Hi been browsing this forum for ages find it great for getting motivation to crack on with my project which has been dragging on since 2005
Anyway thought I would post up some pics to show the progress I have made so far, want to get the car mot'd so I can drive it again been off the road since 2009! Then find a good body shop to sort out a respray.
Back in 2005
Standard 20xe, since had a complete steam clean.
Drivers side arch was pretty rotten so bought this, wish I bought both sides at the same time as they are no longer available.
Sill full of wax so solid.
Chop Chop
Welded on.
Hole in the floor.
Car was back on the road after this due to a house move. (2009)
New pad
Astra's home well for a couple of months.
Rebuilt this to do some track days, needed inner and outer sills both sides and a front wing.
Done
Astra has been out in this which didn't help the rust issues.
Had last week off so go a few jobs done.
The floor is being stripped back and cleaned up in stages mainly because it's a horrible job laying upside down getting covered in years of dirt and old underseal.
Etch primer, industrial primer, red hammerite.
Time to sort the rust, wanted to replace the footwell but panel not available for another 4 weeks so decided to patch it up, now it's done I think replacing the entire panel wasn't really necessary.
Next on the todo list.
Got a repair panel but it was rubbish so collecting another one soon.
The passenger sill is pretty solid apart from a couple of scabs so had a poke. ;D
Made a patch from an old nova sill.
Cut back to good metal
Ready to be butt welded in.
Done, just need a fine skim of filler.
Going to make a small patch for the front wing as the rest of it is solid, and would take just as much effort to make a repro panel fit correctly plus it won’t cost me anything.
Anyway thought I would post up some pics to show the progress I have made so far, want to get the car mot'd so I can drive it again been off the road since 2009! Then find a good body shop to sort out a respray.
Back in 2005
Standard 20xe, since had a complete steam clean.
Drivers side arch was pretty rotten so bought this, wish I bought both sides at the same time as they are no longer available.
Sill full of wax so solid.
Chop Chop
Welded on.
Hole in the floor.
Car was back on the road after this due to a house move. (2009)
New pad
Astra's home well for a couple of months.
Rebuilt this to do some track days, needed inner and outer sills both sides and a front wing.
Done
Astra has been out in this which didn't help the rust issues.
Had last week off so go a few jobs done.
The floor is being stripped back and cleaned up in stages mainly because it's a horrible job laying upside down getting covered in years of dirt and old underseal.
Etch primer, industrial primer, red hammerite.
Time to sort the rust, wanted to replace the footwell but panel not available for another 4 weeks so decided to patch it up, now it's done I think replacing the entire panel wasn't really necessary.
Next on the todo list.
Got a repair panel but it was rubbish so collecting another one soon.
The passenger sill is pretty solid apart from a couple of scabs so had a poke. ;D
Made a patch from an old nova sill.
Cut back to good metal
Ready to be butt welded in.
Done, just need a fine skim of filler.
Going to make a small patch for the front wing as the rest of it is solid, and would take just as much effort to make a repro panel fit correctly plus it won’t cost me anything.