glenanderson
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 4,318
Club RR Member Number: 64
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Sounds a bit rattly.
Disappointed to be honest.
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Only kidding. What a result! 😃👍
It’s also amazing what you can get away with as a “more mature” car enthusiast. Try having a drive about an estate in a door-less project car when you’re 17 and see if you can get more than one lap in before someone’s called the fuzz! 🤣🤣
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My worst worry about dying is my wife selling my stuff for what I told her it cost...
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That's fantastic. Well done!
James
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Good stuff Mark!
Well done!
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Proton Jumbuck-deceased :-(
2005 Kia Sorento the parts hauling heap
V8 Humber Hawk
1948 Standard12 pickup SOLD
1953 Pop build (wifey's BIVA build).
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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.
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Fantastic work , your on a roll now , can't wait to see it complete and a side by side shot with yours
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Congratulations on the 1st drive, the look of the pop is most definitely the curse word!
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1966 Ford Cortina GT
2018 Ford Fiesta ST
Full time engineer, part time waffler on Youtube - see Jim_Builds
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Norman
Part of things
Posts: 449 
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Hi Mark, What a mile stone getting that first drive, keep at it you’ll soon have it done. Looking forward to the next update, Norman
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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.  And tonight we loosely fitted the nose, ready for the bonnet to come over tomorrow so we can get everything aligned before tightening the fixings.
 We also got the other rear wing finished with the wing piping done on that as well.
The sharp eyed amongst you might have noticed a door fitted in the last photo - yes, the passenger door is now on the car, not fitted properly yet as we ran out of evening, but it's getting more car like every day now.
1111 hours
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Doors, when is a door not a door? When it's ajar, ha-ha-ha! .......ahem, sorry I'll get my coat  Rear light got painted today as did the cam cover, now done;  Then it was on to the doors - the passenger side ended up needing a bit of surgery - Phil looked a bit ill when I got the angle grinder out to cut open the door  but t's the only way it would fit. These cars are tricky with door fitting - I had made sure there was reasonable room all round when building it but they never fitted well from new and the garage fairies always seem to add a bit of door after painting Using some Cold Front putty and an air line we did not burn any paint beyond where I had ground it back, it will be hidden by the trim panel so I can touch it in with a soft brush.  The drivers door strangely enough went on without any issues - and that was the one I thought we'd have trouble with. I'm proud of the inside of the doors - it will end up that no-one will ever see them, but I do believe the inside of all surfaces should be done as good as the outside, stupid really but I can't leave them unfinished.
 They do look good even if I say it myself.
 Really starting to look very sharp now - Phil is like a dog that's not seen its owner all day and is really hungry, lol  Even I am looking at it now with a huge amount of pleasure.   And because........
 1116 hours.
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75swb
Beta Tester
Posts: 1,046
Club RR Member Number: 181
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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...
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There have been some real bodged Pops in the past. When we were looking for Mrs Crockpot's we test drove one that was terrifying to drive. It was advertised as "ready for the road" and priced at the top end for what it was.
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Proton Jumbuck-deceased :-(
2005 Kia Sorento the parts hauling heap
V8 Humber Hawk
1948 Standard12 pickup SOLD
1953 Pop build (wifey's BIVA build).
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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!
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1968 Mini MkII, 1968 VW T1, 1967 VW T1, 1974 VW T1, 1974 VW T1 1303, 1975 Mini 1000 auto, 1979 Chevette, 1981 Cortina, 1978 Mini 1000 1981 Mini City, 1981 Mini van, 1974 Mini Clubman, 1982 Metro City, 1987 Escort, 1989 Lancia Y10, 1989 Cavalier, 1990 Sierra, 1990 Renault 19, 1993 Nova, 1990 Citroen BX, 1994 Ford Scorpio, 1990 Renault Clio, 2004 Citroen C3, 2006 Citroen C2, 2004 Citroen C4, 2013 Citroen DS5. 2017 DS3 130 Plenty of other scrappers!
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Glad people enjoy the read, I'm sure there will be other builds in the future.
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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. It actually only took a few minutes to fit it and sort the gaps, so we can get it tightened up tomorrow. Very happy with the gaps around the bonnet, it's not polished yet - its had a quick 5 minutes with the mop just to take the sanded finish off.
 Door gaps have worked out really good as well - even the beltlines line up!! not something you see too often on a pop.
 1120 hours.
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Nice work on the bonnet and grill install Mark. I know what absolute nightmares they can be to get right.
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Proton Jumbuck-deceased :-(
2005 Kia Sorento the parts hauling heap
V8 Humber Hawk
1948 Standard12 pickup SOLD
1953 Pop build (wifey's BIVA build).
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jjp666
Part of things
Posts: 139
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Glad people enjoy the read, I'm sure there will be other builds in the future. Have you suddenly got a lot of new friends asking for help with their builds. |
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Glad people enjoy the read, I'm sure there will be other builds in the future. Have you suddenly got a lot of new friends asking for help with their builds. There's certainly a few who would like me to! |
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Just got in from the garage - a late night again.
We got a fair bit done but too tired to post it tonight.
1125 hours.
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Another long day completed, lots done but we forgot to photo along the way. The speedo drive on the gearbox had the seal removed and a new one fitted - hopefully the leak is now cured there - test drive tomorrow to confirm.
Door restraints fitted on drivers side - I need to make some parts to complete the passenger side. The rivets originally holding the bars to the body are vey flat - and clearance in the doors is minimal, so some flanged 5mm stainless button head bolts were ground flat so the heads are only 1mm thick to clear the holes in the doors.
 Drivers side completed - we are missing the rubber and the slotted washer for the passenger side.
 rear lamp is now painted and the glass panels bonded in with clear silicone.
 I redesigned the wheel cap logos for Phil and added a rainbow.  And I also made one for the camshaft cover;
 and for the new version of the centre console;
 Phils has been busy polishing his wheels;
 We have got all of the window channel fitted and the glass is all in the doors now, we don't have time to fit the window rubbers - they will have to wait till after the Supernats.
 Door mirrors are fitted - these also needed a bit of surgery to get the mirrors to be able to move to a position where a rearview is possible.
 The front wings are part polished - we polished all of the edges where they fit to the car and the rest will be poilshed now they are fitted. Both are now fitted to the car. The bonnet still needs polishing.
 One day left to do all of the other jobs needed! Yikes!! 1133 hours.
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but t's the only way it would fit. These cars are tricky with door fitting - I had made sure there was reasonable room all round when building it but they never fitted well from new and the garage fairies always seem to add a bit of door after painting 
Even I am looking at it now with a huge amount of pleasure.
