CG's rebuild thread. PROJECT COMPLETE

If anyone is interested...

Collected the rear beam from the blasters today. 2 weeks late.

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...TA_DRAG028.jpg
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I minced about after work drilling holes in the Astra GTE fuel pump cradle, to make it fit on Nova chassis legs.

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...TA_DRAG033.jpg
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After tea I headed over to my parents to borrow my Dad to help me ( I helped him) put the bushes in the beam.

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...TA_DRAG034.jpg
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...TA_DRAG035.jpg

I also put 2 coats of Gloss black on the fuel tank straps. And some seam sealer underneath at the back panel. no pics.

Beam looks minty! Is it powder coated? I didn't know you ran rear discs either.

What's the idea with an Astra bracket then?

Beam looks a top job.

oooooooof.. sir.

Looking good craig! Good work once again!

Keith

Cheers guys. I've found some motivation from everyone encouraging me...

The Astra fuel pump cradle is merely being used as I sold my old pump & Nova cradle when I was breaking the car. But the Astra one has the rubber isolation within the bracket, not up against the chassis leg vai the fixing bolts, so essentially it mounts to the car more solidly. No difference tbh.

The beam is just 2 pack Black. Seems durable enough.

Rear discs are new to this build stage of the car, likewise the 288mm fr discs & Corsa servo.

Good work there, beam looks good. PV08 then?

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Originally Posted by Jeff16v

PV08 then?

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Lets not get ahead of ourselves! lol

Yeah beam does look nice I thought.

I was running over things in my head last night, I feel major progress is only a few days away now. Literally bolting on lots of bits, rather than slaving over rusted old stuff.

Tempted to have the shell blown over at some point too. Mainly roof, bonnet & bumpers tbh.

This is a cracking looking car - some excellent work gone into this!

Under way again then!!!!! thank god!!