Been busy Today

[Munnsy]

Well as i have had no work for weeks now, and monies tight i set about getting me rse out to9 the 200 and sort out some of my rust issues that have been bugging me since purchase.

So ill let the piccies do the talking





these were the bug breaers of my project, i absolutely hated these little niggly bits and thought id whip the complete front end off and start to repair any damaged areas.

The front came of preety easily as every bolt pretty much sheared off, not that im too fussed as i will be cable tieing most back on as shes mainly going to be used for skidding and have been told that cable ties are the way to go
so heres some more piccies after i pulled the fron end off









Definately cleaner than i originally thought and was pleasently surprised,



And again not too bad



And so the grinding began, started on the top struts, i have seen many bad cases and thankfully these were actually very good, took the metal right back until the rust stopped



The slowly worked my rpund the car, tend to get caried away lol, but pretty much all surface rust and got rid of all of it ready for prepwork and filler



Drivers side



Another passenger side



So out came the tub of filler, now i usually hate filler and to be honest havnt done alot of any of this body repair work, but being pretty good at most things with me hands i was quite pleased how it all went

front panel





Good rub down



Me bro giving me a hand for the day Gives me the motivation lol



And primed up, results were pretty good.
Still need touching up a tiny bit in places but on the whole really pleased





Amongst this i pulled off the front crash bar, grinded back any rust, rubbed down and threw a coat of primer on her, then sprayed up in satin black.
Wasnt too worried about the finish as its hidden but did do it all properly



And thats her tucked in bed for the night till i can get back on it tomorrow.
Still needs a little rubbing and filling till im happy with it, then will spray satin black inside and around all the areas of the arches etc, along with finishing off the undersealing in the arches etc


Getting there slowly, just want to get the new arches paid for, get the rear fenders paid for and fitted then go all satin

Shes not pretty at the moment, but im working on it

opinions welcome, just thought id share my days progress today

[Munnsy]

[Jaymo_sx]

good job! wish i hd that kind of motivation to sort rust out!

[MEL]

good work there.

Now stop being a tightwad, pays ya monies and get a proper project thread started.

[Munnsy]

Yep when work pics up i shall def be making a project thread

Just thought id start a mini version

[R3K1355]

If your skidding it how about some strengthening while you are at it?

[Munnsy]

Have read up on that actually, but to be honest its my first skid car, and i cant weld (yet).
Maybe if i ever go the sr or rb route then this will def be on my list

Are the arch tunnels (not sure of real term) just adapted to give you guys better lock??

Cheers for pickys though,

dave

[Quail]

Nice work! I'd love to do this with mine. If only I wasn't so lazy.

[Razzario]

my struts are done like that wiuth a big whacking plate lol

[Munnsy]

cheers for comments guys

[schumi84]

Top work mate . Looks like you have been relatively lucky with regards to the rust as it appears to mainly be surface stuff .

Good luck with the rest of the removal

[Munnsy]

Cheers bud,
to be honest i was expecting many many holes as the sills are awful, but when i pulled everything off and revealed mainly surface a was pretty chuffed.

Just need to get the sills sorted, quite a bit of work involved in those

[R3K1355]

Are the arch tunnels (not sure of real term) just adapted to give you guys better lock??

Yea you do need to Tub the arches to get eipc lock, along with modify the hubs and arms, although DW now do Geomaster extra lock hubs which look tasty

[Munnsy]

will definately look inot this in the future, a little hardcore for my first ever skid car, but will see how i get on then go from there

Is there a how to for this mod guys??


cheers
dave

[Munnsy]

Well been busy today, managed to pick up the new spare engine today ready for rebuild (cheers dan good to meet you mate)

Got back then made a start on the car again today, really finished off tidying up the filler work and sprayed everything satin black.

Really pleased with the results









Really does look 10000000 times better and really pleased with the result, also managed to fit the pre-facelift splitter i got to my bumper which looks great

Up next is prepwork on the wings and bumper ready for satin paintwork, as im going this all throughout the bodywork, and will eventually run wider arches with some good offset wheels

Cheers guys

[schumi84]

ROFL, that is quite an update, thanks for that.

Thankfully i have already eaten my curry

[Munnsy]

haha,
gotta to have a little laugh every now and then

[mandelbug]

Get the membership paid up and a project thread started looking good and hoping I can start doing that sort of thing to my 13 soon