Used to be Blue's Valiant

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Thu May 08, 14 7:13 pm

I had to get Dave 999 to figure out how to work the Astra wiper motor from a toggle switch as it has weird park wiring, a couple of relays sorted that out, cheers Dave! Made up a panel to hold the wiper, horn,washer switches and an oil pressure gauge, this is a temporary fix for now. Well pleased with the results and I saved 2lbs into the bargain...

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Thu May 08, 14 7:20 pm

Loadsa room!

Mossy68 · Post by **Mossy68** » Thu May 08, 14 7:59 pm

It was me who questioned the sale of your old bits Blue.
Now I know why.
Great idea to move it all inboard to create room for working on the engine.
And save a bit of weight !!!

You can always empty the bag for racing as well !

autofetish · Post by **autofetish** » Thu May 08, 14 9:56 pm

very clever

master at work

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Sun May 25, 14 10:28 am

Made a battery tray that also holds the other electrical gubbins I need to have in the boot. The battery is a power vamp gel which has a hefty output for it's size, then there's an alternator cut off solenoid, fuel pump relay and circuit breaker and the master shutoff switch.

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Sun May 25, 14 10:40 am

Front bumper brackets, they weigh 4 fifths of not a great deal so I think that's light enough. Bumper is a very used fibreglass item which will be fine when I've repaired it, it's held on by 4 Dzus fasteners, and the whole shooting match weighs a little under 3 lbs, so that's a 25lb saving over the original item. I also replaced the solid steel wing stays with ally tube.

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Sun May 25, 14 10:58 am

Denso alternator fitted, needed a spacer and a custom offset pulley for everything to line up, Trev can now supply these parts, just need to wire it up now, in fact a general tidy up of under hood wiring is long overdue. Fan, catch can and rad all fitted back in, need to find a suitable top hose next.

dustymopar · Post by **dustymopar** » Sun May 25, 14 5:13 pm

Liking the battery tray very much

What type of paint did you use for your ally rad?

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Sun May 25, 14 5:54 pm

Painted the rad with Eastwood black satin radiator paint from Frost.

comeonsasha · Post by **comeonsasha** » Thu May 29, 14 6:37 pm

Eastwood is my favourite garage paint , whatever it seems to go on it finishes really well, as I am the polar opposite to blue and a horrible bodger everything gets a coat !

shovelheadrob · Post by **shovelheadrob** » Fri May 30, 14 7:52 pm

Nice work Blue, hoped to catch up with you at Gary's, see you (& the car?) at the Mopars.

TW71 · Post by **TW71** » Sat May 31, 14 12:01 am

Nice holy work there Blue.

When its complete and you have weighed it there should be a competition by the MMA members that can guess its weight to the nearest pound!

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Sun Jun 01, 14 10:18 am

Fixed Lexan rear side windows in. All attempts to bend the lexan over the original glass and get it to take a set failed miserably. I resorted to fitting it into the original rubbers and wedging in plastic pegs from the back to force it into the correct profile. I then carefully masked up the frame and the lexan leaving just the gap where the rubbers and window whiskers are, I filled that with black mastic and smoothed it off before removing the tape. I left it a couple of days then removed the pegs, it's fixed and retained it's shape so job done.

Mossy68 · Post by **Mossy68** » Sun Jun 01, 14 10:40 am

Nice work Blue.
How much glass will be replaced by Lexan ?
I imagine you could do all apart from front screen ?

Bozwell · Post by **Bozwell** » Sun Jun 01, 14 11:04 am

small stuff you can do in the oven. i think 160 (you will need to experiment as too high the lexan will bubble) degrees is the temprature it will go soft.

i did the S800 rear screen by just bolting a flat sheet to the tailgate and it took the natural shape.

lots of nut serts and countersunk allen bolts. doesn't cost much with ebay stuff.

i'm still waiting for your pictures of the hollowed out bolts and hollow bolt heads to save some more weight

great work so far