Alan's GSi project

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Originally Posted by MK1_beastie

do you mean check them from inside the car or outside? i'm hoping that next weekend i can get it in my garage and get under it with the wire brush and get rid of all the underseal already on there.

got a hold of some galvanised paint to protect under the car :)

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I mean in the iner arch under here, under that underseal we found lot and lots of bad rot on my mates, and we had no idea it was there.

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s...a/DSCF0925.jpg

hope there is none though, but as yours is quite bad els where im not sure you'll be so lucky..:(

Scott

i'll give these areas extra attention then, cheers for the heads up.

i'm dying to get out and get it started!!

well done for saving the shell as Scott.Parker said check the inner arch i had a nasty shock when i checked some idiot had wanged a load of filler in mine and re-under sealed .:thumb: Keep up the good work

Wow, over a month since i last posted on this!

Well only a little bit to update, finally got the car inside at the weekend and put it up in the air on axle stands. Took the rear beam off and front struts & hubs. checked the beam for holes....none found :D Going get the beam and hubs sent off to get sandblasted sometime soon hopefully.

Checked the rear inner arches for rot with a big poking device....once again nothing found :D but to be sure i am going to set about it with a wire brush on the drill at the weekend

When the drivers footwell was being welded, a bit of the sound proofing caught fire and caused a little damage....so tonight i decided to take the dash out and investigate. Didn't get the best of starts, took the trim of the top of digi dash and it was all melted in one corner. When i took it right out, the back was enihilated along with all the inside of that part of the dash. In tradition with this car though, worse was to come....the wiring!! It's screwed basically, quite a bit of it melted in some way or another. So now looking for a new dash and interior loom :(

The joys!!


alan

good on ya buddy looks like you have your work cut out:(

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Originally Posted by MK1_beastie

Wow, over a month since i last posted on this!

Well only a little bit to update, finally got the car inside at the weekend and put it up in the air on axle stands. Took the rear beam off and front struts & hubs. checked the beam for holes....none found :D Going get the beam and hubs sent off to get sandblasted sometime soon hopefully.

Checked the rear inner arches for rot with a big poking device....once again nothing found :D but to be sure i am going to set about it with a wire brush on the drill at the weekend

When the drivers footwell was being welded, a bit of the sound proofing caught fire and caused a little damage....so tonight i decided to take the dash out and investigate. Didn't get the best of starts, took the trim of the top of digi dash and it was all melted in one corner. When i took it right out, the back was enihilated along with all the inside of that part of the dash. In tradition with this car though, worse was to come....the wiring!! It's screwed basically, quite a bit of it melted in some way or another. So now looking for a new dash and interior loom :(

The joys!!


alan

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Deja vu lol

Mike (mikec123) had the same thing happen dude!
He was gutted (so was the dash/loom) so we whant on the look out for new parts, he's got 99% of it now i think.

Look around in the for sale section, put an ad in the wanted part too, you'll find all the bit's in time mate (with any luck)

Good luck mate.

Scott

wow was there anything holding the car together? I might need his skills soon on much less rusty shell where is the chap located?

WOW!!
you got some rot then but well done to how ever is doin the work for you

good luck :)

keep going with it mate, your luck will turn,
try emailing colin "nova rally" he might have
all the parts you need :thumb:

Is the whole loom gone? Only prob like that, if one bit goes it up it usualy takes a fook load with it!

As long as it didnt have teh battery on at the time.