Panel beating 4.

After we came out of the rusty wilderness of the front end, we moved on to the floors. Although the floors were in an acceptable condition for the first glance, after the sand blasting we found many problems and low quality repairs, soo we finaly concluded in replacing each floors and inner and outter sills, leaving only the tunnel in place. This not only enabled us to treat the floor, but also to open up all the lower closed sections of the body to clean all the rust away.

Mr. Flintstone was quite statisfied with our progress on his vehicle.

New subframe mount was needed.

Closed sections painted with rust preventive primer.

Wherever it was possible we used spot velding for factory look.

Panel beating 3.

First we handle the front end. We have to fix the results of a crash, and the usual rust problems (under the shock absorber mounts, at the wing top corners, a-post outter covers etc. Some of thoose are not even visible from the outside, but with some experience now, we know what to look for and where to start looking. With the finished front end, we go for the floor and sills now.

Meanwhile some items came back from the plater and the powder coater.

The thing that simply does not exist...

Genuine thick flange Cooper S block, EN40B crankshaft and proper S con rods. All std size!!! The crankshaft only needs a polish and can be kept std with new bearings. The block have been honed for race use, thus piston-bore clearance is too much for road use now. It needs to be rebored to 1st oversize. Also worth to menshion the metalastic crank damper - nice period addition.

Cross drilled by the factory...

The engine had very little use. It is nearly rust free inside.

Another neuragic point is the cone of the clutch - perfect in this occasion.

Panels arrived