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Brad1380
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Post by Brad1380 » Mon Sep 08, 2014 3:28 pm

Sounds like a plan Martin, i'll put the ketle on )

Mal,
nothing exciting going on under the cover, just trying to contain the shot a bit. I needed to clean up some hard to reach areas before welding & shot blasting was the only way i could see to do it.

Gary,
i must be the last person on the planet who hasn't got a facebook account, i've too much going on to worry about managing an online personna, thanks for the invitation anyway.
1966 Sunbeam Tiger Mk1

Brad1380
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Post by Brad1380 » Sun Sep 14, 2014 7:54 pm

Made a new badge holder this morning whist the rest of the house was asleep. Still took 3 hrs from cafe to primer.

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Out of 6 rear lights, the ones with the best chrome had the worst light reflectors, so moved every thhing around, then treated the backs with waxoyl.

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Post by Brad1380 » Wed Sep 17, 2014 8:10 pm

Funnily enough i can only find 2 front side lights, both of which are rather tired.
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Post by Brad1380 » Sat Sep 27, 2014 4:52 pm

meadowhog wrote:Same as mine. Id love to change my Revolutions for a set of these though. A lot like Dales car but 4 stud and nicer I feel.

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I was actually talking about painting the rocker covers black. But now you mention it.
Actually quite like the GT40 (BRM6) versions, just not sure what width to go for & which options.
http://www.imagewheels.co.uk/pages/wheels_cast.html
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Post by Brad1380 » Thu Oct 02, 2014 2:17 pm

These ones with the centre spinners & cap to hide the bolts

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Post by Brad1380 » Thu Jan 15, 2015 7:47 pm

When i measure at 3" & 8.875" i end up with the length bethween the two sections at 48.5", it looks right compared to your other photos.

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Post by Brad1380 » Sun Jan 18, 2015 8:47 pm

Hopefully that cut is in the right place.

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Post by Brad1380 » Mon Apr 13, 2015 8:36 am

The GT40 wheels arrived this morning, very nice.

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Post by Mal » Mon Apr 13, 2015 8:03 pm

What size did you decide on Brad ?. They are a nice wheel.
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Post by martin172 » Mon Apr 13, 2015 10:07 pm

Yes. Very nice indeed.

How do you get to the wheel nuts?

Tom_HRO260
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Rim-a-licious

Post by Tom_HRO260 » Mon Apr 13, 2015 11:15 pm

Hi Brad - they are well tasty!
Spinner cover looks trick and I like the fact that you've been able to show a bit of rim depth - is it a custom offset or is it all allowing for stock hub/drum location?
What size tyre are you going to run?
Nice work on the fron valance as well and again, thanks for the images and updates.
Cheers
Tom

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Post by Brad1380 » Tue Apr 14, 2015 7:55 am

R15" with 6" for the fronts & 7" for the rears. They had the offsets on file so i didn't have to measure anything.

The centre caps are very trick & cover the wheel nuts, you would have to look very closely to see the wheels were not centre spinners.

I must say Image are a great company to deal with, good advice & regular updates as to where the wheels were in the manufacturing process.

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Changeable buckets as well

Post by Tom_HRO260 » Tue Apr 14, 2015 8:23 am

Oh they are nice....
looks like you'll be able to play with backspace/offsets if you ever wanted to anyway by the looks of that rear bucket. Finish looks very good also and nice to see they've deployed a decent piece of metal for the spinner. 15's are a good fit with the options that will give you in the brakes department as well.
As an aside, I saw an image of a guys conversion to an IRS last week - and he's thinking about putting 17x9's on the rear inside a standard wheel arch - Holy Tabbouleh that's a lot of wheel...
For mine, I really like those GT40 rims.
Top Job.

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..just in case...

Post by Tom_HRO260 » Tue Apr 14, 2015 8:32 am

Just in case you are interested, here's a couple of shots of the IRS getup.

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Serious transmission crossmember there as well.

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Post by bigbob » Tue Apr 14, 2015 9:55 am

Don't give me ideas! I thought I'd nearly finished my list of mods. Makes mine look nearly standard.

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