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[lozzzzzz]

Fair enough.  At least it was an omega part

[lozzzzzz]

The last BMW parts still haven't arrived so it was back to work on the simitar tonight

Got the passenger door fitted and pretty much finished, got to pull the protective film off the window thats all.

Hopefully the picture explains how it works, but if not the blue strap opens the door and the black one holds the window up and simply tied off at the right length to stop the window dropping too low.  Its not pretty, its not even that easy to lower the window, but it sure is light, really light, and I'm really pleased with the outcome



More to come (probably a mirror image of the above)

[henryd]

Fair enough.  At least it was an omega part

I'm sure that would be allowed if it's an omega part,(once you hit 250posts)

[lozzzzzz]

Had a good day working on the car today.  I spent this morning finishing off the drivers door and getting it to close properly, when I had a visit from MikeT, which was a nice surprise   IUt was great to show the car off to a fellow owner, I can't wait to bring it to shows

I then made some shims for the front suspension to get the camber somehwere close to where it should be. 


I got it somewhere close then, after looking at the lower wishbone mounts I decided I'd buy some new ones to be sure, so I'll leave the camber as it is for now. 

Then I did the tracking with the dunlop gauges I've borrowed from work.  I got it to about 20minutes toe in, that should do for now. 

Then I moved my attention to cleaning the car.  This was a pleasure to do, its been years!





And I even tried the polisher that I've bought, although I only used it with the G3 paste so far, but the results are very pleasing


Hopefully lots more cleaning tomorrow.

More to come

[omega3000]

Looks great and in the best colour , all that hard graft paid off . Well done 

[lozzzzzz]

Thanks EMD 

I started this morning just after 7am like some kind of mental person, there was one point where I was polishing what looked like runs in the paint, but the polished out really easily, turned out this was ice!!!  Am I too keen???

I drive it out of the garage again and started with the Farecla G3 cutting compound and a clarke CP185 sander/polisher.




Its not like you needed these photos, I guess I'm getting a bit excited again

Then I washed it off and it looked like this




In the photos it doesn't really look that different, but it was worth my 3 hours effort.  Tthe paint is now a lot lot flatter and with very little orange peel effect, so its ready for the Farecla G10 finishing compound now.  So round two started, but then I got hungry and came up for my second breakfast...  well another bowl of cereal for lunch

It looked like this when I left it, about half done:


More to come

[omega3000]

Nice one  Lovely day for doing just that today , ive even had the shed door open to blow away the cobwebs 

[lozzzzzz]

It has been a fantastic day, I've enjoyed today a lot. 



I'll try and be brief as the pictures can do the talking (there are enough of them)

I finished putting the G10 on and it was a freakin nightmare to get it off again, it took forever and lots of scrubbing then although the paint was very flat it was still a bit dull.  So I broke out the autoglim polish and it now looks like this.  This is the result of nearly 8 hours cleaning just one car but as you can imagine I'm really pleased.  There are countless blemishes in the paint, but I'm happy with it looking shiney from 10 feet, thats all I ever wanted really having painted it myself, I can't justify spending lots of a proper respay, I'll be afraid to use it.  Anyway its never looked this shiney in my ownership    












I was taking photos for a good half an hour.

Its so close now as you can see, I'm still waiting for the Gaz dampers, and I feel I should buy some reinforced lower wishbone mounts and its MOT time. 

More to come

[Andy B]

Looks good!  Al the hard work is now paying off. 

[lozzzzzz]

Thanks Andy, its been so long with the car looking like c**p its amazing to see it looking its best again

[Rods2]

It looks great. I think the Scimitar is one of those cars that has not aged, which shows they got the bodywork styling right. 

[lozzzzzz]

Not that I'm bais or anything, but I couldn't agree more.  I must have spent hours maybe days just looking at it in my 7 years of ownership, it doesn't get boing, I think its an absolutely beautful shape. 

[lozzzzzz]

A fairly inexciting update today. 

I called GW and QRG to try and find the thicker 5mm lower wishbone to chassis mounts, and it turns out they are using up the remaining stock of left or right ones (depending on PAS or not PAS) but the other side has run out, so if you want to buy a set one side with will be original Reliant rienforced 3mm thick steel and the other side wll be a newly made part made out of 5mm pressed steel. 

With that in mind I think I'll stick with my 3mm rienforced ones. 

So Its realy for MOT, just waiting on the Front Gaz dampers to arrive, then I'll book it in. 

In the mean time, I made up some draft stoppers.  I mae a list before I took the car off the raod of all the niggle little things that needed sorting as well as the new engine etc.  and there used to be a bit draft from the lower hinge area on the doors so I made these:




More to come

[lozzzzzz]

I fiddled with the car yesterday afternoon and this morning, adjusting ride height and checking wishone angles and camber. 

I initially raised it up from what you saw in the photos, to get it somewhere near standard, but then realised that the lower wishbones are pointing downwards quite a lot.  The uprights I made put the ball joints a bit lower than the trunnions used to be with respect to the wheel, so this makes the role centre higher, so I can get the car a bit lower without messing up the handling (thats if the lower ball joint hasn't messed it up already).  It'll all be trial and error and for now its academic as its still sat on the AVO suspension.  The height will need redoing when the Gaz dampers turn up. 

I took the SS (and non magnetic) radiator cover off to paint it.  Strangly it has started to rust since I cleaned the car so it must be a lower grade of SS, but it is not magnetic. 

Anyway while that was off I noticed that the oil cooler leak is coming from the union, result!!!!  tightened that up, and fingers crossed that has saved £80 ish

Here's the newly painted (well stonechip) rad cover



I've also ordered the last of the LPG hose covers so that can be plumbed in. 

MOT is booked for friday afternoon, a waste of 4 days insurance, but on the plus side I can drive it in myself

More to come.

[ozzycat]

good luck for friday