1970 Ginetta G15

I've been around imps and therefore ginettas for 20 years, never seen one with the lights up, in fact until the post above I never even knew they moved.

Given the date of the "pop up" headlamp pic i was highly sceptical of darkspeeds post.

Wow thats ugly.
Dan

Perhaps as well. You probably have enough on the go, mate.

The lamp pod mould has been broken in with the laying up of a light duty part that will act as a mould protector and the first true part is currently in production.

Mould protector - Gel + a 300g single lay up - or if you prefer a ultra light racing pod




First full lay-up pod being moulded, but even with a 3 x 300g layup it is likely to be half the weight of a standard Ginetta unit.

The bits of rust that were the hinges.



Little by little knocking the ugly out of these projects.


G15 project went for £3510 - I thought that it may stretch to another couple of hundred in the last 30 seconds but it didn't - I also noticed that the Red G15 project that had been on eBay for quite a few months suddenly vanished. I suspect that someone thought that if that project missing 50% of it's parts was at £2000 at that stage the that project must be worth £5000.

Buying the Orange car on car and Classic would have been a far better option - as this is quite good value as there are some hints on this one that it could be quite a gem.

Final part required for the completion of the steering work on the G21M arrived this lunchtime. As mentioned previously the MX5 column needs to be extended and match up with the lower UJ - My preference was to only have one weld as the original MX5 column and in the same place if possible which meant tracking down a longer lower shaft with the same splines for the rack UJ. Putting Mazda steering column type searches in eBay came up with two options - Mazda Bongo! and RX8 - further searching for info led to some talk on RX8 forums of MX5 steering UJ's fitting the RX as a better priced option and the pictures in auctions looked like the lower column could be long enough. So £26 with delivery and an RX8 column arrived.


Prior tests had shown that the G21 steering rod was the right length and diameter to fit the MX5 column but wrong spline diameter and number so I was quite pleased when the RX8 was as long as thought it may be - plus a bit - and as the forums had indicated the spline numbers and diameter match the MX UJ just needs a mod to key it.



Interesting that the RX is not welded like the MX but has much longer splines pressed into the upper tube part.



Happy with that, a step closer to steering.

Captain Itchy from Nr. Nantwich has been busy this week producing more O/S G15 lamp pods than necessary - Just 'cos he can...

The Gel + 3 x 300g pod - which he estimates takes 8 hours from start to finish to produce due to waiting times between processes.



And a Ginetta style lay-up of no gel and 2 x 600g - 2.5 hours.

Whilst that was going on in Shropshire the gearbox rebuild for the G15 was being completed in Coventry.








Looks like a nice day out there - I may try and get a new hinge fitted on the G21S today. I will also try and get around to getting it up in the air so I can get under it to cut off all the rusty bolts holding the drivers seat in together with those nasty exhaust brackets etc. It will laso afford me the opportunity to get some good pictures of the chassis - I am hoping that the photo's of this chassis may make folk who are rebuilding Ginetta's feel a bit better about the tasks they are having to endure with their rebuilds.

Is it a Mazda DOHC engine?