Northern Bloke

Pop down to the garage last Monday to check out what needed doing to the car over the winter.

Got a little carried away though and this is what happened Monday/Tuesday

Andy

Anonymous

FOOK!!!

AN U DID THAT IN 2 DAYS!!!

BE LUCKY IF I COULD CHANGE THE SPARK PLUGS IN A DAY

U GOIN FOR A FULL SHELL RESTO?? AN R U GONNA KEEP IT WHITE?

TEXAS PETE

What engine are you running there mate?

Northern Bloke

Tillio, I'm gonna strip and repaint the shell, top to bottom renew all of the bubbles as they're knackered and paint it white again - not decided about graphics yet though

Pete, it's a 3.5l Rover V8 motor - you can see the full info on my site - just click the sig

Andy

MADSCOTS

damn good, looking forward to seeing it finished

DAN P

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verey nice m8


DAN

Anonymous

DAT GONNA LOOK PROPA BO!

LOVE MK1'S

AN I CAN SEE ITS GONNA BE A GOODEN!!!

Anonymous

Lookin good so far. Good luck with the rest of it mate.

phil

rsturbowhite

Northern Bloke
your baby blue car is mint nice car mate thanks marie on grahams name

Northern Bloke

Cheers Marie

When did you see me in the (wife's) baby blue car?

jacko

did you send hadland the wheel pics andy and get them up on here

Northern Bloke

Not yet Jacko

Best put some updateded pics on here of the car now

Moza

I was thinking you had stripped her again until i saw it was an old thread

Northern Bloke

No fear Lee

I must admit I'd forgotten about this thread so I'd best put some pics of the work in here as well

Here goes

Bit more on the rebuild carried out by Ken (www.rsescorts.co.uk) and I


















and this was the car in the summer

Northern Bloke

and then it came back off the road to have the final paint job etc. care of Jacko at www.blueovalgarages.com


First a nice coat of white primer and base coat










And then we can start masking out for the stripes - this took about 2 days











Then it's on with the green









And the red





and then out into the daylight to see what we have








Now starting to fit the car back up

















And finally get the new split rims on

GazzaG

LOVE IT MATE !

smitsturbo

stunning work mate

rsfido_1989

i havnt got any words for that car

Dan

Thats absolutely stunning mate! LOVE the look of it now!

Those rims and that paint totally make the car, nice one!

Northern Bloke

Cheers lads, I must admit I'm over the moon with the look of the car myself, much better than I expected

I was having a nightmare getting the wheels to clear the rear of the front arches though but sussed it this weekend so I now have lock




Just the exhaust and the centre console to sort out now

Nash

iTrader: (3)

Stunning

bailey1

iTrader: (2)

Linsay

how cool is that

Northern Bloke

Right, that's all the glass in, new rubbers all round, including the silver inserts in the front and rear screens. The front spolier properly fitted with the Dzus backing plates rivetted in, the seat lowered so it now goes back far enough for me to be comfortable.

I got the axle back from Tom at Fostek (www.fostek.co.uk) on Saturday. It's been shortened by 4 inches and had heavy duty 2 piece billet shafts fitted - the diff had to be reworked to accept the larger splines from the shafts. All bearings replaced and the shafts have also been drilled to accept the Nissan PCD wheels. Top work, cheers Tom

Test fitted it yesterday and it went straight in but I'm still gonna have to re-profile the arches to make sure I get clearance

Anyway, as per usual, here's a couple more pics

Munch

looks proper mean

Stavros

awesome

Twins

iTrader: (18)

That looks the tits

patch

mint

Lee Reynolds

wow stunning

Northern Bloke

a couple more pictures of the axle in situ and the wheel after the arch has been reprofiled - Onwards

rscossie86

absolutely love that car!! looks the nuts!




keep up the GREAT WORK!

Northern Bloke

New outer rims arrived last week and here they are before and after (new ones on the right)





That inch reduction has made a big difference and the tyres fit a lot better now




The car's just about there, just need to bleed the brakes and clutch, tidy some bits up inside and give it a bloody good clean as it's minging

Looking pretty good though


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BIL N KEL

that is 1 wicked car

Northern Bloke

The car's now fully boxed up and I was fully expecting to have it out on the road this morning but no

Bled everything yesterday and could not get a clutch pedal - went down this morning and swapped out the new slave cylinder for the old one just in case but no change so it looks as though the master cylinder has failed. So a bit pissed off but

while the car was outside being washed and afterwards I took these shots - can't stay pissed off for long just looking at it

So I'll source a new master cylinder and swap it out and try again

jacko

the car looks mint and sounds even better

mark

love it m8 top job

dave cos4x4

iTrader: (5)

excellent job you have done there,the difference the paint/stripes make etc....

Northern Bloke

and a bit of video footage - plugs are a bit oiled up but a quick clean will sort it

MrCapriScort

Awesome matey, wheels and paint look spot on

Northern Bloke

Some pics from Donington on 1 July









and then the air cracked the leading edge of the bonnet and the car started with the Elvis impersionations bit of reinforcement behind the leading edge will sort it