thanks mate

you home yet richie

cheers ian
the plan is for the car to last longer than me ,it will be nice to just drive it for a few tears with out doing another upgrade or resto on it

 

yes mate it is but it is going to be a long time before i need to do it again (i hope)

 

Looking Good Andy it wont be rusting for a good while ay?

 

i bloody hope not dave i think i cut it all out now

 

Wow just read the whole thread from the first post, read every single update and comment. Its taken me about 3 days as I only get time when I come in from the garage at the end of the night. Really amazing work Andy, it's like every time you do some thing the next bit needs to be braught up to a higher standard so that gets chopped out, then its on to the next. Keep up the good work keep the up dates coming!

 

wow you must really like my thread ,which is good .im glad you like it dan & your right every time i work on the car i try & get to the highest standard i can & if that means ripping some thing out that i done last year (top mounts ) then so be it .in the end i should have one hell of a high standard built car that will last

 

Yes I really like your thread, I really like the car, the way you go about making it what you want it to be. The way you show with the pictures how it gets done and the standard you work to. Oh also loads of GRINDER ACTION! But yes basically I just couldnt stop reading it as I am just so fascinated by what is going on there.

And now after I have eaten my lunch I didnt eat today and a coffee Im off to my garage to get grindering on my project

 

have you got your own resto thread then dan ? if so good luck with it

 

i lied last night i have not finished cutting



but the good thing is i have started to repair some of the holes i have been cutting

 

Nah I don't have a thread for it although I have taken a few pics along the way just for some thing to look back on.

You did say you was going to cut the lourvered scuttle panel out. Im interested to see what you come up with as a replacement, thinking of your creativity on the rear cradle profiles, could get some thing cool laser cut in the new panel.

What do you find works best for dressing back the welds? Im finding the grinding wheel too rough and the flapper discs dont last and they are expensive. Got a load of 4" fibre discs might try them actually.

Keep up the good work Andy!!!

 

im going to get another standard scuttle panel & i will be putting back two wiper arms instead of the old single arm ,which is so 90,s now .
as for best thing for dressing back i use 5" flapper discs they are expensive but they do leave a very nice finish

 

I dont make it easy for myself, Im using a gasless mig just now its all Ive got. It was great for cash jobs at some ones house outside in the wind, but now I have a garage the wind doesnt matter. So the spattery, crusty, bubbly mess that the gasless makes is really what is killing the flapper discs. On top of this Im thinking of going 110v anyway, so since I need to buy a welder and a grinder (been borrowing a mate's one for too long now) now seems like a good time, if only I had the money. Cars eh?

 

im using a clarke turbo 150 mig welder that i borrowed off a very good friend of mine (richie) it works very well & you can do some very neat welding with it

all my electric tools are 110volt they last for ever working on cars not like the b&q shit some one i know buys keeps burning out

 

update time again i eventually got down the garage tonight i worked out how i am going to close the big hole in the bulk head so i marked out the steel sheet cut it to size & i will be going to work to fold it up tomorrow ,i also been cutting the new steel to go back into my roof inner frame work that i cut out to get rid of the old roll cage , i also been cutting a lot of holes in said steel waiting to be flared .
i will get some pics up tomorrow when its all welded in .

 

Good lad keep at but stop cutting

 

thanks ian im pretty sure that all the cutting is done now so im going to crack on & get all the inner steel work done for the roof flared holes in all of it as soon as richie can bring me the flaring tool

 

I think you need to kick him up the ass and get him down to yours to help you with your car as when his comes back you wont see him for dust

Is the rear end all sorted now Andy

 

lol he will be getting his car back monday with a bit of luck so not much chance of that happening .

rear end as in suspension or body kit

 

Sorry suspension And

 

its all done im just waiting to get it back from the powder coaters

 

Ah to hell with that, the higher quality tools take a beating (off the garage wall!). Is the welder 110v too?

Bring on the progress pics Andy!

 

no mate the welder is 240v ,i should have some pics tonight of the bulk head all welded in hope fuly

 

You know, the more I look at all the pictures of this car, it would of probably been easier for you to just create a space frame and put your shell and bodykit over the top like AGs Focus, then do all this random cutting and welding all over the show.

 

i can see where your coming from but where is the fun in that ,cutting out all the crap &welding in new steel is all the fun bits

 

been in the garage today again & the top of the bulk head is all welded in & its looking pretty good imo .i will put pics up later on

 

here is todays progress got the bulk head all welded up inside & out

 

That is well nice Andy, proper pukka job that!

 

NICE

 

thanks dan

thanks mate nearly done all the welding now i will soon be on with the filler

 

Tell you what... you made a right good job of that mate

 

glad you like it so far

 

Lovely job there Andy

 

What's left that's original?

Looks awsome

 

thanks dave

i think its just the apertures & roof & some of the scuttle panel

 

the door handles

good job andy!

 

not quiet mate they came off a late capri

thanks fudgey

 

 

andy that is looking vondaful. hats off to you mate. you make it look so easy lol. top top top top work there mate.

 

thanks ben im glad you like it so far when you coming round to take a look mate

 

hows about just before sundays meet, as i am off work at the mo, done my back in lol so cant get about really at the mo. missus is driving me around (not enjoying it too) and going round corners even slowly is killing me lol.