as above east midlands area prefered,also will need a spot of welding ect so need to be a top place!

 

There's a very highly recommended place in Northampton mate, they do resto work, shot blasting, flocking, the lot!

I just can't remember the name of them!

Think they are in Banbury, i'll reply again if I can remember lol

 

central blast cleaning dan ?

 

Yup thats the one

Come very highly recommended

Cheers mate

 

do they have a website?cheers guys

 

http://www.centralblastcleaning.co.uk/index2.php

There you go mate

 

cheers dan

 

No worries mate, but make sure you get some pics up of before and after etc

 

how about

http://www.surfaceprocessing.co.uk/

 

will do dan,heres some pics of how the car looks atm

 

It doesn't look too bad mate!

 

its not on the outside,front panel is rotten,front wings where the bumper bolts to them are rotten,so im thinkink new front end,have the battary try n fuse box area replaced anyway,even tho them areas arent that bad!

then im thinking get a good well powered engine to complement them body work,nothing massive,about 220bhp or something!

 

whats the rough cost of having this done?
i will need to sent my kit car chassis to someone like these
cheers
dave

 

im hoping its not going to be much more than a 1000pounds with the welding included,but i need to ring the companies n find out a price!as ill be doing all the paint work myself

 

my vote goes to central blast cleaning too. Superb place IMO

 

hi mike,hows your escort coming along?

 

central blast cleaning sent me an email today,
they spray the underneath, the interior and the engine bay, but not the panels, they DA the panels so they wont have any paint on them but dont blast them as it would distort the panels.

they quoted Ł1,300 +VAT for this on a renault 5 convertable, that is probably 1/2 the size of an escort and a lot easier as it has no roof.
that is if i totally strip the car to.

 

id be totally stripping the car,i shall be sending them an e-mail tonight!!

 

nicely, but slowly.

Things will start to fly together after Christmas. Just on a very slow and tedious stage at the moment. Few pics to come soon

 

wicked mate,will look forward to the updates

 

I know that's an lot of work but that seems alot to me? See if you can get them down to Ł1300 including the dreaded TWAT tax!

Hows it going Jez, any news?

 

no news as of yet,i may do all the work myself,im a little unsure yet,even considered buying ERST shell n reshelling mine as its had a fair bit of weling in the past!

dunno what to do!

 

Fook!

Have a look through cars for sale and Ebay mate, just see whats about!

Either that or be prepared to pay for everything to be sorted properly!

What you got to weigh up is what will cost you less?

 

well ill more than likley stick with my shell,as it had shit loads of welding done on its last m.o.t,so shouldnt need to much this time around!will also help keep costs down!!need to get an exhaust n new suspension for it before i bring it off the road at xmas,as its becoming impossible to drive!im really looking forward to getting stuck into it,may start doing a few bits underneath in the next couple of months,want it ready for the ring in easter,so at least i have a target aswell dunno what to do about the engine though?should i go for mega power,or go for decent power n good reliability?!

 

looking very nice mate

 

it will be mega nice mate,getting a mongoose exhaust off fletchcossie in the next couple of weeks with flamer kit then i need to sort the suspension out,then start buying bits n bobs over the winter when im restoring her!

 

i can recomend a good car its on e bay at the minute. it was a 1.1 bonus originally but is in mercury grey and is a full turbo now. the shell is mint for its age, you could build a minter out of the two cars and sell on the rest.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...MEWA%3AIT&rd=1

 

i want to keep genuine RS shell mate

 

Have a word with mark at www.norrismotorsport.co.uk as they use a place in the midlands ...matlock i think

They sent my car there to be blasted and the result was very good

Take a look at some of the pics in my resto thread
The pics of the blasted shell are on page 2

https://passionford.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=154459

 

cheers mate will have a butchersmhow much did it cos t you to have it blasted if u dont mind me asking?

 

Not too sure how much the blasting alone is as NMS are welding and paint the shell as well and the blasting is all in the price

 

i only need it blasting and the welding doing,nms is at junction 28 right?gotta say mate,your car looks awesome!!

 

yes mate NMS is near j28

NMS dont do the blasting but mark can put you onto the company that does the blasting for them

 

where abouts off junction 28 is it mate?sorry for all the questions

 

i spoke to spl today

to acid dip my renault 5 they quoted me Ł575 + vat,
thats with the whole car stripped to a shell and no panels fitted except the bootlid.

electrophoretic coat ........ 15 yrs rust provention, std manufacturers coating on new cars Ł750 + vat

or etch priming was Ł350 + vat i think.

doesnt sound bad

 

ive decided im going to do the whole lot myself,inspected the underneathe a few days ago,n seems strong,so going to do it all at work!wot have i let myself in for

 

Alot cheaper doing it that way mate, and you know it's done just how you'd want it!

 

just what im thinking dan