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You are a perfectionist to invest all that effort in the underneath!

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Staggeringly impressive !!!!

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While the car's away for paint I thought I would sort out the bonnet hinges, they're a pain to paint as the paint gets scratched off when they open and close.

Chrome is nice but it will never get between the two halves so I stripped them down and photographed them for the chrome platers.

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After some cleaning up and the hinges pin holes machined out to one size for both parts.

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Back from being triple plated.

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Needed new hinge pins so I went into work today and made a pair out of stainless steel.

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Polished it up a bit and need to have a way of holding it when tightening, so knocked up an electrode on the CNC mill.

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Setting up on the spark eroder

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Quick vid of sparker in action for those who are interested in engineering stuff, you might have to scroll down to see the vid !

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All done

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Assembled with copper grease

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Just need a car to fit them to now!
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Stunning work Dude!!

Keep at it :)

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Very impressive!!!

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Post by gelmonkey »

Thought I was a bit fussy and things need to be just so but this project is truly something else and I take my hat off to you
Perfectionist just not even come close to you
You are in a different league :D
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Thanks for the kind comments.

If I was lees of a tart it would be done by now :oops:
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Fixed up the front cross member as the underside was battered.

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Plug welded and seam welded followed by powder coating.

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Car is still at the painters :cry:
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Beautiful. Are you going to dare drive this car when it's done?

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At the speed my painter is working I'll be too old to drive it when it's done :lol:
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Stick with it Mark. Its a wonderful thing you are creating mate. I take my hat off to you dude :)

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MGB GT + Rover V8

9.62 @ 137.37mph

Now looking for 8 seconds with a SBC engine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVscbPHgue0&list=UUqIlXfSAoiZ--GyG4tfRrjw



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg3avnsNKrc&index=2&list=FLqIlXfSAoiZ--GyG4tfRrjw

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Super stuff this !

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seight wrote:Super stuff this !
Isnt it Just Seight ??

I thought I was being good just for taking a year off racing to build a new engine.

Mark is taking his stuff to a higher level for sure. :)

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Now looking for 8 seconds with a SBC engine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVscbPHgue0&list=UUqIlXfSAoiZ--GyG4tfRrjw



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg3avnsNKrc&index=2&list=FLqIlXfSAoiZ--GyG4tfRrjw

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My slow motion painter has done the inside

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Just need to get him to do the rest :lol:
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Post by unstable load »

Tell Speedy that his work looks amazing and that interior is better than new from where I am sitting.
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