Capri Technical Forum:

chadcapriman wrote:hello mate bernie here,your build looks good,just restoring my 280 at moment which is cosworth powered as well.

Hi mate,sweet was it Cossied already before rebuilding it,or changing it over now?

Thanks for all the great comments guys

thats going to be mint when its done true old school scooby slayer

Looking good,

Any updates?

I've done a little work to her this year,but sadly not as much as i'd like to have,injured my flippin side earlier in the year,so that set me back a bit. I'll do some pics soon

Hi mate,
can't wait for the next update as been following this real close

Righto folks HUUUUUUGE update of photo's, sorry it's been so long, an old knee injury has laid me up for this year , so I thought it was time to do an update of the photos i've had in me camera

Here goes....

Here i've marked out and drilled some holes to make an even bigger hole....






Then I got the Dremmel out and got rid of all the sharp edges and fine tuned the hole....




Then marked and drilled out the fitting holes....


For this little beauty


Now I know what your thinking, why on earth does he want TWO fillers caps ???, well, actually the original X-Pack filler flap is going to be filled in and replaced with this....


Now c'mon, who in there right mind wouldn't prefer summit as nice as this !....


Now the funnel inside needed some of the inner webbing cutting away to fit....


Now I can't thank this lovely Lady enough for all her help, yup lads, it's the Wife-to-Be ! ....




TA DA ! now, the funnel fits better....


Now the Flexible fuel pipe fits a treat...


Had to cut the original filler area out,so the new pipework would fit....




2 inch steel piping that I had bent to shape....


The Missus cutting the old Capri filler pipe down, as it needs to fit the steel pipe....


The old and the new pipe,before being welded up and some flexible pipe to attach to the bent steel pipe....


And the finished article....






Right now, I wanted something different,something unique for rear lights, so I bought these....


Took em apart, and as you can see, there stepped....


But there's was round that ....


I made a template up for the rear of the Capri....


Then cut and bent some metal....




I drew the template out on a new piece of card,wrote down all the dimensions and took the template and the metal to a local engineering firm, because I wanted perfect circles and for it to look right....


On both sides....


Now I know the lights won't be to everybodies cup of tea, but I wanted something really more modern on the back of the car and LED !....




Well thats it for now,hope you guys like the update,sorry it doesn't look much. Hope to get more done when me knee's better

Stay safe out there
Ian

Glad 2 c ur still workin on her, takes time tho, been there myself. Keep up the good work

Cheers mate , yeah theres special meaning for doing this Capri,so i'll finish her one day,even if i'm still doing it when I retire lol

great project mate, and glad to see the mrs getting involved too

good to see work is still going on,
was getting worried that not heard much,

thev8kid wrote:good to see work is still going on,
was getting worried that not heard much,

Hehe yeah mate,still working on her,VERY slowly lol

thats amazing. love what you did with those lights.
They should have been round from std. crazzy old designers.

magic wrote:thats amazing. love what you did with those lights.
They should have been round from std. crazzy old designers.

Glad you like the build Magic, yeah I wanted something ' new edge ' with em being LED's too