Scottie's Tribute A352 build

[Mick O'Malley]

Is an oxymoron!

I've hardly been out to mine at all for a month or so. The only job I've managed lately is to fit the blue pre-distressed Luke harness to the driver's side. The shoulder straps were too short to reach my transverse mounting bar fitted between the existing upper mounting points in the wheel arches, so I bought and fitted Securon Seat Belt Extension Universal 227 x 2 - perfect!

I made an aluminium plate and tacked it to the end of one of my shelves in the building area where it catches the light and my eye. Stamped into it, using my 6mm letter stamps, is the motto:- STOP BEING SO F*CKING FEEBLE! This somewhat kick-starts me when I'm standing there with my hands in my pockets wondering which displacement activity to indulge in.

Still, the darkest two months are over, Stoneleigh beckons and the bullet now needs biting.

[Scottie22]

Thanks for that update Mick!

At least its not just me, but over on the "other side" Paul is working his goolies off putting us all to shame! His work-load is awesome!

[IanA]

Originally Posted by Scottie22

If that works for you Ian, it is a good idea, but to be really honest, I also find it difficult to work on the car for short periods too!!

TBH- that's why I got Chris to build mine to a drivable state. The cost was out of all proportion to the hassle I would have had doing it myself- outside and on my own. The (few) compromises I made for a quick result have been worth it as well. I can drive it at anytime and the DVLA and first MOT are behind me now.

My problem with the cold, damp weather is that I need to fill some of the edges to clean up the shut lines before it gets painted. However, even if that doesn't get done before Stoneleigh- I can still drive it there.

[Scottie22]

Well here we are on Monday morning again.
I knew I had to bight the bullet, so this morning the bullet was bitten.

I started by removing the "Christmas" table cloth I had put on my conservatory table just before the festivities.

This was not much in the physical sense, but a big psychological step forward!

Christmas had now disappeared, and it was time to get on with 2015!

The dreaded Stoneleigh looms ominously on the horizon like an approaching storm........... Gotta get on, gotta get on.

I started work on the drivers door (which had to be extended to fit with decent shut lines), it was very uneven and lumpy looking and needed lots of work, which was why I put it off in the first place.

I sprayed it with green paint as a guide, then sanded it down, filled it, sanded again, then etch primed it ready for the proper filler- priming.

This work was interrupted by running out of sanding roll, and having to troll round the factors in town to get what I needed to carry on.
( covered in dust and crap, complete with filthy clothes, not fit to be seen out in, but I didn't care, as I could not be bothered to change)

By the time I had eaten some lunch, and finished the job (outside for the sanding) my fingers were numb with cold, and I was pleased to come inside
and clean up a bit.

So several more hours have gone into the car, and we are moving forward once again thank goodness.

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[WorldClassAccident]

Glad you have got your mojo back.

More working and less whining means you get jobs done!

[Scottie22]

Surely you mean wining? (As in Dining)

[Paul L]

Scottie - Got to love the healing power of a single coat of etch primer.

Can't wait to see that in BRG, but stop calling WCA Shirley.



Good luck, Paul.

[Scottie22]

Yes you are right about the single coat theory!
Its brilliant isn't it?

[Mick O'Malley]

Scottie

Good to talk yesterday.

I thought I'd post pictures of the above as my descriptive powers are somewhat wanting.

The only bit of the handbrake mod not shown is the half inch bar which joined the tag in the first picture to the lever. The hole in the tunnel had to be that size to manoeuvre the completed mechanism through for connecting to the primary cable. The cover plate is held in place by M6 dome headed bolts which also go through the lever support and tunnel with a couple of pop rivets tidying up the top. The lozenge shaped hole is for the seat belt.

The headlamp pods stage one picture shows the aligning bar held cunningly in place with a bungee whilst the fibre paste goes off - high tech or what! I'll post one of the P700s in situ when I've taken one!

[y cymro]

Originally Posted by Scottie22

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Nice progress Scottie. It seems like you and Nick share ideas about dashboard clocks

[Scottie22]

Cheeky bugger y cymro!

That's not a dash board clock! Its a Westminster chiming clock.

You've gone and done it now! I can see WCA badgering me to give it to him for his car!
Unfortunately he broke that really nice one he had.

Talking about clocks, I could have fitted a Jaguar rev counter with a built-in electric clock, but ,

a: The XKSS never had that,and
b: every time I operated the battery cut off switch, the clock would stop.

So I don't have one.

Today was more fiddly work, but it all has to be done.

I have a huge pile of small fiddly jobs in my head that came under the title of

" Oh, I'll do that later"
Well, later has now come around to being NOW, so I got stuck in.

The panel light housing needed finishing off, a bulb fitting and wiring up to the panel switch.

I also wanted a stereo control switch, so I did not have to fiddle under the dash if I wanted to use it.

And I needed a wiper switch fitting.

All these things are much easier to do on the table rather than try to do it when the dash is in place.So I did.

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[garyh]

It really does look original. Excellent.

[WorldClassAccident]

Seeing those pineapples on the window sill made me invent something totally new - at least I can't find anything like it on Google.

A solar powered rotating fruit ripen-er!

You put your fruit in and it slowly rotates them to get all round even ripening. The more sunshine, the faster they ripen and the faster it rotates.

Just off to the garage....

[Scottie22]

WCA I'm speechless!

[WorldClassAccident]

Got the design diagrams ready, who needs CAD

[jones]

Nice work scottie i really like the look of that dashboard. As I think everyone would agree albeit fiddly and small it is exactly these jobs that will separate yours from anyone else's builds.

[davecymru]

I go away for a few days and you leapfrog me on the door front (in total agreement with the primer-motivator trick!) and WCA finally hits on an idea to make his millions! Typical...

[Scottie22]

Never take your eye off the ball..............

[Paul L]

Scottie - As others have said, your dash really does look the part.

Good luck, Paul.

[Mick O'Malley]

Originally Posted by Paul L

Scottie - As others have said, your dash really does look the part.

Seconded! Whilst browsing my quite extensive collection of D Type literature I had a good look at the XKSS dash pictures and have to say that Scottie's is a masterpiece!

Today, Matthew, I was Harry Houdini working on the wiring in my boot space which, now that the body's glued on, is only accessible through the 'letterbox'. I made ally tags and strategically Five Minute Araldited them along the route the loom was to take. Lots of cutting, crimping, extending and continuity testing later my neck is cricked, but the wiring's now completed.

Hope you don't mind my hijacking your thread Scottie, but it seems daft to start a new one when I'm already ??% of the way through.