Wanted V8 ZK Bonnet (Ideally Orange) - No Longer Required

[Naranja_Al]

Looking for a V8 Bonnet ideally orange, ZK style.

[LoneWolf]

Kit and ZK are 2 different body styles, at least for the nose/bonnet/scuttle combo, so it's unlikely they'll both fit your car. Also, I think V8 bonnets weren't made for the Kit bodywork at all.

[Naranja_Al]

Thanks. I am aware of the difference but I thought the shape was the same?

 

My car has a kit v8 bonnet on it as it has rounded lugs and no locating pins in the nose cone. Would this be correct?

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

23 minutes ago, Naranja_Al said:

Thanks. I am aware of the difference but I thought the shape was the same?

 

My car has a kit v8 bonnet on it as it has rounded lugs and no locating pins in the nose cone. Would this be correct?

Yes.

 

the Kit version of the bodywork has the swage lines on the side in a slightly different position to ZK, but also, while at the bottom where it sits on the tub, the width side to side, is the same, the kit scuttle, across the top surface, is around 20mm narrower, side to side. My understanding, though I’ve not measured a kit bonnet to see, is that the scuttle end of the bonnet is also narrower, side to side, to match the scuttle.

[Naranja_Al]

Thanks Dave,

 

Would that make my bonnet a Kit then? If difficult to locate I maybe best placed to get a specialist to repair my current bonnet….

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

I’m struggling to find suitable photos of your car without going looking for the advert, but from what I can see, I suspect you may have ZK bodywork.

 

the small amount I can see of where your scuttle meets the dashboard, looks like the scuttle is perfectly flat, and buts right up to the outer edge of the dash, all the way round. One of the distinctive features of the kit scuttle, is it has a moulded in raised “rolled edge”, and the dash sits slightly within this rolled edge.

 

In another shot, without the bonnet on, the scuttle looks like it has quite a deep return edge, before the lip, the bonnet sits on. A deep edge here is ZK. Also, does your bonnet have a return edge front and back? The Kit doesn’t really, it’s more or less flat, and sits on a much smaller recess on the scuttle.

 

The ZK scuttle will typically be held on by two M6 bolts through its lower return edge into the top of the chassis, a little behind where the lights are, where as the kit, has a Dzus fastener, normally, on either side, on the lip the bonnet covers and rests on. (Both have a single bolt through them under the nose.

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

If we could see a clear photo of the car with the bonnet off, so that we can see the back edge of the scuttle where the bonnet sits, the front edge of the bonnet, normally hidden by the scuttle, and the top surface of the scuttle/dashboard we can confirm for sure!

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

Just found the Bulters advert for the car. Yes that’s ZK bodywork, I’ve amended your wanted post to remove any confusion on what you need.

 

The good news though, is that means it’s available. Either from Westfield, with factory quality, or one or two people make “race quality” copies, that you can often find on Facebook etc.

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

52 minutes ago, Naranja_Al said:

no locating pins in the nose cone

This time, this is just a red herring. Pins haven’t been used, as locking catches have been fitted at the front as well as the rear, possibly to make getting on and off easier…

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman]

1 hour ago, LoneWolf said:

I think V8 bonnets weren't made for the Kit bodywork at all.

You’d be surprised, they’ve been around longer than people think, though the very first ones in the early nineties didn’t have the two triangular vents at the back, I think, those were added when the SEiGHts moved from the older carb based engines to the Rover fuel injection, later on in the nineties. Outside of the SEiGHT though, I don’t think V8 bonnets were that common a sight in the nineties though, till towards the end, when the extra clearance helped as people moved over to generally taller, 16 Valve engines, from Classic Ford 8 valvers.

[Naranja_Al]

Thanks @Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman

[evosteve]

My SEIW 93 kit has a flat return on both the sides and bonnet with no locating lungs.

[Naranja_Al]

No longer required.

 

Thanks for your help everyone.