Neo Badness - Oak Green 16v ABF project

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Apparently MIG welding in the rain is generally considered "dangerous"?

Sissys....

Will update pics when I find my camera lead and hopefully the rain will go off long enough for me to actually get some stuff done :

[Neo Badness]

Right some pic's, got started on the wings I bought.



Started trimming the lip for folding the steel back to retain strength.




Got a bit anal and trimmed off the swarf 



Tiger sealed all the seams on the wing to make sure rust should kept at bay for a few years yet.



Folded lip and sealed it




All sealed up


Then these arrived, cheers Fraser. :rthumb:


Cleaned this up for welding,


My first weld in anger


No doubting the penetration of these welds...


opted to flush the wing repeaters rather than fit the mk3 ones.


More to come....

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Filled and smothed the rear of the wing...




Decided to have a bash at welding up holes as I'm planning on flushing the doors etc.



Not too bad for a first attempt I'd say. Did the 2p trick and worked pretty well I'd say.



Quick spray of primer after rubbing down



Primer is still drying in the pics and that's what gives the matt/gloss effect.





Most pleased with this one...



Went old school today and found this. :haha:



More pic's to come when I do more. Cheers for looking 

[Neo Badness]

Right, had a cr@ap load of stuff going on last week and a bit but I've tried to keep momentum up on project rotbox.

Nice new (rot free) door. Lovely colour but unfortunately not the right one for my car.


Started rubbing down



No Mig welders were harmed in the smoothing of this door (Phil, if you're reading this, it's not as bad as it looks ) Dropped a bolt when loosening off the wire spindle, got it out and put back together, that was an hour or so well spent...



Door scotchbrited



Door trim holes prepped for welding



Holes plug welded (See Phil, your welder still works great)



And then ground down



Light skim of filler



Coat of primer and trim holes are no more



Other wing stone chipped



And then gloss blacked so the crud slides off easier ( tip from jag' restorer)



Guide coat



Started rubbing back the wing blank



Flatted properly, but ran out of primer... and that is that for now. Cheers for looking 

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Few updates as I'm laid up just now,

Got the car into my friends lockup, which beats the hell out of working on the driveway.



New ARB with Poly bushes




Broke the 13mm bolt when trying to fit the ARB that I got.

*EDIT, Boab to the rescue with a pair of these. Cheers Boab



13mm bit I broke with my uber manliness 

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Chopped out the grotty bit



Accidentally chopped into this as it wasn't where it was supposed to be (explains the damp boot though)



Good as new, well untill I fit a replacement



Welded in the petrol filler flap after treating the bit behind



Had a slight "incident" with the grinder jumping up and biting me. Was pretty lucky as these things go tbh

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Battled to get the front wings off as some numpty had welded them on at the bottom. 



Treated the inner sill for time being until I get the replacement end cap bit.



More updates when photobucket isn't being a pain

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He still doesn't know his 10mm from his 11mm spanners



Picked up this courtesy of David, bit rough around the edges but think I can make it look even better, cheers David 




Test fitted my wings, as you can see I'm going for an E30 M3 inspired look, suffice to say there will be some "fettling" required.




Rear all smoothed, no too bad for being in the grittiest dusty workshop in the land


Carrying on with the tidying up the rest of it

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Right, haven't been able to get up to the lock up due to the slightly inclement weather, well I got all the way there and then thought. It was a nightmare to get up here and it's still snowing, how will I get back? Stopped to help a few folks who were stuck but decided to knock it on the head, drove home and got proper stuck outside my carpark  :embarassed: Feds and a group of guys helped push me free, Karmic balance restored.

So what I did the other night..

Old with the new



Shiney shiney new brake lines and flexies. All going swimmingly...



 Aw, B@stard B0llocks Bugg3r and fcuk...



In case you are wondering that is penetrating fluid and had been soaked previously, used all the techniques, still snapped though.

So started drilling it out



Got bored drilling it out and found one of these 280mm's lurking at the back of the lock up in a kinda Blue Peter stylee.



This is now fitted up, just need to get the system flushed out and topped off with some off this stuff



And we're back in the game...

All unions copper greased to ease removal in future. Think I'll paint up calipers to match come summer time but for now I just want working brakes. Will recondition other calipers and either punt or keep as spares.


Cheers for looking, more when weather clears up.

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Went up other night to do a bit more, my Golf manual unfortunately got soaked as it somehow ended up on the floor of the workshop

Found this in my toolbox, yup that IS ice...





drip from the ceiling onto inner wing, gotta love leaks and winter...

Broke my back about 6yrs ago in a car accident and it has flared up again as result of shoveling snow and pushing cars. Had to call it a night after nipping up the brake lines. Will pick up a bleed kit and get on it when I can move without making old man noises.