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[woodenman23]

After doing those repairs I was able to start looking at lining the heel board up.

[woodenman23]

After Welding the heel board in I set about the painful task of spot weld drilling.









Under side of the doorsteps most of it should clean up but there is some pretty deep pitting, even more so on the O/S





The N/S cleaned up pretty well apart from a couple of areas, which I will have another go at attacking.

[woodenman23]

A problem I had with my old cross member, was that every captive nut for the front seat mounting brackets had totally or had started to tear apart from the cross member. So with the new one a bit of reinforcement was in order, I may have gone a little OTT.

this is how it came, one blop of weld holding the captive nut on.





I made up some plates and drilled some holes.









Dressed all the external penetration down



Coat of etch primer. Waiting for Por15 to paint the inside before it gets welded to the floor.

Edited by woodenman23, 04 November 2012 - 10:00 PM.

[woodenman23]

I have been trial fitting the floor, so almost in the right position only mm in it, but there is still a lot of little things that need to or would be a lot easier to do without it in at the moment. Here are some pictures anyway.



I took the lip off as this is a saloon floor it needs to come off so it sits right on the extension piece. Still don't know why I decided to do it this way, when you can get estate complete floors fully built from M-Machine then you wouldn't have the hassle of the getting the floor to sit right on the extension piece then that to the heel board. Still whats done is done.







I have got it to fit better since those pictures. I believe these are pictures after first trial fit.



CHEEKY

Got bored one day so made myself a trolley for the welder. Very handy.



I wasn't that impressed with this to be honest, I mean I paid the extra for heritage panels and there are bits missing from the pressing.
So I had to do this...

[woodenman23]

I think that Pretty much brings you all up to date. I have also done a lot of the boring stuff I never got round to finishing before, like dressing of welds etc....wish I had done it sooner.
What do you think? Not a lot of work seeing as my last post was in May.

Liam

[alex-95]

I think that Pretty much brings you all up to date. I have also done a lot of the boring stuff I never got round to finishing before, like dressing of welds etc....wish I had done it sooner.
What do you think? Not a lot of work seeing as my last post was in May.

Liam

Doing a great job liam, I don't think them captive nut's will be going anywhere.

[minifcd]

Great work this. Where did you get the crinkle paint from and what brand is it please? Really enjoying reading this.

[evansisgreat]

As above, all looks very good. Terrible that the panel needed extending.

[woodenman23]

Thanks guys.

Minifcd: I think I ordered from eBay in the end as I couldn't find any where local that stocked it, apart from halfords. As everything else in there a total rip off. I'll find you a link to the stuff I used.

http://pages.ebay.co...id=140750464035

Edited by woodenman23, 07 November 2012 - 01:53 AM.

[woodenman23]

Got some goodies through the post





I have been toying with idea to do a 998 turbo for a while. It's not something I'm not going to be doing straight away just slowly collect parts, but anyway so far I've got hif44 (turbo), plenum, inlet and a T2 turbo.

My order from Frosts also came Monday, got to admit their very quick at sending orders out, so was able to prep and paint with POR15 the under side of the cross member. It's had three coats now and is ready to be welded to the floor when I get to that stage.



I also welded up the un-used wind screen wiper holes. I had already done this on a different scuttle which I later found out was no use in the end.



Dressed down. I have started to use a 1mm cutting disc on a angle grinder very lightly to take the top off weld and then finishing it off with a small 2" da.

[minifcd]

Thanks for the ebay link. I might look into using some of that crinkle paint when I refeurbish my heater box. Yet again, a stunning repair on the scuttle panel. I need to get moving again on my own project now after seeing your work.

[hughJ]

Wow. There is some super and brave work here. All looks smashing
Hugh

[mini-adam]

Why not mount the number plate in the back door? You could do a bit of creative panel work to make a recess for it to fit in or have it flat like this one:

Sorry for going off topic, but quick question anyone know what the arches used here are?

[alex-95]

Why not mount the number plate in the back door? You could do a bit of creative panel work to make a recess for it to fit in or have it flat like this one:

Sorry for going off topic, but quick question anyone know what the arches used here are?

Look like Wood and pickett arches.

[woodenman23]

Why not mount the number plate in the back door? You could do a bit of creative panel work to make a recess for it to fit in or have it flat like this one:

Sorry for going off topic, but quick question anyone know what the arches used here are?

Look like Wood and pickett arches.

They are Wood and Pickett style but I don't think original ones curve around the rear valence like these do. Not sure if you can still get this type, I think original they came from AvonBar (which don't exist anymore)??? Could be completely wrong though.

Edited by woodenman23, 22 November 2012 - 06:35 PM.