You can get king pin sets from here:-  Stainless Steel King Pin Kit (Royal King Pin Kit) 78-3111-R, 78-3111 – Belcher Engineering (belchers.uk).

These are the stainless steel types and they do come at a cost, however there are some on ebay that are the standard steel types etc. Give Belcher Engineering a call they should be able to…Read more

Thank’s for the info. There were a few messages on our social chat about your car and the only snippet that came to light was some early cars were fitted with more grill bars and this led to some overheating . Further to this there was also a mention of a flap being fitted to allow more air inn, hmm interesting. Well, this is an…Read more

That’s interesting, I have seen modified ones that have had the section opened up but not a bolted up panel. I could be wrong about this so I have ask for help via our club Whats App group to see if anyone has some more knowledge about this. Could you let me know the year of the car and its reg as we can check it out for you

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This is the joint being leaded in for a smooth finish or you could use filler. I personally would lead the joint as it is structural and would not crack. Hope this is some help to you , Kind regards Charles

The first picture is of a joggled edge set into the nose cone for the repair panel to sit on. Your panel will be different to this but the idea is the same. The other pictures show my repair piece in place and spot welded. Yours would be done the same but with your the new panel.

I will post some more picture for you of the process 

The nose cone on the M’s is made of steel. If yours has been cut out as in the picture above and you want to fill it back in so it is more like an original, there is really only one way to approach it to make it work. A piece of sheet steel is needed about 1 mm thick to cover the opening that you are trying to fill inn. You should…Read more

Here is a picture of the standard nose cone looking to the inside. There is a reinforcing frame to hold the contour of the nose cone but no cowling inside. All M types are like this weather it is the long waterfall grill type or the lower grill version.

Please get in touch if you need any more information so we can help you out ,…Read more

I have picked up on your message concerning the nose cone and a cowling that goes under the grill ? Could you elaborate a bit more for me please. The reason for asking, there is no cowling as such under the radiator grill. There are two types of radiator grill fitted to the M types. One is the waterfall grill that sweeps up over the…Read more