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Busy Weekend
Created on 2008-05-26 08:36:26
Well, it was a busy weekend. I took Friday off to start painting the Spitfire. I was out taping the car by 7:30 am; wipe down and had primer on by 11, sanding by 2, seam sealer by 5; wait an hour and another wipe down, and finally by 6:30 I was shooting paint. I guess there were a couple spots that I didn’t get clean enough because I had a few fish eyes.
Also, around 4 the bonnet came back from the media blaster (he picked it up the day before). So by the time I got a coat of primer on the bonnet, cleaned up, it was 10 pm. A quick bit to eat and I was off to bed. There was a reason for this madness.
Saturday I was out of the house by 5 am, riding in the passenger seat of a 28’ tilt-load on a 3 hour drive to pick up two TR7s. A friend pulled in a big favour at work to get the truck for the day. By 3 pm the drive was filled with my 73 MGBGT, a 76 TR7 parts car and the 77 TR7 restoration project.
The reason we bought the two is because the 77’s body is in great condition; only rust is in the trunk and an inner fender. It has been stripped of paint so it was easy to see the shape of the sills, floors and fenders. The downside of the car is that the transmission tunnel has been cut to make room for a Firebird V6 and auto transmission (now for sale). So the parts car will donate an engine, transmission and pieces of it’s transmission tunnel plus more I’m sure.
So my Spitfire restoration is down to the bonnet; can’t wait to have this completed.
Also, around 4 the bonnet came back from the media blaster (he picked it up the day before). So by the time I got a coat of primer on the bonnet, cleaned up, it was 10 pm. A quick bit to eat and I was off to bed. There was a reason for this madness.
Saturday I was out of the house by 5 am, riding in the passenger seat of a 28’ tilt-load on a 3 hour drive to pick up two TR7s. A friend pulled in a big favour at work to get the truck for the day. By 3 pm the drive was filled with my 73 MGBGT, a 76 TR7 parts car and the 77 TR7 restoration project.
The reason we bought the two is because the 77’s body is in great condition; only rust is in the trunk and an inner fender. It has been stripped of paint so it was easy to see the shape of the sills, floors and fenders. The downside of the car is that the transmission tunnel has been cut to make room for a Firebird V6 and auto transmission (now for sale). So the parts car will donate an engine, transmission and pieces of it’s transmission tunnel plus more I’m sure.
So my Spitfire restoration is down to the bonnet; can’t wait to have this completed.
Summary of Previous Journal Entries
Showing previous 10 journal entries:
| Title | Date | #Pic | #Cmt | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Still Sanding | 2008-05-22 | Still been busy sanding down to the original paint/primer layer, applying filler, and final sanding with 320 grit paper. I will be ready to paint once I have the garage swept and ... | ||
| Sanding | 2008-05-21 | The sanding has begun. I quickly learned that my compressor is too small for my DA sander; it's rated for an average 4 cfm @ 60 psi, but the constant cfm must be much higher; the ... | ||
| Welding Complete! | 2008-04-21 | The weekend saw the A-post closing pieces, sill end cap and a front corner of the driver side floor pan welded in. That brings the welding to an end. I also dug out the grinder a... | ||
| Productive Weekend | 2008-04-14 | Saturday I clamped the inner fender to the rear fender and clamped the assembly to the car. After adjusting the position of the inner fender a few times I was able to get it to fi... | ||
| Spitfire Is Edging Towards Body Panel Completion | 2008-04-10 | Over the weekend I got my door fit straightened out but now I have another problem. When I offer up the sill, its too short, weird. So yesterday I took a chance and... | ||
| Cutting Is Coming To An End | 2008-03-31 | Saturday was a great day to be out in the garage, the sun was out and it was nice and warm. The three pieces of the sill are all gone from the body and the rear fender is gone asi... | ||
| Spitfire Body Restoration | 2008-03-25 | 3 | The Spitfire's body was pretty crsuty it turns out. Here's a summary of my restoration work since I started at Christmas, 2007: Christmas 2007 Started... | |
| Engine Rebuild A Success | 2006-11-16 | 2 | The following is the machine work they performed: clean, magaflux, and resurface the head; install and 3-angle grind 8 hardened valve seats (intake and exhaust seat were all found ... | |
| Std Pistons, 0.020" Rings?! | 2006-05-26 | Finally an update. After having my engine at one shop for five months waiting for them to do the engine machineing I took it to another shop Monday, who promissed it... | ||
| Parts Keep Coming Off | 2006-01-11 | It started out as an engine rebuild. I then figured I might as well paint the engine compartment while the engine was out. About a week ago the grill came out becau... |
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