Just a few pictures to put up



Thats the completed chassis rail and swaybar mount



there is the finished grille opening

I then moved on and tackled one of the larger spots of chassis rail rust:







It came out looking sweet, im getting pretty good at this stuff, every patch i do seems to be better than the last, especially looking at my first patches!

next i tackled my first bit of sill rust




and since then i have turned the car up on its other side today and have finished most of the welding on all those repairs. one more major part to fit and then just alot of scraping and buffing to get it back to steel and the underside will be ready for prep and paint, with the exception of the enlarged trans tunnel which im yet to do. Im moving back to christchurch in a week which means progress will halt for a long while again. i was hoping to get the underside finished by then so that i could tow it back but doesnt look like it will happen now after finding all that rust...

Alright time for a bit of an update, i've finally managed to get home from uni for a couple of weeks and i have been stuck into the little car.

stripped off a bit more underseal

im getting pretty sick of stripping that underseal and im pretty confident that i have found all the rust now, i've got the floorpans all stripped and have the arches left to do which is the hard bit. Im kinda thinking i'm just going to give it a good waterblast and then POR15 the floorpans and leave the arches with underseal.

i finally managed to get to a point where i could re-attach the rear bumper rail part which i'm stoked about


Here is where the bumper mounts come through


Check this out for panelcraft! i'm really happy with how that turned out




Put the petrol tank in to make sure it still fit as the straps mount to that rail


took out the last major bit of rust on the car next, it was above the rear windscreen and came out pretty good


I put the car back flat on the ground and then had a look at how it all came out, when i find some bolts i'll trial fit the bumper too.


I fitted the new 5 speed up to my zetec and put it on the crossmember on the floor... couldn't help but take this pic

then the dog came over for a pose


putting the new box on highlighted a bit of an issue, the starter motor fowls on the crossmember so now i have to move the engine up about 15-20mm.


picked up the front of the car with my hoist

put the fitted-up subframe under the car, looks wicked, i reckon i should rethink the whole project and just make it into a funnycar :)


heres how the floor looked at the start of the night

and heres how it looked at the end


My new wheels turned up the other day and they look tops! 13x7 for the front which is borderline for an anglia, and then 13x8's for the rear which are seriously borderline. im thinking i might man up and shell out some money to shorten my fairlane diff though and that should help make them fit.
anyway for the moment i will have to make do with it looking like this :)







I love those wheels!

Nice work, keep it up
i think those rims will give you heaps of street cred, massive dish!!

Excellent work, looks like you've made some big progress there.

And those wheels are fantastic

alrighty, been a while since i've updated.

Have managed to get a couple of things done over the last few days.

Got my revised engine mounts welded and fitted up, just have to trim them to make them look pretty and give them a coat of black zinc.



They are way better looking than my previous attempt and allow more space for the starter motor.

I also managed to get my gearbox mount all made up, its using the cross-member from an automatic 95 mustang i made some drop mounts to fit it all up.



stood around scratching my head for F-ing ages trying to figure out how i was going to go about finding the right shape for my gearbox tunnel and in the end decided to mock it up with welding wire to get the measurements.



And then measured it all up and marked it out on a sheet



Will take that out to dads work in the morning and cut and fold it up. fingers crossed it fits! i got 3 spare sheets though so no biggie if i stuff it up.

And the few other things i managed to get done while i was at home.

Tunnel all folded up

Hole cut out much biggerer


sat up in place


end folded down

And welded up





I then decided that the floorpan was looking way too complete and cut another bit hole to do some minor rust repairs

repairs to the sill

all patched and welded

and again on the other side

and found all this in the sill, its not even half, most of it is spread around my shed/face from the duster gun

sill all cleaned out of all the mud

and welded

that is sensational work. you are pretty tricky handy with the welder and fabrication. will be great to see the final product...keep it up. better go to the shed and do some work on my own car now :-)

Yeah,,,

I like updates to the anglebox pages...

Shaun

Thanks for the compliments guys. I do my best with that welder, its not the best piece of gear, just a cheapy but with lots of practice im getting better with it.

ive got a few more weeks at uni and then i'll be home for the summer and i can get some more work done on it.

Have been toying with the idea of going rack and pinion and think i will go this way. Also been messing around with the idea of an eaton m90 supercharger pushing through the bike carbs. Should be an interesting experiment [88]

I really do wish I could do some more work on this!

Doesn't help that its at mum and dads about 800km away...