1967 Honda S800 F20c

[Bozwell]

any sensible suggestions are welcome. i have plenty of ideas but i'm not worrying about it too much at present as the main objective is to get the mechanical and body part of the project nearer completion.

the only bit of rot




door skins fitting back onto the frames

[Bozwell]

thanks to V8ian i now have a Cortina P100 axle to play with. sadly the pigshead is unusable as the Capri LSD wont fit so the plan is to use a Capri pigshead with the P100 tubes and brakes. the huge 10 inch drums just fit under the 13inch wheels and will be easily converted to 5x130 from the 5x127 P100pcd  . they will be more than adaquate for the rear brakes so i wont bother trying to fit rear discs. the axle will be plenty strong enough to not worry about it breaking.

i have now purchased a tow vehicle for the S800



thought it'll make a more interesting tow car

it has sat for over 20 years and just in from California. i'll need to restore and modify it a little, plus get it road regestered. plan is if i break the S800 i can jump in the tow vehicle and still have some fun

[Paul Y]

Is that the 'Cuda that came from Ray? Looks to be in fairly good order.

As for the S800 ... Coming along nicely.

P.

[79cord]

Glad to hear the next toy has finally arrived to keep the baby company.

[Bozwell]

Aug 4, 2013 9:01:06 GMT Paul Y said:

Is that the 'Cuda that came from Ray? Looks to be in fairly good order.

it is and yes its quite solid. it was also a lot cheaper than the advert suggested

given it a liberal coating of Gibbs brand to keep the moisture at bay until it's painted. i just want to go through everything to rebush, clean and paint.

[Bozwell]

due to having two projects and curse word weather means i have done very little to the S800 but i'm still plodding through the job list (which changes as i go along)

[jpsmit]

looks like it was always there!

[Bozwell]

hopefully it'll fool a lot of people

[grizz]

Still watching and enjoying.

Bulge looks great.

[Bozwell]

iv'e had a set of Porsche wheels for a long time as they have the same PCD as the S800 but iv'e never been sure how to mount them without having special wheel nuts made.





they only cost me £100. they are 15x6 and with the 195/45x15 low profile tyres they are the same rolling radius as 185/60x13. they will be used as track wheels as i don't want to damage the 13 inch wheels, they are easily worth £1000 and almost irriplacable.

iv'e had a set of Porsche 14x1.5 thread sized aluminium wheel nuts kicking around for ages. recently iv'e been measuring up as i will be changing the wheel studs to a larger diameter from 10x1.5 to 12x1.5 for a bit more strength. then i had a brain wave.

machine the ball end off the Porsche nuts and use them as spacers. don't know why i didn't think of it before.




just 19 more to do


the wheels will need a tiny amount drilling out for the shanked nut to go through but it'll locate perfectly and means a cheap set of alloys for track use

the spacer is made from aluminium (Porsche wheel nuts are ally and very light) so will still need the washer as a load spreader.

the spacer sits flush in the wheel so it looks like there is just the nut and washer holding the wheel on





the cookie cutters are not that pretty but readily available and cheap. will be keeping a look out for some prettier 15inch porsche wheels though.

[fer4l]

Lovely

[Bozwell]

you'll be glad to hear i am finally getting on with some work on the S800. selling the NOS engine block means i have a few quid to spare on the project so i have been ordering loads of little bits from ebay.

at the moment i am modifyng the Kirky seats for ease of getting in and out of the car (i'm not a young chap anymore) amd tidying up the fibreglass front end. plan is to get the shell painted in the near future.

i'm waiting for new seals for the master cylinders and i was quite happy to see that they have been relined with stainless inserts and are in very good condition.

time wise the plan is to get the S800 done by 2017. reason is the car will be 50 years old and i'll have owned it for 10 years. doesn't time fly when your having fun






master cylinders are going to be closed in to keep heat away as the exhaust system is now that side. the tube in the bulkhead is for heat, instead of a heater it'll get heat straight from the exhaust manifold.





the front end isn't quite the right shape so the grille doesn't fit. mission is to make it fit.



bit more fibrglassing to fill the bottom





but looks much better with a proper grill.

this is how it looked when i first got it

[HoTWire]

Lovely stuff.. really pleased to see an update on this ... very much looking forward to seeing it out and about one day

[PhoenixCapri]

Now this is the kind of build I love, bonnet is very nice - looking forward to seeing more

[Bozwell]

the grill fits much better. it isn't quite fitted as a metal fronted car as i have it overlapping the nose but that was the tidiest way i could fit it to this front end. as you can see to the right of the grill the headlamps were never fitted very well either. more time consuming work to align and sort the headlamp bowls to fit properly.







hopefully i
should be able to refit the front end permanantly by next weekend

[Clement]

So, what's up with this?? It's a most ambitious project but certainly in good hands!

[Bozwell]

Cheers.

i'm still on bodywork making the chrome trims and other little bits fit before it's painted. doesn't really look any different in pictures.

then the last part of the bodywork puzzle is making the doors fit better. they have fibrglass skins that didn't fit very well leaving large panel gaps.

got these for the front brakes. radial mount four pot Wilwoods. 



they only cost £100 each. fit under the 13 inch wheels and easy to mount once the adapter plate has been made (i made a wooden one to mock up for dimentions)

[Bozwell]

the front end is now permenantly fitted





hopefully iv'e done a better job of bridging the gap than the last chap did in the 70's. it had huge cracks where the two different materials were butt joined. iv'e overlapped and drilled pegging holes for the fibregalss to grip through.

next job is now the doors. they had huge gaps at the front you could get your finger through so now i have to mock up the doors and add fibreglass to fill the gap.



will probably add the material to the body rather than the door.

another job i want to do is change the screen to a plastic screen. one to save weight up high and two because i feel the original screen looks too large for the car. i'll be making a mould for the screen and with a different style rubber it will be smaller.

i wouldn't reccomend a plastic screen for a road car but since mine will be mainly a track car it wont hurt.







think iv'e resigned myself to the fact the doors are never going to fit well.

will be too much work to make the panel gaps smaller and the bonnet has quite large gaps anyway.






will build up a little around the top of the door though as that does look a little untidy



still hoping to have the car painted by the end of the year

[nmretro]

Nice project. I think too often we judge panel gaps by what we see on modern cars, even the worst new crapcans have very good and small panel gaps. If you look at cars from the 60s and 70s, not so much. As long as the gaps are even. Glad you are keeping it Honda, can't wait to see that S2000 with Webers.

[Bozwell]

before i finally restick the door skins on i needed to make a new door panel. reason being the old ones are no good and i have actually modified the drivers door for a little more shoulder clearence



then using part of the old door panel i made a new one



just need to cover it in vinyl then make a new one for the passanger side.