Very overdue project !!!

[Porters2]

Great Job.
Are you leaving the side mouldings off?

I have fitted the drivers side, but the weather put a stop to the rest lol.

[Porters2]

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Spent this morning fixing the horn button and the washer pump, I reckon she is ready for the mot now.
Thanks to my daughter for the new Elford badges, far nicer than the clunky chrome ones ( my opinion lol )

[Porters2]

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BTW, the more eagle eyed of you may have noticed, that it no longer has the “housebrick” fog lamp

I replaced the outer bulb holders with twin filament stop/tail type, and moved the fog lights to the inner ones.

Looks so much cleaner to me .

[gt_james]

any details on how you converted to twin filament type?

[Porters2]

Hi James,
Just purchased a couple of new holders from the bay, then re-routed the cables accordingly at the back of the lamp.

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[Porters2]

So, I’ve been having all sorts of trouble getting the fuelling correct on the elford.
Just couldn’t get it to either rev cleanly or idle, so I stripped the carb yet again, only this time I removed the needle and checked it on a straight edge, lo and behold it was bent !!!
One new BFS needle later, and I can finally start to get some form of a tune into it…

[Porters2]

Update !!
Ok so with the new needle fitted I can finally get a
sensible idle mixture of around 4-5 % co ,
time for a quick road test I reckon - guess what….
rear brakes binding now.
Ordered a couple of caliper rebuild kits, I WILL get this
thing so that I can go for a nice drive before I’m too old to enjoy it lol.

[Porters2]

Quick update, been flatting and polishing the car and annoyingly have a few shading issues with some of the panels, only to be expected I suppose, due to me having to paint the car in pieces as not enough room in the garage to hit it in one go,
I have decided to get it mot’d and run it around a bit for this year while the weather holds out,
Have attached a couple of pictures so you can see what it looks like .

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[Threesevens]

looks Great

[Porters2]

My daughter left her vinyl cutting machine at ours for the weekend, sooo….
I think it’s ok for a first attempt.

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