Finished the welding on the Spitfire :)

"BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires" (biturbo228) 03/27/2015 at 19:10 • Filed to: Spit6

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One fully seam-welded chassis. I've also added in some little gussets on one of the crossmembers, just because :) might add some more to the rest of the crossmembers too, but I was concerned about fouling components.

My alloy water pump housing arrived as well. 1.1kg vs ~2.5kg for the cast iron one :)

Cé hé sin > BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires 03/27/2015 at 19:15

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Every 1.4 kg helps. You can use this for Waxoyling it...

BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires > Cé hé sin 03/27/2015 at 19:33

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Chassis shouldn't need it :) I'll be galvanising it soon, although that adds ~10kg so I've heard so yeah, every little helps...

Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney > BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires 03/27/2015 at 22:35

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Yes! Glad to see you're still making progress.

BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires > Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney 03/28/2015 at 04:28

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Yep, albeit slowly at the moment. The Jaaag and the Citroen are demanding my attention at the moment. Both are very nearly done then I can crack on properly with this :)

Saying that, next thing I need to do is fix up and sell my old Vauxhall Corsa (first car for me and a number of my family) and a Honda Stream (my Grandad's old car) so I can afford to have the chassis chemical-stripped and galvanised :)

Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney > BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires 03/28/2015 at 17:53

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Is the Jaaaaaaaag's manual swap completely done?!

BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires > Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney 03/30/2015 at 04:13

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Unfortunately not :S the car I was doing that on got crushed by a tree so I bought one that was already a manual :)

Old car:

New car:

I've been swapping a powerlock diff into it and renewing the suspension bushes :)

Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney > BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires 03/30/2015 at 09:22

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On one hand: nooooooooooooooo! On the other hand: awesome!