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I worked out that the PO had spend loads of time and money to bodge repair the shell. They left rotten metal mounts in situ and fitted some shaped wood around the crush tubes. Then glassed it all back together. The work involved was almost the same as doing a proper repair. This red stuff hadn't gone off. Thinks it's fibreglass filler  Chunk of the shaped wood to fit around the crush tubes  |
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This is the passenger side mount after chopping out the crappy glass. The wood fell apart.  |
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Pity, but at least it's getting sorted properly.
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jamesd1972
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Do you need the metal there ? Some extra layers of something with a close weave must be stronger anyway.
James
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jamesd1972 Have spoken to a chappy knowledgeable in Marcos construction and fibreglassing (grp boat builder by trade). He advised the metal isn't necessary. Just rebuild with woven roving and CSM along with some crush tubing. Luckily I have some thick wall GRP tubing. I'll also be incorporating some 3mm epoxy sheet.
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Reinstalling the wood I see.  |
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teaboy
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Reinstalling the wood I see. Marcos and wood do have a history together...  |
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Some of the bracketry to tie the upper coilover mounts to the bulkhead-subframe structure. Ignore the bolts, just temp ones for now.   |
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Apr 21, 2020 19:24:45 GMT
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Waiting on some parts to arrive so I can finish off the bulkhead mounts. Therefore got on with some other jobs. First off, ordered more garage beer. Out of the 2 crates of wheat beer that my man ChasR drove to Germany to get and down to my last 2 bottles of leffe that came from beerhawk. Dug out the throttle pedal and offered it up. Ideally needs some captive nuts in the bulkhead as there's no much room behind the subframe. Rooted through the scrap box and found this old over centre clip. No idea where it came from. Captive nuts were perfectly spaced so zipped em off with the cutter. Plate will be glassed in eventually.    |
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Apr 21, 2020 19:29:23 GMT
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Current state of play with the drivers front coilover/subframe mount.  |
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Apr 21, 2020 19:33:30 GMT
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Got the frame bolted in. Had to fettle the 4 top bolt holes and had to use a circular abrasive grinder thingy to make a 2mm relief on the underside, so the frame pulls up tight. Now the bolt holes are confirmed, I can mark up the top metal bracketry for drilling, and can drill the bolt holes for the lower subframe mounts (through the floor).  |
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Apr 21, 2020 19:36:12 GMT
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Dug out the adjustable bottom arms to check I'd got all the bits. Note to self must clean off the powdercoating on the pin contact surface.  |
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mk2cossie
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Apr 21, 2020 19:40:41 GMT
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Always amazed at fibre glass construction of shells. Have you had any years of repairing them? Also, Tesco do Leffe! Not sure about brun, but I'm sure my friend gets his blonde from there  |
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Apr 21, 2020 19:42:49 GMT
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Occurred to me I couldn't bolt up the accelerator pedal as 1) the holes looked on the wonk (curse of the PO again) and 2) needed to check reference against the pedal box. Dug out the pedal box but had to clean off the powder on the bolt threads and retap. Offered it up and location was good but the mounting surface going through the bulkhead was a bit thin, uneven and generally iffy. Cut a section of flat grp sheet plate and wedged it in with a few layers of glass/resin to go off overnight.    |
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Apr 21, 2020 19:48:09 GMT
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Always amazed at fibre glass construction of shells. Have you had any years of repairing them? Also, Tesco do Leffe! Not sure about brun, but I'm sure my friend gets his blonde from there Search for a thread on here called "covin nein12". That's my first go at a GRP car. Got a brewdog delivery coming but it's delayed. |
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ChasR
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Apr 22, 2020 20:01:06 GMT
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My Brewdog delivery is also delayed  . Good to see that you've been busy! I need to update the M3 thread. The news with one of the calipers isn't great however.... |
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Apr 23, 2020 13:14:22 GMT
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Phew!  |
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