1978 MGB v8 Conversion Sebring Kit- RRG '17

Really loving this thread, the bodywork is top notch.
Dying to see the finished product, bet it will look proper fat and aggressive.
Are you changing the paint?

The fit of those panels is shocking. It's good to see you've had the dedication to work through that problem.

Cheers for the comments guys.

Here's a few more pics of bits and piece's we have been upto.

Firstly an anti tramp bar kit, now they are silly money to buy! so I got my dad on the case to make me a set and he didn't dissapoint.

First mod was to beef up the original spring hanger as long term I plan to be running some serious power (well once i've got my wedding out the way ) this also allows easy fitment of the anti tramp bar, for this we followed a guide from a v8 conversion book I have.

The strengthening piece,

and in place, fully seam welded and slotted over the original sping hanger mount.

You can see the mounting point in that pic for the anti tramp bar (hole to be re-drilled to correct size)
And the anti tramp bar kit, my dad followed some pics of kits available and pretty much matched it complete with rose joints and fully adjustable (in length)

Not a great pic, but the other end of the bar is threaded to allow adjustment - but i'll come back to this when we get to the point of fitting it all, probably at the point we make up the exhaust system..

Wings are now on for good, fully bolted up and hopefully won't be coming off now for a long long time!

Although they are obviously fibreglass, we still decided to stone chip the insides to give it a nice finish and then painted it body colour,

(Picture taken through headlight opening)

As you can see the wings are now 90% prepped with the cut and shut sections to get it fitting now repaired/prepped.



Hopefully have the whole car in high build this weekend and get the front bearing kit fitted so I can bolt on the front wheels and see how 10" fits at the front...

Nice one Gavin, This thread never disapoints always top quality work.
Cant fault the colour,my capri will be sumat like aswell.
Keep up the good work,oh yeah nearly forgot the fabrication work on the antitramp kit is propper.

the car is looking awesome i must say! i hope those wheels fit on alright for you, what tyres are you planning on running? i spaced out the rear wings by 5 mm and run 185 tyres stretched onto a 245mm wide rim. 9.5? band was going to be 45 inch but i pussied out at the last minite and thankfuly as they are 3.5 inch on them now and they jussstt i mean just fit on, 3-4mm gap between arch and wheel, scrapes constantly tho cant wait to see this finito!!

An update,

Front suspension all built up and got myself some nice camber


and should tuck in quite nicely,



Prepping is getting there but my god it's a slow process!

Loving the attention to detail, never knew how involved fitting sebring arches was, now I know, and now I know I don't want to be doing that to mine!

Like where your going anti-tramp wise aswell, need to do similar with mine.

A 225 on a 10+1/4" rim will be stretched like mad, hell, a 225 on a 9J will have minor stretch.

the "correct" size for a 10J would be 255 or 265, then again most 14" tyres are quite bulgy (unless ive missed it and your a winner and have 15" rostyles somehow?)

Bit of a mini update really, not alot to look at but we have been spending alot of time getting the front wings prepped because as you can imagine due to the original poor fitment and all the cutting and slicing its created alot of prep!
Here's some pics of it in high build and ready to be dusted in black and then flatted off, high build again etc....




Rear Wing/door shut,



Really pleased with how we are getting on considering both me or my dad have minimal bodywork or fibreglass experience, although it is starting to get incredibly frustrating and the temptation to rush it is immense, but were determined to get as best DIY finish as possible.