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more and more metalwork repairs.... progress at SVP is good and they are cracking on with a "paintshop by Xmas" informal deadline. As far as I'm concerned thats when the fun bit starts...i struggle to get excited by rust and welding whereas paint / interior / spec / mechanicals ie it starts looking like a car again is the bit I enjoy

new floor section in:



floor / sill:



door post / sill area:

more remedial work needed...all quite small beer though in the scheme of things and all new oil pipes and stat going in to be united with front wheelarch matrix type oil cooler

squirdan wrote:i struggle to get excited by rust and welding

Understandable.
But nice work going on there nevertheless, great photos and great progress. Very thorough.

squirdan wrote:more and more metalwork repairs.... i struggle to get excited by rust and welding whereas paint / interior / spec / mechanicals ie it starts looking like a car again is the bit I enjoy

Same here Dan, so I leave the metalwork and paint to others......who then chop the rear off ! Some way to go before I get mine back.



Yours is looking good though and will miss the majority of winter roads and be ready for Spring ?

Ian

a useful reminder for us all but especially any newbies

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A RUST FREE 40 YEAR OLD PORSCHE

its just marketing spin

the only way it will be rust free is if like this and other similar projects, the rust has been painstakingly chopped out and fresh metal welded in..... look what lay behind the outer wings:

Highfield wrote:

squirdan wrote:more and more metalwork repairs.... i struggle to get excited by rust and welding whereas paint / interior / spec / mechanicals ie it starts looking like a car again is the bit I enjoy

Same here Dan, so I leave the metalwork and paint to others......who then chop the rear off ! Some way to go before I get mine back.



Yours is looking good though and will miss the majority of winter roads and be ready for Spring ?

Ian

if it wasnt for the steering wheel I might have struggled to tell which way that car is pointing Ian !

i had a major "want" after I read that Alfaholics article...funnily enough similar to where I went with the RSR...modern technology where it enhances performance. Never had an old Alfa (had a GTV V6 and a 33 cloverleaf) and have an urge...

starting to look more like a car... cyclops!



the kind of thing Mick does in a spare lunchtime...new floor section welded in both sides now. I will be using weld in seat rails...I just prefer the lower position and the recaro sportsters sit up quite high as standard



half roll cage going in next week (custom cages)

I will be having std inertia reel belts but also 4pt harness in case I do any road rallies / events...nice to have the option

I had a minor flirtation with some rather nice Elephant racing dampers that Dom had on ebay...probably for the best that I wasnt quick enough...v nice kit but not exactly cheap

Dan - what seats and harness' are you going to use ?

Highfield wrote:Dan - what seats and harness' are you going to use ?

Recaro sportster cs seats... Came out of an evora and I will probably have them retrimmed in basketweave and black

Harnesses prob schroth.. Good enough for GT3 good enough for me

Great progress Dan and looking sweet

Still sticking to the original completion deadline?

there may have been some slippage Darren

anyway who would want a new car to drive in Jan or Feb what with all the salt on the roads

hows this for a nice bit of metalwork.... a small modification to the RHS front wheelarch which will allow v neat routing of the oil pipes...which once the shell is painted and the pipes are in will be covered up with a lwt plastic wheelarch liner

Squirdan, that oil pipe mod is way cool, keep up the good work.......Mark..

Loving that oil pipe mod. What kind of oil lines will attach to it? Those push fit style aeroquip ones or normal bolt up jobbies.

Northy wrote:Loving that oil pipe mod. What kind of oil lines will attach to it? Those push fit style aeroquip ones or normal bolt up jobbies.

rubber coated Goodrich type hose, aeroquip fitments I think

remember those rusty inner wings?

not any more...

more good work by SVP but even they must be getting bored of metalwork by now....