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 8297 Posts Member #: 408 Turbo Love Palace Fool Aylesbury |
30th Aug, 2010 at 08:17:17pm
Haha I probably should offer them some. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fusion-Fabri..._homepage_panel
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8297 Posts Member #: 408 Turbo Love Palace Fool Aylesbury |
9th Sep, 2010 at 06:32:02pm
LOTS of grinding later!
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8297 Posts Member #: 408 Turbo Love Palace Fool Aylesbury |
9th Sep, 2010 at 06:34:49pm
Ive knocked together some brackets to locate the new boot floor, when its ready to go in. Im going to make some similar brackets up for the heel board to help locate the new floor.
Edited by matty on 9th Sep, 2010. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fusion-Fabri..._homepage_panel
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8297 Posts Member #: 408 Turbo Love Palace Fool Aylesbury |
9th Sep, 2010 at 06:35:51pm
A bit more progress today...Added the drip rail to the roof and etch primer inside and out.
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 5417 Posts Member #: 6181 Double hard bastard brookwood woking |
9th Sep, 2010 at 06:38:34pm
Top work mate as always.
I have started posting on Instagram also my name on there is turbomk1golf
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 12307 Posts Member #: 565 Carlos Fandango Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex |
9th Sep, 2010 at 06:39:30pm
WHAT wheres that new mk1 floor from?? On 28th Aug, 2011 Kean said:
At the risk of being sigged... Joe, do you have a photo of your tool? http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/index.p...9064&lastpost=1 https://joe1977.imgbb.com/ |
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 6745 Posts Member #: 828 Post Whore uranus |
9th Sep, 2010 at 06:42:40pm
crikey ! looks like its going to be spanky matt , you can do veronicas floors !! Medusa + injection = too much torque for the dyno ..https://youtu.be/qg5o0_tJxYM |
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8297 Posts Member #: 408 Turbo Love Palace Fool Aylesbury |
9th Sep, 2010 at 06:55:04pm
Joe, the floor is from M machine, looks top notch! It turned up today, the exact second I made my last cut removing the old one. lol
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 847 Posts Member #: 6673 Post Whore Worral Sheffield |
9th Sep, 2010 at 06:59:12pm
Loverly jubley! |
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12307 Posts Member #: 565 Carlos Fandango Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex |
9th Sep, 2010 at 06:59:59pm
I didnt realise mk1 floors were available.
On 28th Aug, 2011 Kean said:
At the risk of being sigged... Joe, do you have a photo of your tool? http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/index.p...9064&lastpost=1 https://joe1977.imgbb.com/ |
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8297 Posts Member #: 408 Turbo Love Palace Fool Aylesbury |
9th Sep, 2010 at 07:07:17pm
They are about double the price of the mk4 floors but had to be done! If you get it in bare metal you get 10% off. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fusion-Fabri..._homepage_panel
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 16540 Posts Member #: 4241 King Gaycharger, butt plug dealer, Sheldon Cooper and a BAC but generally a niceish fella if you dont mind a northerner Rotherham, South Yorkshire |
9th Sep, 2010 at 07:32:42pm
Nice. You're not fooking about with this one!
Edited by apbellamy on 9th Sep, 2010. On 11th Feb, 2015 robert said:
i tried putting soap on it , and heating it to brown , then slathered my new lube on it 
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8297 Posts Member #: 408 Turbo Love Palace Fool Aylesbury |
9th Sep, 2010 at 07:41:08pm
I painted it with kurust, then some kurust primer (kills rust too), then a coat of black gloss then zinc primer on the edges. I wanted to be sure the rust wouldn't return https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fusion-Fabri..._homepage_panel
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 428 Posts Member #: 39 Senior Member Bristol |
9th Sep, 2010 at 08:18:38pm
10% off.... how did you find that out... huff... I could have saved £50 on the van floor. Good job with the bracing. |
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 720 Posts Member #: 2588 Post Whore Pretoria South Africa |
9th Sep, 2010 at 08:22:06pm
Bloody hell. Top work matty, you sure do like a challenge "So wat we gonna do tonight Brain?"
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8297 Posts Member #: 408 Turbo Love Palace Fool Aylesbury |
9th Sep, 2010 at 08:32:33pm
When I ordered over the phone, they just asked me if I wanted it primed or not, for the sake of £50-£60 I opted to have it bare metal. Will save time grinding back the primer anyway. :)
On 9th Sep, 2010 Monster22 said:
10% off.... how did you find that out... huff... I could have saved £50 on the van floor. Good job with the bracing. Cheers for the comments...still plenty left to do! https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fusion-Fabri..._homepage_panel
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 1547 Posts Member #: 2727 Post Whore Bicester |
9th Sep, 2010 at 08:38:48pm
Mate great work (bugger) wish mine was moving along as fast as your lol.
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493 Posts Member #: 3894 Senior Member sallys gap. garden of Ireland |
10th Sep, 2010 at 02:00:23am
oh wow, another life saved!!
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288 Posts Member #: 6267 Senior Member Bristol |
10th Sep, 2010 at 08:15:41am
Really great progress, quality work as well. It must be satisfying to get that roof done, I know how much work it is to remove the old one.
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940 Posts Member #: 1424 Post Whore Carnforth, Lancs |
10th Sep, 2010 at 08:44:13am
OT, but how long did you have to wait for the Golf? My delivery date keeps slipping dramatically, I think the latest makes it over 6 months lead time! |
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8297 Posts Member #: 408 Turbo Love Palace Fool Aylesbury |
10th Sep, 2010 at 02:32:11pm
On 9th Sep, 2010 longy said:
Mate great work (bugger) wish mine was moving along as fast as your lol. did i spy your new company car, about time looks awesome You do indeed spy the new car, im happy with my choice. Not as torquey as the skoda though! On 10th Sep, 2010 1972-ANGUS said:
oh wow, another life saved!! Well done that man. Just look at the difference of the two floors, old and new. Just shows the amount of repairs over the years, and how good a decision to remove the floor altogether is. crack on man! Good skills I didn't have to much choice, as everything was sooooo patched up I had no datum points to work from. 
On 10th Sep, 2010 Flame Red said:
Really great progress, quality work as well. It must be satisfying to get that roof done, I know how much work it is to remove the old one. The floor looks good, I'm probably going to use one on my Mk2 Cooper so I'll be interested in how well it fits. You are quite brave cutting so much out at once, I'm doing my current one a bit at a time but I have found it makes some bits really tricky to weld up, but I just wasn't confident that I knew how to brace it. I would be quite keen to get my panels from M Machine as I have used all Heritage and although the overall quality is very good I have had a couple of problems I really didn't expect and a lot of them are pressed to MPI spec. Yeah it was nice to get the roof back on. Will be even more satisfying to get the floor in! I was a little worried about cutting so much out, and I wouldn't of done it without the new roof in place as the shell top half became quite flexible with the roof removed. As im replacing the complete floor/rear bench and rear quarters, im tempted to cut the lip off the back seat where the heel board joins, and cut the bottom of the quarters off to save having to clean the welds up...what do you reckon?
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8297 Posts Member #: 408 Turbo Love Palace Fool Aylesbury |
10th Sep, 2010 at 02:35:21pm
On 10th Sep, 2010 graemec said:
OT, but how long did you have to wait for the Golf? My delivery date keeps slipping dramatically, I think the latest makes it over 6 months lead time! Urm I think it was ordered in the beggining of June so 12weeks? My mate at work ordered his at the same time and has to wait another 3 weeks for his. His is in black so maybe they ran out of black paint? lol https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fusion-Fabri..._homepage_panel
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16540 Posts Member #: 4241 King Gaycharger, butt plug dealer, Sheldon Cooper and a BAC but generally a niceish fella if you dont mind a northerner Rotherham, South Yorkshire |
10th Sep, 2010 at 02:42:06pm
On 10th Sep, 2010 matty said:
As im replacing the complete floor/rear bench and rear quarters, im tempted to cut the lip off the back seat where the heel board joins, and cut the bottom of the quarters off to save having to clean the welds up...what do you reckon? They're not doing much more than holding the bits on that you want to grind of. I would just leave a small bit of the lip on the rear quarters so that you know you have the floor at the correct height. When I replace my quarters, I'm hacking of the seam with the rear panel and not doing anything until I replace the rear panel. I've already chopped the arch lip of to save on PITA grinding 
On 11th Feb, 2015 robert said:
i tried putting soap on it , and heating it to brown , then slathered my new lube on it
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493 Posts Member #: 3894 Senior Member sallys gap. garden of Ireland |
10th Sep, 2010 at 02:49:05pm
On 10th Sep, 2010 matty said:
I was a little worried about cutting so much out 
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 9317 Posts Member #: 59 First mini turbo to get in the 12's & site perv Herefordshire |
10th Sep, 2010 at 09:04:11pm
JESUS WEPT MAN!!!
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Now comes the boring grinding back of welds. :(
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