Well ive had my cossie now for just over a year and its been a really good car, ive treated it to a GT30 turbo, refurbed the wheels and a few other bits and pieces along the way but its now time to make the underside look as good as the top.

My plans are to remove the rear beam, tank, gearbox etc and restore the underside up to the bulk head, once that is done i will then lower the car back down and make a start on removing the engine and pretty much everything else under there, i can then respary the bay and tidy up the engine components and have a few things powder coated etc all in black to give it that stealth look.

A few pics of how she looks with a bit of spit and polish,



A pic of a wheel after i refurbed it


Here's a little vid of the car at motorworx rolling road day, this was on its old T35 turbo made 349bhp with 370ftlb of torque until the clutch slipped



On to what ive been doing today, got the car jacked up in the air and set about removing the rear beam etc, it all came out really easy to be honest and only found one horror which is as you would expect some rust,



So i will get onto removing some of the sealer and weld up that section of rust, i will then cover the underside in that 3m sealer in the places it needs it and then paint the underside in magenta with a few coats of laquer,

few randoms now of the underside and bits removed ready for stripping then off to the powder coaters, let me know what you think,

 

Nice work mate.I love the way the car sits in the first few pics.What suspension you got on it.I love the wheels too.

 

Nice job so far m8,wheels look brand new.

 

Cheers for the comments, the car has avo shocks all round but im unsure as to what springs it has, i'd assume avo aswell.

 

Nice to see your looking after it fella.Cossies have to be saved.

 

nice job so far matey im in the middle of doing the same
i hate every min of it

 

nice work mate, looks like you've got a realy solid car there.

 

another saff getting the love it deserves,at the rate they are getting broke their will be less saffs than 3drs

keep the pics comin coswurv

 

Good luck with the resto

 

Looks good on the arrows!
Im on with doing my underside resto.
Good luck!

 

Good work so far


Brian

 

Good work Paul

 

Nice to see another saff getting taken good care off. Gonna keep an eye on this project thread.

Good luck with the resto mate.

 

Best colour saph,keep up the good work mate.

 

Gonna look rude when its done parked next to the s2!

 

looking good paul ,


got to love momo arrows , had a set on my old merc grey s2 ,


what u reckon to the gt 30 ?

whats your engine spec mate ?


beef

 

Alright Beef, yeah GT30 is pretty mad, i havnt given it the full boot yet as im unsure on where my fueling will be. Gonna have it checked on the dyno after the rebuild just out of intereset to see how far the greys will go, the spec at the minute is, 205 block, YB1261 head gasket with ford head bolts, ported head with inlet to match, standard cams, 500 cooler, 3 bar, super chips chipped ecu, scorpion stainless etc, looking for a safe 400 or as close as would do me.

Little update, got the rest of the underside stripped of components and set to cleaning it and repairing the rust,






After i finisherd using thinners and degreaser to clean it i set to painting the sill, sill lips and arches with that 3m sprayable sealer, all went ok until i sprayed the rest with stone chip, i read the 3m pack and it said air drying products can be sprayed over in 30 mins but when i did catch it in places it done this,

All good


Where its cracked

Now im hoping that its just because the stonechip has dried faster than the 3m and made it crack, so hopefully tomorrow when the 3m has gone off fully i can just lightly dust over these areas with some stonechip then spray the magenta base coat and laquer after, anyone had this happen before and is what im thinking going to work ? Dave "TWINS" you may know as you've been there and done it all ?

 

keep up the good work, buddy

will be worth it in the end

 

love to do this to mine but i wouldnt know how to strip everything off properly and refit things

 

Dont look to bad under there, seen worse! Gonna look good when done. You'll love the GT30 once youve had it set up, brilliant turbo, absolutly loving mine!

 

Its not to bad to do mate, just take it all off a piece at a time, label and take some pics to remind yourself, just be prepared to get covered in shit BIG time


Yeah its not to bad, ive checked it again this evening and the 3m is now going off under the stone chip, so hopefully it will all be hard by the morning for a bit more then onto paint, which is the fun part as thats when the transformation really shows.

Im looking forward to having it set up on the GT30 as it feels a beast already.

 

i might give it a bash just havent got a garage so could be a problem

 

Hi mate just seen the pics ,yes have had this happen before and it turned out the stone chip i used was out of date ,let it go right off and then dust over to build up the layers,with some fresh stuff .

 

Right got her painted today, after that little set back with the stone chip yesterday everything was all ok, was up there this morning and checked it had all gone off ok which it had so i just dusted over the cracked areas with some fresh stuff, then set to base coat and laquer

Also painted the fuel lines gloss black and stripped the beam etc down ready for powder coating,







Its such a dark colour for the underside really as magenta needs light to show its true colour, oh well looks better than oil and rot !

 

Great effort that Paul, i'd love to do mine but can't be arsed.........

 

Looks spot on that mate! Makes mine look wank!
Might have to fuck the rattle cans off and get a litre of 'proper' paint.

 

Great job

 

cheers for the comments, looks spot on in the flesh with a bit of sunlight shining up under there, cant wait to start bolting new powder coated bits on

 

well done mate looks exellent

 

Looks good mate, well done.

 

great job, looking smart under there..

 

same as lol....

looks good mate

 

sweet

 

spot on job m8

 

Underside looks very nice

 

looks realy good mate need mine doing now.

 

Some of my bits came in today from Ford so went and collected those, a set of droplinks and the clips to hold the fuel and brake pipes where what came in so set to fitting those,

Cleaned up my the fuel lines and sprayed them gloss black, also cleaned the original brake lines up and gave them a coat of Ford Laurel green, not to sure if im happy with the brake lines i may well take the back end section off and remake it out of copper then cover in heat shrink, what do you guys think?

Still awaiting my parts from the powder coaters and a few more odds and sods from Ford, gonna have a look for some poly bushes at the ford fair sunday, never know might find a bargain

 

Quick update, got my parts back from the powder coaters, so just need some new bolts and some poly bushes then i can get on bolting it all back up, still need to paint the shocks, diff, gearbox so a bit to do.

 

Spot on mate. Same colour scheme as mine apart from the arb.
You painting the diff silver?