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New Member - Newly Purchased ED30
mk1mad:
Looking good mate, no horrors there.
A lot of the bolts are available as aftermarket, not sure about the subframe bolts. Can't see why not though.
I Use Autodoc to find the parts and then use the part number to find them on Ebay.
Graney_ED30:
So, been finding the time to get on with bits between work and other things but I feel this is going into full restoration now haha…..I need to keep myself from stripping the entire thing 😂
Everything has been cleaned and wire wheeled/flap disc’d then applied with the De-Ox gel and covered with clingfilm to keep it working over the next 24 hours.
I’ve also checked the rust “hole” - yeah it was worse than I thought but still not the worst I’ve seen, I’ve also discovered another in the drivers side front, weirdly at the top rather than the bottom corners…….but I should be able to tackle these myself as I’ve done a bit of this type of stuff before.
Also had to drill out and re-tap the subframe bolts that snapped….they were absolutely SOLID 😂
Finally, whilst I’ve been waiting for some more bits to turn up I decided to clean up all the wheel arch liners/plastics, I can fully vouch for this CarPro Perl - absolutely transforms plastics
Car is now all masked up and ready for some seam sealer/primer/stonechip/paint - all the stuff is done at the powder coating place so just need to go pick that up, however I’m leaving it there until the car is ready for it because I’m running out of space 😂
Hopefully next post should be it welded up and painted!
mk1mad:
Making some good progress on it, shows how much rust a mk5 can hide. Caught it at the right time.
Looks like I definitely need to take off the sill covers, did you have any problem getting them off ?
Well impressed with that carpro pearl never seen that before. :happy2:
Where did you get the sheeting for covering the car? btw got some pic's up of my mk1.
Graney_ED30:
Aye defo caught it in time! There are more bits I could do if I wanted it perfect but it is my daily so I just want it to be useable.
The sill covers are on quite tight with the adhesive, you can cut it with a Stanley knife - but other than that it is just 2 torx screws under the sill then they slot into the guide rail that is on the sill, just lift them up and off
Aye a was well impressed with the plastics stuff, amazing
The sheeting is just from my local paint supplier, a 4m wide roll of it was about £25, theres loads in there.
Noice, ill take a look at them mate
Graney_ED30:
Bit more progress - basically got all the De-Ox treatment done, washed it all down and prepped the surfaces, then gave it a prime with the Bilt Hamber primer:
Then moved onto the underneath - I’ve not done the full floor like but most of the rear and a few spots that were bubbling further along near to the front.
First step was a full degrease and buzz with the wire brush/flap disc
Also found another bit that needed cutting out and re-making 😭
Then primed and given a coat of stonechip
Then finally covered everything with a couple coats of LA7W and some lacquer - starting to take shape now 😎
Last things to do before fitting all the bits back on is to get the holes patched and welded (didn’t have enough time the other day so just wanted to get everything coated so it didn’t start to rust again being bare metal) and then give everything a coat of Dynax UC
Then need to make the new brake lines as none of the 4 old ones came off without shearing 😂 - suppose its another ‘While I’m in there’ job, then finally back on with the bits and hopefully get it finished off! The hope is to get it done before I go on Holiday at the end of the month 🤞🏻
Watch this space haha
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