Manky's Pop.

[madron]

ye still here in background v busy at moment tryin to get van on road for creatures rally plus just got a big order for kitcar company for guards etc  will put bolts in flaps for ya also on with chummy seat mould  so i can make ya 2 and bring all ya stuff too billing if ya still going

[Manky Monkey]

Yup, will be at Billing. I'll use the original steel Chummy seat in the Pop, but will certainly buy a pair of 'glass ones from you -no idea why, but you never know when you might need them!

[shabby]

do you want me to take inner wing to billings 

[Manky Monkey]

Yuss perlease. 

[shabby]

ok dude will do 

[Manky Monkey]

We'll be there for the day on the Sunday.

[Manky Monkey]

Well unfortunately Mr Shabbs couldn't make it to Billing today, but Madron was there, (as well as PantherShaun), & brought back the repro Austin Chummy seat he borrowed from me. I'm using these in the Pop, but Ron's taken a mould from one to reproduce them in fibreglass -PM him if you fancy some. I've ordered a pair myself. Not sure why but you never know when they might come in handy.
 

[Manky Monkey]

I collected the second door repair panel from Pop Parts Plus today -they could only send the passenger one when I ordered them a few months ago as they were re-tooling for the driver's side.

[Manky Monkey]

Ron had also made me a pressie. A pair of air vent covers. The Pop has flip-out vents on either side of the cowl. I've got the hinge mechanisms but not the flaps themselves. Thanks to Ron & his fibreglassing skills, I do now. Thanks Ronald. 

[Manky Monkey]

Also from Pop Parts Plus was this original Buick carb manifold.
My V8 Rover engine's fitted with the original twin SUs at the moment, but space is going to be limited under the bonnet due to the kicked up chassis, so I've decided to go with a 4 barrel Holley carb instead. Brock's found me a chrome plated 390 that's been sat unused on a show engine since the late 70s. It'll need rebuilding as the rubbers are bound to be perished by now of course. The Buick manifold will bolt straight onto the Rover engine & take the Holley, which will then poke up through the bonnet. My SUs are now promised to Lunatic for a future project.

[BikerGran]

I like the look of those Chummy seats - just what I could do with for the rear of the new trike IF it hadn't been made to small to take them!

[texon]

they are not very wide seats you might find they will fit

[BikerGran]

Not so much the width as the length - will have a think about it when I've got the trike - but the radiator would have to move.

[Manky Monkey]

No real progress on the Pop for a while now -I'm trying to rationalise our projects & concentrate on the one that's closest to being finished, which at the moment is my trike.
The Pop's front axle was dropped off at Namco, (North American Motor Company), in Farnborough, Hants, a week or so ago. They drilled out the spring perch holes to take the repro '32 Ford perches I've got, then bored a chamfer into the radius rod ends to fit the perches. If that doesn't make any sense I'll post some piccies next time I'm at the workshop. Basically it allows us to fit the new 26" wide tranverse spring to the original Pop beam axle. It will sit directly over the axle, rather than ahead of it as the original did, which will save us 4 inches or so in the engine bay.
Next job is to fit some hubs & wheels to the axle.
There are several disc set-ups from other cars that will almost fit the Pop spindles, but all require some degree of fettling & machine work. The closest we've found so far to a straight bolt-on fit are Triumph Vittesse brakes, which is what PantherShaun's gone for on his Pop.
A chance conversation at a hotrod show at the weekend led to a follow-up email telling me of a Dutton kitcar sitting in a scrapyard in Oxfordshire that appears to be fitted with the same Vittesse parts. Cars pass through this particular scrapyard pretty quickly though so I need to get over there as soon as I can.
I've also phoned Rimmer Brothers, specialists in Triumph parts, who tell me they can sell me brand new Vittesse discs for around 12 quid each & new, (not reconditioned), calipers for £76.55, both plus VAT.
They also do alloy hubs for a whopping 106 quid each, plus VAT. That's a lot of money when you tot it all up, but it would give me a brand new brake system, which is no bad thing. I'll chase the scrapyard brakes but if that falls through & Shaun can't locate the spare pair he's been told about, it might well have to be new parts. 

 

[panthershaun]

The Triumph hubs are a straight swap, even the Pop's old bearings fit the Triumph hubs, you do need to machine a spacer to locate the hub/disc correctly once the caliper is mounted but that is the only machining you have to do