I finally got to work on putting some white paint on the chassis, the mastic 121 protects and the white paint covering it makes it look pretty.

Only done the drivers side rear arch as yet because i wanted to know how much paint it will use for the whole floor and arches.

So far i've used 2 tins of 500ml white gloss for the rear arch and the floor where the AYC pump sits.

Its a good job i've got 24 x 500ml tins to play with...

I want to put a few coats on to give it a nice thick protective layer, then I think i'll put a few coats of clear laquer on as extra protection.

Here's what it looks like so far, it needs another coat yet but you get the idea...















I should have it all painted up by the weekend.

Then i'm going to sand down the diff / AYC casings, etch primer them and give it a couple of coats of either gloss silver or black - not decided yet.

sooo much to do...

At last i've managed to finish off the painting of the rear end, rear arches and the whole of the floor pan (well i've put 2 good coats on, just one more coat and a couple of coats of laquer to go ).

I'm very pleased with the results, I can start to put things back together in a couple of weeks....

FLOORPAN...











REAR - fuel tank area





SPARE WHEEL WELL....



SUSPENSION MOUNTS.....





AYC PUMP LOCATION.....





AND OTHER SIDE...







HERE'S A REMINDER TO WHAT IT WAS LIKE BEFORE I STARTED...













A vast improvement I think, still a way to go yet though, i'll keep chipping away at it....

I've been a bit busy lately so i haven't got as far as i liked, but here's what i've been doing....

I decided to refit the fuel tank and to see what the rear suspension beam looked like now its been powdercoated.

The tank looks great, I had it powdercoated gloss black and the heat shields on the tank done gloss silver.

I replaced the rubber hoses and fitted new pipe clips between the pum and sender unit, just got to replace the filler rubber hose and clips now.







Also i fitted the newly chromed fuel filler pipe, just got to fit the rear suspension mounts so i can fit the fuel filler pipe guard which has also been chromed...









I had the heat shield near the front of the car powder coated aswell...



Rear suspension beam powder coated and fitted.... i had all the bolts chromed too...









I also had EVERY bracket that holds the handbrake cables, brake and fuel lines chromed, as i wanted to pay attention to the details...



Diff hanger washers....





Camber bolts and washers.....





All suspension arm bolts were done aswell...



So you can see the theme i'm working to.

I sprayed my AYC diff , spent 2 hours rubbing it down with wire wool to get rid of 12 years of crud, 2 coats of primer then a couple of coats of gloss black.

I removed all the diff bolts (and fitted temporary ones) so they can be chromed, they will look good against the gloss black casings. The little square inspection cover is being chromed aswell...

I also drained all the oils ready to put in new stuff.







also sprayed my SAS valve...





Whilst I was in the garage i removed the fuel tank again and sanded down all the brake lines and fuel lines ( I forgot to do them, i got carried away with fitting shiny bits :spank, I treated them to a coat of Mastic 121 so they will now last forever. As soon as the Mastic is dry i'll spray them gloss black and re-fit the fuel tank....

I sprayed the brake / fuel lines gloss black now the Mastic 121 was dry, they are very much protected now...





Again attention to detail meant I had the brake pipe clips chromed, stainless bolts aswell...



I had a stainless plate made to cover up the brake / fuel lines from from to back of the car .

I modified it to fit, this is a guard to protect the lines as they are exposed under the car, here's a couple of pics as i test fitted it, just a few more tweaks but you get the idea.... I'm going to get it polished to a mirror finish.



IGNORE the temporary screws used to test fit it.



I had to pull all the carpet back inside the car to make sure that i could drill the chassis for the bols to fit it to the car, took my ages, had to get the front seats out...:grinno:

Obviously i'll use nice stainless bolts to bolt it to the chassis, also i'll use sealer to seal it up against the chassis, maybe i'll fill it with waxoil aswell ?


Fitted upper arm brackets.....new stainless bolts aswell.



Fitted rear beam exhaust hanger...had it chromed.



Fitted fuel filler pipe stone guard ( although it needs taking off again so i can move fuel filler pipe in order to get rear upper arm bolt in ).





Fitted rear ARB mounts just to make sure they look ok - chromed & polished







Fitted rear diff mounting brackets to diff - had them chromed and the bolts chromed.







Fitted AYC braided lines to diff to check fitment....



Then fitted AYC pump, i cleaned the pump up and sprayed it gloss black, the pump mounting brackets were powder coated silver then same colour as the fuel tank heat shields.
Replaced all bolts with stainless.



This is what it was like...



Pipe bracket chromed, following the attention to detail, notice the domed nuts....

GOT TO REPLACE HOSE CLIPS WITH NICE SHINY NEW ONES....





Fitted braided AYC lines to AYC pump...







Just got to work out now where to route the new lines and where to secure them to the chassis, i'll do this once i've re-fitted the diff...



Replace fuel tank mounting nuts with nice dome nuts.....




Had a helper with me too, my 18 year old tabby - Sid...:grinno:



I've had my flocked dash in bits stored in big plastic bags in the garage for months now and today I decided to re-assemble it, the cooling ducts needed re-fitting and the power FC screen and hand controller mounting, the dash is in 3 pieces so they needed all putting back together.

As you can see the power FC screen is now where the centre vent was and the control buttons are where the drivers side vent used to be.









Airbag cover also has a neat touch...(need to clean dash of dust ).