Post by dazzler on Feb 10, 2010 6:24:02 GMT -5
Hey justy guys, some of you will find this first bit boring as its dug up from my mini build thread, but from here on in it should be about getting the engine in, fitted and running with a turbo and megasquirt
Here we go:
Here it is the start of the Rebuild
Luigi has been sat stripped in a barn for some time now after running out of MOT then getting hit by flood damage.
There is big plans for an engine conversion and other things but for now the first job is getting it MOT'ed and back on the road
Luigi came into my ownership on the 7th November 2009
here we go with the first post#
This is just loading up out of the barn
This is all strapped up ready for the drive home to Precious Towers
First thing we did was give him a steam clean to get ready for the workshop
In place in his new warm home
So then tonight i have had an hour to play so i got martin round to help me roll him on his side so i can start sorting the welding out
I then started to find out the work that was needed on the drivers side floor
This plate ended up like this by pulling with my fingers!!
and this one!!!
Whoever did this "repair" needs shooting
And thats where we are upto, atm i am pricing up replacing the panels or repairing them.
I think i can have this with an MOT before chrimbo, Could be on the club stand at bingley?
Had an hour or two on it tonight
so i have cut out where the rotten outta sill is here we are part way through
then it looked like this
Then this happened (shot on my new phone in HD!)
so it ended up like this
Tomorrow he will go down on its wheels so i can put the Old floor repair in correctly, then he will be rolled back over to sort the sill and flitch out
A little late this was Thursday night
3 short video updates on the progress so far
Shocking find
What you find under an Oversill even though i call it outta sill!! (i must have been tired)
The conclusion of the night
Update time, a little pissed as got home to find one of the vids didnt save, so you will have to do with some pics!
Basicly we are getting ready to put the new inner sill on, first we have to get the door bin ready
This is what we marked to cut out
Thats it with new metal in!
So we have got our sheet steel and we need to make our new sill
We tried a bit of this
but in the end most of it was done like this
I will do a proper overview tomorrow of where we are upto with the inner sill made to keep you all upto date
Tonights update
Tonights updates, few pics and the vid!
Front Inner Sill [Raw]
Bending the inner sill
More cut out
Placement of newly made front inner sill
And the vid
No video, just a couple of pics
My plasma has come back from warranty repair so i gave it a try
Cut this section ready to fit the old floor section back in
Meet Mr Plasma
todays offerings
No Video, a few pics
The lower flitch to floor before it was seemed
The fill weld repair on doorstep raw
fill weld repair ground back
Floor ready for outter sill
Sill drilled for MIG "SPOT" welding
Sill held in place
Sill with a few "holding" spots
This will get cut out and a repair put in place, i have left it for now so i can line the sill up right
None welding update
Today i can confirm i have brought one of these (but in black)
And 5 of these
Long time since i have update here goes:
Lots has happened, the welding to the one side and sill is done
Sill going on
Sill end plate fitted
Sill done and painted
This is a little bit of old news but heres the doner which has been stripped
then we lift the car over the engine to see what fitment would be like
so that then brings us upto this
a subframe jig we have knocked up as we have a few different frames to do on the mini subframe
Other news, i picked the Turbo up last night, its a nice looking T25 and the megasquirt and wideband is now on order
Here we go:
Here it is the start of the Rebuild
Luigi has been sat stripped in a barn for some time now after running out of MOT then getting hit by flood damage.
There is big plans for an engine conversion and other things but for now the first job is getting it MOT'ed and back on the road
Luigi came into my ownership on the 7th November 2009
here we go with the first post#
This is just loading up out of the barn
This is all strapped up ready for the drive home to Precious Towers
First thing we did was give him a steam clean to get ready for the workshop
In place in his new warm home
So then tonight i have had an hour to play so i got martin round to help me roll him on his side so i can start sorting the welding out
I then started to find out the work that was needed on the drivers side floor
This plate ended up like this by pulling with my fingers!!
and this one!!!
Whoever did this "repair" needs shooting
And thats where we are upto, atm i am pricing up replacing the panels or repairing them.
I think i can have this with an MOT before chrimbo, Could be on the club stand at bingley?
Had an hour or two on it tonight
so i have cut out where the rotten outta sill is here we are part way through
then it looked like this
Then this happened (shot on my new phone in HD!)
so it ended up like this
Tomorrow he will go down on its wheels so i can put the Old floor repair in correctly, then he will be rolled back over to sort the sill and flitch out
A little late this was Thursday night
3 short video updates on the progress so far
Shocking find
What you find under an Oversill even though i call it outta sill!! (i must have been tired)
The conclusion of the night
Update time, a little pissed as got home to find one of the vids didnt save, so you will have to do with some pics!
Basicly we are getting ready to put the new inner sill on, first we have to get the door bin ready
This is what we marked to cut out
Thats it with new metal in!
So we have got our sheet steel and we need to make our new sill
We tried a bit of this
but in the end most of it was done like this
I will do a proper overview tomorrow of where we are upto with the inner sill made to keep you all upto date
Tonights update
Tonights updates, few pics and the vid!
Front Inner Sill [Raw]
Bending the inner sill
More cut out
Placement of newly made front inner sill
And the vid
No video, just a couple of pics
My plasma has come back from warranty repair so i gave it a try
Cut this section ready to fit the old floor section back in
Meet Mr Plasma
todays offerings
No Video, a few pics
The lower flitch to floor before it was seemed
The fill weld repair on doorstep raw
fill weld repair ground back
Floor ready for outter sill
Sill drilled for MIG "SPOT" welding
Sill held in place
Sill with a few "holding" spots
This will get cut out and a repair put in place, i have left it for now so i can line the sill up right
None welding update
Today i can confirm i have brought one of these (but in black)
And 5 of these
Long time since i have update here goes:
Lots has happened, the welding to the one side and sill is done
Sill going on
Sill end plate fitted
Sill done and painted
This is a little bit of old news but heres the doner which has been stripped
then we lift the car over the engine to see what fitment would be like
so that then brings us upto this
a subframe jig we have knocked up as we have a few different frames to do on the mini subframe
Other news, i picked the Turbo up last night, its a nice looking T25 and the megasquirt and wideband is now on order