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28-Underside of bonnet- arghh!! No steel in my bloody bonnet - not in the correct place at least. Nothing for it but a cut and shut job. Note the filler.
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| 29-Open front boot-Front boot showing brackets (note white filler where I found NO metal and needed to glass new in)...
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| 91-Bonnet in situ-Front Boot lid in Situ. This is where my nightmare began. Once the boot seal was added, the boot lifted up 1/4inch with no way of going down. - argh....
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| 93-Underside of bonnet work-One cause of the boot issue is that the underside is of various thicknesses. I had to grind this off first to at least get it level. It now needs major repair and filling. Grrrrr.
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| 134-Underside of front boot-I'm STILL working on the damn front boot issue. Yet more sanding to get it to fit better and even all the way round. At least I can close it now over the rubber without it being 10mm above the wing!
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92-Bonnet full of holes-Part of the problem is the boot lid is hollow and distorts. I cut holes and filled with foam for more rigidity
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| 43-Engine lid-Engine Lid with third brake light fitted. This needed reworking (denoted by the white filler) to build up the underside and make a nice flat line. Bottom is still bowed though and needs more work.
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| 80-Engine cover bowing fix-I had to clamp and apply a heat gun and plenty of bricks to the lid, as it bowed up at the back. I also made the bar across the back. This will hold the lock.
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| 77-Engine cover hinges-Ohh FFS. No metal in the right place on the engine cover either!!! Nothing for it but to cut and fit my own. Grrr....
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| 44-Roof intakes-Loads of work will be needed here along the roof and engine lid shut lines. *Sigh*
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78-Engine lid rear shut lines-mmm- LOTS of work is going to be needed around the engine lid shut lines.
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| 79-Engine lid top shut lines-After a bit of filing the shut line around the roof was ok though. Clears the roof nicely- though I needed to take the edge back a few mm to clear.
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| 40-Rear taped-I had to pull and hold the rear deck lid out with a bar for the correct line. I will later glass underneath for better support. This was a trial and the whole lot will have to come off again.
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| 41-Rear with spoiler placed- ok well I had to see what it looked like didn't I!
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| 203- Reworked underside of exhaust cover- I've also been working on a way of fixing the rear exhaust cover securely and making it look close to the original. Here I've made up and welded a bracket assembly and glassed this to the cover- this added strength as well as keeping the shape better.
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204- Rear exhaust cover on its side. I'll add a further bracket to the front edge that will be seen in the engine bay- and this will complete the look of the original. Then cover with heat sheild of course.
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| 205- I wanted some way of fixing the cover so that it was removable, after studying various slides/picures of the original, I decided on a way where I could slide my cover back into 2 locating holes securing the back end, and this coupled with some original fixings on the front, make for an authentic looking, and very strong mounting. This required the welding of the above locating bars to the underside of my cover, joining on to the arrangement I fabricated earlier.
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| 206- Welding two tabs to the rear rail to locate the bar completed the process on the rear end.
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| This is where my prior planning on what I wanted my final look to be pays dividends. I ordered two original mountings for the front of the cover as these will be seen inside the engine bay. It was then simply a case of drilling a fixing position through my prefabricated arrangement to create a set of front mountings.
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| Here you can see the mountings in place. Front to bolt, rear to locate. Coupled with the fact these are bolted to the chassis, through my glassed in fabrication, which in turn bolts to the spoiler, means that that bloody great rear wing has no change of vacating itself from my car going down the motorway. This would always have been a worry if I simply drilled through the fibreglass, mounted the wing and held the rear cover to the car with a couple of self tappers. You know me by now... I don't do things by half!!
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