Krupkee

been a bit slack posting

removed sound deadening, all gone now, one side just needs cleaning up, will get recent pics this weekend. Some interesting factory patch panels/panel beating too lol

During

after tbc

cut some rust out for patchs. about 4 holes in total, this is the biggest

Cleaned one up and cut a patch from my old mr2 engine bay lid. Tried to weld one of the smaller ones up. did a fair bit of practice on some offcuts. Stitch welded the piece up, cleaned the welds then went to fill in the gaps and kept getting blow-through, getting a die grinder so I can square the holes up nicely and make it easier to clean welds up. Also going to buy some fresh steel rather than use scrap from old mr2 engine bay lid. hope that helps. If anyone has tips they would be appreciated!

Picked up parts car from auckland. mint doors, quite a few bagdes and trim in good nick and almost new carpet! woo. Only parts im after now are front guards, might get a panel shop to fix these ones up when I have a bit of cash. 

reg still live and almost rust free so tempting to use this instead but I will persevere and make this body rust free and might do the parts car up after.

First time it saw rain in 20+ years.. bloody summer. Guy I got it from has a mint yellow one with red interior as well.

update from this weekend. progress is slow, generally a couple of hours a day

finished off the roof and took the doors and guards off

worst bit so far found some hidden treats in the sills, not too bad, steel patchs will just be simple angles so far!

and some random pics

Benchy!!

back seat with no rips! just the top piece/material missing

This is beyond cool

got some more stripping done

roof gutters had some kind of sealant put in them during its life and this was holding on the chrome strip, unfortunately couldnt get this off without damaging it so need replacements

and all cleaned up

back stripped, need to grind/sand back all the welds on the sills/lower body replacements

rear boot shut gutters all good

To do:

finish stripping roof, front and rear bits

find new doors, front guards. Need to find cash to buy parts car on trademe for the doors and trims etc

remove interior and then strip door sills, floor new sound deadening, carpet upholstery

Got out to the garage today for a few hours, did rear quarter and started on the back. pretty straight so far. not sanding to far back once metals showing as I only have p60 pads and don't want to thin it too much, will get the last bits of old paint off with 120 before priming

no rust holes, several small dings but only minor

Progress from yesterday, bit slow as there is ~5 layers to strip off. didn't get around to working on it today, hopefully will get the majority of the car, including welding the rust patches done over christmas break

Defintely read through your threads on here and Bellett forums alistair, nice work!

Did some work today, bonnets bare back to bare metal will work through rest of body and look for new guard and/or doors

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Discuss..

I have a 3l 6 speed wagon best car I have owned

Things to look for/I have done:

-Power steering noises, can be wrong fluid or return oring, fluid is dex atf fluid which doesn't always get used (mine was serviced before buying and had wrong fluid)

-Reverse light switch, pita to get to...

-all speakers will likely be stuffed, the foam disintegrates if McIntosh. They are 2ohm I believe so bit more expensive to replace. Crank the volume and listen for the rattles.

-Surround for stereos is hella expensive ~$600

-spark plugs are pita/expensive but can get the 100k km iridium ones.

got the front arms of the fronte rebuilt (dual wishbone), cost a bit more than i wanted but meh shit happens

rear brakes are a bit screwed, dragging on the hub, will need to sort out, then get crossmember rewelded, put engine in, route cooling and see if it starts lol

oh yer an fix a few rusting bits

time for pics from holidays

headgasket (hand for scale purposes):

stripped paint off the wheels:

tested said wheels:

not happy with the front suspension with spring in, way to high and tight with spring in, did some measuring and can take a couple of coils out, will do that when i get my hands on some more stock springs, just in case lol

pic of the rh suspension is with spring in, lh is with no spring. rh side spring seems to be pusshing down wayyy to much

seems like with susp compressed a bit of camber i might get away with no flares

stock vs new:

speedo definitely will run slower lol gona be getting 155/65/13, if they fit

Name: Sam

Location: Hamiltron

Cars I own: 1974 suzuki fronte, 1985 aw11 mr2, 1992 isuzu mu

mods to them: stock fronte(so far), mr2 has 20v converison, cusco coilovers, toda flywheel, urethane bushes, otehr stuff ive forgotten, dont care about isuzu cause i just want it sold lol

the fleet

Found out about oldschool through maxpower/ just knew about it

got some better pics with new camera:

been working slowly on the suspension changing it to 4x110 and disc fronts, fronts of these are ridiculously hard to get the spring in

im sure this car is familiar to people here, thought I would chuck up a post about my progress

bought last month, interior had a thorough cleaning done, in the process of changing over the suspension to the 4x110 stud hubs and disc brake fronts. has been on hold while i try to fix other cars

I have the watercooled engine which ill chuck in once i make up a new headgasket and see if it runs. and try to rebuild the aircooled engine i got with it

plans are to fix the few bits of rust on it, get a wof and use it as a daily

the fleet of wallowed cars

2 stroke watercooled goodness

interior

gauges (note the km's http://www.carjam.co.nz/car/?plate=gs9425)

manual squirtty wash bottle