The Black Beauty

[GAZ W]

i started on the old girl yesterday, the long awaited transformation into top spec group 4 rallycar from nice steady roadgoing car.

Hopefully i will not be writing about it this time next year as the plan is to have it completed during the summer months and hopefully getting it up to Donington for national day.

cheeRS

Gotta laugh at this line from the first post dated april 2005

[grum]

excellent find Gaz

[graham John]

Gotta laugh at this line from the first post dated april 2005

its like a fine wine Gaz, gets better the longer you leave it........



cheeRS

[grum]

its like a fine wine Gaz, gets better the longer you leave it........



cheeRS

thought yours was more like a piece of cheese though !!! starting to smell a bit

[graham John]

thought yours was more like a piece of cheese though !!! starting to smell a bit

at least mine's not overcooked and burnt.................


cheeRS

[graham John]

bought a sump guard today (and some more minilites ), looks a good set up with flush captive bolts underneath, off to the garage now to see how it all bolts together

pics later


cheeRS

[taffr]

bought a sump guard today (and some more minilites ), looks a good set up with flush captive bolts underneath, off to the garage now to see how it all bolts together

pics later


cheeRS

pics please now you tease, are they 8" gold minilites

[Frosticles]

More wheels?????????????????? Bad as me, you are.

Now, stop arsing around and get it finished.

[graham John]

The sump guard was quite an expensive piece of Kit, considering that basically it is a sheet of alloy and some box section stel, however what a lovelly bit of kit it is, (once i had worked out what bracket goes where, and what part of the car it fits ) with all captive threads and everything shaped beautifully to fit the contours of the underside, well worth the expense for the finished job.
i also took the time to fit the front towing eye and also re paint / touch up the front (new) ARB, TCA, and other suspension bits that got 'knocked' whilst moving the sumpguard about


pics to follow


cheeRS

[grum]

mot to follow


cheeRS

[graham John]

up in the air and on stands






8mm alloy plate , managed to eventually work out where it all went




first job was to clean back the area around the ARB mounting brackets, as the alloy brackets mount to these inside the wheel arch, looks a bit messy as i cleaned back a few layers of underseal / shite, back to bare metal and a couple of coats of Rustkiller / primer






and a trial fit of all the brackets etc before some paint


cheeRS

[graham John]

the brackets after colour coded 'Blue' treatment , all clean and shiny







fit the front (mandatory) towing eye




and hey ho, a protected underbelly, safe hopefully from Epynts nasty jumps and bumps


cheeRS

[graham John]

just cleaned all the crap off and dropped back onto its wheels ready for the last couple of things to do before i book it for an MOT



the sumpguard is nice and discreet, with the towing eye the only giveaway that there is one there,

well pleased with that


cheeRS

[Miniliteman]

Looking good GJ. Where did you get that sumpguard from?
Any idea already if them AP brakes are good?

[taffr]

very good job