Re: Flares....
Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2020 7:52 pm
Next up was rear shock tower turrets, a feature homologated in FIA Special Provision Document #3053 for all 3.0RS/RSR's to allow the fitment of coil-over rear dampers although these were only fitted to the RSR variants.
This is a feature I could have lived without as I'm unlikely to ever fit coil-overs and, as was highlighted earlier, even if I do there are many cars out there with coil-overs fitted even without the modification (which I can only assume means that later dampers are narrower or there's a degree of rubbing)......on top of that you'll notice many 'original' RS's without this feature although suspect that's likely due to repairs from a racing past when rectification work was less important.....however with the effort Barry has put in so far I think it would have been amiss to leave this and it is a feature you can see (if you stick your head under the rear arch!).....
....plus there were repairs needed anyway!
Nasty rust I would have certainly missed if this car had stayed standard and we were retaining as many original features and paint as possible!......the engine bay was totally original and looked in perfect order requiring nothing but a good clean with the rust hiding behind what looked like perfectly sound underseal.....
...so Barry set about by first cutting out the bad and making good repair sections.....
....perfectly formed pieces that went in nicely as Barry informed me.......which he then had to take a bloody great balled hammer to later when it turned out the indent had to be very much better to get the towers in!
....old turrets removed....
....and new ones fitted and shaped....
....very different in shape to standard towers from the underside....
....this area has now come together brilliantly and almost time for the rear pan to go back in
.....
Cheers,
This is a feature I could have lived without as I'm unlikely to ever fit coil-overs and, as was highlighted earlier, even if I do there are many cars out there with coil-overs fitted even without the modification (which I can only assume means that later dampers are narrower or there's a degree of rubbing)......on top of that you'll notice many 'original' RS's without this feature although suspect that's likely due to repairs from a racing past when rectification work was less important.....however with the effort Barry has put in so far I think it would have been amiss to leave this and it is a feature you can see (if you stick your head under the rear arch!).....
....plus there were repairs needed anyway!
Nasty rust I would have certainly missed if this car had stayed standard and we were retaining as many original features and paint as possible!......the engine bay was totally original and looked in perfect order requiring nothing but a good clean with the rust hiding behind what looked like perfectly sound underseal.....
...so Barry set about by first cutting out the bad and making good repair sections.....
....perfectly formed pieces that went in nicely as Barry informed me.......which he then had to take a bloody great balled hammer to later when it turned out the indent had to be very much better to get the towers in!
....old turrets removed....
....and new ones fitted and shaped....
....very different in shape to standard towers from the underside....
....this area has now come together brilliantly and almost time for the rear pan to go back in
.....Cheers,
