180 replies to this topic

[danwebster]

Bespoke kit Martin, made by bespoke engineering funnily enough

[danwebster]

Well today didn't start terrifically well after I bent my old torque wrench trying undo the driveshafts...probably time to ease off the gym



I therefore decided that the best course of action was to remove the entire rear end fully built up.



From there it was a pretty easy process of disconnecting everything and draining the water.



Before dropping the engine out on another little trolley i'd made, I'm getting carried away with castors I think, I should stop before I fit two to the rear of the elise when its finished



Thats it for today, tucked up for the night again...

Edited by danwebster, 06 January 2013 - 05:42 PM.

[Martin R]

That reminds me. I have been meaning to knock a hub nut removal tool up. I have some old impact sockets somewhere. Nice work Dan    

[danwebster]

Another productive day out in the freezing cold today, first job was to remove the front end which was nice and easy as all of the bolts came out for a change.



Then it was out with the old radiator and give the front end a little clean up just to get the dirt and grime shifted.



Then back to the rear of the car and its off with the heat shielding / sound deadening from the bulkhead. Who needs sound deadening, if you want quiet buy a Hyundai!



A bit of judicious use of a chisel has removed the majority of the solvent that was left behind, it reminded me of chiselling off all the sound deadening from the floor of my mini years ago



Also got myself a magic sponge, it appears they really are magic!



Getting ever closer to slotting the new engine in!

[jonnyfox]

Will Alan Partridge be calling in Gold-Blinger ;-)

[danwebster]

Yep, partly your fault too!

Where did you get your film from by the way?

[jonnyfox]

It was Cam Auto in St. Albans, nice fella's, but it's around £60 in 2 foot sheets no matter where I looked, they gave some discount. Fill what you can Dan first. I couldn't get it down in a single sheet so mostly its strips for the fiddly areas.

[SCOTTJ]

Interesting thread keep us posted on the progress.... Just puchased an Exige with JRSC and currently re-working some of the wiring & fuel pump setup...

[danwebster]

A little bit of progress now the snow has cleared, yesterday I picked up some sheet alloy and today did this....



I've also removed the front suspension now and stripped the lot down ready for shot blasting.

[jonnyfox]

What have you done lol!

[danwebster]

I've made a sunshine engine bay

[Steve J]

That's not too bad. You can fix the hole in the bulkhead fwith an old road map, no problem.

[Martin R]

Leave it like that. You can then remove the heater to save weight as the engine will keep you warm        You will also have plenty of room for DTHTB,s.

[MrSimba]

Lol! Did the same to mine makes access perfect just make sure you get some foam insulating tape for the hatch as I nearly got carbon monoxide poisioning the first time I went out before I did that!!!

You definatly wouldn't want to drive with it open tho my hot side is against the firewall not the boot!

Edited by MrSimba, 28 January 2013 - 11:41 AM.

[danwebster]

I'm kidding of course but you all knew that.

I have a sheet of alloy that I'll be fashioning a bulkhead from and a tube of goo to bond it in place with so it will be as air tight or otherwise as the original piece.

Once that's in I can get on with sticking gold over it