Outlaw Anglia - took it racing & lifted the wheels!

That's fantastic. Well done!

James

Thanks everyone, no-one seems to mind about it driving around, though they are quiet backstreets.

I took it out for another drive again tonight to get the engine hot for an oil change. Found a few small issues;

Exhaust still knocking - the large finger gap I had between the radius arm and the silencer has magically changed to 3mm - I guess the rear suspension is settling. I'll need to make a MkII exhaust mount then.

Speedo drive still leaking oil at a prodigious rate, we managed to carefully remove the adaptor we had machined up - this was fixed in with Loctite as it was an interference fit, but I will bond it in with Tiger seal tomorrow as it was not an oil tight fit. Hopefully that will cure that - I'll adapt the fixing mount I made to exert a little positive pressure on it as well for good measure.

Water temp guage is lying - it's saying 200 degrees F (about 95c) but my infra red reader is saying 70 -75 degrees C on the cylinder head by the sensor. The engine does not feel that hot either. The new rad works well with 75C top and only 38C bottom temps, so very efficient core.

Wipers - bit of a conundrum this one. They have an enormous sweep, like about 170 degrees!! Nothing has changed since it came off the road so we are nonplussed by this. The wheel in the motor is a 110 degree wheel, but the spindle gears are a lot smaller than I have seen before so I'm assuming the ratio is wrong - but how did they work properly before???

It's fixable - but probably not before the Supernats.

Progress tonight - I fully mopped the passenger door to stage one finish (drivers door is already done a few months back) and we fitted the wing piping to one rear wing and got that bolted on properly for good.

Photos tomorrow.

1101.5 hours.

Congratulations on the 1st drive, the look of the pop is most definitely the curse word!

Thanks everyone.

My pop had to have its MOT today, it passed ok so I had the rest of the day to shop for parts for Phils and to do more work.

A little bit of fun for Phil, I labelled the switches for him and as there is one spare switch it got labelled up like this



First job wes fitting longer replacement bolts to the front suspension upper mounts, where they had been shimmed left a bit less bolt than I would like after the nut so longer ones are now fitted.

Next was the exhaust - this proved to be relatively simple, by drilling and tapping one new hole in the chassis I just moved the mount over one bolt hole and now everything clears. I noticed there was a leak at the engine - tightening all of the manifold bolts had cured that as well.

With that done the inner wings could be put on for good, together with the wing brace I had made.



Then it was on to some paint - priming the last middle bit of the new cam cover;



And spraying silver basecoat and then clearcoat on the insides of the bootlamp for better light output;



Topcoat for both of those parts will get done tomorrow.

This evening Phil and Geof (another Pop builder) came over so we had extra help, which was nice. Last night we got the drivers rear wing finished with the wing piping fitted.

Fantastic. This is coming on in leaps and bounds now: the fiddly time and prep time is paying off, and as you allude to with the doors this is very much a job done properly.

I watched the first 10 minutes of a wheeler dealers episode this week (or maybe last), where they purchased a pop that lurched violently up and down under breaking, and I shuddered knowing the amount of work it would take to do it properly and the bodgery they would likely uncover. It had a fibreglass flip front if i recall, and they made some billet wheels that looked amazingly like slot mags. I changed channel before i found myself shouting at the TV...

I keep clicking "like" but that's an understatement really. Lots of lovely details and real care and quality evident all over this. A fantastic build, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who will both be sad at no more build posts, but also delighted to see the end result. Another one to be proud of and many many thanks for taking the time to document it!

Another long night done, I got the door parts fitted in the early evening, the inner handle workings and handles and the rubbers & wedges. The rubber stops I had taken to work to skim down on the bandsaw as they were too thick as supplied.





Once Phil had arrived we started mopping the parts of the bonnet we wanted to bolt the bonnet clamps into - unfortunately I burnt through the paint on one edge so that will have to get repainted at a later date.

I had hoped we would have the bonnet fitted and the front end panels aligned & bolted up this evening and also some other jobs - but I had not factored in how long it would take to put the bonnet catches back together and bolt them in, also bolting in the fixings to the body as well.

We did get the bonnet fitted though, and it's aligned very easily - mainly as I spent a lot of time getting it aligned before paint and then welding in new plates so the bolts had to go exactly where they needed to be rather than in big sloppy holes.

Looking great.

There's certainly a few who would like me to!