Heatshield

As it was super windy and loud outside today I figured that nobody will care about me making some noise in the garage. The left front wing can now be screwed on from beneath the car as I used drive-in nuts. Unfortunately I need to replace the ones I am using now again as the stainless steel once will still take a few days until they will be delivered.

With this task completed I decided start working on the heatshield for the exhaust. As mentioned before, I firmly believe that the heat from exhaust caused or at least accelerated the rotten frame. The aluminium accessories that David Wellings creates for the Morgan always look nice. His book leaves the impression that anyone can do this. With a pieces of 1mm thick aluminium left from the quarter panel rebuild I decided to give it a try – but

After measuring I cut out rectangular piece with a size of 1020x295mm. An edge bench would have been handy. Using the method David describes on page 141 – using some pieces of wood and clamps – 10mm of the edge were bent over with a soft hammer and some elbow grease. I wanted the top of the shield go close to the outer curve of the wing which turned out to be 190mm. With a solid piece of wood ontop I clamped the piece to the workbench and then slowly bent a 90 degree corner.

Using the exhaust mounts as holders generated a 10mm gap to the chassis and sillboard. This should allow enough air circulation to prevent a moisture trap. It is not the prettiest piece of work but it will not be visible and I think it is an alright job. The only thing left to do is to apply the actual heatshield material I bought from Amazon. Before I create more aluminium panels that are visible I think I need to start an apprenticeship at David Wellings garage 🤔😉

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