My other red rallye resto......

[Ben_w]

Zakks was completely hidden by the sideskirt, check his project thread.

This makes me feel better about mine now! really glad i didn't buy it! Looks a sterling job on the welding though friend fancy doing mine?

My mate Steve is a good lad. Knows his stuff and is a good welder. The cuts I got from this other car helped massively. My mate who has the tyre unit i work at said to me he'd get Steve to weld it if I covered his shift. Seemed like a fair deal to me. It wasn't hidden completely by the side skirt. When we had it on the lift and were under it, I could see it....I knew the sill was fooked. Still, having the cuts from another chassis to repair have helped loads. Steve is available for welding jobs!

It's not that much of a mission to save. The welding is the biggest job, the rest of it is either clean up or replace. None of the jobs needed are too bad. Welding, beam, brake lines, wiper blades, bulbs, lambda sensor plug....biggest job might be replacing the head....see below...

Got a bit more done today. Remembered to take the new brake hoses with me. Got those fitted eventually after a bit of messing about….front drivers side brake seems to be binding again though. Wonder if the caliper needs some love….



I then decided it needed a bloody good wash. It hasn't had one since I bought it and its been stood a long while….plenty of Autosmart G101 and a brush got in all the nooks and crannies and pulled out a shed load of muck….then washed properly, twice and its come up pretty clean. A bit pink in places and I know it needs a little paint but I'm still pretty pleased. Gonna machine polish it at some point as its a bit swirly…..









Last job for today was to fix the front splitter that's been hanging off and doing my head in since I got it…..job I thought would take ten minutes took 30…..stupid bloody clips and screws and no access…...I should knon better by nplaces

This is the problem with the emissions me thinks…



Will try and repair but if not have a replacement plug and a section of loom on its way.

So just waiting on collecting the beam and I'll do the front to rear brake pipes when I do the beam. Parts on order include wiper blades, spare wheel hook and bolt, a wheel brace, lambda sensor plug and hopefully a pair of ph2 side repeaters. Will need a new battery too. Also need to do the cam belt and I've a sneaking suspicion she's a tapper (its either that or its got a stuck lifter due to being sat….) although I'm not sure why. Had a belt at 62k, is now on 99k and the belt looks old son unless she was a snapper early doors I'm not sure…. No worries if she is, I've got access to a spare head so before doing the belt, I'll swap the heads, new hg and bolts and belt, job done. I've also a sneaky feeling it's been decatted. Not sure the cat pipe looks std and the exhaust makes an odd noise though it….exhaust coming off to do the beam so I'll find out for sure at some point!

Still hoping for MOT by next weekend.