I for one am willing you on,its an amazing project. I have the utmost respect for you and your dedication to it.

i love this thrad its like watching your kids grow up

^^^^ what mercutio said defo like watching ya kids grow up. well done mate u have lots! of support here! keep it goin n keep ya chin up itll be worth it when its done!

Just a teeny weeny little update tonight for you all and only one picture

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Car is now completely prepped and primered inside, outside, engine bay and underside.

They decided it was easier just to paint the lot again rather than try masking areas off
The roof is being done a different colour anyway, and the n/s/r quarter needed painting because of the petrol flap conversion that really only left the o/s/r quarter and a few other smaller sections.
Body shop wanted to do a top job on it as did Custom Fabrications so they both decided to go ahead and do it all anyway and surprise me


Happy days


Should be back at C.F workshop on Tuesday so am going up to get the suspension back in place before we fabricate the front crossmember and adjustable strut rods.
Steering rack subframe and rear subframe have been lightened and strengthened so will get some pics of those before they go back on if possible.

To be continued

I don't know why, but that pic is really nice, shows progress, promise and good things that have been and to come

Good news Rich, glad it's moving along

I want that spray shop and your lude Nice work this is gona be somthing else!

I would sell a leg to be able to do somthing like this!

Short of the stuff you've advertised, i think i might have a nosey at what you've got when i'm there, and anything you can think of before then that i might like or need, just mention it

Here we go then boys and girls.... the latest updates.

First and foremost I want to publicly acknowledge the awesome work carried out on this project by

Andy and Simon @ Custom Fabrications - cage, boot floor work, seam welding, etc etc - you've all seen the pics

and

SGM Racepaint in Banbury - awesome work, going above and beyond to get the results you are about to see. Trust me..that shell took some prep work and the finish in the flesh is just amazing


These pics were from Andy who (along with Simon) has been keeping an eye on things while the car was at SGM

Right, so you've seen the shell in the spray booth all in primer.....well here it is all in primer except for the roof which has now been painted in super smooth deep black




Then on monday and tuesday they finished off the rest of the paintwork.
Here's SGM finishing off the buffing work to the new paintwork.
Aston Martin deep metalic silver, Performance Autoworks Orange, and Custom Fabrications Black.....quite a combination






And now onto the main course. What follows is a selection of the pics I took last night showing some of the highlights and my favourite bits.

I'll not post up all the pictures I took last night (circa 50 of them) but they are all there on my gallery of the build -

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I'll also not go into too much detail describing what the picture shows...for the most part the cage and fabrication works have already been detailed during the write up as I've been going along.
There are some bits to talk about all the same

Arrived at CF workshops, this is the sight that I was greeted with.
To say I was gobsmacked is an understatement. I knew the colours and I had a good idea of how it was going to look but even so I was still speachless for a little while









The engine bay has been smoothed, all factory trim and bolt holes covered with adhesive pads, sealed and painted over - this gives it all a nice smooth finish. It's now up to me to uncover the only holes needed during the build.






Check out the quality of the finish to the paint job on the cage and interior. I didn't think it would be possible for it to look this good but the combination of the fabrication quality and the paint finish is simply stunning.
















Yep, they even did the hard to reach places with just as much care and attention to get the same level of finish.






This pic shows where the C-pillar weight reduction cut-outs have been aluminum taped before the paintwork was done. This just gives a nicer smoother look to the finish. Might be a little hard to spot so have added a "before" shot as well







My photography skills don't do the paintwork the justice it deserves I'm afraid but here's a couple of examples of the orange and the black roof.
I think it's still fairly obvious to see why I'm so bloody pleased with it

You can see the fuel flap is now a distant memory and is now replaced by the custom recessed panel for the aero filler cap














So did it stop there? Body, interior and engine bay all back looking nice and presentable now.
Hmmm what about the wheel arches then....surely a few layers of black stone chip would do the job eh? Well yes but it wouldn't look as nice as this and the stonechip is a bit heavy
Here's some wheel arch pictures







Front upper chassis legs have received the aluminum tape treatment like the C-pillars. This will stop it all filling up with crud thrown up from the road. Here's a before and after pic to show you what I mean








You've probably guess already but they didn't just stop at the wheel arches. What with all the boot floor and rear chassis x-member fabrication plus of course all the seam welding something had to be done to the underside of the car.... Stonechip? ... Nahhhhh












While I was up there at CF we decided it was as good a time as any to get the front subframe and suspension bolted back into the car so that it could come off the spits permanantly. The suspension will need to come back off the car once it's back at PAW workshop as there are lots of plans for that and it all needs overhauling now anyway.
Anyway, at least now it's sat back on it's own front suspension








And then finally (for now), we just couldn't resist the temptation to get the steering column and seat bolted back in place...and then mock up the rear wheel so we could take a sneaky preview of a more complete look.







Can#t tell you how chuffed I am with the way this is turning out... the whole thing started out with the intention of being done "right" but it somehow seems to keep going past my original expectations...and by that I mean everyone that has been involved.... me included


Thanks as usual for looking, any comments, feedback, questions are as usual fully welcomed

Bloody hell

This is for you good sir

i think the guys who have done the work is amzing,

wish i had that sort off money to do what ur doing, i am still doing it though, just going to take me alot longer.

but spent most off the money on the engine so going to do the whole fabrication myself, soon to start the roll cage.

just leave the painting to a expert as it worth it.

i bet ur over the moon with it and its great seeing it all go back together again

argh really wish i could view pics at work lol stil read the write up though. its gonna be one hell of a car. is it next season you'll be racing? would love to see this baby in action

frank

totally speeceless!
the amount of detail thats gone in there is amazing