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BUILDING A GD 427: So What Happened?.....

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Sunday, 15 August 2010. After 955 days in build and 465 days on the road my near 4 year affair with my Gardner Douglas 427 is over. It was not an easy decision to come to and it took some time to finally decide. Even today as I sit here typing this and looking outside at the sun shining I miss it, I think I'll always miss it. it really was one hell of a car. The GD consistently out-run and out-cornered everything on four wheels that it came across. It was thus only going to be a matter of time until ...

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BUILDING A GD 427: Fitting the Hood - Part 6

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Sunday, 11 April 2010. Fitting the Hood - Part 6. Time to see if it fits:. Well the simple answer is it doesn't! Whilst trying to fit the hood bows one of the hoop pivot knuckles snapped! So I'll have to get on to GD for a replacement. So I took the hoops out which allowed me to fit up the hood bows with no tension and mark out for driling the holes for the fivets to fix the hood bow catches:. Labels: Fitting the Hood. Was going so well. 11 April 2010 at 20:09. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Day 836...

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BUILDING A GD 427: Fitting the Sidescreens - Part 1

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Sunday, 18 April 2010. Fitting the Sidescreens - Part 1. With the hood fitted it was time to tackle the sidescreens. I had got as far as fitting the "blank" drivers side screen:. The next step was to pull down the protective coating so I could mark the various features of the hood on the outside of the screen:. Then it was out with the trusty jigsaw - to cut L exan. Neatly you need a variable speed jigsaw a turn it right down to around 500 strokes per minute and use a specia. Attachment - a mini router:.

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BUILDING A GD 427: August 2010

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Sunday, 15 August 2010. After 955 days in build and 465 days on the road my near 4 year affair with my Gardner Douglas 427 is over. It was not an easy decision to come to and it took some time to finally decide. Even today as I sit here typing this and looking outside at the sun shining I miss it, I think I'll always miss it. it really was one hell of a car. The GD consistently out-run and out-cornered everything on four wheels that it came across. It was thus only going to be a matter of time until ...

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BUILDING A GD 427: Fitting the Hood - Part 5

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Saturday, 10 April 2010. Fitting the Hood - Part 5. The hood has now taken up residence in the dining room ready for glueing the returns and trimming (I forgot to take enough photos, probably due to being high on evo-stick fumes, so I've included a couple from the build manual):. I tackled the rear section first which was relatively straightforward just requiring the hood material to be mitred around the corners:. The surplus material can be trimmed off once the glue has had a while to cure:. Day 332: En...

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BUILDING A GD 427: January 2010

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Sunday, 31 January 2010. Preparing to Change the Rear Camber. Double checked all yesterdays measurements - OK. Up on axles stands and wheels off. The whole chassis was then levelled by jacking up and inserting thin washers between the chassis and the axle stands and checking with my fancy new digital level. Next step is to remove the drive shaft nuts in order to change the shims between the drive shafts and the brake discs:. That's the little beggars in the distance! I feel a trip to Machine Mart coming.

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BUILDING A GD 427: March 2010

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Monday, 29 March 2010. Fitting the Hood - Part 3. Not a lot of free time at the moment - hence onto Part 3 already and the hood is nowhere near being fitted! I managed to paint the inside faces of the GRP moulding the other night so having got some M5 stainless dome nuts I fixed the pivot brackets to the GRP moulding (bedded on a layer of Sikaflex to allow for surface undulations in the GRP):. I also got some M8 dome nuts so I finished off the undersides of the moulding fixings:. Planning on Friday being...

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BUILDING A GD 427: Not Fitting the Hood - Boat Stuff Instead

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Tuesday, 13 April 2010. Not Fitting the Hood - Boat Stuff Instead. Whilst I'm waiting for a replacement Hood Frame Pivot from GD I took the opportunity to get some stuff done on the boat. The original marine muffler was shot - it was in fact in several pieces! So I designed a new one and we had it made up in stainless by a local guy. So this left the simple task of fitting it:. It is more than just a big tube with four smaller tubes coming. Off it - each outlet is via a water siphon inside the main tube.

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BUILDING A GD 427: July 2010

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Tuesday, 13 July 2010. 6:30am. one last time to wake the neighbours up. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). THIS BUILD IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF RAY. A Canny Lad, whose enthusiam for anything that needed building, will be sadly missed. The Story of One Man's Attempt to Build one of These. And what he did with it afterwards. View my complete profile. Day 1: Collected Jaguar Axles for Refurb. Day 202: Collected Chassis. Day 270: Chassis Rolls for the First Time. Day 300: Engine Arrives. Day 436: Engine Started.