J277 WAR

Keep up the good work mate, what is it with the J plates and rust mine has been never ending

KSA-Cossie

iTrader: (4)

Looked really nice in the first pics too, lots of hard work been done so far, keep at it mate. What's your final spec gonna be ?

SMILER258

keep up the good work, it has similar problems to mine. Will look good when finished

Parky

Excellent thread! Keep up the good work,

martin24uk

Dont know mate i was always under the impression that the later saphs shells were
imported from germany, so should have been much better quality

Not sure at the moment, thinking along the lines of keeping it stage 4 and painting
it frozen white . . .

Here is hoping mate, i am guessing yours has excessive rust and had owners that
only know how to bodge things ???

Thanks to everybody for the kind words, have been doing alot of work to it the past
few weeks so will get some pics up of it soon

martin24uk

Well its been a long time coming but the floor is now all welded up, rust treated, primed
and seam sealed at Last .

here are some pics













will be putting 2ltr of stone chip on tomorrow night so will get some more
pics up then

fezzajsy

iTrader: (9)

sweet

R5COS

Looking good m8, lots of work gone into that already... Will keep an eye on this build

martin24uk

Thanks m8

Tell me about it, its took me about a year to just do the floor

martin24uk

Thats the first coat of stone chip on, now just getting the arches all cleaned
and the 2 more litres of stone chip fill follow along with some nice frozen
white paint

Hopefully have the floor finished for this weekend . . .

J1mbo

iTrader: (1)

Good work fella, been through the under side bufty treatment with mine, tedious isn't it!

Cossie Sean

Nice, did you make or buy your Jig?

wanting one for my shell in a few months

01dwilkinson

Awesome thread

martin24uk

it is that, alot of time and work for little show

I got it off ebay, got the standard jig but wish i had paid abit more
for the deluxe one would have saved me hassle

Thanks mate

martin24uk

Well at long last thats the floor finaly finished
this is it after a couple of litres of frozen white

















Cant wait to get it turned back over

adam151082

Looks awsome, bet you cant wait to drive it.

fordrs2005

iTrader: (4)

You selling that spit now then ?

martin24uk

Thanks mate and yeah, hopefully this year ! !

Not yet gibby, do you know someone needing one and have
you had a think about that heatshield ?

2wd saff cos @ stage 3

iTrader: (1)

wow, gunna be mint when finished

fordrs2005

iTrader: (4)

I'm wanting to put the escort on one saves working upside doon

Sure there's a deal to be done on it with a trade in of a heat shield

martin24uk

Thats the plan, well it should be after a year and a half so far

martin24uk

LOL, i like your thinking. i wasnt planning on selling it until i have done my
s1 but i am sure we can come to a loan deal.
dont think i will be startin on the escort till winter time at the earliest.

martin24uk

Just thought i would post these two pics together

Before


after

Rollin Rides

[QUOTE=martin24uk;5841978]Just thought i would post these two pics together

Before


after



Fair play mate its looking good. where did you get your jig from???

martin24uk

Fair play mate its looking good. where did you get your jig from???[/QUOTE]

Thanks, I got it from here http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CORTINA-MI...item4cff5b1e8a

done its job but would go for the deluxe one if i was doing it again.

R5COS

looking good Martin thats alot of the hard work done now

RSGARETHW

iTrader: (3)

good work mate

martin24uk

Thanks Mate, its only took me a year just on the floor

Cheers

martin24uk

Been a long time since i have posted so here go's

engine bay before and after.....












Will get the rest of the pics up tomorrow

Eigdoog

This is looking really good!

You could of gone for smooth wheel arches before the paint but this looks great!

Paul_RS

iTrader: (4)

Coming along really well!

martin24uk

I was going to but didnt fancy welding up all of the holes and then skimming them ect, then just to re-drill for the holes i needed
Thanks for the comment mate

Thanks

martin24uk

Some more













and away to get painted by GIBBY cant wait to get it back

matman

Stunning!

RSMK4TURBO

Great work mate

martin24uk

Well it's back from GIBBY and am well happy






Painted !!!






and back home........



Extremly happy, looks like new.
Big thanks to GIBBY for the fantastic paint job and mark, derek and franny for getting it there and back

Sticky.

iTrader: (4)

Keep up the good work.

Glenn_

iTrader: (1)

Top work there matey.Ive noticed you front jacking points are missing.I take it they were rotton.

I would love to do this to my own car.

155lee

iTrader: (10)

Looking really good bud,I would have gave up a long time ago.
Well done!

gingeRS

Mint mint