Nope. Rears first, then the front. I still need to fit the front, slam and passenger wing before I tackle the fronts and the spoiler. I'm hopefully picking up the front on Sunday so i'm aiming to have the rears done by then. I'm only doing a three day week this week so I should have enough time to get it done.

Mate,

get in there with a hammer and dolly and flatten those hammer marks! you might want to use some heat to shrink the metal down. where you have most of the hits is clearly visable from the inside of the boot and will quickly draw attention, and will always bug you.
To remove the excess on the lip i ran the grinder with a cutting disk around the top using the quarter panel against the spindle as a guide, perfect 7mm flange all the way around.

cheers,

JP

Yeah. I will. I don't plan to leave it like that. I ran out of out puff about 5pm. I spent the morning shifting more gardening stuff and that took it out of me. Building a rock wall and moving just over a tonne of gravel by hand isn't great prep for working on the car. I'll dig out the panel beating hammers in the morning and make the bumps go away.

*Just remembered that the fuel tank will hide it but i'll bang them out anyway

Those dints were bugging me all night, so first thing i've done is dig out the good hammers



And gave this bit



A good bang with the right tool til it looks like this.



A bit of flap disc on the grinder to come and it's all good. Not need for heat.

The pics i'm putting up here are my online diary. I'm listing pretty much every shot I take, good or bad, as my little history piece on the car. I don't mind people pointing out stuff that isn't 100%. In fact, the more people who do, the better my work will turn out.

I've jumped ahead a couple of steps and done a test fit on the arch.





I still need to do some more tinkering with the outer tub but it'll have to wait til Friday.

Love your work Steve. Thanks to you and PeterM I've found the motivation to attack a Mk2 with terminal rust to the floor, which I bought recently. Unfortunately, even on the lowest settings my mig welder perforates those less than robust floor panels from Hadrians. I did not have the same trouble with the floor panels I'd previously bought through Rare Spares. What welder are you using?

I've got a Kemppi Minarc 150 portable. With 0.6 wire in it, it'll do 0.4mm steel. I'm using 0.8mm wire and the only trouble i've had is it blowing through a couple of rusty sections. I'm using BOC argoshield light gas.

WOW!

This is really impressive to follow. How much of this type of stuff have you done before or are you teaching yourself as you go?

You must have a lot of patience!

Looking forward to catching up with you at SFS. Looks like i am pretty much tied to the event marquee for the day doing membership so i wont be hard to find!

G

This is the first car I've ever done. I did part of a MIG welding course back in '99 but other than that, it's all self taught. I get my inspiration from other cars that i've seen built up on forums, like bloodyeck has done with mine and PeterMs.

I figure if someone else has done it, I can do it too. It's worked for me so far. [:x)]

Keep at it Steve, well done on your first attempt at a full rebuild. Looking good.


Here's a look into the future..... ([:x)])