Time to rebuild the Marlin Roadster LWB

[angusgrooby]

Re: Time to rebuild the Marlin Roadster LWB

Looks very good I bet you can not wait until the summer and get the sun light glinting of that paint work roadsters always look good in red but I would say that seeing as mine is too??????

[Jonathanjeades]

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Indeed Angus - going to be a bust new year with loads still to do on detailing and mechanical fettling, but here's to a glorious warm and sunny 2014....

PS she's now back home for Christmas :-)

[stevejgreen]

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Just noticed your plastic fan. Something I have seen was, that at speed, the fan deflects forward towards the radiator. Certainly on a Roadster the U bolts holding the rack in place, and their nuts, can easily come into contact with the fan.
But that was on a roadster with a 1.8 B series.

[Jonathanjeades]

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Thanks Steve, that certainly was an initial concern we had when originally building it (along with blade tip clearance on all the ancillaries). Fortunately the crossflow fan seemed more rigid to forward twist than the bl item but this was helped a little further by trimming the tips slightly. It appears to be ok but is a feature to watch. We also fitted a remote switched ken low unit in front of the rad for additional cooling but this was rarely required.

[andyf]

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Any chance you could post a picture of how the bonnet is hinged?

[Jonathanjeades]

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Will do Andy as soon as I can. I recall we used the marina hinges, although modified them to provide the right lift and angles for clearance.

[Jonathanjeades]

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A few more taken yesterday

[dbazdavies]

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Jon any chance of the dimensions of the spare wheel clamp please !!

[Jonathanjeades]

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Off work Wednesday, I'll try to get dimensions for wheel carrier and photos of bonnet hinges then, cheers

[dbazdavies]

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thnaks Jon Happy xmas will wait till the new year for the other bits !!

[Jonathanjeades]

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Andy, please find a few more photos of the bonnet hinge arrangement as promised....Merry Christmas

[Jonathanjeades]

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Hi Barry, managed to get out to measure the spare wheel bracket.....hopefully the image below helps....I've left off the wheel studs but I guess you know the marina pcd and thread sizes ....Merrry Christmas

[Jonathanjeades]

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Some of the trim going on.....

[dbazdavies]

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Coming along nice Jonathon !!!

[lizbillings]

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Its all looking great!