Winter Driving....
Winter Driving....
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robm3

Original Poster:

4,930 posts

256 months

Wednesday 7th January 2009
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Used mine a lot over Christmas, had fun on the snow and ice and today took it into one of my offices today, 1.45mins on the M6 and M1 to Milton Keynes in the dark was fun (not) but the CEO appreciated the 'scare drive' at lunch today...



Road Grime and Salt.....


highflyer

1,901 posts

255 months

Wednesday 7th January 2009
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Nice to see somebody actually using there car, no garage queen there then !!
I was also out the weekend taking it easy, but still great fun.
Bet you are glad you kept the car now ?

Edited by highflyer on Wednesday 7th January 16:33

GTR-TT

442 posts

287 months

Wednesday 7th January 2009
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Very Cool smile

Just remember that alu rivets and panels in combination with mild steel and salty water isn't the best combo.

robm3

Original Poster:

4,930 posts

256 months

Wednesday 7th January 2009
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And the downside???

4x4 on fire Southbound M1 (with LPG tanks) closed the motorway on my way home...

So sat here for 45 minutes, GTR didn't miss a beat though smile


suntiger1965

3,547 posts

231 months

Wednesday 7th January 2009
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dont go too mad, you want to be able to use it again rather than find a pile of bits in the centre of the garage c/o Mr Salt........ How many builders protect the Alloy sheeting??...I know GTRSimon had his anodized

Must say nice to see it being used though..I would probably do the same if i had one

Dom

Mjpmark

746 posts

213 months

Wednesday 7th January 2009
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Come on Rob, thats childs play compared to Monday Night!

Ive got the video file for you, flames and all.

Ill try and send it over to you via email.

MJP

738 driver

1,202 posts

222 months

Wednesday 7th January 2009
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Hmm yes steel and ally.....what are those specialist rivets called Hackin? are they monel or something similar?

robm3

Original Poster:

4,930 posts

256 months

Wednesday 7th January 2009
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Mjpmark said:
Come on Rob, thats childs play compared to Monday Night!

Ive got the video file for you, flames and all.

Ill try and send it over to you via email.

MJP
Mark, post it up to You Tube if you can.

Was that the second run, taking your fiancee for a drive or the final one?
Either way the downwards road was icy so no chance for heroics but cool if someone finally captured the 'Flames'
(I think though you may have video evidence of me taking a little toooo long to tighten the shoulder/chest straps on your lovely Fiancee though smile !)

magpie215

5,017 posts

218 months

Thursday 8th January 2009
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Ahhh V6 ULT

I actually went to ultima with the original owner of that car to help load the unbuilt chassis onto a trailer at the factory for the trip up to Blackpool.

Was also around for the build too when it had the original V6 cosworth engine installed beleive it goes very well on the vette engine.

Nice to see it getting some use :-)

robm3

Original Poster:

4,930 posts

256 months

Friday 9th January 2009
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magpie215 said:
Ahhh V6 ULT

I actually went to ultima with the original owner of that car to help load the unbuilt chassis onto a trailer at the factory for the trip up to Blackpool.

Was also around for the build too when it had the original V6 cosworth engine installed beleive it goes very well on the vette engine.

Nice to see it getting some use :-)
It's a real shame what happened to the original owner, i've misplaced his details (he'd asked me to keep in touch about the car - his treasure) but please tell him it's being used extensively and just had 5K's worth of work done on it by the Factory (new brakes, suspension, bits n bobs etc..).

It's now nicely sorted...



Edited by robm3 on Friday 9th January 09:17

738 driver

1,202 posts

222 months

Friday 9th January 2009
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Used to see your motor in the car parks at BPL airport.....dont personally know the previous keeper though. I was told he was a heli driver or instructor for one of the operators.....I'll bet that was at least 4 years ago now?

magpie215

5,017 posts

218 months

Friday 9th January 2009
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738 driver

The original owner and builder of v6 ult is a licensed aircraft engineer.

He basically had to give up the car due to medical reasons...real shame.

He used to take it to le mans and I went one year was a great experience to be a passenger blasting down the mulsanne<sp> straight in the ultima :-)

hackin'n'bashin

45 posts

213 months

Friday 9th January 2009
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oooh, sorry, just realised i was called in!!

Yeah, we used to use monel metal rivets to keep dissimilar metal corrosion to a minium, also used to use a jointing compound, raf designation jc50 i think, we all called it yak st, or there's another variety we called smurf st. I'll chase them up, might be an advantage in our weather!!

738 driver

1,202 posts

222 months

Friday 9th January 2009
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Cheers Adam,
I think I have some 1/8th, blind, Monel pop-rivets..... they are real hard little things, the drill can scate all over them when you try to remove them!
Got em when we restored an Auster for the ally front skin to mild steel firewall joint.

Hmm might be good to do the lower section/exterior panelling with?

Ta.

hackin'n'bashin

45 posts

213 months

Friday 9th January 2009
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here's the jointing compound

http://www.lasaero.com/article/a-jointing-compound

this is the yak st, doesn't set.

I'll look for the rivets and other (slightly better) compound.

Might help us new builders

hackin'n'bashin

45 posts

213 months

Friday 9th January 2009
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Here's the smurf st.

http://secure.silmid.com/ENG/product/SH57800250/SURF/Surface%20Treatments/Jointing%20Compounds/CELLOSEAL%20QH%20JC11%20BLUE%20250ML%20PPG-DTD900-4549

both pretty good if used right, just the rivets to find!!

hackin'n'bashin

45 posts

213 months

Friday 9th January 2009
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monel blind rivets,

http://marinestore.co.uk/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Sc...

although ours were anodised purple too, I didn't use them that much, more huck-bolts and jo-bolts. wings are kinda hard to nail back together!!

H'n'S

Adam

Steve_D

13,802 posts

287 months

Friday 9th January 2009
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Duralac is used by UK Royal Navy for dis-similar metal joints.

Bloody stuff gets everywhere.

Steve

hackin'n'bashin

45 posts

213 months

Friday 9th January 2009
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http://secure.silmid.com/ENG/product/SH57800250/

link to smurf st (celloseal)

Yeah, the JC number quoted next to the trade name is actually the MOD name of the product (stands for joint compound, us forces are a bit slow sometimes)

I'm ex raf, I used both of them a lot, celloseal sets quite hard usedful if in the open air, as in our earth bonds, but JC5C (yellow one!) stays wet and forms a good barrier, useful for blind rivets