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Sept 24, 2009 21:17:38 GMT
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Time for some paintwork methinks, now you'll forgive me but I've lost the picture of the bootlid before I started, you can imagine it, it was white with a couple of badges and a trim, well not any more: The first coat showed up a lot of deep scratches so had to to be sanded back until they weren't as noticable: This is what happens when you strangle a smurf: The first coat, sanded back and spirit wiped: Keep the paper wet, it doesn't clog as much! 2nd coat: 3rd coat and halfway down the can, the paint changes colour, so now most of the bootlid is done nicely, but the top part has only a thin coating. Carplan blame me for not shaking the can enough (apparently 5mins plus prewarming the can aren't sufficient ) Mmmmm Orangepeel!
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Sept 25, 2009 16:35:55 GMT
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Good work on the painting mate, looks much better than I've ever achieved ;D surley most of that orange peel will come out with a good polish?
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Sierra - here we go again! He has an illness, it's not his fault.
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ruffgeezer
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Sept 25, 2009 18:20:52 GMT
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Yeah, trouble is I'll bet I've got to repaint the whole bloody lot again just to keep it all one colour
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Sept 26, 2009 21:50:51 GMT
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Looks quality. Great idea with the VTR powah too, and the car was a steal!
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I forgot how to retro...
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Sept 27, 2009 15:36:48 GMT
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Id like to see her finished up on the BX steels!
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Current retro - 1996 Alfa Romeo GTV / Daily - 2016 Nissan Qashqai Previous retros - Prelude, Integra, XR2s, XR3s, Orions, CRXs, Sylvia S12, S13, Pulsar, ZX 16v, 205 Gti, MX5, MR2 etc
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ruffgeezer
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Sept 27, 2009 19:36:53 GMT
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Not a lot of picture worthy progress today as I wanted to see the GP, but I did get through one of the boring jobs, finishing one area of wiring. Take 1 Saxo engine fusebox, and kill it for the +ve supply part: The plan is to make this bit so the terminals aren't exposed, so this old relay will also find it's end: The finished product, I chopped the terminal from the saxo up, and pulled the guts of the relay out, then I bolted the +ve supply to the terminal and attached it to the relay housing using a plastic numberplate screw to keep it isolated: Bolted into the OE relay housing: Shhh it's hiding: I've not much more to add, I might have a bit of a go with the soldering iron later to finish up the adapter loom.
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I got round to a few bits on the smurf this weekend, after saturday's outings of engine and axle removal from a saxo in mid lincs, to collecting (well removing then collecting!) a new drum beam for the smurf in north lincs, and home. Sunday ended up being a day for getting a few of the fiddly jobs done, the main one being replacing the gear selector shaft and fitting new linkages, which in itself isn't very interesting, so have a picture of my knob instead: These have new rubber, but I'm still feeling the bx steelies! Hmmmm Moody! Oh and the sodding paint was a different colour again and it ran like a prossie's mimsy. Bawbags!
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Glad you're liking the BX steels. I think they're a great choice! Nice work on the wiring too, very neat!
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Since the last layer of paint has come out, well wibblepoo, I'm considering investing in this: But I'm not sure if it'll make the car look too fussy at the back :S
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Oct 11, 2009 21:40:35 GMT
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Well another weekend lost away to chores (a whole day to get a fecking toilet fitted!), but luckily I managed to sneak out for a bit of a break. Since I fitted the lowered vtr rear axle, the arches were sat ontop of the tyres, and there just wasn't enough give in the back arches to fit the tyres up there, so a narrower drum beam was the next plan. Its the case sometimes that in order to go forwards, you must first go backwards, so today starts up front to remove the exhaust system: With this done (and I've sold it, so a more subtle system awaits) I mocked up the new rear bumper, but proper fitment will have to wait because I've got the wrong sodding crashbox New bootlid can't come too soon, but it's a shame to lose the stickers. Not as low as the last effort, but the wheels sit a lot nicer in the arches. Still needs rolling or chopping up there though! The new stance: As a bit of light relief, I started on sanding off the blue border on the underpants bonnet, I want to make it look from a distance as if its just a scrappy bonnet chucked on to replace a damaged one, but I love the way the skulls stand out under artificial light. I've jizzed a bit of aersol paint up the edges as it turns out the bonnet is blue under the red under the blue which made the sanding hard work, I'll flat the fresh paint back and polish it once it's hardened. This sticker rescued from a scrap car at work, just for the irony! Not a bad afternoon's work, multicoloured dash blob agrees.
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ruffgeezer
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Oct 14, 2009 19:08:26 GMT
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Thought I'd share a bit of win with you all, today whilst clearing out the garages at the back of the workshop, I found a brand new crashbox to fit a mk1 bumper. Touch-o-rama!
I've also started to refit the new bootlid, so that'll come home for the weekend.
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Oct 14, 2009 19:52:07 GMT
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Really shaping up now mate.. your garage seems the thing of dreams.. all sorts is showing up in there! lol
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Daily: Spazda Mx5
'A52's Fastest steak eater 2010'
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Oct 14, 2009 20:48:38 GMT
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Well I work for an ex-main dealer citroen specialist, there is lots of new old stock like that knocking about. There is also lots of second hand retro parts in storage.
My own garage is mostly full of the axs I've scrapped over the years.
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Oct 16, 2009 20:35:39 GMT
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Well it doesn't take a genius to realise that the boot is the wrong bleddy colour: Also how many badges is too many? I think with the trust badge, it looks a little too busy, but I'd be interested in opinions.
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Oct 17, 2009 16:06:52 GMT
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Well another weekend, another hour spent poking a smurf with a stick. I removed the masking(!) from the bonnet to see what sort of mess I'd be left with; I'm going to need to get the sander to this little lot to try and get some sort of finish out of it. Obvious mask line: Lumpy finish: The last update showed the finished bootlid, well that only left fitting it to the car, so after getting it home from the workshop safely, I decided to fit it for safe keeping Smurf's new rump: The paint match is pretty poor thanks to the puddle of s**t that operates the customer services at Car Plan, you can clearly see the difference in colour between cans during the painting stages Colour mismatch isn't as obvious here thankfully: New rear bumper cobbled on just to give you an idea of the finished look: Liberated from a set of glass from a 2cv, I think this lil' fella finishes the job nicely!
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Oct 18, 2009 21:47:02 GMT
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Well, whilst watching probably the best GP of the season today, I got one of the most tedious jobs out of the way, the smurf's wiring conversion. Now there are a few wires that I've not bothered with yet as they run the extra gauges on the saxo's dash, but I might add those in later. The pink wire just needs a ring terminal adding for the permenant live and there are 4 immobilizer wires to lose from the saxo plug and 1 rev counter wire on the ax plug (there is no provision in the ax's dash side loom for the rev counter so this will have its own wire from the saxo side plug to the clocks.) Here's the adapter loom completed and on my free pikea sofa, I'd strongly discourage anyone from paying money for pikea sofas, they are curse word.
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Oct 25, 2009 18:21:16 GMT
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This weekend marks a corner turned with the smurf (not literally sadly). I got the vtr lump running in its new home for the first time, and with only one minor fault in the wiring, I've just now to start work on the loom for the clocks. I've found a slightly skanky ax injection radiator, but the hoses are a little too big for it, I'm hoping some jubilee clips will hold it sufficiently. A bootful of ax tat: A new front grille makes the front end a little more annoymous. Front arches nicked from scruffy french tat in a field, with a little work they'll fit perfectly. I'm thinking of modding this splitter to fit, but the jury is still out on that. The postal (non)workers still have the exhaust and steering wheel in their clutches so they are holding me up a little at the moment, but hopefully it'll come soon. The next step is having the bx steels sandblasted ready for a new coat of paint, I've bought 5 toyo 175/60 14s for £80 for them. Noice!
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Oct 25, 2009 21:45:51 GMT
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This is one of my favourite projects on here, don't know why... I just love it! Grey / Black bumpers and the wheel trims are definitely for the win!
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I've just collected the bx steelies from my good pal Andy, he took them to work and had the merry curse word sandblasted out of them for me, well it beats the hell out of sanding them manually! Another bootload of win: And a close up of a nekkid bx steelie:
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Well this week I've been mostly poking the wheels with a paintbrush, just in the nooks and crannys of the ones for the car, and all over the spare. For this I've been using rustroy, a rust and bare metal treatment that sets like resin. Next week the wheels will be blown over with etch primer, to assist the new paint in sticking. The wheel that is to be the spare was dented, so I knocked the worst out with the irish screwdriver: Rustroy goes on clear with a brown tinge, when it reacts with baremetal however, it goes purple/black as can be seen here on the spare wheel. All the other wheels have had the grooves filled with rustroy to prevent them rusting up again, next up the etch primer. The engine, wiring for the running is now complete and she's a runner save for the radiator fitment, I've bought a new saxo 1.4 rad, I've got to drill an extra hole and gently "adjust" the front panel for the rad to fit in. Saxo vts clocks. Fitting these to the ax involves running extra wiring for the rev counter, speedo, temp gauge and oil gauge, also the glass has to be changed from the saxo to the ax type. Not that much to do then! I chose fitting these as they were full of silt from when my garage was flooded, meaning they couldn't be sold on. Nothing's too curse word for my ax
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