1973 Cortina van

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Nov 14, 2009 19:39:46 GMT bigkris said:

Couldnt you have a side exit each side before the rear wheels? Or would that mean no space for silencers? Just an idea. Nightmare you don't hang around doing an awsome job cant wait to see it done

no there would be no room for the boxes plus I would have to lift the car to get the pipe under the chassis to be able to exit it there. the header plugs are about half way down the car and it will be using 3" competition series Hooker aerochambers

[grizz]

WOW !!

[luckygti]

Nov 14, 2009 23:11:16 GMT grizz said:

WOW !!

Erm, Yes Lot of rust hiding in there. Amazing work though, going to look good, no doubt

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Nov 15, 2009 9:20:17 GMT luckygti said:

Nov 14, 2009 23:11:16 GMT grizz said:

WOW !!

Erm, Yes Lot of rust hiding in there. Amazing work though, going to look good, no doubt

its really not much rot at all it just looks a lot worse than it actually is and most of were the rot is will be chopped out anyway to make way for the new exhaust outlets

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spent all day today having a good clean up down the workshop as space was getting silly down there so sadly no real work done on the car today but things are now able to progress much quicker with added space made


even a bit of room for evilgeds humber now instead of it sitting out in the rain all the time

pretty much the olny job i did do on the car today was to remove the fuel tank this will need to be replaced with on that will fit in the middle but i still want to keep the filler in the stock place so it looks like i'll have to look at getting one made

and lastly while on a tea break ged decided to supervise count pandamoniums trial fit of my ARE's as he just found his car shares the same stud pattern as the tina 5x4.5" ;D

[russ902]

Those wheels are sick! Will suit the Tina nicely!

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Nov 15, 2009 20:51:35 GMT russ902 said:

Those wheels are sick! Will suit the Tina nicely!

cheer's the wheels looked really good when they were fitted to my mk3 van so i'm hoping they will look equally as good if not better on the estate


one of the parts of the clean up at the workshop involved bringing the engine home for its rebuild so tonight I have been digging out all the parts for the engine:
forged pistons

forged 4340 steel 347ci stroker crankshaft

forged 4340steel H beam rods

and a billet flywheel amongst some other nice new bits

now the fun bit of building up the engine can begin ;D

[Oldbus]

Looking good mate,

where´ve you hidden the van?

[stefan]

Wish i had your body work and painting skill, its look good

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Nov 16, 2009 6:21:34 GMT Oldbus said:

Looking good mate,

where´ve you hidden the van?

the vans doing an impression of a cupboard in my garage at home ;D everything i have taken off the estate is sat either in it or on it

[grizz]

Dave , you still want this , don't you ?

Massive progress Mark.

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the new base coat colour arrived today this will form the main colour of the car still not 100% on the other colour or weather I will use any candy over the Kopper pearl yet a few small test paint experiments may be in order





this is what the colour looks like on a complete car

[bigkris]

Nie colour mate its going to look way cool

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day nine started out fine but turned into a disaster when i hit my hand with the hammer instead of the bolster i was using to remove the old rotten bumper mount resulting in 3 hours wasted waiting around in A&E to see if it had broken my hand

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so day 10 and the hand is fine bar a bad bump so back on to getting the rust repairs done on the back end .
the inner rear valence and the bumper mount were both very rotten on the passenger side so i set about making new bits up and fabricating new exhaust cutouts in the new valence as i want to tuck the exhaust up and just have the tail pipes through the valence rather than poking out under it

[tickman]

Very tidy work on the tail pipe exits.
Not so tidy work on the hand though.
Seem to be getting on well without use of both hands.

John.

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Nov 22, 2009 22:57:39 GMT tickman said:

Seem to be getting on well without use of both hands.

John.

cheer's yeah it seem's to be one of those years for damaging my hands this year it not been to bad today just a big bruise were my hand used to be but it still seems to work ok once I strapped it up a bit to save hitting it again ;D ;D I really shouldn't be aloud near large hammers ;D

[will]

Looking forward to seeing the 'tina in paint, color looks great.

Quality work as ever, it's reassuring to see someone that capable still doing the classic hammer stunt - possibly my only 'I could do that' moment of this thread.lol.

[welder]

top work! Just read this all the way through. Don't fancy coming and doing my estate do you? There would be biscuits, and tea.

[Oldbus]

Nightmares with one hand is better than most of us with two! ;D

Nice one Mark, it´s going to look really wicked.