1983 Rover SD1 2400 SD Turbo Diesel

If I had the space I would keep everycar I ever owned!

Pretty much all of my cars have been under £1000

The work is brilliant but I have to say - I'm v v impressed with the fact that you're doing this in a car park. I'd literally lose the will to live doing that (because I wouldn't just forget to pack a tool I'd subsequently need, in the car prior to travelling but do it 5 or 6 times......).

if I wore a hat i'd doff it.

Love the car too.

I'm afraid its just me. The name came from my Nissan Silvia track car.

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Another SD1 might be able to get some spares from.

rang the breakers yard today, they are gonna check on the colour of the interior for me.

Did a fair bit on Sunday. I salvaged some 0.6 mm wire from a welder not of the scrap pile to replace to 0.8 mm wire i had accidentally bought off ebay. Tacked in and then did the final shaping of my wheel well repair section. When it was mostly in i offered up the underbelly panel and formed the lower lip by bending it at 90 degrees with a pair of pliers. I finished it off with a pair of hammers to make a nice neat edge.








Then i cut a square hole in a tab of the flange to take the captive thread for the underbelly panel mounting.



After that i chopped off the lower corner of the outer wing and inner wing. I sectioned up a new inner wing ready for the repairs but didnt get around to actually welding it. I also had a real good poke and chop at the floor so i could start planning the repairs.



Long video of all of the above.

Great progress on the latest video Jim.

Weather should be a bit better until Tuesday so you should be able to get more done.

On Friday night I started to poke around the front end of the offside wheel well. It was a real fight to get the wheel off. Kicking didn't work, so I had to resort to belting it with a big lump of timber. Came off eventually.

This side of the car is much better than the nearside. The bottom edge has gone, but compared to the otherside its great.





Chopped off the rusty bit in one large neat section, then used it as a template for a new section.



I made that section but haven't got around to welding it in yet as I remembered it was man u vs arsenal in the FA cup so went home and ordered a curry takeaway!




Then on Saturday I concentrated on the nearside chassis rail and floor. The chassis rail had some rust flaking off at the seam between the wheel well and chassis rail proper. SO I cut that out and repaired it will 2mm and 1.5 mm steel as per original. Worked out really neatly. I videoed a lot of that process, as pretty much all SD1's will need attention in that area.

Excuse the curse word photos. They are actually stills from the videos as I couldn't be bothered to take photos and video.














Then I started on the floor. Looked like this from above!



I cleaned up the frilly inner sill remains and chopped off more of the outer sill for better access. I had a spare inner sill left over from the Police car project, so I took a section from the forward end of that. Made quite a few reference measurements and then tacked it in to position. After I was happy I welded the front on and tacked the rear. Ill do the rear properly when I have better access. I don't want to cut too much out at this stage so as to maintain strength and alignment.






Then I chopped off the old outrigger thing, and the side of the chassis rail that it had been welded too as that was also rusty.






Then welded it all back together along with a new outrigger thing.



Then with that all in position I cleaned up the top side and repaired a cuple of small sections where the flanges had got a bit crustuy.



I made a brown paper templat of the size I would need, but don't have a big enough sheet of 0.9mm steel, so ive had to order some. It also started raining and I was pretty worn out by then so I went home.