hovis16s rallye (pic heavy)

[hovis16]

So once again thanks to the Covid scare while I was off for a coupe months I continued with the odds and sods jobs with the Rallye.

After removing all the tar and surface rust from the floor it was time to paint



Blit hamber zinc primer, gloss black and plenty clearcoat should keep it looking fresh for years.

Next on the agenda was surface rust. After doing some rust prep a few years back most of it had lasted well but due to not using the correct paint some areas had chipped and also the chassie parts had been crushed so this area suffered with water ingress.


After using all the tools you could think of I managed to get both looking fairly decent and then repainted them.



After finishing this in typical Hovis fashion in got carried away.....




While at it I noticed my coolant pipe was fecked so that was binned








Finally found the leak that I had for a while

That was quickly fitted thanks to Darkgti

Also repainted the rad fan


With that completed I then made the Rallye an offical race car:lol :lol

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With the front of the Rallye now looking good and rust free I turned my attention towards the back of the car. Most of the middle was looking ok but the central rails looked a tad tacky so wire brush and paint came out


The front wasnt bad at all but i ripped the paint off and redone it with WAR and Upol Raptor.




Next attention was the Rear beam. Having noticed some free play from the driver side rear I decided to have a look into it. As I have bronze bushes instead of bearings i wasn't very worried


The fuel tank strap was a scary thing to look at and take off :o

few hours hard work


While sorting the rear beam I also gave the arch a good clean


So upon putting the beam back togther I found the play to be movement of the torsion bar on the trailing arms.........Great. This results in the Freeplay and the car being slightly off in height on the rear. The plan was to source another set of Xsara arms at and later date and then redo the beam..........................................



Distractions always cause epic cock ups, this is what happens when your wife is on the case, your phone is ringing nonstop and the inlaw wants access to the garage. Simple removal of the offset washer would of solved the issue :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol

Lucky for me I managed to source something on the Bay although it wasn't all plain sailing to fit. I was only planning in having to press my trailing arm pins out to swap on the new arms............
But when the arrived the arb bolt was snapped and stuck in. f**k MY LIFE ITS BEEN HEILCOILED, resulting in a wonky hole which had to be enlarged as well as the Arb plate to match. All sorted and bits pressed in thanks to Blackmamba.



With that complete I checked the boot floor which still looked great so I fully degreased it and added some more gloss black then clear coat.

I then added some paint above the beam but got a tad hand fisted with the amount added.

Ended up flattening this back in the end as it was annoying me.

With the beam tube painted and refitted I popped on some new Brembo disc and pads


Then I cleaned up the back boxed and repainted with Hi temp paint.



Checked, double checked and adjusted the ride height and with everything feeling nice tight it looks spot on:love :love :love


I also managed to get hold of a genuine air snorkle of which Mr Wells was unhappy about as I beat him to it mwhaha:lol :lol


Plan to try and find a Pipercross viper again as this is smaller than my Ebay special so the fit will be nicer.

I then managed thanks to Damien to get hold of a Heated windscreen B) :love B)

SO out came the old one,


Bad but good thing about removing the window................................... I found more work to do,


I will assume it has happened due to being over tightened. So thats another thing to added to the welding list once the Lockdown eases.

I then fitted sunstrip before fitting and god what a HATEFULL JOB :thumbsdown :thumbsdown


All fitted looking fresh and clean:love



And for now thats it....... apart from some more Carbon:love :love :love

This time I beat Pete to it :lol :lol