Tony's Build Thread.... - Page 12

Paul L · #**221** 20th May 2012, 19:44

Well done that man, that is one very nice looking car.

Roadster · #**222** 20th May 2012, 19:53

looks great tony i love old english white with the black wires

im in trouble now as the wife wanted the roadster to be be old english white

Mister Towed · #**223** 21st May 2012, 08:08

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Originally Posted by tlrtone

...luckily I took a picture before I stripped it down, so I could refer to it for an easy solution!

Excellent advice. Wish I'd taken loads of pictures as I'd stripped my donor down. I didn't bother because I just thought to myself 'I'll be able to remember where that wire on the back of the fuel gauge goes' but it's a year later and I'm scratching my head with some of the connectons to the instruments.

Super looking car by the way.

tlrtone · #**224** 21st May 2012, 08:21

This is what I use to refer to Mr T..

Mister Towed · #**225** 21st May 2012, 09:39

Cheers Tony, hadn't realised that the (optional) heater motor was wired through the fuel gauge.

tlrtone · #**226** 21st May 2012, 09:48

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Originally Posted by Mister Towed

Cheers Tony, hadn't realised that the (optional) heater motor was wired through the fuel gauge.

Technically it's not wired through the guage, it takes a convenient 12v switched live feed from it!

I swapped my old fuse box for one and 8-way which takes modern blade fuses, but is also conveniently split 4+4 so I have a permanent live side and a switched live side!

Ben Caswell · #**227** 21st May 2012, 09:57

That diagram is for the Vitesse 1600 model that didnt have the voltage stabilizer or temp gauge.
On the Mk1 2ltr
The heater motor needs to take a feed from the green wire before the stabilzer,not the light green and green that goes from the stabilizer to the temp and fuel gauge.

Mister Towed · #**228** 21st May 2012, 10:34

On my donor the heater motor was wired up with a length of cable tied along the outside of the loom. It looks like someone'd had a problem with it at some stage and bodged a fix. I'm thinking of using the redundant wiper motor wiring for the heater if the circuit is intact, or I might just create a new circuit for it.

seanick · #**229** 21st May 2012, 20:14

Sweet. Nice choice of light lenses, and rear lights nicely spaced and 'plinthed' . I like black wires. We think you are a bad boy!

tlrtone · #**230** 21st May 2012, 20:57

I was thinking of some graphics down the side..

What do you think?

garyh · #**231** 21st May 2012, 21:17

I like the jack and the flying horse, are the flags authentic? Or is it just saying that you have a racing no. How about some flags behind it...

davecymru · #**232** 22nd May 2012, 06:49

The dog in the background seems to have a look of:
"Dad, when will you stop playing in the garden and take me for a walk?"

Mister Towed · #**233** 22nd May 2012, 07:40

I like the chequered flag graphics and the winged horse. I think I'd go with an Italian flag rather than the Union Flag though to carry off the continental illusion, but each to their own.

garyh · #**234** 22nd May 2012, 08:00

Olde Italian White?

Mister Towed · #**235** 22nd May 2012, 08:02

MG D24 bonnet?

garyh · #**236** 22nd May 2012, 08:04

What MG?

Mister Towed · #**237** 22nd May 2012, 08:13

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Originally Posted by garyh

MG what?

It was a sort of duelling riposte to your 'Olde Italian White?' snipe at my suggestion that an Italian flag might be a good idea. You know, the Sammio has Italian styling based on the Lancia D24 spyder, and you transposed the word Italian into Olde English White making it into the humerous yet teasing question 'Olde Italian White?', so I've taken the Lancia prefix off the D24 and inserted the English (Chinese?) 'MG' to imply a similarly unlikely fusion of different national identities, 'MG D24? It was supposed to be a sort of joke. I'm not terribly good at them and once you have to explain it to someone who can't keep up you've kind of lost your audience.

garyh · #**238** 22nd May 2012, 08:28

Wow... what time do you start work!

Charman.tech · #**239** 22nd May 2012, 09:07

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Originally Posted by Mister Towed

It was a sort of duelling riposte to your 'Olde Italian White?' snipe at my suggestion that an Italian flag might be a good idea. You know, the Sammio has Italian styling based on the Lancia D24 spyder, and you transposed the word Italian into Olde English White making it into the humerous yet teasing question 'Olde Italian White?', so I've taken the Lancia prefix off the D24 and inserted the English (Chinese?) 'MG' to imply a similarly unlikely fusion of different national identities, 'MG D24? It was supposed to be a sort of joke. I'm not terribly good at them and once you have to explain it to someone who can't keep up you've kind of lost your audience.

Toad I had the same problem with a joke last week (front air dam)

My wife is Italian hence suggested names for our G46 are a Charmarini or a Charmaratti

By the way I am loving the old English white and very impressed with how it turn out, Oh and the black wire wheels, the nuts!. Where's it going to live now it's finished in the Saloon!

Mister Towed · #**240** 22nd May 2012, 09:29

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Originally Posted by garyh

Wow... what time do you start work!

Erm, three until midnight today...

Sorry if I sounded a bit offish there, I thought you were taking the pee pee. No hard feelings