Heres my s2 so far let me know what you think but please be gentle as I'm a sensitive guy!














I should have labelled all this really





I've missed out lots of prep work here (striping it all etc.) but I'm trying to keep the pics to a minimum. just finished spaying underneath!! what a job that was I've re-undersealed it after all the welding had been done, although there wasn't really that much welding to do and then sprayed over the underseal in gloss black. I thought about striping the underseal off but I want to use the car when it's done, and I don't want to be worrying to much about damaging it, anyway see what you think.
















Preping ready for the top coat



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I'll probably spray this again cos I'm not really happy with it but here goes anyway.

















A few other goodies





I'm finishing the paintwotk today after spraying it again, so I'll post all the pics soon as I can.

just finished painting it again so let me know what you think A big ,big thanks to Damo for all the advice.











I just could'nt wait to put these stickers on

 

Wheres the pics mate.

 

https://passionford.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=29894

That might help you out mate.

Matt.

 

bttt

 

Right, so come on then spill the beans, what rack you gonna be using??

Obviouslyy its gonna be powered ... but what

 

theres no flies on you Damo!! Pictures and details to follow this weekend!! thanks for the reply

Tony

P.S. I know this is very sad, but I do get excited when I get a reply to a thread!!

 

Keep up the good work mate

Have you painted the car yourself Nice big garage though

 

Thanks Sticker Paul, yep painted it myself and it was c**p! but it's a learning curve I suppose I've just painted it again with a new gun and it looks lots better pics at the weekend.

 

Hi mate,

can I ask what you did underneath, apart from the welding, did you rub down all the original rust proofing and then reapply then paint? And how did you paint the underneath?

Cheers

 

What is that big lump of CNC ally being used for?

 

glad im not going mad didnt reconise the addition metal there
looks good, how did u do the underside

 

If you got any Q's re painting, give us a shout mate, What Gun are you using TBH, If you want the best results, buy the best gun... DeVilbiss Sata for example.

I did the same as you when I was 16/17, bought myself couple of guns, taught myself to spray.... read a few boks...ended up with a BLACK mag featured car

 

looks nice, done a goood job so far. nice p38 and beemer on the drive to

 

Underneath I stripped off any underseal that was loose or looked like it needed replacing and then I sprayed it with smooth hamerite, the reason that I used hamerite is because although it takes months to completely dry I think it is probably less brittle than 2 pack and hopefully more resistant to stone chips I spoke to Paul cox at the rs show last year(2003) and thats what he did with his car and he's won the gold cup in concourse for three years now, now I don't think that I will ever enter mine in concourse but thats the standard I'm after, so if it's good enough for him it's good enough for me, cos his car is mint!!

Damo thanks for that I'll find out what my gun is and get back to you.

landynutter thanks for that I love my range rover it's a 4.6hse and I've just had multipoint lpg fitted, It now stands me at Ł9,000 all in BARGAIN!! 30 to the gallon, riding above the traffic, and I can fit both the kids in and all there gear!! the bm's a 330 clubsport it's quick on the motorway but it handles like s**t it's got to many traction control devices on it, it makes it very frustrating to drive quickly, it's more of an executive toy than a sports car, it's good for posing with the stereo on top notch though

anyway thanks for all your comments you don't know how much it helps to receive positive comments from people having said that if any of you spot something you think I'm doing wrong please let me know.

Thanks again,

Ant.

 

OK, thanks for that, I just wanted to know, cos I think I would want to waxoyl mine aswell, but painting over it I would think is not an option?

 

Looks great mate, keep up the good/hard work!! And what do you do for a living?drug dealer or somat!

 

K3V HA lots of hard work mate.

 

Adam, as you suggest, you cant paint over waxoyl mate

 

Damo - You have PM

 

Keep it up then mate!!

 

looks good wat sort of paint did u use ??

 

hi mate where in wigan r u ps keep going with your head down m8

 

ant u can paint mine lol

 

I take it this is for a power rack then??

 

Billy cabrio, yip fitting it this week so Pics and details to follow at the weekend.

I didn't know wether to keep the power steering Quiet or not, but now it's out in the open what do you think? an S2 with power steering? does anyone know of any others I've tried looking for one but with no joy although I've heard a rumour of an escort cab with power steering but I've not actually seen one.

Ant.

 

Looking good mate, keep up the good work

 

I know of no mk 3 or 4 escorts with power steering, i do know that it come on the mk5 tho.............

So how you going to be running it? Electric pump or off of the pulley system?

 

Mobility Escorts had power steering im sure? not an RS tho i doubt.

 

This looks very good, very nice paintjob.

keep it up

 

nice one ant

 

hi mate looking good!!!
Wot did u use for re-undersealing ???

 

as per vroooom ptissssh the mobility escorts came with power steering but these are rarer than rocking horse shit and I've never come cross one.

They did do air con for the mk4s too!

Will be interesting to see how u go about this rs4all, I've been looking into power steering for ages but never got round the rack problem!

 

RS4All,

Sorted it ok then??

Anything I said in particular really help you out mate??

 

Damo,

Pretty much everything you said helped actually, thanks again for the time you took to explain everything, the big thing for me with this car is that I do everything myself and I had almost resigned myself to the fact that I was going to have to send the car to a body shop, so when you sent all you're info I thought I'd give it one last try and luckily I made up with the results. I followed you're intructions to the letter I had them written down as I was spraying I only had one bad run and I've managed to flat that out so it's almost invisible

I did have to flat pretty much all over, but I only used 2200 and 2500 grade paper with lots of warm soapy water, and it was alot easier to polish the scratches out!! although it took alot longer to do. the only place I hardly had to flat was the roof, it,s so much easier on a flat surface

anyway I think the car should be almost ready by Cristmas, so I can just spend the months leading up to summer finishing off. so I'll hopefully be able to meet up with you at one of the shows, and you can give me you're oppinion.

Thanks again Damo, I owe you a few pints!!!!!!!!


Tony.

 

Gary (Barney) I'll gladly spray you're car mate but I've no room until I get mine back on the road, unless you've got somewere to spray it. One thing though you'd better have a look at mine first to check wether it's good enough

anyway what car have you got now you've sold the cossi.

Ant.

 

lol at flat surface being easier....

Good good mate, its really satisfying when it all comes together nicely ay ... glad it helped you out

 

hyi ant got a s2 turbo on a h plate in red im the 3 rd owner

 

looks fookin spot on m8

you never said you spray you could of done mine lol come to think of it i do need my wing doing again

ill have to pop round and look at this in person m8 you have done a great job of restoring it so far

 

so ant wat do u think of mi turbo

 

That S2 Looks lovely mate, keep up the good work, oh and nice beemer by the way, Thats kinda what my garage looks like at the minute (only its a mk3 XR3 In there)

Cheers

Ross