Scottie's Tribute A352 build

[Scottie22]

I wanted to get my exhaust system on and all bolted in place today, but as usual all sorts of snags slowed me down. But I have progressed quite a lot.

I trial fitted the system ages ago when I first made it, and could not get a gas tight fit between the flexi pipe and the 4 into 2 into 1 pipe.
The flexi manufacturer assured me it was possible but he was wrong.

To solve the issue I welded a slight reducer to the flexi, cut a couple of inches off the main pipe to compensate, and I have a reasonable gas tight fit now.

I need to fit the whole thing, including the heat shield and all so I have all the holes ready prior to painting the body.

But this will not happen today! Bollo! (the x remaining silent)

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[Ollie]

Err, Scottie.... You are going to great lengths to get the detail right, so how about the sound..... GT6 motor perhaps.....?!?!

[Scottie22]

Well Ollie a 1500 Triumph engine is never going to sound like a Jag straight six at full howl, BUT, I reckon the car will weigh in at not much more than 500 kilos perhaps 600, and the engine should with a few tweaks be producing around 80 BHP.
At 600 kilos the power to weight would be over 130BHP, the car is going to fly with the miserable 1.5 lump.

I have a GT6, but the engine weighs almost trice what the Spit engine does, but does not produce twice the power, only perhaps 20 or 30 BHP more.

I am not really a fan of the Triumph straight six, as its too heavy.

Of course this is only my feeling. A lot of folk love them.

A Rover 1.4 K series engine produces the same power as the GT6 engine but weighs half as much.

To be honest, The engine I have in the car which came with it, is almost new, starts first time on the button, and I cannot be arsed to change it!

Bit of a long answer, but that's how it is.

[Scottie22]

I should have added: with that stainless exhaust I have made, the engine sounds nothing like a little 1500!

It sounds very beefy and muscular!

Hope it gets through the Mot sounding like it does!

[Paul L]

Scottie - Looks like lots of good progress to me.

It was interesting to see the bonding paste in action, as I have big tub of it for my own build.

I took an angle grinder to some of the excess paste around my bonnet hinge hoop and that was rock hard.

Good luck with the rest of your MOT preparations.

Cheers, Paul.

[Scottie22]

Hi Paul,
Yeah, I think where strength is required the bonding paste is the dogs business, but can be a bitch to sand, so I always put filler over the top on external bodywork, because I'm lazy, and don't want extra labour!

As if I've not got enough to do........

[Scottie22]

Some time earlier in the build when I fitted the electric fan, and ditched the crappy little fixed fan that Triumph (bless them), had fitted, I knew that eventually I would have to wire it in to the system so it actually worked.

Recently, it has occurred to me that as the original fan ran continuously
because it was driven by a belt attached to the engine, there was no electric controller present for my new fan.

I trolled the net like we do, and came up with an absolute little gem of a controller, which not only looked the part, but had a really easy- to- work dial, to set the desired temperature for the fan to kick in.

And unlike some ( the most expensive one I came across was £124)

this one was very good value at £20 including postage!

I tested it in a cup of tea I had just made, and sure enough, it kicked in at 80c when I spun the dial around.

Really handy to have one in the kitchen if you want to know the temperature of your beverage in order to avoid a bad scald in the mouth :-)

I guess that in the winter you could dial in and reset the system to run a bit hotter in order to make the heater a bit more violent!



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[WorldClassAccident]

https://picasaweb.google.com/1156603...34606913989122

I was at the Haynes museum and saw the red XKSS that I videod. Unfortunately the bright lights, crap phone camera and cramped conditions made filming difficult.

I tried to ficus in on the details and features rather than the big picture as you have lots of those. Hopefully it is of some use to you

[Scottie22]

I appreciate your efforts WCA, top marks for that, but when I hit the link, "it will not be found" notice comes up, could you double check, otherwise we have nothing!!

[y cymro]

You'll like this too Scottie:

Octane Magazine

[Scottie22]

Absolutely fabulous stuff y cymro!!

I must admit that whilst reading the story, I felt an extremely difficult-to-resist urge to masturbate!!!!!

HOWEVER I did resist, and somehow remained in control.

But, you never know, in a weak moment I could always go back and read it again................

[Scottie22]

Small job on the recently removed luggage rack, the elegant rubber feet arrived in the post so I did the business, and now the rack is ready for bolt-on after the ever looming paint job.

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[WorldClassAccident]

Try this : https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/1...83436295169415

[Scottie22]

Yeah, that nailed it WCA, thanks for that.

Cannot imagine for a moment what madness possessed the builder to fit wire wheels to it!!

Should have been Dunlop's finest I would have thought.

There were a few things I was not impressed with on that red one!

I better shut up before I drop myself in the mire...........

[WorldClassAccident]

Rear rack is mounted backwards too...

Slam the brakes on and your luggage will take your head off

[Scottie22]

All 16 of the originals have the rack on that way, and as far as I can tell all of the replicas too.

Some time back Mr Towed pointed that out too!

I think they were all mounted that way because the acceleration was so fierce, it they were not that way you would have lost all your luggage!!

Seriously though they were all mounted that way, and so will mine be.

Providing the rack is correctly mounted to the car, and the luggage is secured correctly to the rack, I can't see any problem.

Plus the fact that unlike the original which had no boot space to speak of, just a "postbox" for the spare wheel, (hence the rack in the first place) my car has a huge boot, plus a large space behind the seats, so I would most likely never need to carry any external crap anyway.

Hey, its supposed to be the coolest car in the world not the safest!!!! :-)

[WorldClassAccident]

I was quoting from Mt Towed.

I assumed he spoketh with great knowledge. I now know that you are the true source of wisdom and shall from henceforth quote you.

[Scottie22]

For goodness sake don't drop me in the shit with Mr Towed!

HE IS THE SOURCE OF ALL WISDOM!!!

By all means quote me, but don't mess with the Towed!! :-)

[Scottie22]

Originally Posted by y cymro

You'll like this too Scottie:

Octane Magazine

For those that did not follow y cymro's link, The car magazine Octane,
had named the XKSS "The coolest car in the world"

Now, given what I am building, and the effort I am putting in, I'd be stupid to argue against that!

However, I have always had two minor criticisms of the XKSS styling,
one being the screen, which I have always thought was too upright, and the other, the nose of the car which I think is too pug-nosed, or squashed looking.

Fortunately, I am in a good position here, as neither of those problems exist on my car.

I deliberately, welded my screen frame in such a way that it is raked back more steeply than the XKSS, and the nose on the body Chris has created, is longer (I would imagine because he used a long-nosed D Type shell to copy from)

The longer nose version was a part of the R and D program at Jaguar.
When they were winning all the races with the D Type, they did not rest of their laurels, but kept developing the car, and one result was
to add an extra 9 inches to the bonnet, and they called the car the "long nosed D"

This made it more aerodynamic, and increased the top speed by several extra miles per hour.

The following pic shows the difference, and as far as I understand it the 16 XKSS's were all built using the short nose version bonnet.

Hence the snubness.

So when I finish my build, I may well have a cooler car, than the coolest car in the world!!

I will surely have the only XKSS replica not to be Jaguar-based?

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[y cymro]

You should have a T shirt made: 'my car's cooler than the coolest car in the world"