These are some of the various photographs we took during the build. I have started to add comments, but for some unknown reason have started at the end. I have now also discovered that after n comments it ignores the rest. Must find out what causes this.
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- New rebuilt and resprayed suspension
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- Engine back in it’s rightfull place
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- Trying to work out the best alignment for everything
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- Rear top mount pre strengthening
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- Making a paper template for the rear top mount strengthening plate.
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- Transfer tempate to steel
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- Result of welding. Always make sure you have an extinguisher to hand in case it all gets out of hand.
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- Under seal was a little smokey when it’s burning.
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- Finished reinforced top mount bracket
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- Not quite concours
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- Not looked as good as this for a long time.
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- Hydraulic fittings.
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- A fantastic way to spend money.
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- Brake master cylinders installed
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- Laying out the various components.
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- Brake line in place, but not secured.
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- Handbrakes various. One for the MOT man, one for steering.
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- Start of brake line plumbing
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- Tank put into position
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- Boot area layed out
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- Box of springs from Bad Arsed Designed, or as they should be called Black Art Design.
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- New springs put onto front struts.
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- Whiteline front ARB. Or a bent scaffolding tube, not sure which.
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- Whiteline sticker is pants
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- To make surround follow these instructions. Measure, cut, bend, measure, cut, bend, measure, cut, bend, meas…… You can see some of the cut marks in this photo
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- Air intake area.
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- Early days, but coming along nicely
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- To convert from pillarless to pilalred doors take 2m angle iron and a sense of adventure….
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- Making the window surrounds
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- New windows fitted into new surrounds
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- Outside needed a touch up, so plenty of masking required.
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- Funny colour on this. Just to annoy us some polythene fell and landed on this side whilst the paint was still wet.
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- Not had windows for a long time
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- Windows fitted
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- Nearly finished exhaust
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- Rear silencers
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- Home made exhaust system
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- Exhaust
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- New throttle pedal.
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- New throttle cable bracket
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- Sump guard, not very exciting in fairness.
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- Poor photo of Sump Gaurd
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- Under bonnet area looking much cleaner than previously
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- So hard to spray all sides of every tube
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- Masked and sprayed
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- Tunnel looks a bit patchy, but it got another coat after this
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- Interior all sprayed
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- Top of screen
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- Opening all prepared and ready for the screen
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- Preparing the heated screen
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- The very high bead of sealant for the windscreen
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- Windscreen nearly fitted
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- The second hinge for the bonnet that I didn’t know about.
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- An early mockup of the sump guard.
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- This seemed much harder to get correct than we thought, but we were determined to make it quick release.
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- Possible axle stand method.
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- New bracket to fit the pickup for the trip.
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- Mocking up the sump guard
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- All new wheels from Revolution come with a free bathing hat.
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- Will they ever be this white again ?
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- New wheels, with tyres fitted.
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- Inside with door card in place.
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- New wheels trial fitted
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- Do not let previous owners see this
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- Cutting tops of door cards to finish the top of the new door cards with.
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- Home made door cards. 3mm poly cut to size and sprayed on the back to avoid scratching paint
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- Car approaching completion
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- Inside starting to come together
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- ARB and home made bottom arms
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- Rear ARB. Nit fitted the new rear shocks yet.
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- Fuel pump and filters.
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- Front Strut, Drop links, calipers etc
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- Front strut all in place
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- Front springs installed
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- Sizing up the supports for the oil cooler and sump guard
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- Looks like it fits OK
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- Trial fit of front support
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- New Front Top mounts installed
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- Fuel pressure regulator
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- Fuel lines and brake lines in the back seat area.
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- Details of mounting bracket. This holds the front chassis members apart, mounts the oil cooler and supports the sump guard.
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- Finished mounting bracket pre painting.
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- Top view
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- Bottom of oil cooler mounting bracket, which is where the sump guard will mount to.
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- Oil cooler mounting bracket in place
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- Innovative horn mounting position.
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- Oil cooler all mounted.
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- Front suspension all built up.
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- First photo of front of car reassembled.
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- Home made rear top mount. For more details see the Top Mount page.
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- Snorkel air intake in case of deep water splashes. Actually you have to buy ducts in metre lengths, and it was the end of the roll so I got a bit more, and really only needed the bit.
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- Tow hook.
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- We replaced the fog lights with air intakes.
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- View of cold air feed to engine bay.
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- Air intake.
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- Helmet box on support before it was painted.
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- One of the extinguisher points under the bonnet.
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- Dashboard in place
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- We glued felt to the dashboard to reduce glare. You have to sand the dashboard with 80 grit sandpaper to make the glue stick. Don’t tell previous owners.
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- Bonnet pins in place.
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- Plumbed in extinguisher mounted in place.
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- Cold air feed from fog light cutout to air intake.
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- Rough routing of throttle cables. Ran long ones to avoid a tight bend if we ran them along the bulkhead
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- Support for helmet box
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- Trying to decipher the wiring loom.
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- I think this was the fuse box.
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- Exhaust fume extraction. Big engine = big ducts and big fans.
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- One of the 3 straps used to stop it taking off into next week.
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- The brake
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- The tools of the tuning trade. Note absence of spanners. How time have changed.
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- The proper man size cooling fans. Forget those little mobile affairs you see used.
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- Wayne giving it a hard time on the rolling road. Hits the limiter at 176mph in 5th apparently.
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- Oil leak after the shiny new Oil cooler let go on the rolling road.