Detailed Work

Whilst we are waiting for the front and rear sections of the body, we are making headway with all the time consuming detailed installations necessary to make the car go! - that is fuel and brake lines, and water and oil pipes.

The wiring loom is installed and tests out OK - although we cant check everything until we have the engine running.


Brake lines are a complicated mixture of 3-16, 1-4, and 3-8 inch tubing depending on whether or not it is rear brakes, front brakes or the plessey pump pressure system.



Here is a detail of the header tank ready for fitting when the radiator arrives








Originally, many parts on the car were not plated but went through a process called "parco luberise- ing." You can still get this done - managanese phosphate is used apparently - and here is a picture of the disc assembly and hub showing the matt black finish.

Installing the Rear Axle

Installing the engine and gearbox was something of a milestone as the project started to look like a car.

We have added to this impression with the installation of the rear axle.
This was quite easy and rather like a "meccano" kit with lots of links and bushes.
Stage 1 was attaching the top trailing arms to the rear frame and the bottom arms to the torsion bar which runs across the rear frame inside the bottom tube.

We then attached the axle to these links.










This view shows the linkage at the bottom of the axle casing to locate the lateral movement of the axle.











We made up some adjustable links in order to tension the torsion bar correctly and so set the ride hieght to the recommended setting. This is done by means of the splined inserts which attach the end of the torsion bar to the bottom trailing arm.