Just had another look at this and it its great to see the car taking shape. You got those coilovers on yet then!
Any updates ?!? Superb thread, just spent my lunch hour reading through everything you've done !!! As someone else has already said.... Inspirational !!!!
yeah yeah yeah - i have been working routing in nice new brake lines in the bay - just have to run two to the back and then fuel tank and rest of running gear can go on - all running gear parts are sitting ready to go in.... sorry for the slow pace.
c'mon, work faster, harder!!! Na its coming along really nicely. Keep it up. I've kind of hit the winter wall at the moment, every night seems too cold to do any work Edited by: thebluebus
My brakes disk and pads finally arrived. Ohhhh whats in here??? that should stop her! 20 groove red dot disks and fast road pads - 256mm
Looks fantastic mate!! Just the sort of thing i want to do to my mk2, just don't have the time, money or patience !! Keep up the good work, can't wait to see her finished.
@ Deako i now have everything to get it on its wheels... which will be done over Christmas hols.. more pics soon!
Thought I was slow, its taken me 12 months to fit new skirting in the lounge! House is noe for sale that was the incentive, come on double garage!
Made stands for the car which as you can see are out of box section with smaller sections to make like a telescopic thing and its held to the car with old bumper brackets welded to the box section on the other movable jig/frame you couldnt fit axle/wbones etc as the jig was fixed to those points on the floor pan. Then got the brake mechanism fitted and me and my brother run the lines in (havent nipped up connectors yet incase something needs altered) Ran just two lines from the master cylinder and blanked the other two off to have less clearance problems with clearing the distributor. There were actually two holes already drilled in the base that the servo bolts too which were just right to bolt the T-pieces to, then ran the lines to the four corners and put one brake light switch on the front passenger circuit. Used Kunifer lines they dont go green like copper or rust like the steel ones and are very strong. Just bent the curves in them by putting a socket in the vice and bending the line round the socket small bends small socket bigger bends use a bigger socket so thats the brakes done basically just need to nip up the fittings etc Then at the weekend past there I started on another petrol tank the other one in the pics from ages ago was done with a renew service but I told them not to shutz the outside which they did L that was like early 2005 so when I went to fit it a week ago I noticed rusty streaks on the outside and I buffed off a bit of the shutz and found it was rusting on the outside badly(and it was stored in doors!) so they obviously didnt rust proof the steal before shutzin it so it would have looked pants against all the other shiney parts. Got a real good low mileage tank from 20 which was as new on the inside (where it counts) and I wanted to clean it up on the outside Some nitromors great stuff Then washed it off with thinners you see some pitting in it in the mid section I buffed this rust out Then I zincd the outside and its now dry and ready to etch prime and spray on some gloss black and lacquer which will be done some night this week Will hopefully be on its wheels over Christmas and Ill update with pics in New Year! Edited by: Carbs4ever
Looking Awesome! Where did you get the brake lines and T-pieces from? This is still a job on my to-do list.
