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Just thought i would introduce myself, after pestering Gary to death over the last couple of weeks i have bought a spitfire 1500 donor with overdrive today and will be placing my order with Gary monday morning for a comprehensive Cordite kit including deluxe fram and double hump rear, and....... a German style front end.
Plan is to carry out a chassis up rebuild with full refurb of all running gear. hoping for a quickish build but as its going to run paralell to my Tiger GTA Race car rebuild and finishing of my Peugeot 205 GTi restoration it may drag on a bit!
One question i have is ref the triumph running gear, is the 1500 unleaded friendly? if not has anyone got any recommendation for who carries out unleaded head conversions?
Oh and just as aside the colour is going to be a gunmetal silver with blue leather interior, if anyone needs leather hides for their interiro i may be able to help as the upholstere in the unit next to mine is shutting shop and is currently selling complete hides in a dizzying array of colours for £45 a piece, i have 2 matching one for mine but i reckon if you were only doing seats and side panels you may get away with 1.
Welcome aboard Mac. I'm sure I speak for all when I say we're all looking forward to following your build. Where in the country are you based? Cheers. Andy
I'd definitely be interested in a couple of hides in dark red at that price, like Andy says, where abouts are you as I'd love to take a look through their stock.
Oops, just seen your post above. Probably a bit far to come for a browse...
unfortunately the only colour he doesnt have a good matching pair of is red! that was my first choice but single reds from bright through to oxblood no problem.
First pics will be the donor im picking up after the bank holiday.
Mac, I've taken the liberty of adding you to the Sammio map. It's good to see the void between the Southern builders and us up in the North getting bridged
Mac, I've taken the liberty of adding you to the Sammio map. It's good to see the void between the Southern builders and us up in the North getting bridged
I really appreciate this forum and the fact I can steer customers here ..its an incredibly valuable tool in the selling of the kit and the positiveness of its users is phenomonal....
The 7'' headlight conversion is only at the ''this would look cool stage'' ...so it'll be good old VW/Porsche units for this one....
I would guess that looking at the colour choice , your leanings are very German anyway !!
If those trimmers have some canvas/natural/browny sorts of colours - I would definitely be up for a couple of skins...
Hi Mac,
welcome to the "not a kit car club". You will no doubt have realised already that most people on here are somewhat mental. We have been trying to work out if it's the cars or the banter that does it! Either way welcome and get stuck in,
Regards
The Rocker
Apart from everyone wanting photos of just about everything you get up to (phaaannaaar) the thing you really need to know about us is that this certainly isn't a club as just about all of us have had bad experiences with club-politics at some point or other
I think we are all looking forward to seeing a few Cordites under way and seeing what ideas we can 1/2" from each other
I have my eye on a pair of seats but could do with knowing what the maximum width is that will fit in a cordite, can anyone help? The seats im looking at have a maximum base width of 500mm
Trailer failure has ment i cant pick it up until tuesday but have 3 days off the end of next week so with the help of my mate "Railway Dave" were hoping to have it stripped to a bare rolling chassis by next weekend. Unfortuantley i have still got the rebuild of the race car running alongside so will be splitting time between the 2 but being self employes means i can take time off when i want so hoping to make good progress in the next 3 weeks, just went to the body shop today to see the race chassis in paint Race Chassis
Chassis in the background is our tiger gta race car
Bad news on the donor, turns out the diff is seized so deposit has been returned and a new donor purchased off gum tree in better nick for less money only problem is its it north London! Unfortunately I'm away in Whitley bay on a job until a week next Thursday so progress has stalled a bit.
Did manage to pick up an eBay bargain though in the form of a triumph 1500 fwd head assembly, brand new and still in its original packing grease. Told by my triumph guru it's a straight swap for the spitfire one but has larger valves so will breath better.
All acquired an overdrive gearbox as the original donor was a 4 speed, new donor comes with I'd so looks like I'm building up a spares shelf already!
to pics of bad eye infections 
and engraved gearknobs 
hwell: 
