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Ive got my car in at Nubodi for a complete dash conversion. Ive seen one nearly finished in Kevm's car and they look totally amazing. In comparison to the DNA offering at £960 +VAT for clock set and £1500 + VAT for dash and panels it's a rockin bargain. Ive seen both offerings and are equal quality.
Rich says though, the moulds they got did not fit at all and so they had to make their own. Also he asked me to say the No.7 project was conceived over 18 months ago and it was only 6 months ago he found out about the Automirage car after all the parts and paint has been bought. It worked out well though as automirages are five times the price and builds 100k+. The N0.7 car looks even better in the flesh, which shows what is possible, Rich says they have a four car stand at Stoneleigh. |
casamolino - Hi Geoff, it was a brave call to get the car re-worked after the initial painting.
But it looks amazing and I am sure you agree it was worth the effort. :cool: Finally, I hope the negative financial news isn't too serious. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Jeff H - Your workmanship really is top class. :cool: I've added a few of the 250 SWB "Family Photos" to the Useful Links tread Can I just ask what is the difference between the "polyester primer" and the "high build primer"? Cheers, Paul. :) |
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Post some pictures of your car Meinheart , with the dash in place , can only help improve your sales ... Sounds like Chris had a lucky escape if the dash moulds weren't fit for purpose ... |
It will be nice to see Minehart and Nubodies cars on Nubodies stand at Stoneleigh at the same time.
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Door straps
Great write up on some very interesting work. Thank you.
An alternative to changing the door strap is to play with large C shaped spacers, where the bracket bolts on inside the door. Try a 5mm one at first. |
Geoff - car looks fabulous! I'm already softening Jeff up to maybe get the front redone on mine - and no, it's absolutely not why everyone is thinking...as I've discovered, a year is a long time in the lifespan of Tribute GRP and mine is sinking a lot at the front. There's a wide band of pulling all round the separate bonnet panel (where the inner skin is bonded - WTF was the point of putting an inner skin on anyway?) and both that panel and the scuttle on the front clip have matting pattern starting to show its outlines through the paint.
Dash looks great - if you've ever priced up a set of clocks let alone custom ones I'd say they don't look expensive. It's horses for courses I guess - what would people expect to pay? A lot of people were asking for a dash - hard to comment on photos but it looks true and appears to have a functional locking glove box. If it's a decent bit of GRP i.e. hasn't changed shape in a years time(!) then it doesn't seem a bad investment for such a radical change in the interior look. |
All the cars
Guys all the cars look really good great photo K
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Love the photo's of the three cars in a line.
Three very proud owners i would think and well done to the builders. The detail of the dash is in my opinion a must all be it at a cost but one thing that spoils a quality build is when the interior gives away the donor car. |
Interior
Could not agree more that's always been the poor thing about the cars, the interior still looking like a BMW. Fantastic lines shape and then that interior! Leaving it looking like a 1990's car inside with that beautiful body just never seems right to me.
I am sure everyone has fell in love with that 1960's 250 swb shape so why have it looking like a 1990's car inside? Everything is personal of course but when its all said an done if we all loved the Z3 so much why would we go to all the effort and expense of making the external look anything like one? That's what you should ask yourself peoples! |
Good morning before investing in a new dashboard i decided to try an build! some instruments that would look appropriate , first off i bought a spare Z3 instrument binnacle , this would allow me to see what was possible before taking the dash apart in my car .
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u...9/DSCF1835.jpg http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u...9/DSCF1837.jpg The binnacle taken apart , the actual instruments are the 4 silver "plug in " units . I removed the water temp and fuel gauge units , then after removing the internals from Smiths type 2" gauges fitted the BMW units to the rear of the Smiths gauges and fitted new dial faces (courtesy of Scott"Smash") . http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u...9/DSCF1840.jpg The rusty Smiths gauges were cleaned up and the sprayed black inside and out . It was much the same for the speedo and revcounter , but i used Jaeger dials from a 60s! Alfa bought from Ebay Germany for just £50 delivered , these were gutted cleaned up then the BMW units screwed to the rear the faces were changed to say Veglia . I will be fitting them using short runs of cable with a female connector at the instrument end and a mail connector at the PCB end , nothing is tested yet so there may need to be adjustment made to the faces and also the position of the BMW units , but we shall see . http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u...9/DSCF1842.jpg http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u...9/DSCF1846.jpg http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u...9/DSCF1851.jpg Waiting for a couple of VDO gauges to turn up Oil Pressure and Temp , to complete the set , Geoff . |
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Nice work indeed. Really hope they work straight out of the box.
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Brilliant idea and they look awesome! (but they're not my templates!)
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Fantastic!
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Good morning thank you for all the replies , right how hard can it be to remove the dash from a Z3! as anybody would , first check Google and i used the following link
http://www.zroadster.net/forum/viewt...hp?t=38747&f=5 . I pretty much followed this although i did not move the steering column switches and where it states that the 2 small bolts below the centre vents are difficult to remove (that is an understatement) , 3 hours later it looked like this , http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u...9/DSCF1855.jpg http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u...9/DSCF1854.jpg The Brother label maker that work paid for came in useful for a change, the door cards are out as the window frames are currently being dipped and stove enameled , so will my BMW/Smiths gauges work ? Geoff . |
Dash looking better already!
I do hope your hybrid gauges work as I've a mind to do the same with a set of Ford Puma gauges for my 356 project. |
I finished off the removal at 8 this morning after seeing the weather forecast and as Paul would say "rain stops play" , Geoff .
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Wow. You're a braver man than me. That looks like some job. Good luck putting it back together.
Now wish I had 'liberated' the work label maker when I left. But saying that it be inappropriate so I didn't even type this thought out loud. |
Wow Geoff thats committment for sure! Goodluck with all the wiring, sounds like you have it planned out. :icon_eek: :thumb:
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Geoff - That is some scary looking stuff going on! :eek:
However, you've already done a great jobs on the dials, so I am sure the end result will look great too. Good luck, Paul. :) PS Don't talk to me about the weather! :rant: |
Good evening i have recently had the window frames on my car dipped and the stove enameled by a company on the Wrexham Industrial Estate they looked so much better afterwards that i decided to have the Chrome Wing Mirrors and the rear number plate lights done with the same process , although they had only been on the car for a year they were rusty . I have no doubt that if you spent plenty it would be possible to buy newly chromed parts that would last . I dont have a decent photo of "before" but they look a hell of a lot better and hopefully will last , Geoff .
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I've had to replace 3 pairs of headlight rims due to rust and the car hasn't been used yet. They were listed and priced as stainless steel.
Any more pictures/progress on the dash? |
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Evening all , i don`t know if any of the following is true but i am sure it was on the net somewhere! Back when Enzo was getting the first pre-production SWB ready , it was the day it was planned to work on the dashboard , but the Italian version of the Metal-Workers Union decided to have a days strike/holiday . So as not to slow down the work on the SWB Enzo decided to ask the guy who had been fitting Kitchen Units in his Villa to nip down to the Italian equivalent of B+Q get some ply and knock up something for the car , any way i have copied as best i can please see photos :eusa_whistle:
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u...9/DSCF1858.jpg http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u...9/DSCF1862.jpg http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u...9/DSCF1860.jpg Instruments next , Geoff . |
Good morning i have know finished and installed the 4 BMW/Smiths/Jaeger instruments , not the easiest task really fiddly , but all 4 are working , Geoff .
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The approach behind the dash is elegant in its simplicity. Don't know if it is just the angle of the photographs, but the cowl above the main instruments does seem a little taller than ideal. Bravery was rewarded in this case :D |
Geoff – Nice work on the dash so far. :cool:
Good luck finishing it off, Paul. :) |
Quick question about seatbelts...
Did you use the Z3 seatbelt bit that attaches to the seat frame? If so did your new seats come with somewhere to attach this to or is it a new mount to the tunnel? Currently toying between using the existing seatbelts - which is practical, or harnesses which look good but arent that practical. |
Good afternoon , when i replaced the seats in mine i ended up buying a set of long seat belt arms and bolting them down to the floor using the existing seat bolts , the actual arms were quite difficult to find in the length i wanted but also where they fit into the existing BMW buckle they are a unusual size ,
2 of Rigid 28cm Seat Belt Extender - Black, E4 Safety Certified, Type B (25mm wide metal tongue) - Clicks Right In! Sold by: Seat Belt Extender Pros III , i bought them from Amazon but that company no longer offer them . Hope that helps , Geoff . |
Evening have just checked on Ebay and the sort of extender i was trying to describe is as follows ,
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/UNIVERSAL-...MAAOSwIBBUZf47 Do you check the dimensions carefully , thanks Geoff . |
Thanks Geoff - that makes perfect sense.
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Good morning i am sure that the following has been resolved with ref to the SWB , it is in ref to installing splash guards within the front wheel arches , i could do with seeing any pics and if possible the plastic sheet used and where purchased from? thanks Geoff .
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There are pictures on Eric's thread. His pictures are all still there as he is on flicker
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Thanks Jag for that , i have know found it , and thank you Richard for the info , Geoff .
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Hi Geoff or anyone else,
I have lots of that sheeting left, didn't use much of it at all, free to anyone who wants to collect it! just PM me. Cheers |
PM sent
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I used one of those large silicone flexi builders buckets to make inner arches on my gto as they are already almost the shape. And I managed to get 2 arches out of one bucket. They are only about £8 or something
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I'm fairly local to you casamolino, over in nantwich, would love to see another tribute car, as the rest are all down south
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