jamie_schollum

sorry guys been slack as with posting. Shes all sanded down and super straight to me now ready for primer. HAd 250 hours or so in labour on front end which for rust free thats pretty crazy. Pulling engine out next week hopefuly to tidy engine bay and do up the good old pinto.

they have allready re made the panels and re made the tops of guards and changed the channels so the water doesnt sit there and it wont happen again

Makes me wonder whats behinhd my gaurds on my new one! Wouldnt be surprised if most of them are rusty there and ya just dont know untill you remove the gaurds!

yeah dont mean to acuse you about it man either, it was just that it has been def done dodgy and covered up as the rusty piller had gunk and another panel riverted onto the front of it and then gunk/shit over that and then some other shit lol. and congrats also, all tied up now! but yeh take the guards off and grind it down as my mates escort was exactly the same

yep there is more photos coming, just need to get them. nothing else apart from both pillers and some of the front left floor in the corner but hay thats oldcars for ya

Couple more pics

it had patches riverted on to the rusty hole piller to try cover it up and with a tone of crap sealer? lol

Pics please. I dont belive this. I paid close to $2000 to get rust removed PLUS the $3000 to paint the car! (which also involved a tad more rust removal) Either way I had no idea of this, sucks to find but it is an old car. If I was you I would have started with another shell, what was the point of taking expensive paint off a car when it looked fine. You could have started on a new shell and still had this one as it was! Each to their own tho.

um gaz, quote "It has ABSOLUTLY NO RUST as it was all taken out" but yeah it sure has rust.

Few $$ also fixing

As far as I knew it didnt. I didnt touch that car in the paint/prep procedure and I did believe it was 100% rust free. It was painted round 5 years ago now which is a pretty long time. When I sold it to you, over a year ago now, it had absolutly no signs of rust coming through the paint and no signs of rust anywhere else for that matter.. so, how was i supposed to know!! Sorry mate but not my fault!

yeah narh im not having a go at you, just dissapionted but the guy that did it for you did the dodgy hardout. I will send more photos threw when i get the disk from panel beaters. ta

it had patches riverted on to the rusty hole piller to try cover it up and with a tone of crap sealer? lol

um gaz, quote "It has ABSOLUTLY NO RUST as it was all taken out" but yeah it sure has rust.

Few $$ also fixing

i think 7489 is job number

fair enough, that rust is pretty shit

As in small or bad? lol

yeah but we were told it had no rust. And so its done proper and dont have to re do it again, as he has designd it so the water wont sit inside and rust like factory guards do.

i think 7489 is job number

So yeah car has been in paint shop for a few months, aperntly it had no rust... to bad pics dont lye. Really anoyed, so hear is a couple of pics so far of front left guard. Both sides are really bad and have been all re made with new pillers etc also. Will post more pics when sent through to me from shop.

So yeah car has been in paint shop for a few months, aperntly it had no rust... to bad pics dont lye. Really anoyed, so hear is a couple of pics so far of front left guard. Both sides are really bad and have been all re made with new pillers etc also. Will post more pics when sent through to me from shop.

whatd they set you back? look good as

Are you sure its sitting right? I think when I did it I had no bumpies in but im sure it hit on the inner.. Maybe it was the outer I cant member now.

yeh both wheels are attached haha and its hitting both outer guards constant rub. cant move car as sittn on the tyre. but u said it didnt rub that much with you and i get rubbage with one person in the back? (wasnt fat eaither) haha

i might be stupid but im sure its pretty obvious that its sitting on the tyre, and in the pic on the build thread of it bumpied it looks like your wheels are sittn in more than mine now. real weird???

I dsay take the rims into an engineer and ask them. Id also say it is possiable as there is HEAPS of extra meat on there.

Ill also tell you that if you do it then the inner side of the rim will hit the inner side of the gaurd and it will rub constantly. You might want to jump under the car with a jack under the diff and have a look at where it is hitting now.

Could possibaly run a lowpro 15inch tyre if your can find one.. Maybe a 175 or 185 at around 50 or 40 profile. It will make the car lower to the ground but it will make it look like there is more room in the arches.

yeah its on the jack now with ubolts not connected so is bumped stoped. it has heaps of room to move to the inner side but is constant rub on main guard, some different tyres could be the go also but just looking at different ideas by keeping the same tyre size

That is how the manufacturers of single piece rims modify offset. They cast in heaps of material in that area and then carve it off. That is why most modern RWD rims suck so badly as they are really FWD rims with a deep inner hub

Problem is once they have been drilled you can't really skim the back of them (and definitely not 15mm) or there will be nowhere for the nuts to seats. Would need to redrill the stud patter in order to do it safely and by the time you pay for it would probably be cheaper to get different wheels.

Callum

most others are gay and hardly any mags dont have the right ofset eaither from what i no of... the other option i no of is simmons but they are pricey

What do you want to do that for?

You wanna have the rims tucking?

yeh pretty much, wana reset leafs but hits the tyrre at the moment, needs to move in 1 ta 2cm

ohh yep. yes thay have alot at the back i saw which is why i thought u might be able to get them machined down. Would you no a place that could? any wheel shop maybe?

can you get the inside where it lines up with the hub machined 1.5cm so you can have a better offset or does that stuff up your wheels?

would so buy it if had the cash man its the sickest cortina in new zealand hands down i reckn!

that drop tank looks sick man, real good idea? any luck with the sale?

cant stop laughing, that guys fucked

was heapsa cars and cops last night, ended up getting home at 3am from eastbourn.

any oldschool cars going down tonight?