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Dad hasn't done the welding so!!
I cleaned the crap off one neon 14" wheel,
and a VW/Audi/Skoda 16" wheel with the same bolt pattern.







A coat of straight to rust dark green paint similar shade to the car.
See how they dry and then try them on the car.

Now the paint has dried on the rims















Ok if you haven't figuired it out the photo belows shows how the wheels
were placed for the photo and just need the right viewing point to make
it look like they were actually on the car.

Handy things, circlip pliers.

I have this build running on Practical Performance Car Magazines forum(ppc)
I just received the following email

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Does everybody on that forum get one or did this build invite one?

Dad did a little welding tonight after the rain had stopped and it had dried up a bit.

The Rear Engine/transmission mount.



The Front Engine/transmission mount was bolted up before welding.
not only was it a bit more than inch out, but it was at an little further back
for the new bolt hole. So yes it looks a little messy!



It will be trimmed, filled and sprayed to make it look smart/cleaner,
than it looks now!

While I was outside I thought I'd move the steel rims.
I tilted them and drained the water off only to find where the water
had been they were lighter!!!!!!!





Any idea why this has happened?

Emulsion paint is being sold in cans marked "Geet tough outdoorsy enamel for cars and stuff" at your local B&Q?

The paint hadn't fully cured, and where the water sat, the solvent was not able to escape and the pain may have taken on the moisture. Called blooming.

http://www.mig-welding.co.uk/paint-faults.htm

MW

I have been re-reading a thread on custom gauges
by Steve on neons.org
http://forums.neons.org/viewtopic.php?f ... 09&start=0

His version



I have used it as a guide for layout and with gauges etc in scale.
I came up with this layout, just incase I can't get the neon's to work well with the voyager's systems.



However! I will be using old smith gauges off MG/Triumph/Jaguar
(Pictures below are examples of what I have in a box in the back of the tool shed)





This is a mechanical gauge so would need pipes.
If I fitted it I could use one of the other gauge hole for a time piece/clock.



Below is the Canadian version of the instrument panel it would replace



It's a fallback/backup plan I came up with while nothing on tv!
What do you think?

I havn't done anything with the car over the last few days.
There is no way I'm working with an electric grinder in the pouring rain.
And I suffer with mygrains when it builds up to thunder and lightening,
and there have been very heavy thunder storms there has even been
a couple of twisters near here as well as hail!!
Am I in the UK? as these weather reports sound more like the USA!

I thought it best to dad crack on with his discovery and keep out of his way,
and not do anything to mine
So I spent my birthday, sitting on the sofa with the laptop.
The only person (forgetting automated emails from forums) who remember my
birthday is my mother.
How sad/bad is that?