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Apr 10, 2015 18:02:42 GMT
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Just read through this Dave and as always you're doing Stirling work. I had a pal with a 2.3 Taunus years ago and it had the smoothest of engines and sounded fantastic on song. Christian's a very lucky lad. Look forward to seeing it at the Gathering then? Cheers Pete, these engines really are brilliant although it´s definately not going to be a race car the V6 should move it along quite nicely. To be honest i can´t see us making the Gathering this year but next year should be a go! I never understand how Mrs Oldbus does not set fire to your stuff......... Then I look at Mrs Grizz and realise Look forward to this getting back on track. Well done as always for finding and fetching stuff. Hi Rian, you´re right mate and it doesn´t help having two sons that are just as daft as their father Great to see OldBus working on a Ford again, reminds me of the Capri you were doing when I first found this forum Cheers Tony, the last few years have been a bit Merc heavy so it´s nice to get my hands on an old sholl Ford again...even if it isn´t mine I was only just last week thinking I hadn't read an oldbus thread in a while! Great to see you're still bringing old fords back to life to the highest quality. Really jealous you got a 2.3 cheap too, starting to think about getting into historic hillclimb and fancy seeing if I can make a fire breathing 2.3 but they're getting rare in the UK now it seems. Keep up the good work The 2.3´s are getting rare over here too mate, we´ve been after one since last summer but most of the ones that come up are either too expensive or automatics. Sad the Ghia was so rusty, looks like it would have been very nice. That interior!!!! I agree mate, I wouldn´t have said no myself before the previous owner parked it up outside and ignoring it for the best part of twenty years I made the most of the brilliant weather today (25 degrees in the shade) and ripped the rear axle out of the donor car... along with all the other goodies that we´ll be needing... So the donor can now go to the big Taunus graveyard in the sky....
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bstardchild
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Was there not much else that could be saved?
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düdo
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I'm enjoying the build. I'm also here 'sausage-side' - quite southerly. I wanted to ask how you will approach the TÜV regarding the engine swap? Will you have a 'Einzelabnahme' inspection? I know modifying/tuning is a bit of an art re the TÜV. So far I've only had standard vehicles to push through but I got 'caught' five years ago with a tow bar that didn't have the correct ABE papers - though it had been fitted for fifteen years - and what a ridiculous palaver that was! I want to re-engine my R21 with another Renault motor - basically same size but with 16v head. Any advice re the TÜV 'game' appreciated. Thankyou
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Apr 12, 2015 16:44:56 GMT
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Was there not much else that could be saved? The bodywork was completely dead mate and as the doors have been open for the last 19 years you can imagine what condition the interior was in. Anything that was savable is either in the garage or on Debay I'm enjoying the build. I'm also here 'sausage-side' - quite southerly. I wanted to ask how you will approach the TÜV regarding the engine swap? Will you have a 'Einzelabnahme' inspection? I know modifying/tuning is a bit of an art re the TÜV. So far I've only had standard vehicles to push through but I got 'caught' five years ago with a tow bar that didn't have the correct ABE papers - though it had been fitted for fifteen years - and what a ridiculous palaver that was! I want to re-engine my R21 with another Renault motor - basically same size but with 16v head. Any advice re the TÜV 'game' appreciated. Thankyou The 2.3 conversion on the Knudsen is a doddle, we have on official bit of paperwork (Werksfreigabe)from Ford which lists what you need to fit to get it TÜV approved. Basically we need the V6 rear axle with ARB and 9" brakes which are standard on the V6, the propshaft and the V6 front axle with ARB, which is more or less what we have just bought. By the time i´ve sold off the bits and bobs that we don´t need and brought the donor to the scrappies it´ll only owe us a couple of hundred quid. Regarding your engine swap, if the 16V set up was fitted to the R21 you shouldn´t have any problems with the TÜV. You´ll probably need to do something with the brakes but if i were you mate i´d go and have a natter with the TÜV engineer before you start spending any money
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düdo
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Apr 12, 2015 17:01:39 GMT
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Thanks Oldbus for the info. Your situation does sound straightforward and quite typically, amusingly German - as long as you can wave the right sheet of paper!
My intended motor upgrade is from a R19, so a bit more complicated. I'll talk to the friendly TÜV inspectors when I'm down there with another of my wrecks next week.
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Last Edit: Apr 12, 2015 17:38:57 GMT by düdo
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I'm liking this Taunus,any updates?
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Hi, I know it's been quite a while since the last update of this thread. Actually there hasn't been much to report on... up until last summer. I got a few weeks of vacation which I could use to get on with the restoration of the Taunus, so I will now try to catch up on the progress that's been made since then. So the first thing I did was to trial fit the whole drivetrain that we ripped out of the donor car, to see if it would actually fit on the "Knudsen". Beforehand we cleaned and painted the axles as well as fitting it with some new Polybushes. Also I got myself a 5-speed-gearbox. The gearbox mounting and the exhaust needed some modifications but apart from that it all fitted in there quite nicely. Afterwards I took all parts out so I could turn the body around again and finish off the underbody of the car with a bit of sealant and one layer of undercoating: Cheers
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As the car had been sitting in the carport for several years and it's not always been a 100% dry in there, we decided to scratch off all the old paintwork. Even though it wasn't the nicest of feelings to do it, as there have already gone hundreds of hours in filling the sidepanels and wings, it was still the right decision. The filler had absorbed humidity over time and even under the original primer of the NOS door you could see some little rust spots. So for one week I didn't do anything else than take off many layers of paint and fillers with an oscillating sander and an angle grinder: We then brought the car to the paint shop, to finish of the job by cleaning all the little edges that I haven't been able to get into with the angle grinder. That's how it looked afterwards: Put some clear coat on and it should be alright, don't you think? Cheers
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Last Edit: Feb 8, 2017 17:48:20 GMT by knudsen94
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Feb 16, 2017 20:00:20 GMT
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After all of the old layers of paint and fillers have been removed it was time for one coat of epoxy primer. This is how the car looked when it came back home from the paint shop: The primer already shows where this is going colourwise ;-) Next thing on the list was to throw the car on it's side again and paint the underbody in it's final colour: Yep, after many years of different colour choices I've actually gone back to what it all started with: Modena Green (well, to keep the costs as low as possible, I took the nearest possible RAL-code I could find) I still remember being on a car meeting in 2006 and seeing tottis Taunus (also in Modena Green)thinking to myself: One day you'll have a car looking just as good as this... getting there slowly :-) Cheers Cheers
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Last Edit: Feb 16, 2017 20:03:14 GMT by knudsen94
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Feb 16, 2017 20:05:01 GMT
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You have done a brilliant job on that pal
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Hi,mate! You did a stunning job!! Whish my one were as good as yours now...... And the colour is perfect for this car. Soon.... Greet
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Feb 17, 2017 14:39:50 GMT
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That is superb - great job
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Mar 14, 2017 21:55:13 GMT
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@ sridgett and marv: Cheers, as you can imagine I was quite happy to be able to put the first coats of paint on...although it was only the underbody for a start @ Thorsten: thanks mate, you're absolutely right about the colour (only took me about 9 years to decide on the final colour choice ) So the next step was to paint all the parts you wouldn't see on the outside of the car: Enginebay: trunk: door entries: and some semi matt black for the A-, B-, C-Posts and the dashboard panel: afterwards it didn't look that bad anymore :-)
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Last Edit: Mar 14, 2017 21:55:44 GMT by knudsen94
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Mar 17, 2017 21:18:47 GMT
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After having finished my part of the paint job it was time to get the car rolling again. Therefore the axles had to be derusted and painted. Also I equipped them with some new polybushes, dampers and lowering springs: After a long time in the rack the car was finally standing on it's own wheels again: Cheers
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Mar 17, 2017 21:31:51 GMT
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Excellent to see this getting some updates, as well as the work it needed. Any timeline? This year?
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Mar 20, 2017 17:51:47 GMT
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Excellent to see this getting some updates, as well as the work it needed. Any timeline? This year? Cheers, if it comes to when I originally wanted to have this car finished, it should have been on the road for a few years by now ;-) But as things never go to plan anyway, I have stopped setting myself any timelines. The biggest problem is that the car is standing in my father's garage, which is about 200km away from where I live. Combined with a 6 day working/studying week, there's not much time left on the weekends to get much work done to the car. Still, I would really like to drive it later on this year ;-) The last couple of months the car was at the painter, needing lots of work in filling, sanding etc... Here is a preview of how the paintjob on the bonnet turned out (that also had more than just a few dents in it :
Cheers
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Last Edit: Mar 20, 2017 18:25:19 GMT by knudsen94
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In January I got a call from my painter that I could collect the car. So on a sunny saturday morning it was time to have a first look of the finished paintjob: Even though it was a hell of a lot of work (if I had to do the sanding and filling myself, the car wouldn't be painted by 2020 I guess ), I'm really glad the way this turned out And the colour looks just as good as I could have hoped for. Now it's just a matter of not hitting too many dents in the fresh paintwork while putting all the parts back on again Cheers
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Awesome colour. As there's no deadline, would it be worth leaving it for a while to let the paint harden properly?
Then again, I don't know what type of paint you've used.
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superb work!
love that color.....
JP
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I know its spelled Norman Luxury Yacht, but its pronounced Throat Wobbler Mangrove!
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