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« Reply #330 on: November 18, 2007, 11:12:40 PM » |
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Mr Lunatic Senior's got a Pontiac Firebird stashed away round the back of the workshop. That did exactly the same thing apparently. Reaading the Pop Parts Plus & Pop Browns catalogues, there seems to be 3 or 4 different pieces of rubber seal & trim that make up the door seals. Unfortunately the previous owner of mine has "repaired" the door opening & plated over the channels the rubbers sit in. Hopefully we can rework them & get a vaguely waterproof cab.
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« Reply #331 on: November 19, 2007, 04:52:55 PM » |
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Passenger side is all welded and ground down. Start on the drivers side tomorrow evening then.
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« Reply #332 on: November 19, 2007, 05:10:23 PM » |
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Woo hoo! Thank you Sir. A slow day on the VW front was it?  |
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« Reply #333 on: November 19, 2007, 05:17:19 PM » |
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Was waiting for some bits to turn up and I couldnt help but grind down the welds! Its much neater now!
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« Reply #334 on: November 22, 2007, 10:35:00 AM » |
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Looking good guy's, love the door top. Really jealous of your workshop Loony  I think our 2 pickups are going to be SO different don't you think |
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« Reply #335 on: November 22, 2007, 01:33:44 PM » |
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Hope so! We're building custom cars, not kit cars. Wouldn't it be boring if they turned out identically. I think they're both looking pretty damn cool! We're off to pick up the Rover V8 for mine on Sunday. |
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« Reply #336 on: November 23, 2007, 08:56:31 AM » |
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too right, mine is going to look like a mildly hotrodded standard truck (I hope) whilst yours is going to look like a full on Hotrod, am I right  |
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« Reply #337 on: November 23, 2007, 04:44:52 PM » |
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With a little flexibility you can just get in it! The video of me getting out throught the window is good though! What are we using to pick up the V8 in? |
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« Reply #338 on: November 23, 2007, 10:51:25 PM » |
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Lookin' good Loony.  The guy with the V8 has a Transit pickup & says he can deliver it -to my lock up for the time being? He owns a Granada & took a V6 out of it to fit the V8, which came from a Standard 8 drag car, (although I don't think it's race tuned). Then a Cosworth lump came up so he fitted that instead & the V8's been sat in the garage ever since. |
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« Reply #339 on: November 23, 2007, 11:05:08 PM » |
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along with a Standard steering box ?
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« Reply #340 on: November 25, 2007, 09:25:40 AM » |
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I'll ask! The motor was removed 4 years ago so I'm guessing the drag car's long since gone or been fitted with something else.
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« Reply #341 on: November 25, 2007, 10:01:00 PM » |
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No steering box I'm afraid Steve. Just the engine & box sat on a trolley in the guy's garden.
Looked pretty good. Turned over nicely & made nice wump, wump wump noises, but the owner couldn't get it to fire. It had a weird connector block in the ignition circuit that no-one could figure out. I think I'll definitely buy it but I'll wait till the guy who took it out of the car can come over in a couple of days & fire it up.
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« Reply #342 on: November 25, 2007, 10:19:27 PM » |
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After we'd been to see the engine, Loony & I got to work on the cab back.
On PantherShaun's recommendation, I bought a 1970s Morris Minor cab back panel from a Brit Chopper forum member in Wales. Cost me 20 quid & had some major rot in the bottom half, but we weren't planning on using that bit anyway. We cut it off level with the waistline on the Pop. The Moggy panel's a couple of inches narrower than the Pop so had to be cut & widened somewhere. Cutting it straight down the middle would mean having to have a new rear window specially made. Cutting it either side of the window opening means the standard glass, (which I've got), will go right back in.
Mr Lunatic started by tacking the centre section to the Pop roof in the middle then working out either side, pulling the 2 roofs together & tacking to create a nice flowing curve. The Pop roof's now got a nicely rounded profile, instead of being dead flat as it was before.
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« Reply #343 on: November 25, 2007, 10:26:07 PM » |
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