Body off at Dyno Torque Today!

[brummiewedge]

The LS conversion is underway at Dyno Torque, Took the engine out earlier this week, and when we looked at the flakey factory powder coating it was decided the only way to do this once and for all was to take the body off and re powder coat. It was the first Cerb we had done and took around two careful days. offside front body pad was badly corroded and where the exhaust passes v close to the chassis, this went through with a whack. Needless to say this will be sorted. If someone can tell me how to post pics i will!

[BCA]

Blimey, two days? If at all possible, could you tell me what this cost and or how difficult it was to do?

We'll be looking at this some time soon, so would love to know more details...

not great at getting images on here though im afraid.



Another Cerb in/ around Brum, they're starting to get a bit common now?!!

[shpub]

It takes two days ish because of the amount of diassembly needed to get to all the bolts and to remove evrything that goes between the body and chassis. It is also necessary to cut the fibeglass in the sill to free it from the chassis and it is not uncommon to experience seized bolts that require a lot of persuausion to free them. Most of the interior has to come out. The fuel tank removed and so on. This is assuming that there is no engine or gearbox in the car in the first place.

[brummiewedge]

Yup, steve is spot on. Bolts behind the rear seats and under the dashboard were particularly fun! OH and the cutting of the seatbelt mounting points. You would have to speak to Craig at Dyno Torque to see about costs of a chassis overhaul.

[whitey]

I saw the body lifted off on a hoist at my main TVR dealer on a 98 Cerb 4.5 due to rust on outriggers etc. The engine and box were still in the chassis. They were simply swapping it for a new chassis from the factory.

Edited by whitey on Saturday 23 December 10:26

[spartacus]

whitey said:

I saw the body lifted off on a hoist at my main TVR dealer on a 98 Cerb 4.5 due to rust on outriggers etc. The engine and box were still in the chassis. They were simply swapping it for a new chassis from the factory.

Edited by whitey on Saturday 23 December 10:26

Hi Whitey, you reading the Cerb forums must mean your starting to hanker after one, probably never been better time to pick up a Cerb bargain!

[brummiewedge]

http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o1

trying to suss this photoposting thing!

[david smith]

good photo ... this day will come too us all!

still activly fighting against it ! - the wife would kill me!

good luck with the project!

DAS

[byker28i]

brummiewedge said:

http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o1

trying to suss this photoposting thing!

Post it with [ followed by img followed by ] then the url then [ followed by /img followed by ]

so

Edited by byker28i on Sunday 24th December 10:41

[Extra 300 Driver]

Is it not easier to leave the engine in place?

[byker28i]

That is scarey how much corrosion is on the chassis. I think I'll take another look at mine, although it looked very good back in August.

How hard is it to separate the body from the chassis normally?

[touching cloth]

Mine from this time last year. Engine stayed in for initial lift but obviously came out eventually anyway once we saw that the whole lot needed to be done.

www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=6&t=227481

Scarey stuff but glad mine is out of the way for a number of years


Edited: to add actual Link to mine following moment of muppetry.

Edited by touching cloth on Sunday 24th December 14:34

[brummiewedge]

I.m putting a 6.3 LS lump back in. I did not intend on doing a chassis overhaul, but once the engine was out i had to bite the bullet once i had a good look at the chassis. Basically its the front corners by your feet that have seen better days. The centre is sound just surface rust where the coating has fell off, i will get the chassis sand blasted and re coated, i dont intend to do it again!

[BikealarmBlair]

That's going to take some finishing inside two weeks chancy!

Shame about the chassis as the body looked surprisingly good.

[brummiewedge]

Dunno what your laughing at you will be doing electrics!

[BikealarmBlair]

Bugga!

Did I mention it's a really busy time in the bikealarm world? What you mean you know different

[brummiewedge]

It now has new outriggers and the engine mounts are in place, once the new gearbox comes from the States it will all start to go back together. Exhausts will be custom made room is not as bad as to be expected, the decide which ancilleries will go where. I think the installation will end up neater than the original!

[BikealarmBlair]

so have you finished it yet?

or are you still messing about

its a good job craig is keeping your project moving

looks like its here to stay

[tinker-27]

another 7pm day !!!!!

[lippydave]

tinker-27 said:

another 7pm day !!!!!

That would be impressive if you ever got out of bed before 10.30 you lazy git!