A310 4cyl Restoration

[stephendell]

Refinished fibreglass in engine bay.

Used POR15 yacht enamel suitable for direct application to fibre glass.



Quite please with this finish so now just have to do the rest of the car...

[stephendell]

Rear hub carrier



Detail of ball joint



Rose jointed replacement for balljoint. Not easy to source parts due to M18 fine thread.

Where did you find the rose joints? I may need to replace those on my car. They look as if they are the same as for the V6.

Where did you find the rose joints? I may need to replace those on my car. They look as if they are the same as for the V6.

you can get rose joints anywhere, you just need to know where to look, we alrerady use them as an option on spiders

I can't get them from my local newsagent or greengrocer, but Stephen obviously knows where to look, hence my question.

I can't get them from my local newsagent or greengrocer, but Stephen obviously knows where to look, hence my question.

demon tweeks , merlin motorsport....... the list goes on

[stephendell]

The one I have made up is for the 4 cylinder car only equivalent to 6000003346

The 6 cylinder version is 6000056621 and while it looks similar and is the same price I do not know if the threads are the same.

You will have to measure one to find out. 4 Cylinder is M18 x 1.5

I've just measured the joint and both threads are M18 x 1.5. The vertical, ball ended leg has a 50 mm thread length and the horizontal socket ended leg has a thread length of 40 mm. The most obvious difference that I can see from your photo is that the ball ended leg has an external hexagon at its end on your photo whereas on the V6 the hexagon is internal. Other than that they appear to be similar.

[stephendell]

One of mine has internal adjustment and one external adjustment.

[Alpineandy]

NASA /NACA ducts...

..... dellboy's is an early one.....

Isn't it the early one that had a habit of poping the rear glass out (into a thousand little bits) when the clutch is dropped?

Refinished fibreglass in engine bay.

Used POR15 yacht enamel suitable for direct application to fibre glass.



Quite please with this finish so now just have to do the rest of the car...

Stephen, I would like to try this stuff out on my Esprit boot/engine bay.

Could I ask where you got it from (frost?) and if you used a primer?

I have read the blurb for one of their products that I assume you have used and it says direct application to fibre glass but later in the information it says to use a primer.

Cheers

Jon

[stephendell]

This came from frost and it was a yacht top coat product suitable for direct application or over a primer. This was direct with no primer.

Perfect thanks!!

How is this project going by the way?

[stephendell]

Just got all the rear suspension and other components back from the powder coaters. Will take a pic!

I think the Gitanes blue really suits it, and you have to think about what colours the rest of your fleet are - you already have an orange and a yellow car. The metallic green on Shaddy's car looked very good too.