Caesar the 1275 E - Diary of minor changes

[Vinay-RS]

I'd given the exhaust manifold to the electroplaters a little over a week ago and I had a chance to pick it up yesterday. I'd requested just nickel plating, to keep the costs down, but they added a chrome plating too (for free ). I'm so chuffed with the results. They look amazing. Almost too good to fit... almost.





If I can work out how to split the welded join on the existing manifold, I'll try and get these fitted soon.

[admin]

Yireee, Looks Awesome, but will it handle the heat???

[minitim]

That looks fantastic! Who did the plating?

[Vinay-RS]

Yireee, Looks Awesome, but will it handle the heat???

Thanks, man It should. A Mini's exhaust doesn't get as hot as some more high performance cars and they use nickel plating on the manifolds.
It is definitely better than simple high-temp paint (based on information on the internet), which we all know is super accurate

That looks fantastic! Who did the plating?

Thanks, Tim. 7seas plating, out in Epping. Really kind and professional people. They did the plating on the twin carb linkages for me too.

[jimmyjamjar]

Cool! and after you have thrashed it around a bit the heat will develop that lovely blue gold hue

[Vinay-RS]

Cool! and after you have thrashed it around a bit the heat will develop that lovely blue gold hue

I've heard about this. That colour is so cool!

[DomMINIque]

That's sooo pretty!!!!

Looks like you had to sell a kidney to get that done.

[Vinay-RS]

That's sooo pretty!!!!

Looks like you had to sell a kidney to get that done.

Surprisingly not. Plating costs less than you'd think, and it works out to be less than than a stainless manifold.

[Vinay-RS]

Small updated. I decided to make some boot boards as the ones in the car were in really bad shape. The plyboard had delaminated and fractured. Got some offcut plyboard from the workshop, marked it up with the old boards as a template and cut it with a jigsaw.




Wrapped them in some carpet that I got from a local upholstery place.



And fitted to the car.


The finish isn't great, but it looks a lot better than they did before and it was a relatively cheap job.

Next up, I'm hoping to fit the interior sound deadening that I got a few months back and then the old stock Leyland front carpet. Now just wondering how to remove the old carpet.

[jimmyjamjar]

Tug, pull, grunt, tear; also a stiff paint scraper or old plane blade helps to slice through the glue. Mine came out in three raggedy pieces and I had to go over the area again with a scraper to get rid of the bits that stayed behind.Boot boards look nice . THe colour might show the dirt a bit