Waist line removal

[Lotus-e-Clan]

Thanks Jerry.

Especially appreciated coming from someone like yourself who was baying for my blood not long after they joined the forum!

But now you see I'm pretty harmless, just occasionally misunderstood like many a forum whore!

I'm not so worried about meeting you sometime in the future now.

[amarshall]

But now you see I'm a forum whore!

[Lotus-e-Clan]

But now you see I'm a forum whore!

[RRHANS]

Since english is not my native language, my vocabulary has extended quite a bit today.

So beware for my future posts!

[Lotus-e-Clan]

Since english is not my native language, my vocabulary has extended quite a bit today.

So beware for my future posts!

Hey! When I said I was a whore I meant...... crikey..... what have I said !

[MrCoolA]

Thanks Jerry.

Especially appreciated coming from someone like yourself who was baying for my blood not long after they joined the forum!

But now you see I'm pretty harmless, just occasionally misunderstood like many a forum whore!

I'm not so worried about meeting you sometime in the future now.

We all mellow in our old (er) age.........................................and to be honest the more I read your posts the less I understand, so you must be well more intelligent than I am and I have decided that I will only argue/fall out with people who are quite blatantly
less intelligent than I am...............or trouble causers.......Say nothing Angus

[smithersoli]

I thought Chav originated from a shortening of Cheltenham Average, to describe unworthy males by the ladies college there.

Seems to mean whatever you want it to though really, some people even like the moniker.

[iangotts]

Phase 1 of plan executed. Strip cut off, ground back, filled and painted.

Phase 2 drive around a lot and see f there is any cracking of the paint which will show if the strip was structural

Phase 3 respray.

[excel tel]

Have you refibreglassed the seam from behind the join, if you have how did you reach up to behind the rear of the front wings,lots of stripping out of trim i guess all round.
So how does it look?

Cheers, Terry.

[iangotts]

I have done nothing done behind the seam on the inside. Our view was that there is so much material at the join that no additional strengthening is required. I have left the strip along the front and rear of the car, and faired in the front.

I will take some photos tomorrow when it is light.

[iangotts]

Here is a photo of the front with the strip removed along the side. The strip is still across the front, but has been faired in. You can just sport that the front has had a wire grille and the indicator lights have been changed to all clear.



New alloys arrive next week. Still need to think about what to do with side repeaters and mirrors and then a full respray still to come.

[Lotus-e-Clan]

Oh! I think I misunderstood what you were intending to do. I thought you were going to remove the waistline bulge completely.

So it's just the black strip that you didn't like?

I wonder if you can get the original strips in body colour?

[iangotts]

Removing the entire bulge would be a) take ages b) weaken the body massively c) be impossible to make it look flat without tones of filler

You can paint the strip (I have done across the back), but the strip looks odd, particularly where it goes over the front wheel arch IMHO. After the respray I will experiment with different coachlines - currently it is silver, but doesn;t extend in front of front wheel. My Audi Quattro was red with black coachline, but the white, black and blue cars had none.

[iangotts]

BTW I tried adding a wide black strip (using tape) on top of the bulge like the Ferrari 308 photo you posted. It didn't work. It looked too heavy. The finer coachline above the bulge seems to work better.

[AndyLotus]

I'm not sure if I like that or not, it could grow on me. Each to their own
I quite like what you have done to the front though, any more pics of the front if possible please. Also, where did you get the clear indicator lenses?

Cheers.