two_days_late Posted May 22, 2016 Author Share Posted May 22, 2016 Another day in on the car today. Joe and I finished prepping it for the paint shop on Thursday and I dropped it off this afternoon. List of jobs to do are: - Clean up White Paint Front Screen Surround Rear Screen Surround Sunroof Hole Parcel Shelf Boot Spotlight brackets Wiper Holes - Paint all trim bits Satin Black Front Panel Around Side Windows Tops of Doors Dash and inside A Pillar Bumpers & Handles Fuel Tank & Cap It should all be done by next weekend so fingers crossed... Once that was done, we spent a couple of hours this afternoon cleaning up all the glass so it's ready to go with the new headlining and complete rubber kit. Method was: 1.) Scraper to remove Silicone / Black Paint over-spray / General Crap 2.) Meths to remove sticky crap left from tints and more general crap 3.) Glass cleaner and news paper All screens came up looking mint, very happy. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
two_days_late Posted May 29, 2016 Author Share Posted May 29, 2016 Paint work's nearly done and it'll be off to the upholsterer this week. Have also got a full rubber kit, new headlining, and a brand new windscreen to go in. Should look bloody good. Boot's been sealed off with a 3M texture coat and painted white. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
two_days_late Posted July 6, 2016 Author Share Posted July 6, 2016 Underseal Clean Up The underside of the car was sprayed with a bitumen based underseal a few years ago but it never set properly. It's fine under the guards but under the floors it was really wet to touch and looked pretty average. Made the call to strip it off and do it with a better quality product. I was going to leave under the guards with the old stuff, but looking at the new stuff now and how much better it is, I'm going to do the whole thing. Spent some time doing some research on a product that I'd be happy with and it's worked out really well. It's textured enough to make it look tidy, but goes on quite thin, really nice product to work with. Getting the old stuff off was a pretty terrible job, but a heatgun and a scraper has worked a treat, and although it takes a while was well worth the effort. Old Bitumen stuff: After 8ish hours of scraping: Masked up and ready to go: Product I went with: Finished Result (Haven't done outside chassis rails yet) 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
two_days_late Posted July 6, 2016 Author Share Posted July 6, 2016 New Bits New Wiring Loom New Loom has finally arrived from the UK. Took a while to get made up and get here, but the end result looks great. Will probably still need a few mods as I go but I'm very happy with the result. Inner Door Bits Have everything I need for the doors now. Combination of new speakers from Hyper, some NOS bits off ebay, and some clips and things from uncle Ali. Burton Order Also finally got my latest Burton Power order with a few nice new bits 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
two_days_late Posted July 6, 2016 Author Share Posted July 6, 2016 Door Card Clean Up Managed to get hold of some RS2000 door cards a while ago that have been sitting in the shed. They had a chrome strip on them but the chrome had all come off, but were in otherwise good condition. Masked them up and gave them a coat with some satin plastic paint then got stuck into them with some armourall vinyl cleaner and they've come up great. Original Condition: Masked Up: Painted: Ready to Go: 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
two_days_late Posted March 19, 2017 Author Share Posted March 19, 2017 Bit more progress this week. Starting with getting the old trans tunnel brace drilled out (it must have had a different gearbox in it at some stage and someone had mangled the old one), then the new one welded in and sealed (Cheers Joe). Also Por15'd the cross-member and sway-bar so it's ready for the motor to go back in now. Pile of goodies also turned up from the UK. Cheers Matt 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post two_days_late Posted December 11, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 11, 2017 After a long harsh winter of no progress it's finally back on the ground. New coilovers, steering rack, RS hubs, track arms, RS tie rod ends, sway-bar bushes all fitted in the weekend. Should be able to get it really nice and low once the engines in and the coil-overs are wound down... looks like the tyres are gonna rub though so will likely need to swap them. The alloy RS hubs stick out about an inch further than the standard ones. This means the next step is getting the motor back in... which might even happen before Christmas. Finally more steps forward than back! 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
two_days_late Posted December 19, 2017 Author Share Posted December 19, 2017 We managed to get the motor back in last night without too much trouble. The engine sits in the right position now with the new engine mounts (so the exhaust and carbs fit nicely). Think I have a slightly bent cross-member, and still need to finish sorting the gearbox cross-member and cut the gearbox hole. At least it's in though and can worry about all that next year! 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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