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[tedmcedd]

great progress as always!

[captainjack15]

Yeah looks good mate Great progress

[Deathrow]

Cheers guys!

Still lots to do as you know, but at least the bodywork is drawing to a close, and not at all too soon as I'm sick of grinding! I want to get some paint on her and get down to the nuts and bolts .

Strangely, I'm also looking forward to doing the electrics.

[tedmcedd]

Strangely, I'm also looking forward to doing the electrics.

I like doing electrics! its good fun!

[Mini Basher]

Elliot's coming on well, wish all I had to think about was paint and wiring lol


Andy

[Deathrow]

Strangely, I'm also looking forward to doing the electrics.

I like doing electrics! its good fun!

Hehe, I'm hoping it can be quite theraputic, I'm going to invest in a snazzy new soldering iron for the job I think .

Elliot's coming on well, wish all I had to think about was paint and wiring lol


Andy

Cheers Andy, haha I wish that too!

The list of things to do is still very long, and that's just to get her road worthy, it's not to have her "completed". It'll be well worth it though .

[Deathrow]

Got a fair few pictures for you guys and girls today .

I popped round on Sunday and splashed a good application of Kurust anywhere that there was a possibilty that surface rust could have started to form:


Passenger side.


Driver side.

Then today after I got out of the lab at Uni I ran around the houses and got some bits and bobs I needed to be getting on with:


Yes, I've had some of this vinegar so long that it was before ASDA changed the colour of their Smart Price labels!


Oh look, some back plates!


Driver side back plate, eurgh.


Passenger side back plate. Yes I've already painted this once, but I'm not happy with it as it wasn't a proper job.


Just add vinegar!


Covered with cling film.


Then protected from the elements with a plastic lid thing.

We shall revisit these in a few days! Now, todays work on the body:


Drilled the passenger side rear subframe mounting holes.


Drilled the driver side rear subframe mounting holes.


Another coat of red oxide on the rear valance, I want it well protected because I don't want to do it again for a loooooong time.


Rusty driver side radius arm.


Cleaned up with a wire wheel attachment on the drill.


Etch primed one side.


Etch primed the other, ready for some nice glossy black paint now.


First coat of red oxide on the boot floor and valance closing panels.


Another angle.


Overall.

I'll probably go around the garage tomorrow when I get out of Uni and apply a second coat of red oxide to the closing panels and the rear of the boot floor, then once that's dry I can coat it all in black rustoleoum so that I can get the valance put on .

I've decided that the rear subframe will be going on once more before I paint the underside of the boot floor and call it finished. This is so I can check that the rear mounting holes are in the correct place and then weld the supporting brackets in. It also Means I can roll the car out of the garage and jack up the side in order to install the sills. Once the sills are on and all the welds ground back nice and neat, it'll go back on the axle stands so I can properly clean the under side of the floor, prime, stonechip, paint, underseal, waxoyl. Then the frame is going back on for good .

Also, in a change of heart, I'm going to sell the grille I have with spotlamp cut outs in it. I want to get a nice old thin slat grille instead, I just haven't decided if it should be chrome, or black with a chrome surround. Opinions are welcome!

Edited by Deathrow, 16 February 2010 - 06:02 PM.

[analogue_radio]

Really really impressive mate, can't wait to hack into mine soon and hopefully make a lot of progress over Easter.

Will be heavily applying seam sealer, kurust and red oxide as well

[Deathrow]

Really really impressive mate, can't wait to hack into mine soon and hopefully make a lot of progress over Easter.

Will be heavily applying seam sealer, kurust and red oxide as well

Cheers Luke .

I'm hoping Easter will be productive for me as well. If the weather holds well I'll basically be spending every day of Easter as follows:

Elliot by day.
Revision by night.

Naturally though, if needs must, revision will take priority.

Yeah man, I'd rather it was covered in seam sealer and looked hideous than it rusted again after a year! Prevention is always better than cure. I shall be investing in bucket loads of black waxoyl, it's getting pumped in to the sills, in to the doors, in to the A and B pillars, down inside the rear quaters, anywhere all the common rot places.

[Deathrow]

Not an update as such, but me seeking some input.

With all this IVA stuff up in the air, I'm really considering buying a pair of wings and a front panel and rebuilding my front end as it would have been from the factory. I really don't want to have all this wrok ruined becuase Elliot loses her plates.

I don't know what to do .

If I do go for the metal front route, I need to find someone who's scrapping a shell that I can pinch the inner wings from.

Edited by Deathrow, 20 February 2010 - 01:32 AM.

[Mini Basher]

It's looking gooood!!!

Loads of progress on Eliots rear end, I think your going down the right route by re-trying the rear subframe before finishing of the under floor as it will be a lot easier to make any small alterations now rather than when you've finished all the underside off.

On a different note you can buy the inner wings from heritage, they are expensive but at least you know you'll be starting with sound rust free panels

Keep at it

Andy

[Deathrow]

It's looking gooood!!!

Loads of progress on Eliots rear end, I think your going down the right route by re-trying the rear subframe before finishing of the under floor as it will be a lot easier to make any small alterations now rather than when you've finished all the underside off.

On a different note you can buy the inner wings from heritage, they are expensive but at least you know you'll be starting with sound rust free panels

Keep at it

Andy

Thankyou sir .

Yeah, I'm definitly going to wait until I can wheel the rear subframe in to place before I paint the floor and before I weld the valance on, just in case the closing panels still aren't right (god help me if they're not).

I might have lucked out with the wings, we shall have to see .

I shall do sir, I shall do! As long as my Uni work doesn't get in the way at least.

[Deathrow]

Righto, here is the update containing this past weekends work:


A lovely looking vinegar and steel stew!


Parts removed.


Cleaned off.


And left to dry.


Final scrub up.


Etch prime.


Red oxide prime.

Then I moved to the garage to get on with some more prep work for some panels going on:


Driver side closing panel.


Passenger side closing panel.


Passenger side inner sill.


Driver side closing panel in rustoleoum.


Passenger side closing panel in rustoleoum.


Passenger side inner sill in rustoleoum.


I also slapped a nice thick coat of rustoleoum on the insides of the new sills.


Passenger side back plate.


...wire wheeled.


Driver side back plate.


I tried to remove the brake adjuster bolt but it broke my cheap vice, haha.


...wire wheeled.

The back plates have gone back in to the vinegar now, where they will stay until all the remaining crud comes off them and I can paint them up all nice.

[analogue_radio]

Vinegar seems quite effective! I've got a few more rusty bits to clean up so I'll give that a go.

Take a look in my thread and access the damage done

[Deathrow]

Vinegar seems quite effective! I've got a few more rusty bits to clean up so I'll give that a go.

Take a look in my thread and access the damage done

Make sure you leave it long enough, I left some of that stuff a week but the rust literally wiped off.

I shall have a gander sir!

Just to add to the thread also, I believe I've secured myself some replacement inner wings so I can put a steel front back on!