19?? chrysler sunbeam no 2 (+½ )

jrevillug:

thanks for your comments

alistair:

i don't think it ever had a competition past as the grass track build didn't appear to be finished.

i guess that unfortunately ( ) i have no choice but to make it a stripped out style car as i don't have any interior trim , not even a dash!

Mel,let us know what interior bits you need and I'm sure between us all we can get the interior from here and there,I will be looking about for sunbeam trim bits from now on!!

bookmarked. to turn a stock banger back into something resembling a road car again is a proper feat. love these cars.

and if you can't finish it, leave it in the rollover frame and charge kids to sit in it.

i've been putting this off for while but here is the spending update


took a trip this afternoon to pick up a set of 205/60/13 falkens from polowry

60 quid






why do I need them?

for my shiney new(to me) compomotive ms1380's










202ukp (damn this us keyboard)

108pcd 8jx13 6 pos offset recently polished and just missing 1 centre cap

think I might need to do a little bit of tweaking to my arches once they are metal instead of rust ;D



also collected recently:


n/s wing needs a bit of work but should be ok

47ukp




some nos badges

6.50ukp




and a complete(ish) loom from a lotus rally car.

24ukp

not looking forward to sorting this but it needs doing



total time spent (going to barbecues and fabricating burgers not repair panels) 49 hours

total spend £1040 (inc paint and odds and sods not inc rent and tool porn . half way to buying a complete car but where is the fun in that ;D)


edit/

funnily enough i paid 1040 for my recently rebuilt ti back in 1992 and sold it in 97 ish for 60 to a mate just to get some driveway back

he took the carbs off and left it in a field until it got fragged, really regret it now

this thread is an insperation,keep it up fella.

yay sills arrived





coat of etch primer over the kurusted area and a new slot cut to inspect the rot in the inner sill





woop there it is





bashed up a repair panel for the rear inner sill.

typically in my haste i cut on the wrong line so a repair to the repair panel was made





panel offered up to check fit, marked for position then sill end/bottom of arch cut off





weld through primer sprayed onto the rear of the panel





rear jacking point flanges cleaned of primer, slots from cutting the inner sill off repaired and painted with weld through primer





panel clamped in place





panel tacked in place and puddle welded to replace the oem spotwelds





sort of seam welded, my trusty sip mig is having its usual random issues.
(plus my welding is not very consistent either )




the end of the panel cut off to replicate the original panel join
(left on until now to help with lining up the repair)





cardboard template made





transferred to metal





bashed out and trimmed to fit, then tacked on




front of inner sill hacked off





small repair seam welded.
middle part of inner sill left to help lining up the front repair




floor pan edge wire brushed and kurusted




this part of the sill doesn't come with the avenger skin sill so will need to be repaired/fabricated




while I'm here i cut the face off the bottom of the a post to see whats behind




more rust and another of the colourful snails from my early posts




thats all for today


total time spent (actually making the car better ) 54 hours

total spend £1080 (need to source a kettle soon - very thirsty )

had a lazy morning then took my transit camper for a while you wait (2 1/2 hrs!) mot.

passed with advisories on 2 rear tyres near limit and crumbly top of wheelarch very pleased, I can fix that at my leisure


marked out some 1.2mm zintec sheet for the next bit of inner sill.





cut and offered up to the offending area, then marked for bends and drain channels




as this bit was longer than the last I tried bending it between 2 bits of angle.




this didn't work very well so I just bent it a bit at a time in the vice.





using a blunt chisel and the open jaws of the vice I knocked out the shape of the drain channel





this causes the flat plate to bend.





bend taken out by bashing on a flat surface.





channel straightened and finally shaped on the edge of a bit of thick plate.




repair panel clamped in place.

the flange isn't straight/flat but I will tweak it when it comes to fitting the outer sill.




tacked in place





seam welded





remaining bit of inner sill at the rear marked for cutting





started to weld it into position and the pub bottle I was using ran out.

I went and got my large argosheild bottle.
connected it up, did less than 10mm of weld and the welder stopped

shouldn't have exceeded the duty cycle , so might be buggered

might have to replace it as its always been a bit flaky, but then I will have nothing to blame the shoddy welding on ;D



I have to thank tonybmw and all the other posters who have inspired/taught me by their threads,
up until now all I have done is fudge a plate over rust.

there is no way I would have known where to start without their examples

I hope that by the end of this build I will be able to weld, fabricate and body repair to a acceptable standard ( so that I can do it all again probably )

total time spent (making the car better but the welder worse ;D ) 58 hours

total spend £1080 (haven't got a kettle yet but i'm off to the pub:P )

Seconded, heroic effort, and glad to see that stuff is getting done Awesome!

cracking work there hairymel, inspirational stuff indeed ;D