mini_kris
17-12-06, 11:40 AM
well bougth a mk3 xr2i from tarlton friday night, i knew it needed some serious welding but it didnt bother me as im never one to shy from a project, its a 1990 1.6cvh, think there just a tad over 100bhp as standard but i have absoloutly no intensions of leaving the any of it standard other than the rims and external look of the car, got it for got it for ?90...BARGAIN
still not got my camera back from my mates yet so.... heres what i have done so far
well i stripped it down last night and today.... to well bare, still got tank to take out like, my god boxing day is going to be a weldathon, two new sills drivers side half pan, making my own repair panel for one of the rear struts, going to seam weld the whole shell, after xmas will take the engine out and weld all the engine bay up (seam weld) luckily doesnt need any repairs under there, goign to take wings off and just check the chassis legs are good if there not will cut the rust out and make new sections and weld them in, i will also be ordering a new passengers side front wing as there a bloody great big hole in the bottom of it,
could do with a repair panel for the rear arch but becasue it has the kit on im going to remove the arch and try and make my own repair panel for it.
when taking the spare wheel out and spare wheel tray i was shocked to find a good boot floor, as my plan is to build it into a bit of a rally slag will be mouting my home made fuel tank(cell) in the boot(need some one who can tig ali now though), just hoping when i drop the tank out i find it as good as the boot, saying that it would be no worrys if it didnt has may end up cutting the middle out where it sticks up to mount the rear seats to any how and slope it down with one piece of plat metal, if for nothing more than to make it look tidyer.
i have been offered a cage from a escort of the same shape from an xr3i challenge car? am i right in thinking the front will fit because its so cheap if it will fit will just modify the back end to fit, might just have to trial fit the front end?
any wayback to work http://www.ukhotcars.com/forum/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif
kris
still not got my camera back from my mates yet so.... heres what i have done so far
well i stripped it down last night and today.... to well bare, still got tank to take out like, my god boxing day is going to be a weldathon, two new sills drivers side half pan, making my own repair panel for one of the rear struts, going to seam weld the whole shell, after xmas will take the engine out and weld all the engine bay up (seam weld) luckily doesnt need any repairs under there, goign to take wings off and just check the chassis legs are good if there not will cut the rust out and make new sections and weld them in, i will also be ordering a new passengers side front wing as there a bloody great big hole in the bottom of it,
could do with a repair panel for the rear arch but becasue it has the kit on im going to remove the arch and try and make my own repair panel for it.
when taking the spare wheel out and spare wheel tray i was shocked to find a good boot floor, as my plan is to build it into a bit of a rally slag will be mouting my home made fuel tank(cell) in the boot(need some one who can tig ali now though), just hoping when i drop the tank out i find it as good as the boot, saying that it would be no worrys if it didnt has may end up cutting the middle out where it sticks up to mount the rear seats to any how and slope it down with one piece of plat metal, if for nothing more than to make it look tidyer.
i have been offered a cage from a escort of the same shape from an xr3i challenge car? am i right in thinking the front will fit because its so cheap if it will fit will just modify the back end to fit, might just have to trial fit the front end?
any wayback to work http://www.ukhotcars.com/forum/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif
kris