The twin engined racer was one of the reasons I joined up. The thread seems to be gone now.
Woulb be nice to see it again.
Also enjoying this Rover.
Have you tried the latest wheels on yet?
Cheers! The Escort got worked on the other week so it's still in the game, one of these days when I'm at a milestone with the project I'll resurrect the thread or start a new one for it
Thanks guys, we're moving forward slowly but surely.
Had a good afternoon on the Rover yesterday. While I'm waiting on welding supplies I carried on with the fuel tank to begin with, in an attempt to actually finish one job before starting another.
(Phone + poor lighting = Excuse the poor picture quality ahead)
I'd determined that the Scimitar tank would fit, so it was time to take the old tank out:
And then line the new one up central and mark where the fuel lines go.
The shape of the tank really is bang on! I'm glad I remembered what tank it was that was this shape because if I hadn't seen a Scimitar tank before I would have ended up wasting a lot of time making one that's pretty much exactly like it!!
I took a bit off the length of the fuel pipes and then market where the fuel pipe will run.
Question: The position of the fuel pipes on this scimitar tank seem quite high up. The tank is at the same orientation as it was in the Scimitar, so I can only guess the outlet pipe is angled down inside to draw a little closer to the bottom, as they're over half way up the tank?
Anyway I thought if it worked for a Scimmy it will work for the Rover, so I found a couple of grommits:
And I'll mount the electric pump behind there tomorrow.
I cut the fuel filler pipe off as it's no good to me there. I'll add that to the list of things that need welding up.
I need to mount it somewhere here:
And I'll have my filler cap in the stock Rover location, the P6 has a nice filler but I quite fancy a Le Mans domed ally type. I'll find a nice old one hopefully.
After I'd had all the stale fuel smell I could take (the only smell I've known P6's to have!) I moved on to something else.
I'd been torn over the idea of cutting the bottom half of the rear end bodywork down for a while. I like the way a chop looks and I'm trying to get as much weight out of this car as possible so it makes sense. But I also kind of like the profile of the rear quarters as well, and the P6 is a relatively low-slung body which might look a bit odd chopped down.
In the end I decided to compromise and just chop down the rear panel like the front is, and leave the rear quarters alone.
I drilled out the rusty screws and marked an inch like it is at the front.
There's hardly any weight saving in it, not like the front. But at least it makes the car look higher!
Then while the bumper was off I decided to get rid of some of the furniture to clean things up a bit.
Think that's better. I had some nice little dome number plate lights off a Datsun or something but I seem to have lost them. I'll put something there though to replace the big old Lucas jobbie.
They do make a nice bicycle headlight though
There's always a use for something, or that's what I keep telling myself as I stare at stacks of tat!
The bumper is bent out of shape but I won't take any battle scars away from it. Someone managed to give it a new battle scar by denting the bonnet when it was being moved recently. I think it was being towed by the forklift which wasn't going to end well with no steering box or brakes! The radiator got hit also but doesn't seem to be compromised. A dent in the bonnet doesn't look out of place but I was intending to trim and re-profile the leading edge of the bonnet because it's the one part of the P6 design I don't get on with.
Obviously I'll save that sort of thing for much later in its progress, my aim is just to get the thing on the road at the moment.
I've got another day on it tomorrow so I'll see what I can get done!