spent a bit of time in the shed this afternoon and got a wee bit done.

got sick of the mess in the shed with all the underseal that i chipped off so i had a clean up:
before:


after:


got as much welding as i could done on the right hand chassie rail and bumper mount, will finish it off when i flip the car on its other side.


started welding in the corner plate on the left side of the car as well, same deal though, got as much done as i could before the car gets flipped.


found a bunch of rust in one of the chassie rails nearer the front




repaired a little bit of the chassie rail:



im fricken stoked with how that repair came out, the flash on the camera shows it up a bit but you can hardly see that i have been there.
I read a bit of a tutorial on the net today about welding and it helped heaps!

alrighty time for a bit of an upate

i have unstitched the lower grille opening to get at the radiator support rail behind it. I found that the grille opening was a bit rusty too so i made up a new one, this also got rid of the crank handle bump that they have.







this is the lower support rail that was rusty as you can see



i also put back together the inner wing and its parts:







i put the rest of that chassis rail back toghether now too but i don't have pictures of that yet, i also have put the new radiator support in and the new grille opening and it has all fit together quite well.

thanks for that comment, it helps with the motivation

i hoped to have the bodywork finished by the end of summer but since i tipped it on its side it feels like i've been getting nowhere, i've been starting to lose motivation over the last couple of days but have been pushing myself to keep slugging at it.

did a chassis rail repair today that came up looking way better than i expected so im rapt with that and hopefully will get more done tomorrow

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!

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

And those wheels are fantastic

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 :-)

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]