The Triumph Dolomite Club - Discussion Forum

have you made up your mind on the colour yet at the speed your going im sure you could do a couple more before the shows start

sprint1976 wrote:have you made up your mind on the colour yet

No not yet. Although triton green is the leader!

seems like lots of progress today!

it always does when you can see a big difference....



new front inner panel......purchased from our friends at riimmer brothers!



i hate to think how much MIG wire there is in this shell



shiny



look what i have....



and this (although the bottom one is a pattern panel....which causes issues!)



like this....the front edge is level but there (was) an inch and a half gap between the *lower eyebrow* and the inner front panel. completely the wrong shape!



cut it off.....





weld it back on with an extra flange....



and the other side



exciting stuff!







will hopefully have more big bits attached tomorrow!

good evening!

a big panel was welded on today . very pleased with progress

had to cut this piece off as it really really wasnt going to fit.....the merits of pattern panels...



here it is welded in




chin spoiler fits quite well



more plug welding....



these fit really well! although we had to cut the pattern panel into one big piece and FIVE smaller pieces to make it fit



tadaaaaa








lastly.....why does the headlight support construction have to be so darn complicated?

I would have said do the top headlight support and eyebrow and wing top repairs before doing the front panel...

but what do I know....

Top job....and good to see this area under such total reassembly close to how it might have been done back in the day...

Jonners

We had this discussion and we came to the conclusion that its swings and roundabouts so we decided to stick it on and go from there!

Skilled metal working and plug welding, much admiration, wish I could weld like that

MalcGE wrote:Skilled metal working and plug welding, much admiration, wish I could weld like that

Thanks

I'll tell Alan you said so

not too much progress recently. Alan has another job on so i have been doing some tidying up of welds and such.

a few pictures for you to look at

tidied up top ledge of sill/door bottom



and bits of the front panel



bracketry



im especially proud of this! fits incredibly well!



more in a couple of days

Just to let all 'lazerus' fans know that he will be back from a protracted Birthday celebration tonight so business will resume as soon as possible.

Lazerus' Mum

I can get back to being a bad influence on Dolomite related things then!

He is in the car park of the services on junction 2 of the M42 having a break before he collects some GRP tunnels

evening loyal followers!

i bring bearing gifts in the form of pictures

firstly, we fitted the roll cage.

this involved making some rather nifty feet for the main hoop....



and some gentle tweaking with one of Alans many impressive tools...



front cage feet (under the dash)



plate in the inner wheelarch



then we filled the aerial hole up

Today I have been doing some cardboard engineering!

We have cut the flange off my shell so I needed to know what shape it is.

So I used the front of VA6 as a guide

Nifty as those main hoop feet are, I'm not convinced they're big enough.

Each mounting foot must be attached by at least three bolts, minimum M8 150 grade 8.8, on a steel reinforcement plate at least 3mm thick and of at least 120cm2 area which is welded to the bodyshell (see drawings K13 to K18).

Though the backstay ones (to the rear arches) only need to be 60cm2

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