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A new Master Cylinder arrived today….

 

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And a clutch master as well…

 

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A bit more paint……

 

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All mounted up…..

 

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Needed a 1 inch clutch slave and found a Triumph 2000 one at a great price.

 

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A bit of a slow week stuck at home isolating with the bloody ‘rona and lacking motivation.

Managed to finish off mounting the brake plumbing.

 

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I’ve been taking second glances at the front sway-bar setup, the top mount of the dropper arm is shared by the front bumper mounts and it’s not ideal as there is some movement there when the suspension is working. In its defense the setup has covered literally hundreds of thousands of km and it’s easy to forget I made this stuff in the early 80’s with only rudimentary hand tools.

 

 

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Long term plan once Rigamortice is back on the road is to put some of my race car suspension tuning experience toward seeing how well I can get the old girl to go around corners – could be a bit of a laugh on a good bit of open road! I’ll probably need the sway bar to be adjustable so the big question is do I do it now?

Mounted the front grill surround to check how much room I’ll have to play with having lowered the front end – still no clearance issues I can see.

 

 

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The radiator is in pretty bad shape and I haven’t a clue what car it originally came from.

 

 

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Anyone with any ideas of where I can find a 400mm x 600mm radiator please let me know, I’d prefer something old-school as plan B (fabricated aluminum) could look out of place.

 

https://oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/49843-sr2%E2%80%99s-1947-vauxhall-%E2%80%9Crigamortice%E2%80%9D-discussion-thread/

 

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Rigamortice has asked me to remind you all that “insipid green” was actually an OEM Vauxhall color ….

 

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I’ve also been asked to point out that they were and still are considered by discerning motorists to be a “chick magnet”. Whatever the *** that means! ............. facepalm.

 

 

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Pulled the grill out of the nose cone to figure out how to get a big enough radiator in there.

 

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There’s a reasonable amount of extra height available if  I start cutting out sheet metal but at only 400mm wide it’s going to hard to find something to fit.

 

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Thought I’d change the lower grill brace mount to keep it out of the way.

 

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Bent up a piece of flat……

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And welded it in place.

 

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Made the call that because I’ll be building up a 2nd bigger and more highly tuned motor I really need to make sure I have adequate cooling capacity. After failing abysmally to find anything that would fit I’ve made the call to have something custom made.

 

 

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