Saturday 6th April 2019
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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

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Saturday 6th April 2019
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What's the pump from Mick

magpies

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Sunday 7th April 2019
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Alan Whitaker said:
What's the pump from Mick
from the original Jaguar tank

magpies

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Monday 8th April 2019
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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 laughsmash.
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magpies

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Tuesday 9th April 2019
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phillpot

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Tuesday 9th April 2019
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Inspired my Marcos? 😃

Alan Whitaker

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Saturday 13th April 2019
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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

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Saturday 13th April 2019
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Bit of therapeutic painting today


Also Mike has started on the exhaust manifolds

magpies

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Saturday 13th April 2019
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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

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Saturday 13th April 2019
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I can only turn my head so far Mick

magpies

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Saturday 13th April 2019
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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 furious

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

phillpot

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Saturday 13th April 2019
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