Iain's Yellow 2.5 Spitfire
Came to us a while ago for full rebuild.
The car was stripped to bare shell and chassis and a new chassis was obviously needed as original was rusting from inside out and splitting at suspension points.
The new chassis was altered to take a 2.5 saloon gearbox and was then blasted, galvanised and powdercoated black.
All suspension was blasted and coated black with Superflex bushes all round and special trunionless front links from Canley Classics fitted.
Differential was a recent LSD so nothing done to that and rear shafts rebuilt as found damage to shafts and hubs. Rear Koni shocks still in good order just a lick of paint required.
The bodyshell requires almost every panel so a near perfect original shell is on its way from southern France once here will be converted to RHD then off to be dipped and stripped of all paint and old sealers then tottaly coated in a zink phosphate anti corrosion coating.
The new engine will be a fully balanced 2.5 Triumph engine running ECU fuel injection.
A Replacement head was needed as original standard head was found to have the worst case of core shift I have ever seen and was impossible to improve in any way.
Most of engine is at various machine shops or balancers so pics to follow on build up soon.
Keep watching...
The car was stripped to bare shell and chassis and a new chassis was obviously needed as original was rusting from inside out and splitting at suspension points.
The new chassis was altered to take a 2.5 saloon gearbox and was then blasted, galvanised and powdercoated black.
All suspension was blasted and coated black with Superflex bushes all round and special trunionless front links from Canley Classics fitted.
Differential was a recent LSD so nothing done to that and rear shafts rebuilt as found damage to shafts and hubs. Rear Koni shocks still in good order just a lick of paint required.
The bodyshell requires almost every panel so a near perfect original shell is on its way from southern France once here will be converted to RHD then off to be dipped and stripped of all paint and old sealers then tottaly coated in a zink phosphate anti corrosion coating.
The new engine will be a fully balanced 2.5 Triumph engine running ECU fuel injection.
A Replacement head was needed as original standard head was found to have the worst case of core shift I have ever seen and was impossible to improve in any way.
Most of engine is at various machine shops or balancers so pics to follow on build up soon.
Keep watching...
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