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[lozzzzzz]

I'm not sure if I've got the right area in the forum for this build thread but I'll put it here  

I've had a hellish 6 weeks at work, but in one weeks time, I'll be working on the car full time for a week so if folk are interested I'll post all the progress made on here. 

The following is a bit I did this weekend, there should be loads more as of next week. 



This weekend I finished my work miday saturday and had time to work on the car a bit Its been 6 weeks since I've spent more than about half an hour on it.  It literally felt like a relief. 

I welded the pulley on, but its not on straight, so I'll have to redo that, hopefully no biggy. 


I've ordered all the SS pipe and silencers in so when I get a week off (in a weeks time) I'll hopefully be able to put the whole exhasut system together (there should be loads more progress then). 
These two pipes sat in the car at the mo will for the ends of the tubular manifolds. 


They're 2.5" and this gives an idea how they might look on the back of the car


The bends on the second maniold are nearly done now, I'm really looking forward to having the manifolds finished, I wasn't really looking forward to doing the second one, its sucha pain in the arse. 


More to come next week.

[Lazydocker]

Keep it coming

[TheBoy]

Indeed, keep this thread up to date with your progress

[lozzzzzz]

Thanks guys, will do. 

Heres a little update

I got these in the post today, I'm so Excited ,

I've set myself the not too unresonable target of having the whole exhaust system finished with the Wideband sensor, by the end of week off (which starts soon). 

The front oval silencers are Jetex, the rear round ones are Mijex, and all the pipework and silencersa re 2.5" straight through, and you guess it, T304 Stainless Steel. 




More to come soon (ish)

[henryd]

Looking good,as already said keep it coming.

[blackviper90210]

Looks great mate, can't wait to see the next instalment 

[Webby the Bear]

looks awsome mate. keep the posts coming. 

[mantagte]

had a 1977 scimitar in black a few years ago absolutly stunning
from a 60's design
with modern running gear will be excellent

[lozzzzzz]

Thanks guys

I'll be putting lots of posts on soon hopefully.  I can't wait to see how it goes and how much power it makes. 

[lozzy]

I had to drop a scimiter of in luxembourg 2 weeks ago from 1970s deliverd it to a car collector he only wanted the gearbox from it!

[Andy B]

I had to drop a scimiter of in luxembourg 2 weeks ago from 1970s deliverd it to a car collector he only wanted the gearbox from it!

  Sacrilidge (sp?) There must be loads of Ford gearboxes knocking about he could've usew instead. 

[lozzy]

the car was only fit for spares

[lozzzzzz]

Right finally some progress, far from the week of car work I was looking forward to its been two days and that'll be it for a bit again things just come up don't they!

But its been productive.  I feel like I've finally broken the back the exhaust manifolds, this second manifold has been looming for ages, and its fair to say It's not been the most enjoyable of things to make, and I knew exactly how hard it would be as its the second of two.  Having said that I'm well happy to have been working on the car again and although I'm not going to get the exhausts finished like I'd hoped, the rest isn't that hard a job so it won't be long. 

So the pipes for the second manifold are all cut and shut to shape


You can see here before welding that the shape of the pipes isn't that bad (it just looks bad when they're welded )



This took a very long time each of the 27 cuts took time and thought then lots of angle grinding, then some more angle grinding to make sure it shut neatly then tacking shut

Then they were all welded up


And finally ground down in the high places and wire wheeled for good measure and now they're tacked in place ready to be welded to the header plate. 



Hopefully next time I get some time I'll get these pipes welded up the header plate and start making the collector. 

Got a few more parts in the post, wheel boxes for the wipers and a cruise control system to add to the mix

More to come

[lozzzzzz]

YEAH!!!    Got over a day to work on the car this weekend. 

So I tried to get the exhausts finished, didn't quite get them done, but not far off. 

Firstly got the exhausts in the right place (shortening them and angling the back silencers up will be one of the last jobs)


This meant I could see how well the pipes lined up with the manifolds and what shape the collectors need to be. 



The rest of the exhaust system is all slide joint.


Now making the collector, after it lined up beautifully with the exhaust pipe. 






Then welding and shaping the final piece of the puzzle (I'd forgotten how to use the flash)



And the finished, fully de-burred item.



And on the car




Now just got to make the other, but this one won't take long. 


More to come, as soon as I can (might not be for a while).

[lozzzzzz]

Finished the Exhaust Manifolds this afternoon

The rest of the system is loosly slid on and it sounds great one Very happy customer.  Here's some piccies on the pair. 







All the ports inside the manifold are now smoothed out with no rough bits to help things out further. 


I took a video of the sound, but the b***dy thing is taking forever to upload, left it overnight and the battery ran out before it uploaded

I'll try again later