Managed to find out the full extent of the rust today :look:

Few bits were a suprise but it's alot better then what i orginally thought!!


Bit of surface rust on the boot floor but it's solid!

Lurking in there is alot of fucking rust on the chassis leg/ Anti roll bar mounting points...

Some of the rear D/S arch

And the back of the D/S chassis leg, just seems to be surface rust

Off to work i went with a drill + attachent as i don't have a grinder
Got most of the rust back to bare metal then coted them in a gel which supposedly makes the rusty bits back to metal and then coated them all in an anti-rust primer

You can see the three holes better on this one at the front, i've just done it for the mean time till it's welded.

O/S arch

Also tried firing her up, after a poke about my mechanic friend found that the Distributor was leaking and the cap was near enough fucked thus making to contact with the dizzy itself.

After scrapping the front arch liners i think i'm just going to keep them out and paint them red then seal them, same for the underneath of the car, but with the black sealant

My project for this week is to repaint my front fogs, they've been CC'd really badly and it's flakey as fook! I want them back to matt black, would some wet and dry paper followed by some primer and then the hammerrite shizz do the job?

Also if you know anyone breaking an RS Turbo or 90 spec XR3I give me a u2u as i need a new boot