HEEEY! Congratulations, brother!

That looks strong enough.

Interesting problem and my money is on a voltage drop at the starter or solenoid switch. Bad ground or some hidden trouble in one of the big red wires.

Bridget’s been doing something similar: starts up every time in the garage, but if I park her of 20 minutes or a half hour she no turn over. An hour an a half it’s like in the garage: easy go.

I…[Read more]

The truck fender is fiberglass?! How about that!

Progress is made one trouble at a time.

Dammit, man! What rotten luck.

Glad everyone came out of it unharmed even if the vehicles didn’t.

I’ll be looking for another grill shell for you.

Sorry for your troubles.

A good showing then, overall.

I’ve got to naysay, Noel.

Nothing any of us drive would even remotely fill your bill of particulars.

Whether Chevy, Ford or VW-based, if you own a TD kit car now, you HAVE to tinker with it to keep it going. Most of us like it that way but it’s not everyone’s cuppa. If you can’t do basic maintenance and mechanical trouble-shooting you’re just…[Read more]

Bill should just hang an IV bag from the roll cage.

I bought these fold-up jobbies for Bridget. They’re screwed into the side of the tunnel (my side only now, since the passenger side now has fuel lines running there). Folded up it’s invisible against the black carpet. Folded down it works fine and keeps my drink easily reachable, if not as…[Read more]

Nice, man. Good luck tomorrow.

Fan shroud.

Putting a fan over the whole rad is good but the key is getting the air to move through the whole thing–a full shroud and then a way for the air to get out from under the hood. These cars, like most, can develop relatively high pressure under the front. The ope louver idea could work as well.

I made a shroud over the rad and allow…[Read more]

Blog post on the most recent Spyder doings.

https://alongcameaspyder.wordpress.com/2018/08/15/pedals-installed-floating-floor-and-now-the-emblems/

I just start singing the Johnny Cash song, “One Piece at a Time.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws-_syszg84

Here’s 550-0056’s pedals and floor.

http://type550.com/blueprint/restorations-2/fox-spyder-details/fox-spyder-cockpit-2/

Here’s the floor in mine so far:

Wires are going in. Pedals are in. I re-worked them a little with nylon bearings so they won’t wear out so fast.

Tonight I cut the first template for the floating floor.

Also got word from the upholsterer. He’s making progress.

Now you’re having fun.

Tea is apparently indispensable to any British car build process, as we have all learned from watching the Project Binky videos. (You HAVE binge-watched them all, haven’t you?)

Both are correct. Cream and brown is correct for the vast majority of TDs. Black and white went on a some of the later Mark IIs

Now that’s pretty dang cool! Where’s the tea kettle?

Bill, wouldn’t fuel starvation show itself at WOT instead of “mid-range part throttle?”

I think your problem is in the transition from the primary jets to the secondaries and, if I had to bet a waffle breakfast, I’d guess the primaries come in too soon/too rich and there’s your midrange stumble.

That and/or spark curve. Do you know advance at…[Read more]

Well-done, Bill.

And Jack—you’re no slouch either.

But the real kings of “if it don’t fit, re-engineer it” are these guys. Link is to the video of them making the wipers work on their Mini. The hell of it is, they DID fit!