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[stormduck]

Got my hands on what looks like a good 1275 thanks to a fella of this forum. It's yet to be stripped but the 998 is almost finished it's painting process, just have to source the new parts for it, since mini spares won't reply to my e-mails.

Got a good chunk of the underneath done, so here goes:

Finally got some paint on the arches! Two coats of POR-15 and it's come out really well:



I also blow torched and scraped off as much of the underseal and seam sealer as i could, then sanded a section of the floor, primered it, then gave it a single coat of Frost's Chassis Black:



During this i realised how poorly the sills had been fitted. With only small sections of welding, with the rest of the gaps joined with some kind of flexible filler.



So Kenny came round today and got a lot of welding completed. This is how the sill should have been finished. We also removed the jacking points which are completely pointless and replaced them with plates:



This also covered the hole in the driver's footwell:



The welding on the underside of the boot floor is now all done:




and the new subframe mounting plate is in place



Next step is to finish removing the muck from the underside, then seal all the seams. Paint along the seam area (where the rust is) with POR-15. Rub down and prime the underside in sections so i don't have metal exposed unnecessarily, and coat the primered metal in chassis black. Once it's all had one coat of black, i'll give the whole lot a second coat in one go, maybe even a third, then the underside is complete! It should be completed in two weeks providing the weather holds goods for me.

PS. HOW cold is it out there!

[Bungle]

you do know that they are over sills dont you ?

you might want to look whats under them

[stormduck]

are they, hmmmm, i always wondered what the difference was, now i know! Is it essential to cut away the existing sill before this item fits on, or is it designed to simply cover over the existing, no doubt rotten, metal?

Need to have a think about this in that case! A lot of time went into the welding of the sills and plates, do i cut it all away, or leave it!? Will the floor be sound underneath to weld 4" sills on to, if not, major headache....If i leave it will any rot underneath continue to eat away into the metal and give me rotten edges of floor inside the car. I doubt much water has got through the sills that are on there, if i seal up the new welding and no more water gets in there, it may be alright.....but of course i have no idea what's already in there!!! Argh!

[stormduck]

Crisis over, not going to replace the sills mainly due to the necessary work involved in doing so - mainly bracing the shell before cutting and the nightmare if it collapses. I shall pump waxoyl into the sill to solve the possible rusting problem, and carry out the work i intended on making the outer sill water proof. I may aswell let the sill last out it's time, and looking at it as it is it will probably last a long time.

[stormduck]

Another long day today. The tunnel was cleaned and sanded, and the areas with some surface rust were painted with POR-15 just in case.



Cut off the rusty jacking point hiding metal that needed sorting, and ground down the sill weld.



Cleaned, sanded and coated the lower bulkhead in POR-15, flatted the POR-15 already on the inner arch.



Run seam sealer all along this welding, and around the existing lower bulkhead seams.



Finished by priming inner arch, and tunnel, and gave the slightly wet POR-15 a light coating of primer which should make a second of primer and finally chassis black go on nicely without needing to sand down.



And that's next! More primer, and a coat of chassis black...yummy.

[rsroadkilla]

WOW! Project seems to have come a long way since i last looked!!!

Good to see all is going well!

[stormduck]

cheers fella, i'm glad it's all going well too!

Making the most of the good weather lately. Cleaned, sanded and painted the lower half and now it actually looks like i'm getting somewhere!






Here's the 998 that's now being made up to sell, needs a little bit more doing to it, then it'll start getting re-assembled with new big end shells, main shells, rings, followers, core plugs and all new gaskets. If anyone's interested just let me know. It's going to be sold with an unleaded head and gearbox, 89k and it's in real good condition throughout.

[stormduck]

Finished the block today:





And here's the replacement in its grubby state:



Need to get researching into 1275s now, and the best components to fit in it. Also need to purchase a head for it...12G940? I dunno, i'll see how it goes, hoping my friend turns up good and finds the roller rockers in his miriad of a garage!

[stormduck]

Freezing Cold is the phrase of the day!

998 Engine parts turned up from MiniSpares, minus the rings, as there was a mistake along the lines, although they turned up today in a seperate order:



Cut off the last jacking point in the lower part of the pic, and welded a plate over a poorly part of the floor where a drainage hole once was. Also welded a little extra to both sills. Sanded down the boot floor:



As the seam sealer turned up in the week the intention was to get going with that, but with the weather being how it is i'll not be able to leave the tarp off the car without a high risk of it getting soaked through. And without my blow torch to hand i couldn't remove the remaining sealent from the boot floor....so i had to paint around the patches that are left with POR-15.



I shall retreive my blow torch, clean up the sealent, then paint the rest of the floor, and this'll hopefully coincide with some better weather so i can seal the seams on the underside.

[Purple Tom]

wow, that looks cracking!

I remember when my floor used to look like that underneath.....

I can't wait for the next installment, keep it up!

[THedooBZ]

i have to agree, i cant wait for the next part.
im really enjoying this project as all the little bits which usually get forgotten are being covered aswell.

keep up the good work.

[clarks.2006]

Nice project looking all good so far. Wish i could do something like this with mine just dont have equipment money or space to do it in lol. Well hope everything goes back together as easy as it come off lol

[davexdavexdave]

this project rocks. top stuff keep it up!!

[stormduck]

cheers people, much appreciated!

I can now anounce that the underneath is now finished! bar waxoyl that'll be done at a later date.

I'm leaving the sills and arches till the car's the right way up, but from the lower bulkhead to the rear valance the black is uniform.....quite a pain in the aras with the poor weather lately......especially when it starts raining 45minutes in to painting the boot underside so you have to stand there with a fishing umbrella in one hand trying to stop it taking off in the wind, and a paintbrush in the other....not good, give me a big garage any day.



There's a small bit of welding that's not in the picture but has now been done over the old drain hole in the boot....pointless.



I'm now removing the nasty sound proofing stuff on the floor which is almost done. The car shall be turned back over soon, and then the inside can be worked on, along with the boot, the top bulkhead and innerwings once the scuttle has been welded into place properly, alongside the drivers side a-panel and both wings. The front panel will wait until the subframe and engine is in to make life a little easier!

[Baldspeed Racing]

A lot of work gone in there, good build