New Project, (update 8/2/11)

[hotrodder13]

overall plan of the car, 1293cc enigne set up for road race on a rolling road, 5 speed ford box, hydrolic cluch, ford vented disk breaks, mk 2 escort rear axel, lowered rear by 1.5, lowered front by 1 spline not 2 !!! jlh front and rear damper kit, rear radious arm bars, poly bushs, prof paint job, full black interia and new wireing fibreglass everything and i might add sum more stuff


this is going to be updated regularly, 2moro job is strip everying off the car, then turn it on it side and nitromous the floor to get all the paint off, im then going to stone chip it all and buy myself a spray gun and paint it black, its never going to see underseal or waxoil everything has been changed for proper panels, already tryed one of my fibreglass rear wings
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[mmjosh]

looks really good

[Morin]

Good luck with it, to be honest, not my cup of tea as I am not a fan of anything GRP on a minor. Also if you want, I could help you with your spelling as it is quite shocking give me a bell/pm. (not that spelling is important when it comes to mechanical work.)

[hotrodder13]

im use to txt talk so i know its bad , but got everything stripped off the car and pushed over on its side and started to grind the welds down so it looks better

[mr2daniel]

Looking good.I think your Morris is from 1956 or 1957,i can see on the side that the Semaphore Trafficator place is still there,so it was one of the first models after the splitscreen.I have the same.
Good luck with your project.

Dan

[mmjosh]

its could be anything from 1956 to 1962

[Alex'n'Ane]

From another thread on here its been decided it was most likely mid '61 And yea it does look a good project, so much easier and nicer to start from a solid base like this, you just get all the fun parts, enjoy modding it as you wish

[hotrodder13]

it will be an amazin show car when finished heres sum pik updates[frame][/frame][frame][/frame][frame][/frame][frame][/frame][frame][/frame][frame][/frame][frame][/frame][frame][/frame]

[hotrodder13]

getting ready for bare metal respray [frame][/frame][frame][/frame][frame][/frame]

[mmjosh]

whats the white stuff on the floor

[ian.mcdougall]

I think he has put filler over the ground down welds, not sure a good idea as it may start cracking with vibration and fall off personally i would have left as was and brushed seam sealer after priming you can also brush a heavy coat of seam sealer and use a filler card to smooth out the brush marks if that worried about the look/finish underneath

[d_harris]

If it is filler it will very quickly become a rust and muck trap.....

[hotrodder13]

the floor is getting stone chiped and painted, it wornt rust, i hope

[d_harris]

Problem is, if the weld flexes and the filler cracks any paint and stone chip on top of it will crack too leaving a gaping hole which will fill up with crud and promptly rust

[hotrodder13]

it has 2 seam welds holding the panels in and plug welds

[d_harris]

Yes, but if it gets a knock (or you have any especially fat friends) it WILL flex....

[ian.mcdougall]

Yes it will flex that is why I suggested putting seam sealer over primed welded area,as it is flexible and then stone chip should not then crack if applied correctly

[hotrodder13]

never hav friends in the car there all to embarrased cause of how loud it is haha, but just got the roof back to bare metal and should have suspension by weekend so il get sum more piks up then

[hotrodder13]

a little update [frame][/frame][frame][/frame][frame][/frame][frame][/frame][frame][/frame]

[ratrodmog]

Looking nice. Are those front dampers these...http://www.jlhmorrisminors.co.uk/store/ ... roductId=3 ? I prefer the AVO dampers to the Spax but in the pic it shows Spax?