Build diary.....72e....Becoming known as Geoff's 72 Hot Rod

23e Heure · Post by **23e Heure** » Fri Mar 01, 2013 9:20 pm

Nice. Had wondered where Higgs' car ended up.
Only shame is it lost its original NLX 97L plate.

Keep the photos coming!

Superlight7 · Post by **Superlight7** » Fri Mar 01, 2013 10:35 pm

23e Heure wrote:Nice. Had wondered where Higgs' car ended up.
Only shame is it lost its original NLX 97L plate.

Keep the photos coming!

Managed to recover its original NLX plate.....each of my garage bays has the plate of the car that parks there.....the plate was assigned last year when we transferred it from it's Irish plate......DVLA are a good bunch of people.

I've limited knowledge on this car but would love to find out more.......who's Higgs?

Superlight7 · Post by **Superlight7** » Fri Mar 01, 2013 10:47 pm

hot66 · Post by **hot66** » Fri Mar 01, 2013 11:11 pm

Search for higs356 on here

23e Heure · Post by **23e Heure** » Fri Mar 01, 2013 11:25 pm

2005:

Superlight7 · Post by **Superlight7** » Sat Mar 02, 2013 12:02 am

Tks James,

Appreciate that......see it's got, it's rear cage at this time.....that was gone by the time I bought it.

Superlight7 · Post by **Superlight7** » Sat Mar 02, 2013 10:28 pm

Finally home and time to crack on....

I was little late in ordering the bilsteins so for today it's a dry assembly of front suspension.....

I've changed to turbo rod ends, elephant racing poly- bronze bushed and conventional poly bush where appropriate...

Darren65 · Post by **Darren65** » Sun Mar 03, 2013 8:44 pm

Looking very good.

Superlight7 · Post by **Superlight7** » Sun Mar 03, 2013 9:26 pm

Rear suspension installed with Elephant Racing sealed spherical bearings and again poly bronze bushes to the spring plates.....no resistance to up and down motion.....simple fit and worth the expense...just awaiting new bilsteins to complete. Messed up on the dolly length as I think the suspension arm is likely to foul.....it will give me an excuse to accelerate the purchase of a new hydraulic lift.....I'd been putting this of as undecided on which one to buy.....so maybe the time to spend a few weekends on the loom and electrics.

74rsman · Post by **74rsman** » Mon Mar 04, 2013 11:32 pm

Was this once a race car in some pcgb series?

Superlight7 · Post by **Superlight7** » Mon Mar 04, 2013 11:54 pm

red964 wrote:Was this once a race car in some pcgb series?

What makes you think that.....I'd be interested to know more about its previous life and use.

Superlight7 · Post by **Superlight7** » Sat Mar 09, 2013 10:25 pm

Couple hours today building up the doors and installing mechanical window regulators. For simplicity I've swopped from power windows to mechanical winders.

Superlight7 · Post by **Superlight7** » Sun Mar 10, 2013 7:30 pm

Attacked the wiring today.

I prefer the smoke to stay in my wiring so pealed back all the loom tape to inspect each wire and set about making good four decades of running repairs.

I've updated to heat and abrasive resistant coverings and set about labeling each terminal. Okay it's not going to win concours but should make for a very reliable race car.

Example of before.......scotch locks and other crimp splices cut out and soldered to make good.

All labelled, covered in heat protection and labelled.

impmad2000 · Post by **impmad2000** » Sun Mar 10, 2013 7:48 pm

Superlight7 wrote:

I'd recommend for reliability, ditching the scotch lock joints, making good solder joints and sleeve with black heat shrink sleeve. Tim

myatt1972 · Post by **myatt1972** » Sun Mar 10, 2013 8:34 pm

I think those are before and after pics Tim, looks like the scotch locks are long gone.

DDK - Die Deutschen Klassiker

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