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wow @GFV182D restoration...
I didn't knew that one needed it, looked like a great car back then when advertised with the pictures...on a grp body you can't do the trick they use on a steel body with a thickness measurement thing.
what I see in some pictures looks like a lot of body filler is used (perhaps you can save 10kg ;-)), are you going to make it a bolt on chassis? or the 'old' way.
good luck with the resto, hope its gonna be a great car again.
I didn't knew that one needed it, looked like a great car back then when advertised with the pictures...on a grp body you can't do the trick they use on a steel body with a thickness measurement thing.
what I see in some pictures looks like a lot of body filler is used (perhaps you can save 10kg ;-)), are you going to make it a bolt on chassis? or the 'old' way.
good luck with the resto, hope its gonna be a great car again.
Edited by GTRene on Friday 27th July 22:25
Looking at these pictures of the work involved removing the body on the older cars , how glad am I to have a bolt on body on wfd400h , having carried out a chassis up restoration so much easier, plus all that fibre glass work you're having to do on the body , looking at the chassis wouldn't blasting and a set of outriggers welded in sort it or is it worse than the Picts look .
The chassis was a badly reworked tvr chassis, the front was an original modified front section to fit the v8, the rear was original with hall drilled in the tubes to fit the 4hu diff.
The middle section was a custom made welded tubes section which were cracking at the weldings...
Definitely a dead chassis.
The middle section was a custom made welded tubes section which were cracking at the weldings...
Definitely a dead chassis.
le chouan said:
For now next step is to fit a fuel pump in the 80L tank...
80L is that standard? my Z3 only has about 50L , even my ex V8 version of it...Its a electric fuel pump I guess, can't that be mounted outside the tank? also easier when working with it...you also need a fuel pressure thing I guess.
My Z3 also has the pump in the tank...needed a bigger one, but someone else did that job :-) fitted also the fuel pressure thing and dial, for my project car, which is still not ready...grr and the motorsport garage working on it (for now the electrician) does not answer or update, all in all now almost 3 years in the making...
I could have bought several other sport cars in the mean time...I thought it would take them about 5 months all in all and then me working the other bits say also a month and then driving, but no...(yes my things I did in my time but they....aaaaaaaaaaaah) anyways...its a bit of my chest now haha ;-) :-(
the 4.3psi pump is good for carb but the LS1 will be fuel injected so I need a 3bar fuel pump.
My fuel tank is way bigger than the original the consequence is no spare wheel anymore in this grantura!
The internal pump isn't as complicated as it seems, therer is a big hall in my tank block by a screwed metal sheet, we are gonna make a new one and fit the pump in this plate 3d modelling ready soon.
My fuel tank is way bigger than the original the consequence is no spare wheel anymore in this grantura!
The internal pump isn't as complicated as it seems, therer is a big hall in my tank block by a screwed metal sheet, we are gonna make a new one and fit the pump in this plate 3d modelling ready soon.
Edited by le chouan on Thursday 2nd August 09:35
le chouan said:
the 4.3psi pump is good for carb but the LS1 will be fuel injected so I need a 3bar fuel pump.
My fuel tank is way bigger than the original the consequence is no spare wheel anymore in this grantura!
The internal pump isn't as complicated as it seems, therer is a big hall in my tank block by a screwed metal sheet, we are gonna make a new one and fit the pump in this plate 3d modelling ready soon.
40psi ??My fuel tank is way bigger than the original the consequence is no spare wheel anymore in this grantura!
The internal pump isn't as complicated as it seems, therer is a big hall in my tank block by a screwed metal sheet, we are gonna make a new one and fit the pump in this plate 3d modelling ready soon.
Edited by le chouan on Thursday 2nd August 09:35
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