Author: Joe

Spitfire Diff Build

It’s been a while since I posted anything but I’ve been working on the diff again recently. I ordered the carrier bearings and the two pinion bearings, small and large. All was well until I realised that one of the pinion bearings was the wrong size. It’s part number is M88040, I needed M88048. They also share the part number M88010 which I […]

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The Diff

Over the last few weeks I’ve not had a great deal of time to get stuck in on the Spitfire restoration. I’ve been bolting some of the suspension parts together but there’s not really anything I can do on the rear end without getting the diff done because the transverse leaf spring bolts to the diff. The vertical links bolt to the spring. […]

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Travels in The Land of Smiles

Sitting on board a Boeing 777 with a 11.5 hour flight ahead of us it was the longest flight I’ve been on in a while, second only to the 25 hour two leg flight I was on years ago to Australia. We arrived in Bangkok and got a taxi to our hotel, Ma Du Zi. The taxi driver was really cool, very relaxed […]

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Painting the Chassis

I finally got to the stage of putting some colour on the chassis today since the humidity was low enough at 50%. Although I’ve not been working on the car at every given moment, I have been stripping the chassis down and preparing it for some time now. The old paint on the chassis was nice and smooth but it started showing signs […]

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Spitfire Engine & Chassis

The past few weeks have all been about getting the engine stripped down and painted. I’ve also stripped the chassis down, applied a couple of coats of Por15 and a couple of coats of self-etch primer specifically designed to etch the Por15 and provide a suitable surface for the top coat. I think the chassis could do with another coat or two of […]

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Engine Strip Down

While I’m waiting for sand blasting media to arrive so I can finish stripping the chassis (yes, I’m still stripping the chassis!), I could start work on the engine. So far I’ve removed the gearbox and bell housing, cylinder head, front and rear engine plates, cam shaft, oil pump and crank shaft. It turns out the cam shaft was on its way out […]

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