Re: project 17

Re: project 17 · by gumball on Mon Dec 01, 2008 2:14 pm

We never thought of that.... but thinking about it young'un has trouble polishing his shoes so keeping all that chrome bright and clean would be a massive challange for him... lol!

Re: project 17 · by Ian Nicholls on Mon Dec 01, 2008 6:29 pm

Please accept my apologies for not dropping by. I went to Cromer instead to see the James Bond film "Scrotum of Solace".

Re: project 17 · by gumball on Mon Dec 01, 2008 6:31 pm

Ian Nicholls wrote:Please accept my apologies for not dropping by. I went to Cromer instead to see the James Bond film "Scrotum of Solace".

i wish i had been there too......... Crying or Very sad

Re: project 17 · by **johnnie** on Mon Dec 01, 2008 6:36 pm

Its NOT Bond. Its got no gadgets

Re: project 17 · by gumball on Mon Dec 01, 2008 6:38 pm

WHAT...... Mad

NO GADGETS....... affraid

Now thats just not british......... Shocked

Re: project 17 · by Ian Nicholls on Mon Dec 01, 2008 6:44 pm

There were no stupid gadgets in the books.
Here is an interesting James Bond related fact.
Due to an accountantcy error, Aston Martin lost money on every DB5 sold.
In fact Corgi made more money than Aston Martin with their James Bond DB5 model !

Re: project 17 · by **johnnie** on Mon Dec 01, 2008 6:49 pm

I don't believe that the money loss was confined to the DB5 in those days Ian.

And the gadgets aren't stupid, they make the films.

I thought that Quantity Of Sausage was poor at best. The editing of the action scenes was all over the place and difficult to watch

Re: project 17 · by gumball on Mon Dec 01, 2008 6:54 pm

"Scrotum of Solace"......??

Quantity Of Sausage...???

is there a theme going on here........ affraid

Re: project 17 · by **johnnie** on Mon Dec 01, 2008 6:59 pm

Scrotum of Sausage

Thats team work that is

Re: project 17 · by gumball on Thu Feb 26, 2009 8:00 pm

we had a little play last week and fitted some of the rear bits so we can turn him around and pull the front end a part....

Re: project 17 · by gumball on Sun Mar 01, 2009 7:00 pm

After the rain this morning we had 2 hour spare and set about unpluging everything from the engine bay..

Our idea is to lift the body off the engine and subframe as this is a simple way as we need to strip it all down to clean and panit.

here is the before.........

watch this space and we will post photos as we go....

Re: project 17 · by gumball on Mon Mar 02, 2009 7:03 pm

Its out...........

we had some spare time from 3pm - 6pm so we had a play..

Its all degreased and jet washed off ready for inspection.

I cant wait to pull the engine apart now......

Re: project 17 · by gumball on Thu Mar 05, 2009 9:34 pm

We have started cleaning the engine now and have taken the head off to decoke it....

Re: project 17 · by **johnnie** on Fri Mar 06, 2009 4:57 pm

good work, and with the added bonus of "busty bubbles webcam" when I click on the images.
Its win win the way I see it

Re: project 17 · by gumball on Fri Mar 06, 2009 6:32 pm

Cheers Johnie.....

we had some time this afternoon so started on the front end and soon found so small holes in the sills.... these turned into BIG hole after i attacked them with my hammer and air chisel,

now we need some new sills........

and here is the easy way to get under the front to work on it......