Davecymru's Miglia build :)

[davecymru]

Merry Christmas everyone!

I'm still here, i still have the car, i'm still tinkering with it, thoroughlly enjoying it and getting it ready for my annual new year jaunt across the mendips (Heated seat cover has been dug out in readiness!)


As far as routine jobs are concerned the only thing i've had to do this year so far is replace a very mildly weaping core plug which cost a princely sum of 80p and about 10mins to sort!

I've also found a walnut gearknob that i bought right back at the start of the build and i decided to fit when i gave my centre console a bit of a tidy up.



While i've not been actively posting on here much this year (as i've not had much to say!), i have been lurking and reading all of the "interesting" disucssions about prices and selling as TBH i think the Miglia will go on the market when the weather starts to pick up as there are simply too many other things i want to make, espeically seeing as Prova have resurfaced and are advertsing new Countach kits again....

[Paul L]

Dave – The gear knob is just another one of the nice touches on your build.

Keep enjoying the car until you start building something else, Paul.

PS
Have you already forgotten the grief of your last Countach build?

[davecymru]

Cheers Paul,

I'm currently applying lad-logic and man-maths to my next build and using those i think an Audi V8 powered Countach is perfectly do-able......

But i also have my eye on the tri-king kits, so i'll just have to wait and see what 2019 brings

And on that note HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

I've been preparing the car for it's triditional new year jaunt over the past few weeks and my son asked if there was anything he could help me with, so a quick check of the "one day" list of jobs and a nosey through the bits-n-bobs pile and i decided to fit a headrest as i quite liked the one on my Sammio.

So we cut a backing plate from some exterior ply lefft over from the Sammio



Dug out some seat foam and fabric, also left over from the Sammio build!


cut-trim-stick



And while it doesn't look like a professional job, i'm quite chuffed how it turned out and i had some great father/son bonding time doing it




And it looked the part on this mornings jaunt over the hills!



Happy 2019 everyone

[Paul L]

Dave – Looking good.

Although it is quite spooky, as I’ve recently been toying with the idea of making my own head rests too.

I have some leather and I bought a leather sewing kit and some of those plastic ‘Fir tree’ clips from Ebay.

I also went back to Mister Towed’s Spyder build to have a closer look at his headrest.

So a couple of quick questions from me:
- Do the fixing clips just get held in place by the foam?
- How did you attach the material to the plywood at the back?

Cheers, Paul.

[deni]

Hi Dave,
Your Miglia still looks great in the above photo and I like it's stance. Did you replace your front coils ( ones you've ordered from Marlin)?

Thanks, D.

[davecymru]

Originally Posted by deni

Hi Dave,
Did you replace your front coils ( ones you've ordered from Marlin)?

Thanks, D.

ATM i've still got the very stiff ones from Merlin on there, but i'm doing a bit of general tinkering with the car atm and i've decided to try some softer ones for normal road use. i'll probably order them in a week or so.

[deni]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for your reply. I am curious how will new springs compare to the Merlin ones.

Cheers,Deni

[davecymru]

Well i've finally got off my laze @rse and sorted the front suspension!

First I whipped the front shocks off.




Disassemble




Then i ordered the new springs from Merlin Mororsports who are based on Castle Combe race circuit and have given me lots of great advice over the years.

Existing springs are 325lbs and give no flex whatsoever, but it does corner like it's on rails!

So i did some reading and saw that oem Vitesse/GT6 rating was about the 180/190 range and with the metalwork removed and replaced with fibreglass, but wanting slighlty firmer, i've now opted for 200lbs. TBH i'm not sure how lad-logic ended up with me getting the 325's in the first place, but we live and learn!

As i've gone quite a lot softer, before i ordered i looked at where the old shock seats had ended up being positioned and I decided to add an extra inch. (cue the abuse!)

New 200lbs x 9" springs on left, old 325lbs x 8" on right.




Everything was cleaned and inspected (all good) and then reassembled with the spring seats set at 1" up from lowest as a starting point.




All is now refitted and i took the opportunity with the wheels off to give the suspension a bit of a light clean.



Next, setting the ride height!