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looks a great motor

Done now needs redoing lol

looks nice

Kean will probably kill me

So this is who bought your 1380 then Rahul?

If something is worth doing, it's worth doing half of.

Git!

Lol

The estate was a cracking car, look forward to see what you have planned for this one.

Cheers George!

Does this mean there a spare 1275 knocking around the south midlands?

Not quite, depends what you are after?

Well erm turbo lump, all gubbins and a mini to put them in. Also trying to work out if a carb turbo motor could pass a 98 emmissions test

The estate has moved on, so I have started work on the clubby.

With the garage empty I took the opportunity to latex screed the floor and give it a lick of paint. It has made working the garage so much easier on the back and for rolling things around.

The front of the car was past saving and will probably be replaced with a plastic one anyway so off it came..



Stripped the sub-frames off the car and left a rolling shell (castors)




Started to survey the work ahead, looks like I'll be welding for a while!











It needs front and rear floors, sill, door hinge, door sill/frame, inner arch...... and that's just the drivers side! There is also an interesting repair to the rear quarter panel, not quite worked out what has been done there yet.

All good fun!

Oh, and a sneaky one of things to come, Cheers Carl!

Edited by Kean on 1st May, 2013.

Could be worse. Looks like the panel that Wil tried to stuff into my box and I left with Nick will come in handy.

Thanks for the transportation Andy, I hope your box isn't too stretched.

No problem, my box is ruined after Pod food lol

Moving on nicely then mate.

Minor update, decided to make a spit to make life easier.

Stripped down to a shell now ready for all the metal work over winter.

I'm going to brace the shell before any more metal(rust) is removed.

Edited by Kean on 1st May, 2013.

Spit looks a good job buddy. Have you got a spot welder? If not I cannot recommend one highly enough. Makes welding complete panels like sills etc a breeze, also leaves a factory looking tidy finish.

Cheers Tom

The spit isn't finished yet but I am really pleased with it, you can move the car round with one finger. I just need to mount to spit to the bearings on the frames either end, and make a locking device.

I have considered a spot welder, will need to see how generous Santa is this year!

Keep your eye out for second hand, they pop up quite often as although they are super useful when you need one, they are one of those things that you only use occasionally. I've had 2 jobs for mine in the past 5 years for example.

i'm going to need a spot welder so we'll keep an eye out on ebay and go halves if you want dude?

I got my spot welder for £130 on ebay. And ive just rediscovered how useful it is again this week.

There are some on ebay that are £200 that I looked into and from speaking to buyers, they seem really pleased with it.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fusion-Fabri..._homepage_panel

www.fusionfabs.co.uk



1/4mile in 13.2sec @ 111 terminal on 15psi

Good stuff, will keep my eye open for one

Nice spit. I couldn't have sorted my shell with out the spot welder. Very useful tool to have round.

*News Flash*

Kean finds his way to garage after nearly a year!

Getting married kinda put the brakes on playing in the garage, but now thats all sorted I've finally managed to do a little work. Only a little mind, but should hopefully give me the inspiration to do more.

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Thats all for now..

jesus christ bert!