madmanluke's supercharged mk2 VR

[madmanluke]

Small update from today. Got the rest of the welding done. So thats both rear quarter arches cut out and welded, all holes that I wanted welding up in the by (not many) and a couple of other little bits and bobs. (sorry thom, I completely forgot to get the make of the welder for you! As mentioned though, the clarkes are good)

Nearly finished with my sound proofing. I have only two sheets left so I need to keep those for my two remaining doors to sound deaden. That will be it for now as my sound gear will only be a small install for the remainder of the year with an addition of new speaker pods . Next year Il be looking at getting in touch with in car studio to figure out a cool little - but powerful setup. Wont be for a while yet though. At least the main arse ache is done.

Engine bay as it is now:


Inside as it is now:

[madmanluke]

Any one in the london area want a small side project? Need my engine bay prepped for paint. I.e welds grounded back and smoothed off. Filler where it needs it. Then primer ready for paint.

Unsure if I want to attack this myself. As everyone always say, the results are in the prep.

[popleyruss]

Shame ur not closer luke there's plenty of space in the workshop we could of had it done after work in a week

[madmanluke]

Do you reckon its something you can do? id happily get the car over there and drive over there every evening to work on i with you guys if you think we can crack it out?

Im clueless as to where to start to get this prepped and painted. Obviously can pay for the time the car is in the garage/ for peoples help on it.

[popleyruss]

I'll av a chat with the other fellas and see if it's sumthing we can do

I've done a little bodywork but never smooved a bay what's left to do ?

[madmanluke]

Im not smoothing the bay at all mate. Its staying completely factory.
Its a case of grinding back the welds where a couple of holes have been filled, filling those in/ smoothing them off with filler. Then I guess just a case of primer and paint. Thats it - everything else I can do back on my drive again.

Very very simple, no more fabricating needed, maybe a little more grinding/cutting things off, but it should all be done already.

[popleyruss]

Sounds good I may be able to get my mate who paints to do it he does alot of custom bike work and sprays hotrods aswell

[madmanluke]

May not be nesasery yet. Barry just phoned me up, hurled some abuse at me and told me to try it myself haha.

If I f**k it up, then it sounds like I could be sorted haha

[popleyruss]

Lol no probs

[madmanluke]

Started to order up all my stuff to start painting the bay. Trying to keep the costs down as I need to keep money together for a large purchase that will be with me in a week or two's time. Anoyingly I cant put it on the car untill ive finished painting the bay though.