[DMCForum] Re: impending frame off restoration

["Elvis Nocita" <elvisnocita@xxxxxx>]

John,

you are very optimistic about your schedule.
Have you ever rebuilt a car ?
Do you know how many small parts there are ?

Do you know where they all belong to after you took them off
without any documentation ? The manual is not enough, they
don't describe the little details and you will forget them
because there are too many !

Do you have a digi cam ?


I didn't dip my frame into zinc, I wasn't sure if it would stand 
it like you described. Another german here had it dipped and it 
cam out well. He said he couldn't measure any warping or differences. 
I have never seen it though. He started before me and still 
is far away form being done. We are talking about 4 years now !

Stainless fram built by a company that doesn't know any details 
of the car ? no experience ?
Forget it !
I have seen the pearce frame, this is not a children's birthday
(ok, in german it sounds better...) this is a lot of work, precision,
details that have to be thought about. I wonder how pearce can offer
these frames for that money.
Next thing is - vibrations, forces and so on. Pearce showed he can 
handle that. Your shop that welds that thing together can't prove 
nothing ! Just forget about it.

And think again about your time table. Do it like with software.
multiply the days it with 2.
and then use that number for the weeks !
you said about 10 days ? in 20 weeks you're probably done.

Now you have a realistic number ! I'm not kidding !

Let me know if I can assist you with details and pictures

Elvis



Hi Elvis and others,
Actually the time factor is not as bad as I first made out - I'll be
taking 2 days off work to do the job, so will goto my parents house
on a Wednesday night, work all day Thursday thru Sunday to strip the
frame down, then Sunday night, bring the frame and suspension pieces
back to Dublin with me to get treated.
Then, when all the suspension bits and frame are restored, I will
bring them all back down to my parents house again, take another few
days off work and put it all back together... or so the plan goes.

Elvis, did you actually galvanise your frame? Were you worried about
it warping at all? Did it warp in any way??!

The guy from the galvanising place just called me to warn of the
dangers of my frame warping during the process... He was basically
saying that even if this has worked fine on a DeLorean frame in the
past, there is no telling if it will work on this occasion. Scary
stuff!

Another option I'm considering (more like dreaming) is taking the
bare frame to a place in Galway (in Ireland) that would copy the
frame in Stainless Steel for me. I'll price it anyway, and maybe I
could partly fund it by selling my original frame, which is actually
in good shape apart from some rust on the front frame extension - the
reason I want to galvanise it now is to keep it in good shape.

I told the galvaniser I'm definitely stripping my frame down, and
when I get a look at how much work it needs I'll let him know what I
decide to do.

Thanks,
John> 

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