Chassis Section

A mate who was going to Newbury Races last week collected the chassis front repair section I bought on e-Bay from Reading and brought it round on Wednesday.

In perfect, refurbished condition and well worth the £100. Gives me further impetus to remove the entire chassis for a proper tarting up.  However, I spotted a complete MkII chassis with optional Rotoflex attachments (making it a MkIII) on Facebook Market for £800 - already sandblasted and primed. Worth considering - may try an offer in the region of £500, expecting to settle somewhere in-between. 

The question on my lips now is whether the entire bodyshell needs sandblasting. I thought it had received only two coats of paint in its time - originally green and then yellow - but it's now obvious that it spent some time as white before it went yellow. However, given it's only paint and the metal is sound, chemicals and a bit of graft will probably be a lot cheaper.

I took delivery of my Röhr gasless MIG welding machine last Tuesday and, of all the luck, Lidl were doing a good deal on flux-cored MIG welding wire - I'll soon find out if it's crap. Don't be fooled by the German sounding name of Röhr - it's Chinese, with all the normal lack of instructions you'd expect. Spent hours trying to feed the wire into it, but got there in the end and had a little play with it. Relatively simple to use, but need a bit of practice on some spare 1.2mm mild steel.

There's numbered a diagram showing all the parts, but absolutely nothing on operating it.

When it comes to GT6 parts, I came across Rimmer Brothers, who specialise in parts for certain classic cars. They have a large range of GT6 parts - certainly sufficient for my needs, if I can't find good, second hand parts.

Given the previous owner had made plans to convert the car to electronic fuel injection, and had bought some of the kit, I was looking at a full EFI kit online yesterday. A whopping £1,750 for an extra 25 BHP. Can't see the point, especially when it includes a plethora of sensors, which is asking for trouble when they go wrong. 

I much prefer the Mk1 eyeball and Mk1 ear for detecting engine issues, rather than a load of sensors which, in my experience, usually go wrong well before the item they're monitoring. You can easily spend £300 replacing a 50p sensor on a modern car, and invariably do. If a couple of Strombergs are giving some gyp, it's a relatively easy task to stop by the roadside and retune them.

Looking at images of GT6s, I think a Webasto sunroof is going to be a must. The GT6 is renowned for being hot on the inside.

That said, there is very efficient cockpit sound and heat insulation matting available now that wasn't available in 1971. However, the Webasto is itself very iconic and I do love them, having had them in several MGB GTs I owned.

What idiot came up with purple for a GT6? They used some very dubious colours in the 60s and 70s. While looking for an example of an opalescent golden sand GT6 on the interweb (without success), I came across a rather nice looking MGC GT in that colour.

I'm definitely going for opalescent golden sand.