Dutton Kit Cars and their owners
S1 Rebuild(s)
some pics of the rebuild process,
the top trailing arm bracket is broke......
the diff is sloping back a little (looking up) so that will need sorting.......
As you can see there isn't a lot of bracing in an S1 chassis, that will be sorted.
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Permalink Reply by Dave Adams on
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I have been looking to reducing it's height by 20mm or so....should cure the misfit issue...or using this as a pattern and adapting it to suit.
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Permalink Reply by Brian (up north) Morris on
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not for sale. was going to meashure it lol
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if your wanting a real one dave id put it on dutton owners kit cars iv picked up allsorts off their :-)
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well now i have a roof bar....(thanks Daryl....) i have started to fit my soft top....its a new one i have had for about 6 years still in its original box from (polyfacto?) and its really badly made.
it has not enough depth at the rear of the door opening to meet with the wing top. now i have seen quite a few Dutton hoods that show this problem. the roof edge half an inch above the wing top ....flapping in the wind. Also the darts in the roof that gives the roof its shape over the roof bar are not even opposite each other. Not that either are in the right place to fit the roof bar to fit as it should. i may have to fit the roof as best i can, and see to having a new one made locally, (at least two companies in Hull) one is very good but expensive. it cant hurt to ask though.
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made another roof bar today.......lower by 1/2"......roof is just a crap fit if it will fit at all. it really is terrible. might have to use my hardtop for a while.
i may have to get a new roof made. if i fit the roof in the two corners at the front top of the windscreen and stretch it to the rear it is short by 1" or so, the door apertures still dont fit right.... if i stretch it so the door lower edges fit the cockpit it ends up with an ugly crease over the door that no amount of stretching would get rid of. and the doors will never seal. it would leak water via the crease.
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who made that then dave. name and shame
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its an old one.......so it can only be a Polyfacto hood....You would expect it to be better.
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old...but new.
the guy i bought it from in 2009 i think bought it for his car some years ago and never included it with the car when he sold it...it came with new doors (used on my green S1) and a tonneau cover which i sold on.
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naughty polyfacto :-)
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Long gone....guy sold up.....now monsoon hoods..
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Permalink Reply by rob saul on
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When you fit the hood do it inside
Best if you fit the front then I have one of those small fan heaters,put that on max an place in the footwell.
Drape the hood over the roll bar so it forms a hot box an just leave it for an hr or so so the material really softens up an will become VERY flexible an stretch ( not sure 1" ? But it might make it)
I make the centre line on the hood an get that on the centre line of the car an work from that round to the front
Keep the heater running while you work an when you Finnish remove an let the material cool an "set" overnight
If you fit a hood cold first sunny day out it will droop
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Cheers Rob. ...I will post pictures of the hood I have...the "darts" are very poorly made.
I have been warming the hood to stretch it but I don't think the door top joint will ever be good.
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