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[pikey7]

*rant on*

I am bleedin fed up with rubbish quality repair panels! I know they are quite cheap, and I know that they aren't the original panels, but really, how hard is it to recreate two concentric circles from measuring a proper panel, or even using a proper panel as a template? Which idiots design these things!? I could do better with a bloody tape measure!



*rant off*

Thanks, I feel better now!

[minimac]

I sure hope my new bootlid (non genuine) fits i cant take it back ive had it too long.

[Sprocket]

lol

they are sh!t aren't they

the boot floor repair i had was not as deep and needed a lot of fettling.

sure some one is going to say the genuine ones are just as bad, but i asure you they are far superior

[pikey7]

'tis the boot floor repair thats finally made me lose my rag. I must have been lucky in that it seems to be the right depth, but the actual shape of the wheel well is a country mile away from the original. I mean the radii are at least 1/2" out from where they should be, and the curve itself is wrong. I've had some orignal panels, and they do seem to match a little closer, but there's not a lot in it.... I'm buggered if I'm spending on a complete orignal floor just to get the last foot of it though......

Anyway, must breathe......

[Sprocket]

Yeh?

well it wont look too bad in the end

All though i only used a small section of the panel and moved it around to fit better

Problem i had was i was using 0.8mm wire which just blew holes in the metal even in the lowest setting

[pikey7]

I'll get there. Just threw a paddy in garage though fed up with it! Tomorrow is another day though......

It still amazes me the speed you're knocking this all out. Pack it in, you're showing us all up!

[Dan]

And it almost matches up too!

[Sprocket]

Last sill, trim the front for sportspack and fit the lampbar and grill this week end.

paint/ stone chip next week end of which i have 4 days for it

Re assembly the following weeks up to the week os the BMC Showdown

Theres not enough time

Front sub rebuilt last night, waiting on parts for the rear assemblies, got engine and gearbox to build. What have i done

I am well knackered

Oh and if you are intending on removing that hard sound deadening tar on the floors like i have, best tool for the job, the air chisle on a low impact rate with the wide blade, it'll take you about 15 minutes

[pikey7]

already done that. well the majority anyway, plus it'll have new floor panels (so just the tunnel & back seat to tidy a bit) I did it the old fashioned way. (none of that fancy air tool malarky here! Good old fashioned hammer and chisel job! )

[mini-gti]

heat it up with hot air gun and it just peals off with a scrapper!!!!

will take about five minutes

gaz

[pikey7]

hot air gun? butane torch more like it! Should take 2 minutes to tidy it up then!

[Sam]

Took a good few hours to get that tar stuff off on the last race car we built. Started with heat gun, but found it was quicker to chip it off with hammer and chisel..

Put it all in a bag, and weighed it. Very heavy, think it was about 5kg!

[Sprocket]

Ive also probibly taken that much of dirt off the car as well. Everything i clean i get a pile of C**p i need to sweep up. Its never ending. What with the new engine and lighter car, its going to be a totaly different drive.

[pikey7]

excess is something I can relate to. The PO on mine had already done a repair job on the boot (very badly). The rear "repair" was done in at least 4 parts, each overlapping the next by about 3". There was actually a repair on the underside AND inside the LR rear corner, and the reinforcing plates on the underside for the subby mounting, well, lets just say it was 6 metal thicknesses! The sills had also been "repaired" before. there were remnants of patches on the "original" sills, plus an oversill.Oh, and there were two scuttle reinforcements on one side. Ridiculous bodge jobs!

Thats all gone now for "proper" repairs, plus the sound deadening is gone, the 4 layers of underseal are next to history and the shell has had all the seam sealer taken off (which will g back on "properly"). I've chopped out the rear bins, the seatbelt mounting "lumps" (which may have been solid they were so heavy!) and the front 4-odd inches of the rear seat has gone. And of course the whole interior will be "stripped", the front end and bootlid are fibreglass, the wiring loom is stripped to its bare essentials and soon I'll be getting some fg doors and fixed perspex windows.

That should save a bit!