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greetings one and all,
After recently aquiring a Marlin all be it with a blown Alfa engine I decided to do a rebuild on a Triumph Spitfire 1500 engine ( this section can be seen in the build diary section by darth Vader), well to cut a very long story short I started stripping the old gal down. And as expected I discovered a few shocking points one of which being the disaster that should be the wiring loom, ( you need to be from Bletchly park to work it out!) so after lots of really bad language I decided the best course of action would be make up a new loom. I will be including a few pictures for you all to have a really good laugh over, so where was I? yes the strip down well I got all of the front end off and basically gutted the engine bay, and I am planning to change the colour from a dreary red looking colour to a Rover sun burst red.
well during the strip down I have also discovered some one has used 10 tonns of body filler to hold the grill in place so head ache No 1 some one must have had a serious fetish about silicon or they had shares in a silicon company because it took me all day Sunday to slowly scrape it all off head ache No 2, but the worst part is the humungus hole that has been cut in the near side front panel to accomodate a really bad fitting exhaust HUGE head ache No3, well ( dont worry nearing the end of my tale of woe!)
the long and the short of it is the car will be off the road for a good year just to get her back into shape, I am considering changing the aluminium front bulk head pannel for alloy diamond plate.
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After recently aquiring a Marlin all be it with a blown Alfa engine I decided to do a rebuild on a Triumph Spitfire 1500 engine ( this section can be seen in the build diary section by darth Vader), well to cut a very long story short I started stripping the old gal down. And as expected I discovered a few shocking points one of which being the disaster that should be the wiring loom, ( you need to be from Bletchly park to work it out!) so after lots of really bad language I decided the best course of action would be make up a new loom. I will be including a few pictures for you all to have a really good laugh over, so where was I? yes the strip down well I got all of the front end off and basically gutted the engine bay, and I am planning to change the colour from a dreary red looking colour to a Rover sun burst red.
well during the strip down I have also discovered some one has used 10 tonns of body filler to hold the grill in place so head ache No 1 some one must have had a serious fetish about silicon or they had shares in a silicon company because it took me all day Sunday to slowly scrape it all off head ache No 2, but the worst part is the humungus hole that has been cut in the near side front panel to accomodate a really bad fitting exhaust HUGE head ache No3, well ( dont worry nearing the end of my tale of woe!)
the long and the short of it is the car will be off the road for a good year just to get her back into shape, I am considering changing the aluminium front bulk head pannel for alloy diamond plate.
20170528_164013.jpg20170528_183225.jpg20170528_163943.jpg20170528_163952.jpg20170528_221217.jpg
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