1970 Ginetta G15

So went down to Coventry and met up with #13 - multiple reasons - it was the old farts 75th birthday on Monday and I had a card and bottle of Jack Daniels for him - Turns out that JD is not his taste really and Jamesons is his preference - fecking go without next time the old sod

The G21 prop' was there for collection - very nice bit of work by Dave Mac propshafts. It will takes any amount of power shoved along it should the G21 get an increase in the future, and it just fell into place perfectly. You always have those little nagging doubts when something is custom made to specific dimensions - did I measure it right, will it miss that, line up with those etc?

Manifolds for the Honda were also done and boy are the ports a bit larger than before - this one will cross a few threads - pick it up in theis thread - pictures in the Stratos thread and testing in the flowbench thread!

We also have a pick through his Aladdin's cave of tuned Imp stuff - He is building up 3 boxes one for himself one for me and one spare that may end up in the rally G15 - strengthened diff cross pins, shot peened and treated gears etc. Then spent a bit of time looking through the special stuff - Newman development cams - Special 410 lift cam and billet carrier - numerous Chesman heads, R21's - R carriers - tall block spacer plates - short pistons with nylon thrust buttons - tall liners special rods -Derrington 40's manifold, combi's all sorts of historic race stuff.

He was just finishing the lapping in of a set of REC valves in a M16 head he had ported. I suggested that the 45's that were on the 8 valve that this is replacing and are going back on will not be up for feeding that head - "Hmmmmmm you're probably right"

I then told him to go up into the garage loft and dig out the gearshift mech' for the G15 as I would rebuild it for him as we have a spare rebuild kit - good job as well. Rebuild to follow.

Off the the Cheshire man Cave tomorrow to do some Ginetta related stuff.

Blast still need to order those rod ends - and some stainless as I have Ginetta door hinge assemblies to manufacture - two sets!

Today was going to be a day spent on the Strato's and a bit on the Gearlinkage for #13 but instead of that a mate came round early doors with the wheel from his '14 plate GTD Golf. He had thought that the car had developed a slow puncture but after taking it to the local tyre shop it turns out that the alloy has a cracked rim on the inside. So he had the tyre shop whip the tyre off the rim this AM and he popped round to see what we could do.

No photo's of this but when we saw the crack in the rim - if not for the corrosion you would have seen daylight through it - We both though WTF happened here - I think that it was only the powder coat that was holding air and that had finally given up leading to the slow leak. Nothing was going to be lost on this hitting it with the TIG so I ground out the crack and cleaned up the area. The crack went from the top of the wheel lip and around the wheel and a good 40mm into the wheel itself.

It took about 2.5 hours end to end but we finished up with a pretty tidy looking repair on the wheel but setting up the TIG on the go whilst doing a welding job I had never attempted before was interesting. A the end of the task not only was it near invisible when it was all dressed back, it also held air - Result - Cast alloy welding badge.

Once the wheel was done it was onto the outer CV boot on my Daughters '07 plate Polo. This had really pee'd me off on Wednesday when I started it as I missed Pizza evening trying to get the bloody drive shaft out - what a mare - it absolutely solid in the hub. Anyway, long story short I managed to complete that as well today in-between showers so no project work today just faffing about with other people dailies.

Tomorrow - Projects.

Starting with that G15 gear-linkage.

Work has also been started on the engine cover in preparation for taking a mould from it.



Blast - must remember to order stainless so I can get on with making those hinges.

Nice car but already well outside of my of view on what's actually value for money.

Just checking on the opening times over Xmas for the company I get my gasses from and this was on their facebook page.



Made me smile

Should have checked yesterday however as they are shut now until the 2nd so when the Argon is gone it's no more until 2019.

Nice to see the Sun occasionally today - gave me time to get out in the garden and rake leaves!

Hi Andrew, how much for the spare set please, i need a set for mine,
Thanks kev

The remnants of the hinges from SLiC



And from the G21 !





And although I already have a fully rebuilt Dennis Alt transaxle that came with the Ben Boult 998 from SLiC I am having another built up by the owner of #13 as he does build a very nice gearbox when the mood takes him.

This is what £90 worth of stainless steel UNF nuts bolts and washers look like - enough for the fabrication of 3 sets of hinges and 1/4 nuts and washers for two further sets.




And the metallic silver pigment for the gel coat has also been delivered





Better get going on completing those hinges.

One new battery for the mask plus a new bottle of pure Argon and we were back in business this evening.

Three sets completed and the existing set given a few extra mm's of weld here and there.










There may be another set or two needed as well......

Need to start looking at G21 window frames next - they are not going to be much fun.