Returning 1961 Vignale spyder 1341 to the road

Excellent. That will be easier to drill too

 

Marine fastener info jclarkemarine.com/pages/fitting-guides-and-info

 

Ivan, that is a challenging task.
Missing chrome trim for the soft top of Jaguar E-type roadsters is a common issue. Fortunately, because of the relative high number of such roadsters, there are suppliers of replacement chrome trims.
It turns out however that it is very difficult to adjust the supplied chrome trim to the exact profile of the car's body, because each car is different, because the trim has a 3D shape as you describe it (domed top, flat bottom) and because the material is rather hard to work out.
In my opinion, the best material would be copper that you could easily chrome after final shaping.
Aluminium would be an alternative but not as nice.

 

Well done!

 

Again, not on a Maserati but on early Jaguar E-types with the (in)famous Moss box: my use of synthetic Redline MTL considerably improves the gearchanges.
With no leaks.

 

That looks spot on doesn't it. Very glad that was located!

 

Good score on the trim Ivan. When I worked with ZF Classiche for my S-5 17, they warned against any of the synthetics. It's dinasour juice for me on this application.

 

Hello redfred84....

I too have an s5-17 gearbox for my Mistral... Do you have any more info on why ZF Classiche indicated NOT to use a synthetic? Did they give
you any recommendations on what to use?

Thanks in advance...

Mike

 

Synthetic oils are much "slicker" than conventional oils. As a result, the synchros cannot get as good a grip on the hubs to match gear speeds. Penn Grade 80-90 GL4 vastly improved my ZF shifting in an Alfa Montreal.

 

does that gearbox have an ‘yellow’ synchros inside? If so, a GL4 will work best and is actually what’s recommended for those.

 

Must have been a very scary job on freshly painted car!!!!!!!!!!! Is that Alex's old 3500 in the back? It was a goodie.

 

Nice fit!
Must have been tricky to bend as it had to be curved in several dimensions with no kinks, still keeping the flat base on the bottom.