d/SIDE.MATE.

 

aw damm, i wonder do they sell them new from ford..

 

looking well kieran, keep up the good work she'll be finished in no time

 

Thanks lad ay well hopefully she will, doing all filling that needs done tonight, and got a battert tray off kieth there this evening, so she could see white this weekend yet thats if all goes to plan lol

 

just started a tread lad as iam new to the site.but is going know where fastas iam always working on other sierra's and my mate's sierra's hard to get it all done.

 

Ah i see, must get a look at it. Ay sometimes its not easy to get tym to work at your own stuf lol. By any chance are you from n.i. And on jon44?

 

any updates?

 

tailhappy sr20

 

thats who i had guessed it was lol, especially when you said you dont have much time to work on your own sierra due to working at friends sierra's

 

big big update

got the shell all sanded down and masked up, then went out and bought 5 litres of diamond white paint and everything else i need for a lick of paint,
i filled any dents etc, sealed all bits of welding, primed whatever needed priming. then i sanded her all up and prepared it for paint
so now i have got underneath, engine bay and 2 wings painted a very nice shade of diamond white and literally just finished there now lol
also ive got pics of my driveshaft and crossmember (horrible quality tho )
and a pic of something special i bought for the bootlid, also horrible quality lol

masked up for primer



the new compressor :P


painted











driveshaft,crossmember, and surprise{see if you can guess what it is lol}




sorry about the bad quality pics, will try and get sisters camera next weekend lol, thats all for now

 

i hate you lol

looks unreal!

 

im sorry but ive been spending lots of nights working at it to 12 and 1 o'clock, half killing myself to make progress lol

thanks lad :P

 

your getting on well now mate

 

thanks kieth, the painting is handy enough once you get used to it again lol, hopefully the rest of the car will go as well.
oh and i need 4 doors from you

 

only way, but im sure its worth it now

 

yeah its is starting to be worth it now cant wait to i start building it back up and see it all coming together again maybe then i can get some sleep

 

give me a bell tomorrow ,have a good set here

 

painting the outside now atm

 

another biggish update got the outside of the shell painted and it turned out really well, then i demasked the car, stood back and said 'oh yeah' lol
after that i brought all the wiring back into the engine bay and boot floor, got alot of the wiring into place with memory lol, and started building the engine bay up a bit,
tonight i began flatting and polishing the paint, so far i have the d/s wing & q panel done, going to be a slow process and i might even redo them bits as there is still some orange peel lol, but we shall see.
anyways now for some pics

 

great work lad

 

thanks lad wont be long until the engine bay becomes overcrowded with parts again though would love to put in just the bare essentials lol

what do you think of the paint job?

 

lovely job lad keep it up

 

looks really good from the pics

how far on are you with the engine?

 

thanks lad, wont be long until shes out cruisin now lol

 

thanks

i have the head off, cams out and tappets cleaned out, next is too get the head sent away to get ported and polished, then replace all seals and rebuild with lots of new parts the block is ready to have the head gasket set on but need the sump off next lol

 

coming on well mate

 

thanks kieth did you ever think that that shell would end up like this? lol

 

yes mate.it went to a good home

 

great progress. Looks good!

 

Thanks kieth im glad you think so

 

Thank you

 

get some outside pics

 

Unreal work lad, coming on real quick. Any set dates u have for her u reckon you'd have it out for the ford fair? When shes on the rd and ive the test we should get a few pics of the two of them

 

pics of the car outside? Maybe next week lol

 

aye

 

Thanks lad, yeah its getting on really well i think well from the start ive been looking it finished for donegal rally, and that date still stands is ford fair after dgal rally? Yeah thats no problem lad i wonder will they look much different lol

 

identical except urs will be much fresher lol and no bubbles

 

Well theres that :P and ill have RS skirts too lol. I must get some pics of the engine bay up soon, its starting too get very crowded and i dont know what ill do with all this wiring

 

ok wee update, finished flatting and polishing the car at last lol. and i got alot of the engine bay built back up, just have some wiring to sort out and then just the bottles and that should hopefully be it, also got the petrol tank set in. and all the lights are in and today i ripped the struts/hubs etc out of the old shell and began stripping them,
i also now have a full polybush kit thanks to cossie09, i have fitted 2 of them so far lol.
now for a few high quality pics




some polybushins


petrol tank in


stripped, the struts wont be going in





repainted and fitted these


engine bay again





random bootfloor lol


and lastly i tried to show the colour difference


thats it for today

 

looking well mate