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Lovely job.

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Modified Dolomite Sprint MSO 662P VA485 1973 Mimosa Sprint

Superb job!
its a shame to hide your welding up with paint..

My old MoT tester used to wax lyrical about Ron's 'copperplate' welding as he called it!

Thanks guys, got the front door back on tonight but managed to chip some paint on the lower wing though but the door bottoms need a bit of attention anyway so will sort that with the doors. The paint is really to soft yet but what can you do. Plan to get the back door on over the holiday then a good clean, should have covered the car with a sheet before I started.

With the sill painted I had a little prod behind the rear wheel on the nearside and found a frilly lower edge on the lower wing so out with the welder again. The boot floor is solid apart from the lower wheel well corners . Colour match is very good on the sill so I think I will paint the rear panel up to the coachline and down to the sill losing the paint line on the sill to rear wing line.

Finally painted the rear quarter and the lower doors and lower front wing. Colour match is very good since the car was painted last in 2004. I found after removing the orange peel effect that was on the paint the mix of mostly Brasso and a small amount of cutting paste helped to lessen the effect of the over gloss finish and it blended better with the original weathered paint. Only some minor rust scabs to do now..

Tail pipe look a larger than a rimmer big bore system is that a custom built rear silencer.

Paul

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Normal bore exhaust Paul but with a 3 inch finisher on. I fitted a stainless downpipe and had a custom built stainless exhaust fitted locally. Will put some pictures up later because the exhaust runs under the axle not over it. Been on 13 years now and I think it was only about 30 quid more than the known sports exhaust which in my experience are a real pain in the backside, so well worth it .

The car looks great!

A few pictures of the exhaust Paul. The company that made it was Kingswinford tyres and exhausts near Dudley. I fitted the downpipe though and they custom built the rest. Even I think they would of struggled with the downpipe because of space and that would of made it a lot more expensive I think. It as never been a problem other than changing the hanger bobbins and some of them are poor quality, they struggle bonding metal to rubber these days just like the notorious timing chain tensioners amongst other things. We never used to worry about any of this stuff back in the day.

Your correct about today's rubber its rubbish - nothing like the rubber from the good old day, different how the pipe goes under the axle rather than over the top - be easier to fit if your fitting the pipes whilst lying on your back - oh how I wish for a two post ram in my garage.

I assume there has been no issues with clearence on the axle - no knocking etc

Thanks for the picyies and I love the colour magenta

Paul

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No issues with knocking at all Paul with the exhaust under the axle. Interestingly I got the same company to do my other sprint but a different guy made that one and he did it the conventional way and went over the axle but when you are four up with a bit of load in the boot it does foul on the axle near the handbrake guides but nothing to bad. So I think under is better and to be honest the exhaust note is different going under the axle. Still much better than trying to get some of these sports exhausts to fit because the one I fitted years ago to my white sprint drove me mad and it started to rust on the joining pipes also, never again.