Boom!
I suck at updating this/generally being online.
The main thing for me though, is that I keep working on the car. So it's all good (imo).
Right, many thanks to FJ and his awesome Portamig - with proper regulated gas! The car is pretty much patched up now, save for a few areas. John rewelded my seat rails, went over a load of patches I had done, and we have done a lot of patching since, including repairing the horror of the last post.
I am almost reluctant to post all of this, as it makes my car come over as a basket case/seive/teabag/pear - take your pick! It's really not. A lot of this is just to replace the bonded in 'drainage' plates.
Been keeping up with the shiny thing purchasing too.
Anyway, everyone likes pics: (upon looking through my phone, it seems I don't have many of the repairs LOL) Suffice with some new additions instead then! Will add the other pics later.
I was pleased with this at first. Let the new steel in nice and level, then ballsed it up by allowing the powerfile to dig in and thin it out in places. Needs doing again now lol.
As can be seen, I have trimmed back the rib things. Still plenty strength there imo.
Dunno where the repaired pic is.
Again, I haven't took a completed pic it would seem.
Unsure why I took this lol
It's all been took back to bare metal/zinc primed underneath/in arches now, but guess what? That's right. No pics.
etc etc etc YAWN.
B234 16v cylinder head
Courtesy of FJ. This is for the big power forged engine I am going to build once the car is back on the road with the 8v.
My JDM tight chin spoiler
Fibreglass Imola passenger seat and alloy side mounts
6 pt 3" harnesses. I have two pairs.
This is the colour I am thinking of having the shell painted. Just rattled canned this arch repair section (which I don't think I need) and laquered it to see what I make of it. Results are 80% positive so far lol.
Here's something a bit more interesting:
Lost this
Gained this.
REALLY makes me want to be able to use thing thing very soon! The cage is a work of art. I expected no less, the welds and sill boxing are very impressive.
If I have any complaints, it is that I was told it ould be tight to the pillars - which it is where possible - the A and B pillar upper sections have room for the holed gussetting which I really like, but was told there would be no room for. I would rather have a tighter fitting cage than that tbh. The reasons we think it isn't as tight as it could be to the upper pillars are because it is at the bottoms and it would mean more bends = less strength. I don't mind. I fucking love it tbh!
Now for a question. Ronnie and I decided to raise the turrets ages ago bu cutting them flat and leaving a few inches, then welding full turrets from a donor car on top, but they wouldn't fit properly and needed a patch on the back, combined with the fact we used C02 without a regulator and my MIG was having wire feed issues, means they are not very good.
So, owing to the simple, flat design of the inner wing - and the fact the turrets seem to want to separate from the car without being asked, I have decided to remove them completely, and have some custom ones fabricated. This is better for the coilover top mounts too.
The problem I have though, is I cannot remove them lol. The back part came away without issue when we initially cut my turrets off, but the rest appears to be part of the inner wing pressing, which is surely impossible?
This must die (or it will kill me)
After some chopping etc
This where the issue lies
It seems to just be pressed in, so I bent the lip back and was assuming I would be able to presuade it out of the hole, but no. It seems to (on LHS of pic) be part of the inner wing. Very confusing. Any ideas?
Thanks for looking, Liam.