Wild-Animal

Blasting anything that has heavy amount of rust is a job for a place that has the proper equipment, I use a heavy grit blaster at work and some of the stuff on my raddo took a while to blast and this is in a steel room with a like deep diving helmet on and a fireman's hose firing the grit out of it, and you have to brace yourself against the grit firing out . It will be worth taking it some where they have these facilities, it will be worth it you get a nice silvery finish. If any one is considering a finish other than Powder coating. As powder coating well it must be put on with no moisture underneath the coating on your blasted surface rusts underneath your powder coating and you wont know for a while! Other option is Zinga , cold galvanisation pure zinc paint works a treat on blasted surface I highly recommend this stuff

Hey, my company do alot of alloy wheel repairs, as a blacksmith a wheel secailist comes to us for T.I.G welding, in all cases its the same as your alloy they crack from the outside edge in. When a new alloy costs £1500 each then a repair is sometimes a nicer choice, as far as I am aware we have not had any problems from the repairs.

fantastic work! Looks like your not hanging about, are you still running the original rear callipers? I have upgraded mine recetly to the MK3 ones with the internal spring, my original ones were causing major problems, due to lack of hand brake effiency for the M.O.T, big differnce now Look forward to more photos!

hey looking good, have you changed the fuel filter recenlty that could be your problem for your stuttering

Hey looking nice(apart from the welding if you can call it a weld), I take it your head thats pitted is beyond skimming?

Hey nice work, I am sure someone on here will give you some advice about you loosing oil, only thing i could say is check your expansion bottle and make sure there are no traces of oil getting into your coolant and check there aren't any visible leaks on the block.

Hey I had this exact same problem, It started like a dream when cold but a nightmare while warm, I put it down to fuelling, as the dizzy rotor arm were all changed the ignition timing was set up bang on, so I decided to change all the injectors. What a difference the car now starts bang on ever time, I reckoned the injectors were leaking. If your in doubt about changing them as they are £35 each just pull one out, have a loo,k mine looked well past there best Hope this helps! [

nice work, I bet you will be loving driving it in this weather!

yeah well it works so thats good, try phoning up some local blacksmiths they will have blasting equipment.

liking the work! Zinga works a treat, it works best on blasted surfaces cold galvanising! looking forward to more photos !

If you have the kit then fair enough, but it might be easier taking it somewhere local to get the pieces blasted, I use a heavy grit blaster at work, and its like the size of a firemans hose and I have blasted the same pieces you have and even it took as while.Let me know how you get on Also once its blasted the surface will be prone to rust even in dampness, so be sure to throw some paint on it straight away!

Hey, thats fantastic the sealed headlight wiring kit, it will be sooooooo worth it , the amount of hastle I have had from my uprated kit due to water killing the fuses or the relays! Also what are you planning on using the sand blaster kit on ? Keep up the good work

yeah that reminds my uncle was wondering why his van was making a funny clunking noise, he checked everything and it turned out later on his front driver side wheel was completely slack, woops Good luck with the m.o.t !

callipers look nice! The axle stands are pretty handy, no pins required! I stripped back my callipers then painted them with red heat temp paint, then you can buy a clear coat that is resistant to brake fluid, you do have to oven bake them so the paint cures, just so the brake fluid does not ruin the paint.Also I hung them by a wire through one of the bolt holes that way you can paint booth sides at once !

oh, wow really liking the door cards, the white sticthing just adds that nice little touch. It will make the car look a lot more modern. Nice one !

if you find out where you get your power steering pipes from please do tell! The dealers is well far to expensive !

your plug looks like it has had better days, it certainly would help changing them.

Well i used power flex bushings on the whole front end of mine, wishbones and anitl roll bar. Just while i had mine in a million pieces thought i would change them Some say its worth sticking to genuine bushings but its up to yourself. I

Amazing work :D really enjoy reading this to just to see what you have done in such a short time span! You must be itching to get driving it 8) I am lookig forward to seeing the the photo shoot :salute:

you could always do a bit of farmer enginering and put a bit of threaded bar in the fuses place :cuckoo: or worse on the darwin awards someone from the States used a bullet :lol: as a fuse I am pretty sure the bullet ended up going off

hey you can pick up the central locking pumps fairly well if your not in a rush keep an eye out someone will be selling one on the cheap, that might solve you locking problem, also if you fit another central locking pump, I put the foam casing it sits above my Rayburn to dry out. As it was damp and wrapped the foam with a polythene bag before refitting. I opend the back up of the pump and found it had moisture in it. So this should prevent this. For your callipers I refurbished mine, stripped the paint back,repainted and resealed them i noticed a big difference. The cost of seals is a bit though

Looks great, 8) and well looked after

Nice, looks like your getting on ! :D it wont be long now until you her back on the road with the pace your going at!

A very nice choice. My friend has one and he kicks its balls in on a regular basis. The only thing he has needed done on it was the front tyres, due to his driving. The amount of heat he had put into the brakes and still stood up to it. 130mph up to a round about might not help :norty:

Hey i am not sure how far away halfords is from your work for the car getting to a high temperature, i had problems opening my bonnet. I decided it was down to the cold tempearure. So i let the engine get up to full temperature and let the car run for 30 mins thats done the trick for mine the bonnet released on both sides 8) That way there was alot of heat in the engine bay Good luck