Horney's 'James Shead' 1988 BTCC Golf GTI replica build.

[VeeDubGTI16v]

bit of a result on that garage! is it far from yours?

[Horney]

About 5 mins up the road, nice and close.

Nick

[Wayne]

Good result with the garage

[stow1985]

Good find with the garage...

Width of the trailer will always be an issue with garages. I can't afford one at the moment anyway so it doesn't matter, I'll be renting one for trackdays to begin with. £60 for 3 days isn't too bad compared £500+ to buy a knackered old one.

nick

Smart Idea!

[Horney]

Easter Sunday, what better day to tinker with cars. Today mission to get the doors in a better state.

Stripping the doors down:


IMAG0258.jpg by Nicholas R Horne, on Flickr


IMAG0259.jpg by Nicholas R Horne, on Flickr


IMAG0260.jpg by Nicholas R Horne, on Flickr

Both doors had rot in the front corners that needed cutting out:


IMAG0261.jpg by Nicholas R Horne, on Flickr


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I then used rust killer to make sure the panels wouldn't rust again (Wishful thinking perhaps!).


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I then Zinc 182 primered all the bare metal I had worked on as well as over the shallow dents I gave a quick skim of filler to:


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IMAG0268.jpg by Nicholas R Horne, on Flickr


IMAG0269.jpg by Nicholas R Horne, on Flickr


IMAG0270.jpg by Nicholas R Horne, on Flickr


IMAG0271.jpg by Nicholas R Horne, on Flickr


IMAG0272.jpg by Nicholas R Horne, on Flickr


IMAG0273.jpg by Nicholas R Horne, on Flickr


IMAG0275.jpg by Nicholas R Horne, on Flickr


IMAG0276.jpg by Nicholas R Horne, on Flickr


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Next up to drop them back up to the workshop for Marcus to fab up and weld in replacement steel for the corners and then prep and paint them.

Nick

[Horney]

The zed carrying out load lugging duties taking the wings home so I can work on them in the evenings.


IMAG0284.jpg by Nicholas R Horne, on Flickr

Scuttle are all cut out ready for the patch panel piece to be added:


IMAG0289.jpg by Nicholas R Horne, on Flickr

Repair panel cut down and trimmed to fit the gap:


IMAG0288.jpg by Nicholas R Horne, on Flickr

Rear drivers side inner wing rust cut out:


IMAG0291.jpg by Nicholas R Horne, on Flickr

Patch made up for above hole:


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Filler kneck bracket inside the rear wheel arch is totally goosed, not sure on how we're going to repair this yet:


IMAG0293.jpg by Nicholas R Horne, on Flickr

Tank dropped ready for welding next weekend:


IMAG0297.jpg by Nicholas R Horne, on Flickr

Looks pretty good with a bit of camber and the straight control arms and driveshafts:


IMAG0298.jpg by Nicholas R Horne, on Flickr

Nick

[JC]

now for the hard work, Rebuilding and Respray 

[Horney]

That's a few weeks off yet. Still need to sort out the front cage mounts, cage side bars, spreader plates on the floor to bolt the seats through, wire wheel all the rust off, sort the wings and weld up and tidy up the boot lid!

Nick

[stow1985]

Great work as always...really enjoying watching this

[Horney]

Bit of eBay shopping this evening.

1 x FIA Battery cut off switch
1 x Set of Scrutineer stickers
1 x Ignition switch and push button start panel
1 x 24" CB Antenna
1 x panel mount for above to go in the center of the roof.

I've also ordered the repair section for the filler neck mount from VW.

Hoping this weekend to get all the welding in the main shell completed so we can start prepping it for paint.

Nick