Awesome stuff dude, were in the same boat!

Just been fillering mine, put quite a lot on

Awesome stuff dude, were in the same boat!

Just been fillering mine, put quite a lot on

Cheers man, its getting there. I think my battery tray will be seeing lots of filler, made a bit of a minge-up. Some bits you could fuse (tight gap) other bits needed lots of wire!

Getting a grinder in there will prove challenging too!

I'v got two more days of pics, just cba to get them uploaded etc.. i'll do it later (once iv hidden everything with filler!).

Your thread needs more pics

Cheers for the kind words!

The pics really are a labour of love.. after a 12hr shift in the shop, last thing I want is to have to coax a computer into doing what i want it to!

Hence the occasional lapse in updates!

I have been looking for that rad for you dude, amongst this..

Its got to be there somewhere!

I just have a horrible feeling I may have let someone have it. But I can't think who would have needed it, so it must be about. Once iv finished welding the battery tray today i'll have a good sort out!

Sorry about the delay dude.

hahahahah! Uww a few bits and bobs to look through

No problem, i know your on with it so it takes as long as it takes. If you've no luck could you PM me your reg off the car it came out of please? i will ask at my local parts place, they might be abit more helpful if i have a reg

GOOD LUCK WITH THIS

Nay bother, Reg is A273 DPC 1093cc Formel E if you wanted to get a price on new.

I'd happily kill ben to have a unit like yours

It must be so easy to work in (when its tidy )

Get the pics up!

It is a dirty shed though, this one. Still, better than working in the dark/rain!

Right, better update the progress. We shall carry on where I left off.

Saturday morning I was awoken by Baker who had kept to his word and was at the workshop by about 10.30am. I was however still in bed!

Wanting to push things on I dragged my sleepy arse up and made my way to the unit to meet Baker. On arrival Baker was loaded up and ready for a trip to Aerocoat to drop off/collect parts.

So after some cutting about in his haggard 6N I was feeling a bit more awake and ready for some bacon sarnies and some work! (it was almost 16:00 before I got into overalls).

Shiny bits..

Jim had bought his foreman up the unit, which saw some heavy use! (Fuck knows whats going on with the camera here).

Jim was already on with filling redundant trim holes along his rear panel. I got roped into holding alloy behind the holes in the boot.

In between this and eating bacon sarnies I continued with the butchery of the scuttle area

Nath popped up and sorted me out some gaskets for the inlet manifold and water pipe (obsolete from the dealers).

jim set about the arches..

Which meant I could have my Plant back. So I got the rest of the O/S turret welded up.

Cleaned down the bay a bit and slapped some primer in there. Had a tidy up and went to see what Baker was up to..

Somehow Baker had managed to tun a pile of bolts and a few alloys parts into what was starting to look like a VR6 lump. I gave him a hand fitting the inlet and made another brew.

It was time to remove more weight, so I set about removing the front door cards etc.

I trial fitted a dash..

Looks a bit heavy

Dug out the steering column..

Had a go at removing the large spline adapter. Had success by heating a lot then nipping in a vice and giving it a tickle with the hitting stick.

Joe donated me a wheel for the project. Its a small spline mk2 boss though.

Baker was still going

that pretty much concluded the evenings antics. Left the unit by 1.20am.

Edited 22 May, 201214 yr by randombadger69

Onto Sunday!

Can't remember what time I managed to get down to the workshop. Lost track of day and night at this point!

jim and Martyn were bang on it though..

I had a peek at then rusty battery tray..

After a bit of discussion with jim (fabrication mentor) I'd made some light..

jim had bought some sheet to repair his sill with. After some pleading he donated some to the cause.

I got this tacked in. Simon appeared briefly so I got him to lend a hand holding brass behind the large gap I'd created with my rough prep. this allowed me to fill it without making it any worse.

Si nobbed off leaving me running a rather brave..

This didn't go as well as i'd hoped. Mixture of fusing and lots of wire and general uncomfortable positions left me quitting while I was ahead..

That was enough for me. Had welded as much as I could. Had a few nasty holes to fill that nrequired a helper with some brass again. Called it a night about 1:00am.

Tonight saw some keen work again.

Jims Rocco was starting to look very well!

Martyn had a few clean bits ready for painting.

Alison was ready for more works.

After running about to Martyns to pick up his engine from his sadly written off MK1 and a trip to Roy Alans for some 2mm sheet we were in business!

Got this in the spare wheel well of the GT coupe no problem. Quite amusing seeing martyn sat with a gearbox in his footwell! He's running my old 325 E30 about with beige recaro interior and a fuel tank in the boot, so there was no way he could have been moving this in that!

This is what £18 worth of 2mm hot rolled sheet steel looks like!

MD set about cutting some plates for rear turret bracing.

He also gave me a hand holding brass behind holes so I could fill them!

I gave Martyn a hand with tacking up

Bit more gnawsing and some paint.. what hole?!

Si's Dremel tool literally blew up in my hands.. Leaving me with a drill and 4 1/2" grinder to clean up.

Martyn ground his tungsten some more and i gave him a hand on the tack it and whack it, fitting of the plates.

jim was cutting about

Left martyn to a few positionals..

And got cleaning the rear turrets on Alison...

Martyn got the brace in there..

Jim did more wire wheeling

In there..

I lent Martyn my steering rack bushes from my mk1 Golf as I'm not going to fit these until iv restored the shell (not for a year or two).

Jim grafted some more

Big bear made an appearance..

By which time I was ready for some welding round the rear turrets

Martyn was now onto bigger and better things..

More cutting..

Meanwhile I got comfy in the spare wheel well.. wish i'd cut the stud off!

oops..

Martyn got cracking with his home for the clocks and switches.

Meanwhile I lapped up the positionals.. relatively easy compared with the overhead battery tray positions!

This concluded the evenings fun and games around 01:00am.

Edited 22 May, 201214 yr by randombadger69

Cheers, not too bad. I'll be good at it by the time she's done.

I decided to be a clever nice person and butt-weld the battery tray

Was a mission. It was possible to fuse it together if you had no gap and moved fast.

I think a MIG would have gone better, just loads of tacks and grind off. I was trying to reduce the amount of grinding though as access was a bitch.

The stitching on the rear turrets will be left exposed. May have to seal under the bonnet as we have some gaps and last thing it wants is water in there. It seems a shame where iv got good welds, but then others look dogshit anyway, so its all swings and roundabaouts.

You know the drill though, superleggera ftw!

I really will try and locate that rad for you today!

Awesome progress, i take it you dont have a girlfriend? No offence lol, but i never have this much time!

The welding is all in the prep, if youv'e got the paintence (especially with TIG) to clean everything off , then the welds will be lovely and neat.

Rush the prep (like me :-) ) and they don't look so good.

More pics please, Oh yeah please tell me your using that engine? is it a HK on 40's?

Awesome progress, i take it you dont have a girlfriend? No offence lol, but i never have this much time!

The welding is all in the prep, if youv'e got the paintence (especially with TIG) to clean everything off , then the welds will be lovely and neat.

Rush the prep (like me :-) ) and they don't look so good.

More pics please, Oh yeah please tell me your using that engine? is it a HK on 40's?

You are correct.

The rear turrets took minimal prep, no sealer either, hence the welds going in a lot nicer!

That engines out of MD's old mk1 golf, which took an impact on the A pillar. Hence why I sold him the mk1 shell (which is probably better condition tbf, with no sunroof). He's smashing it together to get it on the road, so he can sell his beemer and buy a van. As iv had enough of subby work and he's been made redundant, so were setting up shop so to speak.

Its a GF lump with a heavily ported head and lightened and balance bottom end. Needs a camshaft and vernier pulley and it'd be a right bruiser oh and a 3D code londg ratio 4 speed box if anybody has one?

Ahh i see, well ye moisture in there wont look preety when there bubbling paint and rusty lines everywhere. Thin smear of seam sealer between two lines of tape ftw then

No rush mate, dont make a special effort to find it it'll turn up I've got a fair bit of water in the tap anyway so can keep mine topped up haha

Bear in mind the hosepipe ban though!!?!

what seam sealer you recommend. Iv got some black horrible tetroseal shit. I want the OE stuff really as horrible as it is it kept the seam good for 20 years!

Edited 8 June, 201214 yr by randombadger69

Ted, linky for Prothane bushes - http://www.candrenterprises.co.uk/shop/pro...974-1984-4.html

Nice progress.

Where do the aforementioned steering rack bushes go?

Cheers Si.. see you tomorrow morning bright and early! 2.6 lump will be out by the time I get there!

Nice progress.

Where do the aforementioned steering rack bushes go?

Cheers, Got a hundred pics or so to upload.. due soon, just been too on it!

Bushes go in my MK1 Golf, when I restore the shell.

About time for a wee update as I finally have a few mins. Not much works been occuring in terms of "wow, Alison looks different!". Been generally rescuing our unit, which involves burn it, throw it, scrap it or sell it.. Or throw it in the farmers field out the way and think about it. then do one of the afore mentioned later!

It's been so long Iv forgotten what day anything happened and generally wtf's been occuring. I will do my best to add some narration

Got digging Princess out, she'd been getting used as "storage". After a bit of remove everything from her It seems we have about 10 cars worth of seats! So I stacked these on a pallet and informed people if you want any of these then rescue them and put them somewhere better. Some of them wern't even ours!! WTF, We were also storing corrado doors which were si's ex gf's.. much to bakers disgust when he realised he'd been storing them in his MK! polo! They got fucked off outside with bakers vr.

I got subbing some work out!

The pallet grew..

Fuck me.. there's princess!

"

I spent a happy week rolling round in the back of princess in Cornwall a few years ago with no seatbelt or cares other than "do i still have brews and bag?" Happy days! Unfortunately the inclines in Cornwall did the clutch. So baker did this to her!

Had a vist from a large Wasp!

I then preceeded to sort through this..

Which is basically Wolleys shit, which is mostly binable or burnable.. with a little red herring thrown in there for good measure! Like who pays money to store a seatbelt retracter mech with no belt in?!! Bloke does my head in sometimes!

These two got close in the corner..

At this point i shall add two cream gash sofas for sale!

The pile grew..

While sorting through I took a while to put a few bits in the ALison build box.

Polished ATV anyone? This one actually isn't too bad other than having been previously polished and then thrown in my old Green G and rallied about.

22mm master cylinder from the green G also..

G40 O/S arb mount. Note the only difference here is a notched radius for belt clearance.

Look at all the space i made!

Gave the guvnors pump a gee up! He needs to start paying rent on this fucker! I'm tempted to get it running soon and sell it or do something random with it!

Even the workbench got a tidy!

Wolley is a nice person.. how do you end up with soo many panels! Yes the mk3 bits are from my G40, but then I still have a mk3 on the road a g40 almost ready for track and alison. He has no mk1's on the road one being allegedly welded up a shitter in our unit and an even bigger shitter sat in a garge somewhere and has been for 3 years at least!

So yeah much ranting about these sorts of general untidyness and the promotion of Work-space and tidy/organised(ish) storage. And throwing out rubbish, that is the root of it, when rubbish goes unnoticed! Always check.. do I need this?!! Does it have a use, if not, is it worth anything?

Meanwhile James had made a start on some handrail fab..

Which went well up until the point he needed to cut some 45degree mitres!

So that pretty much concluded which ever evening that was..

I share your pain dude and its an unenviable task. Piles of crap just amass before you know it. I've thrown skip loads of parts before that we're useless, worth nothing or too big and a pita to post!

How many seats n panels tho. Seriously! Hah

Had some proper work to be doing which has held up Alison a bit. Made up some of these..

100 of the feckers!

Chore after the first 10. Iv now done 175 of these and they suck. only 75 to go! Untill the next 100 no doubt!

So anyway cars..

Bank holiday saw some work (not queenie bank holiday the one before).

Baker did more VR savagery..

jim did filler

Si "borrowed" a fuel tank off a certain someone..

Martyn cleaned his lump down

and I did some rust treatment. Used Hammerite Krust. Seemed to do something.

Jim soon got bored of filler and set about his clothes rail for Nat in his wifebeater! Haha..

Then it was paint time for MD

Si was under here a while!

Sledge anyone?

6N panel! If anyone wants this.. fiver and its yours.

Me looking suitably gimp sweating my tits off in overalls!

More labour intensive whire wheeling..

Then came the good bit.. paint! :-D

Baker did a bit more then we called it a night.

Edited 8 June, 201214 yr by randombadger69

I share your pain dude and its an unenviable task. Piles of crap just amass before you know it. I've thrown skip loads of parts before that we're useless, worth nothing or too big and a pita to post!

How many seats n panels tho. Seriously! Hah

Sometimes it pains me other days I actually enjoy throwing shit!

This is only half of it! The pile has grown since then! and theres more of Wolleys lurking over in our other unit and in his council garages, which I cant believe he still rents!

I dont know what the fuck it is about seats. Eeryone removes them fromt their car for some reason and either does nothing with the car, so the seats "may" be needed or have no rear seats or have new seats. After a while it gets beyond a joke. Sell or throw or scrap.

Loving this thread! <3

Proper updates

Edited 8 June, 201214 yr by Matt G40

Cheers dude, there's more! I'm about a week behind. It's just time and computers that slows me down.

In theory if theres been no updates, there should have been lots of work occuring for later updates. Its then hours of trawling through pics, deleting and uploading etc.

Saf's been on it for years.. I now know why he can take a while to post an update!

The main reason I have never bothered with a build thread tbh!

Edited 8 June, 201214 yr by randombadger69

At the minute i have to say this is one of the best topics on here! Really enjoying the read :-)

Same here, don't be giving up on us now... :)

Time for a wee update.

Several Sundays ago I had a visit from a certain Hobbit. I had no enthusiasm for the project this day as it was soo hot, so we made a start on my finite adjustable stands, so I can get the car sitting level.

Gashed up a few bits of old shit and made use of said Hobbit..

Cool as fuck welding in his shorts! UV tan ftw!

I allowed Dench some input and he reckoned the use of a rotor was a good idea.. i wasn't so convinced, but cba to find anything more suitable. So for a mock-up I rolled with it!

This needs finishing off. A locating plate in the centre and a new base plate for the jack, with gusseting for extra strength. In theory though it works. Need to make two more for the rear beam trunnions/mounting points. Oh and a couple more jacks from vans.

So that was a days work!

Borrowed a glaze-breaker tool from Mr King, good man!

I let baker try it out on his VR block..

I then thought it time I tried it out on my PY block

this is what they did look like..

This is how they ended up..

Its not ideal I know. I had to try and remove the lip left by the rings though as the 1043cc HZ piston travels higher than the 1272cc PY one. Its all very bodge-tech, re-using the rings on the pistons and everything. Fuck it, if it goes bang at least it owes me feck-all but my time, which I had anyway.

Martyns Golf was starting to take shape..

After almost 3 years, Simons rust bucket 190 left the lock-up and in came the second one!

Hmm.. we have a problem..

after lots of this, we were getting no-where

I sized up the rods.. 1043cc HZ vs 1272cc PY forged..

Then had the next shittest job in the world after sorting the bores (which was also shit), cleaning piston grooves and rings!

Gapped them at 180 degrees and got then fitted..

So I can just fit my fist in a 75mm bore!

Got on the lube..

Got my propriety tool out. 75.0mm tapered compressor..

Lubed that up as well

Lubed the big-end and rings

Baker got involved.. he just wanted to hold my tool!

if you need to do this with this tool, something aint right..

Thats better..

Having spent too long with a scraper tool, I got a bit muddled.. lets get the pistons in the right holes!

Look at all this space!

Martyn was getting on well with the centre console!

After much messing around, we had a piston in..

Baker got on the hammered black

Look at that steez..

Simons 190 number two finally landed in the unit, where it will probably stay for then next 5-10 years! Si doing his best pin-up pose..

Martyn drilled and tapped some holes

And that pretty much concludes this bunch of pics.

Haha, I do find it the same tbh, if I'm up there on my own I actually do get on and work, but if theres a busy workshop I end up making coffee's every 45 miniutes and avoiding actually doing anything!

Iv been building the engine, that way it will inspire me to get on and finish the shell so it can be fitted. There's a method in there somewhere! I'm longing to paint the engine bay, but havn't finalised what I'm doing with regards to the chassis leg, so this has taken a back seat for now, while the engine gets assembled!

More pics coming..

So after lots of boring shit cleaning jobs, the bottom end was getting there..

45 scene points if you can spot whats wrong in this pic ^

Had a deal with Martyn on my comps..

Had a job out on site.. ireally need a van!

Si got the aircraft lump out of his merc..

Sizeofthecunt!

Si had some white hammerite, which sent my brain wild! Gotta be having some of that!

Wolley bought a left hook rot box.. this was the only redeeming feature..

Bakers Vr..

Did you guess right?..

I was staring at it while talking to someone and noticed the valve cutouts were the wrong way around on cyl 4.. observe the arrow that should be pointing to the front of the block..

DOH

A pillaged HZ block

Checked a couple of end-plates to make sure the threads were in good condition, then cleaned and fitted new seals..

Blagged some of that white hammerite and made a right mess with it!

Had a look at the injectors in the Green G.. 249cc/min ford items. Anyone fancy a trade?

Baker did some scrubbing

Webbo came up and ripped the engine out of his 2.0 16v, so baker could have the subframe as he has a bolt snapped off in the rado one. Which was like.... Faaaaakin ell, wolley working! WTF!!

The captain came up to inspect proceedings

Hmm.. this was a bad idea!

I'm sure theres something wrong with this brush!

Si painted the transmission for the cosworth lump..

Baker had the crank and mains in..

The left hook polish rot-box..

I noticed the A-pillar moved when the door was opened.. this will be why!

Redeeming componentry..

The best bit about it! 1.5L Diesel lump.. i want it for my mk1!

The dub-destroyer looks on at his handywork..

This pretty much sums it up

Bit of a stelth manouver..

It was about this big..

Me and baker did the big box little box..

We have a home for the clocks..

Martyns car got a full re-spray!

Fuck the 1043cc, i'll just sit here!

Martyn did a deal with me. We agreed if he bought my Comp's I had to buy a rollcage for Alison. I agreed. So finally he was living my dream, the wheels i'd bought for this car were finally going on this car!

Arch gap needs addressing!

Edited 13 June, 201214 yr by randombadger69