Mondial Z

The adhesive technician is coming round today to look at the body/chassis in respect of the adhesive. We will probably use Araldite 2015 to bond the two together then bolt/rivet at key points for that "belt and braces" approach. The aluminium honeycomb composite panels arrive next week for the flat panel areas in the car.

Thinking of putting in far infrared night vision....

 

Aligning the body with the chassis.
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One of my others:
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Cost 99p (just under US$2.00).
OK not a Ferrari but still from Pininfarina's pen:
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Ok it does need a bit of work but most of the mechanicals are there, the rest is just a canvas for my imagination...

 

No-one comments any more...



This must be boring by now...



I'll go for a drink...



Merry Christmas



Bah, Humbug!

 

I have another one:
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Good to here from you Bert.

The red one would remain relatively original, changes would include bigger wheels, better brakes, new headlights and tail lights, redone interior, new instrument binnacle, twin webers, new exhaust and a nice black paint job.

I will modify the white one. It will have new custom spaceframe front and rear, double unequal length wishbone suspension all round, beefed-up cabin, new interior, new design front and rear (longer rear and slightly shorter front), wide bulbous fenders, hatchback rather than the sail panels so that you can see the longitudinally mounted supercharged Fiat 3.2L V6 mounted to an uprated Renault UN1 transaxle, etc. etc. etc...



But first the Monzer series needs to go forward.

 

Not compliments, just felt like I was talking to myself, but thanks anyway

To an extent you are right.

I have been busy and distracted by other thing (work for one!) and I am trying to get the TVR Griffith finished and sent to the Philippines. The pictures here show the new dash and headlight cover bucks I made and how the car looks in my carport.

The Monzer engine will be shipped to Scott this month so that he has that to add to his New Year's hangover in early January. The result will hopefully give the car a power to weight ratio of 400bhp per metric tonne. Scott therefore will be the person to say those magic words "engine running".

Meanwhile I am pressing for major bodywork assembly progress on this side of the Pacific. There are some small design details left to finalise in the interior and I have to design and make the steering wheel, which, with the dash, should be the major last interior section to complete. I have decided that the Far Infrared (FIR) night vision will go ahead with the display most likely mounted in the sunvisor.

There will of course be major headaches in getting everything to work properly but most big problems are just a series of smaller problems that are not as hard to solve.
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Thanks.

The car is far more rounded in the flesh and the vents seem fine when the headlight openings are cut out of the bonnet. I would love everyone who has supported this project (as well as the nay-sayers) to be able to see the finished car.

I have a target of finishing everything by the end of May 2008 and to ship the car to the UK by July. If this timescale works out I will be driving the car in the UK and Europe for 3 or 4 weeks. Then I hope to publicise and sell this one.

There is, however, a lot of work to do...

 

This is a rather special Griffith as it was my development car. Some changes I made found their way into TVR production models.

Read this:
http://www.pistonheads.com/tvr/index.asp?storyId=2792

If you want more info try Googling "Zertec"

One day I will take the basic Griffith shape and modify it a bit, things like "fastback coupe", bigger wheels, slightly more aggressive styling, clearer cutoff at the rear to get rid of the "fat bum" syndrome, you get the idea...