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Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 8:46 am
by topcatcustom
I got given a huge tub of brasso (liquid) and it is amazing on aluminium! I got some wet n dry and going to go over the 2 tanks I made and polish them up- I recon its actually easier than a buffing wheel as I already tried ours at work!
Well got some more bits bolted on over the weekend- and the hole in the bonnet cut- its bloody huge!!!
Heres "cutting the bonnet" in 3 easy steps
It fits really well- about a 20mm gap all the way round so kept it pretty snug and chamfered the stiffeners underneath back so you dont see them from the top, got to find some flexible rubber trim to push on that will bend round 20mm radiuses though
to finish it off once painted. The whole bonnet is ally which suprised me- even before I cut half of it out I could pick it up with 1 finger! -Oh- and it
just clears the blower using the original hinges- which is handy!
Now's to paint it and the bumper black, bolt the wings on, put the exhausts back on and do the wiring!!!
Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 9:49 am
by mgbv8
That looks brilliant Tom
Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 12:09 pm
by bones
o yes, looking real good TC,
rich
Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 8:24 pm
by gelmonkey
Hey Tom
That looks just fantastic.
The whole thing is just going to be so much fun once on the road.
Re the rubber trim try Woolies on Tinternet.
I got some kit from them a while back and had really good service.
Cheers
P
Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 10:04 pm
by mgbv8
Ahh!!
You are talking about grommet strip
Dont forget you can get plastichrome grommet strip as well...I had chrome around the hole for my 14" filter. Halfords or ebay. Cant remember now. But it looked good.
Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 9:20 am
by topcatcustom
Cheers Paul- have sent them an email. Perry that is the sort of stuff- the problem is that I have some pretty tight radiuses both internal and external around the hole I cut for the blower- instead of chopping a big square hole I followed the shape +20mm, looks much nicer!
Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 12:37 pm
by Ian Anderson
Extrusions direct from manufacturer
COH Baines
http://www.coh-baines.co.uk/
IAn
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 11:24 am
by topcatcustom
Woolies were very helpful and sent me samples through straight away. Here's a pic of the little hole I had to cut
And the engine bay is nearly complete now! (minus the blower of course)
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 11:53 am
by bones
only a small hole in the bonnet then
. im looking forward to seeing the mx5 at nth weald. I would think a few peeps will suffer dropped jaw syndrome when they see it, its one mean mother
rich
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 10:00 pm
by JJMclure
looking good, nice and neat engine bay, bonnet should be a bit lighter too!
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 11:21 pm
by gelmonkey
Tom
Is it true that you have offered the bonnet to that shite TV program on Saturday evenings where the stars? have to make the shape of the hole
It's a big enough hole to fit most things through.
P
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 10:21 am
by topcatcustom
The bonnet was probably the one part of the car that didn't need any lightening- it's got up to 3 layers and I could still pick up the whole thing with my little finger!!!
Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 5:00 pm
by mgbv8
I cant wait to just hear it idling in the pits
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 9:01 am
by topcatcustom
Look what turned up yesterday
Thankyou Bailey Morris
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 12:03 pm
by russell_ram
TC,
Have I spotted an issue with your cooling system? You have a bleed from the high point on the top hose, this is fair enough - but it feeds into the header tank at a lower point than the bleed take off and the level of water in the tasnk will be lower than that. Surely the air in the tank will bleed INTO the top hose, when the engine is turned off, untill the level in the tank and engine are the same?
Nice work by the way - want to finish mine when you're done?
Russ