I've a few things on the go a the moment but I'm doing it slowly.
Need to rethread the rose joints on the rear radius arms up to 5/8" thread rose joints from 1/2" plus a bit of beefing up in the cross parts of the tubing. So both sets of axles are off. Given that 5/8" is a quarter increase in diameter over 1/2" that's quite a bit up in strength. The problem I had was stress fractures running down the v in the threads of the rose joints. Not what you want on your axle! Rolled threads would have been better....
I'm fabricating a new bonnet for the new KAD head as the pulleys are more central than the old head. Same profile as before but with a smaller cam pulley bump. I see the mk4 also has a bonnet bump so I'm ok with that. Plenty of cars seem to have them when I look around. I also need to put the grp bonnet gutter in the body I trimmed off for the old head....so I will copy it off the coupe.
I seem to be doing a lot of moulding and grp work at the moment, having just duplicated a pair of rudder blades for a yacht so quite a mission critical part
(easy as chips to do though). Hot glue gun, cartridge paper, parcel tape and plasticene are your friend here. The rudders used stainless inner stiffeners with closed cell foam section to fill out (and create buoyancy). Bonded together with a flexible bonding adhesive called crestomer. (Which I use for the inner panels of the Midas bonnet to avoid sagging). They use it to bond yachts hulls to decks so I know it's up to the job.
Major Tip number 1 for GRP moulding. Been there, got the t-shirt and tears. Don't bother with wax. Unless your doing loads of something just use PVA release and cut back with standard farecla 3G. You get same finish...just a guaranteed release. Just more polishing elbow grease. You can get release in matt and smooth finish.
I need to plumb in a return line to the tank for the fuel line for the throttle bodies and i need to swap over the 7 port head engine for the Kad engine which has been back on the bench too long.
The coupe needs a touch of freshening up as the obligatory micro blisters are back (quite the norm on painted grp objects subjected to our wonderful uk weather). Trim is needing a do over too as I want to make a nicer dash to suit the dididash.
Lots to do
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