Wild-Animal

Car looks great! a huge amount of work. Well done. I really like the wheels you have chosen (both sets) 😎.

You will be fine to use them, its only surface pitting. To fully remove the rust pitting, will take bit of work. I would be tempted to get new axles with the CV's. Save they haslte of trying to clean them up. As if you dont remove all the pitted rust, then it will just come back through the paint.

yep, as CF Nutter says - You need to use 360 degree fuel clamp. Jubiless are not allowed in motorsport for fuel systems, It will be the same for automotive.

Progress has been slow. Another area complete..... back to bare metal. With rust thats on the underside of the car, it takes about 8 applications of the DEOX Gel to remove it. As gravity ends up fighting you.

Car looks so good, thanks for Sharing Chris!

Looks great, you will have to show us more pictures .....

awesome thanks! much appreciated.

Hi all, Looking for some wisdom as to where I could possibly buy a new 16valve rear axle. As far as I know the rear axles are different on the VR6 and the 16valves. Someone with infite more knowledge may correct me..... I would rather buy a new one than recondition.

The big issue I have with the powder coating is the prep work - how well they blast the items. Back in the day. I grit blasted my own front subframe, it took a lot of work with the grit blaster to remove the pitted rust. This was a industrial grit blaster that was the size of a room. I then Zinga ( Zinc based paint) painted it, primed, then top coated. On a properly grit blasted surface, the Zinga adheres really well, recomend it. The powder coating will also be good, if the surface is prepped properly. I reckon a lot of places will only give rusty parts a light blasting.

A spot of spring cleaning down the sill, since I have access.

Slowly making progress ...... removing all the rust with the Deox Gel on the underside. Gravity is not in your favor so it takes about 7 goes with any steel that is pitted. If you want to remove all the rust.

thats great! such a good build thread.

thats awesome!

Some more progress

Cant wait to see this bolted back in, it looks great. Nice work.💪