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My leave is nearly over and I have completed a lot of work in the last 5 weeks. Tube frame Rover anyone? The floor is mostly in with the passenger side fully welded in place. The driver side has been revised and now fits a lot better. The tube across where the transmission will sit is temporary...

After three designs and much faffing about I have finally got the seat mounted! The mounts are made of 75x25x 4mm box hacked into interesting shapes, then welded into place. Pleasingly they are even level and fit properly!!!!! The top of the transmission tunnels is finished but cannot be weld in...

Finally got some time in the shed. Now that Christmas etc is over I have taken a few days to get stuck back into Pooh Bear. I have finished (mostly) the drivers side floor frame and now have enough space to get the seat in and not be crushing anything. Whilst it is held together with blue...

Ok. After 7 weeks of being locked in the house and ”working” from home I have rebuilt the front radiator support and oil cooler mount. I feel that my fab skills (while still a bit rubbish ) have improved and I was not happy with the old setup as it looked a bit crap. The new one also weighs 3kg...

It has been very cold here in Canberra, with the weekend (only time I get to work on the car) soaring to nearly double figures in the heat of the day. As a result I have not been in the garage as I don't want frostbite on any thing important! I have been playing with Fusion 360 and have knocked...

Managed a bit more work. The observant will notice that the floor has been brutally hacked apart and re-welded. Turns out I has managed to make the floor exactly the right width to foul the prop shaft. After cutting the floor down by 15mm, it now fits and clears, with the added advantage that...

After a long, very busy period of work I have finally had some time to work on Pooh Bear. A new floor has been bent up, and once the engine and gearbox are chucked back in for a final check of clearance, I will see about fitting it for real, then start on the transmission tunnel. The new seat...

More progress has been made. The frame for the floor is back in as is the engine, gearbox and prop shaft. I have finalised the design for the floor (again, after all if a job is work doing it’s worth doing over at least 3 or 4 times right?) and the seat mounts will be forming part of the gearbox...

Easter holidays have allowed more work. I have modified the heater water pipe on the water pump to take a -8AN fitting. This will allow some rather tasty looking fittings that have in my bits box to bypass the heater that is not there any more. Once I have the rear adaptor sorted I will post...

Gearbox is done. The shift mechanism will not let it go into reverse but I think I know what the problem is, the selector pin is a bit thick (relatable I’m sure) and fouls the body. I will sort it at a later date. The weekend was spent welding up the body where the factory had obviously...

More work. After having no luck getting a blower fan I have resorted to giving the whole problem a good stiff ignoring and moved onto something else. Namely the gearbox and the shifter extension. Knocked up out of some 2x65x35 box section strategically hacked about and randomly welded. Photos...

After a long layoff with work on Pooh conducted on a very random basis, I have actually got something to show. After pulling the engine out (again) I have been sorting out the engine bay. Did Rover back in the day have any form of quality control? I have been finding areas that have not been...

Now that the tendons have been sewn back in place I can get back to work on Pooh, using mostly my left arm. I am using my right arm as well of course, just not very well or with any strength or dexterity. Anyway, the hole for the power steering pump to sit in has been hacked out, and closing...

I have done a little more over the past few days, but due to tearing some of the tendons out of my right elbow it may be a while before I get much more done! A local metal works bent up a closing piece for the front of the radiator, and after a little fettling it looks great. It is 1.5mm steel...

Bushes were fine the whole shock tower (driver side I think, it has been a long time) failed at the point where the tower meets the base unit. It had fractured the whole way around, and was no longer connected to the shell. It had a hard life until I got her, but a lack of reinforcing (as seen...

Yep. The top shock mount on Jez had no reinforcements so it pushed right out. The shock was still attached but the whole cup arrangement was waggling in the breeze. I am looking to replace the whole rear suspension setup on Pooh with a Jag/Daimler LSD from hub to hub and coil overs. I also have...

I am in the cold and politician infested depths of Canberra. currently working out of my garage trying to build a decent Rover race car! I like you wheel arches. Do you have a mould, as I was looking to build something similar? Where about are you situated?

I have had the rear shock mount punch completely out of the shell on Jezzabel, my 1964 2000. It was a long time ago and I had no money to fix it properly so welded (using a 12 volt battery and some fencing wire) the whole lot in place until I could get home and fix it properly. 30 years later I...

I hope you don't mind if I unashamedly steal this idea and use it on Pooh Bear. I have always though that the mounts could be a bit stronger with the abuse that I throw at the poor thing. 3mm CRS I take it? Looks to be about the size I would use.

I managed a few hours today. I have got the oil thermostat mount welded in place, and there is actually clearance! I was pretty happy with the welds until I hit the back corner. I could not work out what was going on until I realised there was no hiss when I pulled the trigger. Yep, out of gas...

Managed to some work done today. Mostly involving hacking bits out of poor Pooh and welding new bits in. I have had to cut a small relief in the transmission tunnel as the back of the seat runner and seat were hitting with the seat in the position I wanted it in. With the front seat mounts...

The pedal box is out. After some struggling and a fair bit of cursing I managed to get the stupid thing out and now have a nice empty spot to put the new pedal box. I am going for a race style underslung unit (promise to remember to take photos soon) the will give me a separate circuit for front...

More work done today. I have fitted the oil cooler and mocked up the front cowl. The oil cooler was fairly easy with an addition to the radiator support. Made from 50mm box hacked into sections to make the supports with another bit of butchered 50mm box to form the top. All went together square...

How about twin side draught Webers. Fits on a squarebore manifold that also takes a 4 barrel downdraught. Fits under the bonnet and looks awesome. Wow about 4 Webers? Still fits uner the bonnet and 2 x more awesome than the top pic? Or the EFI version? Or just go nuts, this 8 choke efi 50mm...

Finished the radiator support and surround! So 5% of the work that needs to be done is complete...……………………………... The top mounts for the radiator are 1mm steel, and are held on by two 6mm hex head bolts into nutserts. The radiator wont move and the front brace is strong enough that I can just...