Reyland 6 litre Firenza project
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Machining wheels from a Billet? That sir is proper engineering!
Not in the machine it is pictured in! That billet is waaaay too big for that chuck!
BMW Sepang Bronze
This isn't going to be everyones cup of tea but don't judge it until you actually see it in the metal!
Will post some more pics later inc billet wheel progress :grin:
Can't believe most folk like the colour!! :shocked: Its such a hard colour to take a pic of as it changes with different light, here's some indoor ones where it looks really brown....
THis is the stage the rear wheels are at right now, more machining tomorrow :grin:
Mark has assured me that I'm not having 2x flywheels instead of wheel centres
Mark just sent me this....
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Here's a video of my wheel centre being machined
Here's what it looks like now..
More pics.... :clap:
Engine nice and clean now..
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Very nice!!
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Lovely Car and great colour too.
I've always loved the old Vauxhalls, never owned anything older than my first Corsa B though.
My Father had an old Viva once upon a time, he kept the Haynes Manual for a number of years and I used to always look at it with a vested interest.
Very interesting to see how this goes
I've always loved the old Vauxhalls, never owned anything older than my first Corsa B though.
My Father had an old Viva once upon a time, he kept the Haynes Manual for a number of years and I used to always look at it with a vested interest.
Very interesting to see how this goes
Mmmmm nice project
Oooh I've just realised I've actually been to Reyland (several years ago for the boring purposes of buying a Rover 25 engine if I remember rightly). As I'm building a 4WD kit car I got chatting to the guy and remember him talking about how they were putting Skyline boxes in Cossies which gave me a bit of a geek hard-on. Cool place - nice to see they're still doing cool stuff
Oooh I've just realised I've actually been to Reyland (several years ago for the boring purposes of buying a Rover 25 engine if I remember rightly). As I'm building a 4WD kit car I got chatting to the guy and remember him talking about how they were putting Skyline boxes in Cossies which gave me a bit of a geek hard-on. Cool place - nice to see they're still doing cool stuff
Not really! Getting the 500 done first but whilst that's been happening I have all the chromework in and being redone, all the front suspension and x member is now blasted and powder coated and Mark says the rear wheel centres are ready for me to collect so when I get on it (about 3 weeks) it should move on v fast. I've even gone to the extent of stipping off the plating on the front grille so I could fix and file the small dents and then had it re-plated
Dented centre...
Got the anodising stripped off so I could tap out and file the dents....
Good as new
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