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.

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

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.

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.

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)]

More work. I've started on the Passenger rear arch.

First i gave the new lip on the drivers side a trim.



Then following the same procedure as the drivers side, I cut out the passenger side standard arch



This spot has been full of crap on both sides of the car and is worth checking. You can get into this without cutting if you remove the back seat trim and stick a vacuum cleaner down the gap.



New metal for the outer tub. Still has to be drilled.

Welded in the new outer tub.









Just need to tidy up both sides where the new outer tub meets the rear boot floor.

Next job is paint removal from the whole outside of the car and select bits of the interior as well as welding in more patches when i get sick of the grinder.

Thanks to SMCKA I now have all the panels I need to reassemble the front end but first I'm going to finish the rear arches.

So... Here we go.

Using some proper 8g self tapping screws I did another test fit. Using the self tappers saved me from drilling out the holes as a separate task. With the arch held in place with the self tappers I gave the lip a little bit of panel beating to make the lip flush all the way round.



I gave the inner side of the alloy arch a good coat of etch primer.



Along with the rear quarter panel where the arch mounts to.



After that dried, I put a bead of Sikaflex around the lip of the alloy arch where it'll be in contact with the rear quarter. Then using one self tapper at the top to hold the panel one I started with the rivets. I first put all the rivets in without popping them to double check the alignment. All was good. Then starting from the top down I popped away until it looked like this..













Next is the passenger side but i still have to strip the green paint off first. fun fun.