Scottie's Tribute A352 build

[WorldClassAccident]

No worries, you will be getting a bastardised half of the $30 popper shown in the link through the post shortly

[Scottie22]

PM me your address and I'll send you something in return for the favour :-)

[WorldClassAccident]

Don't worry - you can buy me a beer if we meet.

[Scottie22]

I have a wood burning stove, which is very nice, but it consumes wood like a voracious monster, so I am constantly working with a chain saw to keep it alive.

Luckily I live in the country, (I didn’t know they grew on trees!) so there is a plentiful supply. (Wood that is, not the other)

So this slows down my work rate at times, however I did some small jobs today.

Thinking ahead, I looked at the Spitfire hood, which while it will not fit now.
some of the bits it has, I can use and modify to build one that will.

I took off the hood brackets and put them on the car to see if it was feasible to build my roof using the same anchor points.

It was, and I am sure it will be fairly straightforward, which will be a “first” with this build I think!

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[Scottie22]

When I re-designed the boot lid aperture and put the rain channel in place, I was aware that eventually it would need a drain hole each side.

This is a bit obvious, but I had it illustrated to me one day when the cover blew off and it rained ( at that stage the body was outside) the boot had lots of water inside.

Well its done now, I used two lengths of 8mm copper tube, flared the ends and glassed them in.

Rubber pipe will be used to channel the water down through the floor later.

One more time consuming job that had to be done, finished at least,
another 5 thousand to go...........

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[Scottie22]

Mister Towed:

It finally stopped raining enough for me to take the cover off my Triumph GT6 and study the inner wheel arches.
(Having sold my Spit bonnet, I could not remember what the arches looked like)

The arches are not attached at the rear, as obviously the whole front bonnet flips forward.

I will end up fabricating something similar, preferably removable if possible, to allow better access when and if.

I took some pictures which will definitely help me, and hopefully yourself also. Your comments most welcome, or anyone else for that matter!

(I did take a picture of the front part of the arch, but unfortunately it got deleted in the uploading process, however, it is not that important as you can see most of the front bit in the centre section pic)

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[Paul L]

Scottie - I had a look through my old photos and these were the only two I had of my donor's bonnet.





Not sure if they are any help.

Cheers, Paul.

[Scottie22]

Thanks Paul that is helpful, I think Mr Towed is on the right track with possibly making the arches out of a plastic barrel.
I will be watching his progress!

[WorldClassAccident]

Have you considered goiung to the scrap yard and getting the plastic wheel arch liners off a modern car and cutting to size?

Mine uses the wheel arch liners fromt he original z£ with a couple of cuts to optimally align them. This has the advantage of already being approximately the right size and shape, made of tough plastic and being cheap. I should imaging there is less of a rattle when stones hit the arches using the proper plastic rather than the more brittle, hard plastic most barrels are made from.

[Scottie22]

Sounds good, I will look into that WCA.

[Scottie22]

I have put a lot of thought into what I am going to do about a Speedo for my build.

I have, and will use, Jaguar dials. But it would be nice if I could get them to work, as Spitfire / Jaguar instruments are totally different, and cost hundreds of pounds (I am told) to get calibrated/ electronically modified etc.

I sorted the rev counter problem out by grafting the Spitfire rev counter guts into the the Jag housing and it worked . (Described earlier in this thread)

Anyway today I took the Spit speedo out of the car and had a good look at
It. I decided it may be “do-able” to copy what I had done with rev counter.

I couldn’t fit it on one plane, so I …………… put it on two.
Don’t you just love that TV advert!

Right, so I stripped both the speedo’s down, and successfully grafted

the two together and it only took a whole day!

Chris once said to me “it’s possible to make anything fit anything”

Of course that’s not strictly true, I could see enormous problems trying to graft a double decker bus body tub to a Sinclair C5 for instance…..

Anyway back to the speedo…..

It will not read totally accurately, as the Jag dial is calibrated slightly differently than the Spit, BUT, although the speedo will be out a bit, the recorded mileage will be as accurate as it was previously, so my trip mileage and total mileleage will be spot on. I have a mini GPS which I will mount discreetly so I can monitor my true speed when I need to.

Here are some pics, which may help others going down the same road.




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[Mister Towed]

I'm impressed, great work. I'll be even more impressed if it actually works on the car!

[scimjim]

great work I think I would have bottled it and bought a cable to connect my old gearbox to my new speedo from speedy cables and had them calibrate it too

[Scottie22]

Mister T.

Have some faith!!
It worked when I took it off and it won't know it has a different face will it?

scimjim.

I had to do this, it worked with the rev counter, ( tested on the car and works well) I wanted to use 1950's Jag dials in keeping with the illusion of a 50's car.

I really enjoy the challenge as much as anything!

Kind of like therapy if you will.

[casamolino]

What a cracking job , good to see somebody still has a jewellers screwdriver set , Geoff .

[WorldClassAccident]

I could see enormous problems trying to graft a double decker bus body tub to a Sinclair C5

Why is that? The C5 is a very flexible donor vehicle

[Scottie22]

Well, you did ask WCA........


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[Mister Towed]

Didn't most C5 drivers end up crushed under buses anyway?

[Scottie22]

Absolutely Mr T, The C5 needed an awful lot of bracing in order to avoid me ending up the same way!

[Scottie22]

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