Recently picked up my 03 plate st 170 in panther black its got 64k and had only 2 owners from new and has the climate pack.car is very straight and has no rust at all.going to tidy up the underside and engine bay also planning some mods will add pics as i do the work if i can work out how to post pics lol.

 

Sounds like an interesting project, good luck.

 

 

Couple of pics of the car decided to jack it up and give the underside a jetwash so it will be pretty clean before i start doing some work on the underside.

 

It will defo be a rare car if there is no rust on it.

I used to have a ST170 with bothe climate ans custom packs. It was a bit tatty. The sills and front wings had bits of rust on them.

 

There is no rust anywhere on the body or in the boot where they rust in corners.

 

 

Sorry posted that twice still trying to work out posting pics lol.

 

http://i1111.photobucket.com/albums/h478/cmwapwpw/Mobile%20Uploads/20170925_181541.jpg

 

very nice !!

 

Lift the rear seats and have a look where the floor meets the wheel wells.

Mine was rotten .

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Looks great in the photos by the way.

 

Thanks will do having trouble with photo bucket atm trying to copy img code but when paste in forum previous code comes up lol.

 

Forget photo bucket. Do search, they have single handed f#cked project threads all over the internet.

 

Which way is best to post pics.

 

http://i1111.photobucket.com/albums/h478/cmwapwpw/Mobile%20Uploads/20170925_181541.jpg

 

Whats the best way to post pics this photobucket is doing my head in lol

 

 

Think ive worked it out now lol.

 

Heres some bits ive just purchased.

 

All looks great so far a nice choice.

 

had some free time today so got the car up on axle stands and removed the wheels.

 

pulled the material arch linners out of the rear to check for any rot all good except for a little surface rust which is an easy fix.

 

 

 

also had a good check all around the boot all very good.

 

 

mint sills with no rust or rot.

 

Where has that lived its life ?

Not the same salty shit hole as mine did for sure.

 

i can't believe how clean that is underneath! worth holding on to for sure!!!!

 

Im glad there was no rot anywhere i was dreading pulling those rear arch linners out as i know they can rust quite bad behind there my next job is to be removing the rear sub frame.

 

lol the previous owner kept it in the garage for the past 14 years

 

very clean

 

Clean!

 

A very nice looking car look after it

 

thanks mate definetly will.

 

Managed a few hours work this evening having already removed callipers and hubs thought i would tackle the rear subframe gave all the bolts a good soaking with wd40 there are 10 bolts bolting the subframe to the underside of the car these came off with no prob as for everything else was pretty seized so out with the impact wrench which loosend everthing up so dropped the subframe of in one its bigger and heavier than it looks next will be to dismantle and shot blast and powder coat.

 

subframe is off and stripped ready for blasting and powder coating.

 

That must be the only focus rear subframe in history to come apart without a slitting disc! You lucky git!

 

lol alot of the bolts were seized couldnt budge them even with power bar but used impact wrench which did loosen them up loosend everything while the subframe was still bolted to car for stability but the 2 lower wishbones which hold springs up were loose but couldnt remove out of the bush so i did have to cut these of with disc cutter.

 

I would replace all the bushes with poly ones and upgrade the bolt quality too