scooters Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 Discussion thread now open. If you dere. Before I start. There will be some shit photos. Taken 1/2 in the dark with my old S3 sorry. This is also not a serious car build. This car has been my dads for 15+ years. Picked it up wedged into some gorse bushes near Cable Bay Nelson. I think he paid $750. Dads had dubs his whole life I think in 2004 he got rid of the first car he ever owned (67 bug) So suffice to say i'm not going to be without them for some years yet. I think about 15 years ago we rubbed it back and painted it a very loud yellow.. I am told the colour was my choice (wish I chose better) but that was a fair few moons ago I would have been early teens. So the first pic is likely 9 years ago... my grandad my wife and the yellow dub. & me ! tagging interested partys now. cheers guys. @Willdat? @yoeddynz @moparmuppet 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scooters Posted May 19, 2018 Author Share Posted May 19, 2018 The build all kind of came about because I wanted to jam some wheels on... I expect there will be no other wheels like this in NZ on the ultra crap 4x130 stud. I bought them off trade me and paid a dollar or 2 for the privilege 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scooters Posted May 19, 2018 Author Share Posted May 19, 2018 Decided to have a look pull some wheels and gaurds... running boards... make sure everything was gravey.. shit kind of when south. dead heater rails... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scooters Posted May 19, 2018 Author Share Posted May 19, 2018 before we go too deep.. here is a clean late model with the rims I have. mine is gonna be nothing like this one... It's too far gone. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scooters Posted May 19, 2018 Author Share Posted May 19, 2018 On and out with the rust. Big thanks to @Valiant who talked me threw the process. I'v never done rust... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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scooters Posted May 19, 2018 Author Share Posted May 19, 2018 It's worth a mention that most of this rust is normal on dubs. the correct way to really fix this is to pull the body off the pan... But a young family and hanmer in the pipe and little shed room.. Doing a 10/10 job was really not going to fly. If I can tie it over for 5 or 10 years then thats ideal.. Threw the course of this. I have ended up welding the pan to the body in a few places.. This is not great. But I really do not have the time/skills/tools to make a proper go of it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scooters Posted May 19, 2018 Author Share Posted May 19, 2018 pulled the whole front end out... clean it all up and re bush it... springs off for a 75mm lower reset.. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scooters Posted May 19, 2018 Author Share Posted May 19, 2018 most shaping was me bashing stuff over my vice... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scooters Posted May 19, 2018 Author Share Posted May 19, 2018 this was the first go at it... It got better from here & so did the welding . 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scooters Posted May 20, 2018 Author Share Posted May 20, 2018 had a wee measure up.. try to get everything dead level based on calculations. In the end dropped the back a couple of splines and had the front coils re set.... best guess work really. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scooters Posted May 20, 2018 Author Share Posted May 20, 2018 the rust really took hold behind where the running boards are bolted on.. Should have checked it out 15 years ago.. there were some sub standard patches that someone put on over the rust behind the front wheels... After that went threw the water was splashed from the road down the heater rails. Never had a mention made at WOF time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scooters Posted May 20, 2018 Author Share Posted May 20, 2018 a good mate @moparmuppet threw me a life line and helped me bead roll a real bad bit. It actually worked out really sweet. Thanks to project Binky and the C.A.D work (cardboard assisted design) 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scooters Posted May 20, 2018 Author Share Posted May 20, 2018 A bit of this sort of thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scooters Posted May 20, 2018 Author Share Posted May 20, 2018 Had a few mock ups and trial runs fitting everything. spray painted some black accents... peeled the old rubber off the running boards and painted them black and used skateboard grip tape.. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scooters Posted May 20, 2018 Author Share Posted May 20, 2018 did this.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scooters Posted May 20, 2018 Author Share Posted May 20, 2018 deck lid stand offs a must. A whole 48 hp to keep cool..... in a NZ winter. (They will come back off at some stage) I thought they would have been ok. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post scooters Posted May 20, 2018 Author Popular Post Share Posted May 20, 2018 went and got one of these.. 16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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