House's ITB XE build and re-build

[House]

Fitted the new rack today, it has completely transformed the car!! The steering really feels so much more positive.

On the downside, chipped my windscreen on the way home from a 150 mile running in trip!!

Need a new screen, any suggestions where to source one?

[Rob H]

Looking good mate! Will keep an eye on this.

[nova_niek]

Got the fuel played around with aswell, managed to get it to lambda 1 +/- 0.05 which again isn't perfect but we know it wont melt anything before the guys at Track and Road work their magic.

Say "hi from Niek from Holland" to the Steves for me please mate! Cheers!

[House]

Say "hi from Niek from Holland" to the Steves for me please mate! Cheers!

I will do my friend!!

[philip]

Helmet

[House]

Helmet

I don't like you Phillip

[philip]

Haha

[House]

So decided to have a go at the peeling fillered sunroof mod carried out by the previous owner yesterday.

It had cracked in multiple places and the water had got in to rust the plate underneath and pop the filler, got the scraper out and peeled that off until i got back to solid filler.



With all that done set about fitting the 1.5mm ally packer plate to the car, drilled and countersunked bolts with nyloc nuts. No pics of this cos I forgot!!

Onto filler and sanding. I've never so much as filled a dent before, I watched a you tube video and just got stuck in.

This took me the best part of 5 hours, in the end I decided it was as good as I could get it.

First fill



Sanded



I put another coat of filler on and sanded it back again but can't find the pics of that!!

Here in filler primer.



Picture looks better than real life, I wasn't entirely happy but after 5 hours I was aching and ready for the next bit!!

Wont be to a lot of peoples taste but I'm no sprayer so thought this would look ok, better than rattle cans anyway.

Before being cleaned



Clean







The only bit I'm not happy with is the bottom of the picture where it folds round to the screen. I couldn't get the hair dryer out as it was getting late but will do it in the morning, there are no kinks or creases in the actual roof vinyl, it's just where it's folded at the front.

Overall I'm pretty please, can still see where I fitted the ally sheet but I'm ok with that, it's a story to tell!!

[totalnova]

Not really to my taste, but fair play to you for giving it a go.

[House]

Not really to my taste, but fair play to you for giving it a go.

To be honest it's not to my taste either, I hate the car with a passion so it's just another thing to dislike about it. However, I dislike this less than I disliked the peeling filler!!