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Bursting to tell
It's no good, I can't keep my little secret anymore & just bursting to spill the beans so here goes
After a lot of thought, soul searching & weighing things up in my head, my build will be taking a new direction !!?? I have decided to build a new chassis for my Roadster. Some of you may remember that I gave this some though a good while back. A combination of things have bought me to this point. Never was very happy with the amount of light surface rust that accrued duing my first years progress, cut n built the chassis in a few short weeks and promptly lost almost a year due to illness :-( I had the brilliant idea of painting the chassis Red !!, I have grown to loathe this with a passion. No build photos !! Found & joined the forum after my bare bones chassis was built. ( I had no idea of the importance of build photos back then ) After viewing the cars of Ash & Gus at Exeter show, it was evident that my build was not going to turn out as I would like. Nothing to do with " Keeping up with the neighbours ", I just want my build to turn out to the best of my ability & on the buget that I have available ( Sure you all know what I mean ) My second chassis will be built using a Handy Andy Flat Pack Chassis kit Saw them for myself at Stoneleigh show last year & to say that I was well impressed would be an uderstatement. The Handy Andy chassis will save me a huge amount of time, certainly going to save me some energy, a precious commodity for me most of the time. Sorry Andy, quite happy to let you do the graft I anticipate that this new task will not set my build back by a great deal of time. Once my new Handy Andy chassis is fully welded, brackets & all, dependent on the weather i'll either be spray painting with 2K Epoxy mastic ( Prefered ) Or have it all blasted & powder coated. Another major factor is that both of my lads have expressed an interest having my old chassis to build a track day car. I just happen to have enough spare donor parts to make that a reality for them both. That will explain why I have recently been fabricating new components I'll keep you all posted on my progress.
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Fair play Ronnie, I must say I'm already thinking of my next build and mine is barely half way done really. Keep us posted on your progress and that of your boys.
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I know what you mean about making parts for the car then thinking I don't like that too much. I've made my pedals twice so far and am now leaning towards some nice billet ali ones , not that any body's going to see them but at least I'll know whats there.
Whats the brand name of the 2k epoxy mastic I've not heard of that?
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epoxy mastic 121
http://www.rust.co.uk/ thats what i used, car has been on the road a year now with many runs out in the wet/salt and there are no signs of rust what so ever ronnie its old news you told me the other day only kidding why have 1 when you can have two
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That stuff almost seems to be to good to be true. How did you apply it brush roller or spray it?
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Good luck Ronnie, from what I have read about Andys' chassis kit I think you are onto a flyer of a start, hope your lads don't bend your original pride and joy
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i had a feeling you was gonna do that you must of said it three times at least when we was slurpin tea i guess i,m almost surprised it took you this long to go for it and would i be right if i guessed that this version will have a ..... 2.0L redtop in it ????? thats what my money is on anyway cheers les g all the best mate |
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