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Not today, but this month at least (it's a gradual process with a ton of paperwork):
Bought Her Ladyship her first garage. Cost only about US$30,000, and came with a free 336 m2 (3,616 sq.ft.) traditional farmhouse on 877 m2 (9,550 sq. ft.) of land. Or was the house the thing I paid for, and the garage came free? Anyway, it's been empty for about 15 years so will need some renovations - that'll be interesting. Lady Mary's country house.
Oh, and this is the house that came with it: In the snow. Duh. Garage and storehouse to the left, house in the middle right.
Main room with massive beams and a hook for the open hearth.
Those Japanese homes are awesome. Worthless (as IIRC homes are worth basically nothing after about 20 years) but so much craftmanship goes into building them...
Looks good! I'm just getting ideas together for my own refurb on my pre-HE. What finish is that on the injector clamps and throttle pedestal etc? Is just wire-brushed and polished? Or plated? Also the inlet manifolds and air-con pipes. Painted or just bead-blasted?
Looks good! I'm just getting ideas together for my own refurb on my pre-HE. What finish is that on the injector clamps and throttle pedestal etc? Is just wire-brushed and polished? Or plated? Also the inlet manifolds and air-con pipes. Painted or just bead-blasted?
Cheers
Paul
No wiring brushing. They were galvanized. Factory finish is cadmium plated. Cadmium isn't allowed nowadays due to cancer reasons. There are several colours possible. Blue, silver and yellow. Yellow is as close to original as possible...
I bought a second XJ-S. This one, however, is a 1:43 scale model kit. I plan on making it into a model of my car. I will need to create some Starfish wheels, the kit came with Kents. Time to fire up the 3D printer. Should be a fun winter project while the 1:1 car is put away.
not much going on due to the Covid crap and winter so the Jag and the Impala are stuck in the garage for the winter. made a custom gearshift knob for the Jag. made from wood then painted with a walnut pattern. copied the stylized Jaguar sketch from the internet and capped it with a glass dome from the craft store. drilled a 7/16" hole in the base and threaded it onto the lever. fits tight so i don't need the set screw.
Dropped the front and rear subframes over the weekend.
I was clever enough to forget that I'd left a hole in the diff when I took the speedo sensor out. When I tipped the subframe over to tackle the shocks, the oil dropped everywhere. Only this wasn't oil any more - it was sticky as all ****. Nastiest cleanup job I've had since I went into the workshop, all full of optimism and clean clothes and spare money
There's very little left on the Wolf but metal now! Time to start thinking about who I can find to paint it. Suggestions in the London area welcome.
I've been in agonies of indecision between Morocco Red and a custom deep black cherry candy job. Either way, I have reached a decision on coachlines: leaving them off. The facelift's lines are so sinuous, a coachline seems like an insult.
Finally got my lazy a** out and bought decent 2-layer fuel hoses for trunk/fuel tank project. Also bought paint for rear screen frame corners.
Spring is here before you even notice and both my summer cars are not ready. (currently winter is holding us with its cold and snowy hands)
D'oh, my signature got lost somehow, have chucked one back together.
The model _should_ show below, but in case not, a '94 6.0 coupé.
I'm in London, FWIW, and keen for any links for suppliers of rubber perishables. I do know about SNG Barrett and they're reasonable for some things, but they don't have everything. Certainly not keen to pay £200 x2 for oil cooler hoses, for example! So I think I'll get those made up, if I can.
If you haven't disconnected the oil cooler hoses at the cooler end already, be really careful. They are very prone to seizing (and leaking) at the cooler connection end and then destroying the cooler when you finally get them to turn.
Ha, I spent a month trying to get those hoses off cleanly, during which I'm afraid I bent the alu cooler so that's probably f**ked. In the end I had mates helping to pull the engine and they were standing around watching me bang like an ape, so I cut through the hoses rather than send them home.
So, already boned on that front. But I doubt those were ever coming undone. And I blowtorched teh fittings so much I probably ruined the alu threads. And I don't really want to put old rubber back on the car.
In other news, the little steering cooler also snapped without prompting. Those are £300 from SNG Barrett, FML.
Given that I am now down parts listed at £1100 from SNG, I'm thinking an aftermarket oil cooler and custom hoses. It'll still be £800, probably, but I'll have peace of mind. And if I find someone who makes up hoses, I'll get the steering hoses, fuel hoses, basically the lot done. I know some of them need higher-pressure fittings etc etc but if I can get one shop to do the lot, I'll at least save some of my time.
I was anyway going to fit an alu radiator - seems silly not to at this point - and I'm fitting an entire aftermarket AC system, so this is just one drop in the ocean.
On the upside, the subframes seem reasonably rust-free! Hopefully they just need a clean and repaint.
Last edited by fried_hippies; Feb 1, 2021 at 01:42 PM.
On that note, you can bend pipe at home with a £45 tool and you'll know it fits - how hard is it exactly to fit the fitting where the hoses connect to the block? It would be great to just buy lengths of PTFE hose or whatever and just make the hoses myself. Anyone here done that?
