Ross' Racecar Project
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Then one day last week get a call from Jim (mk1jim) saying hes spotted a shell for me, and bought it before anybody else could get it and arranged delivery!!! Cant thank him enough!!! Cheers Jim!!! :thumbs:
So this is what arrived, after a bit of man handling it was off the recovery truck and into Jims back garden while I sold the mk2 polo saloon I had sat about in my unit
From the looks of it, a fairly solid bare shell, that's had both rear arches, lower rear panel and filler hole cut out and new panels tacked in. But the best bit of all is somebody has done the horrible job of scraping off all the underseal from the bottom already!! And looks to be in immaculate condition!!! Even the edges of the sill where numpties jack them up and bend them are still straight!
The polo saloon has now been sold and sent on to its new owner, so with space in the unit, me and Jim on Sunday loaded up a very hastily put together trailer in the pouring rain!
Back at unit I had a spare couple of hours today, so have made a start. The roof has factory steel sunroof, but the skin had a hole, and have always fancied a carbon roof, so……….
Off came the roof!!! Next started cleaning up the repair panels and seam welding them in
Hopefully get it on the spit im borrowing over the next few days, get it flipped over and get a proper look at the floor, and give it a good going over with sealer and stonechip ready to get it into a rolling shell, and weld in the roll cage I'm making ready for paint
Proper got the bug again!!!!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:
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jellybelly said
Looks good project
Is boris 2 staying green?
Yep he's definitely staying green!! Got far too much green paint kicking about not to!!
Bit more work this evening seam welding in the repair panels, but have ran out of gas….so guess that's my cue to go home!
hopefully picking up the spit tomorrow from Brad, then time to get it flipped over for a proper look
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jellybelly said
Glad it wouldn't be boris if it wasn't green
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More seam welding of the repair panels, then got the shell on the spit and onto its side…..
Only rot on the bottom was round the side of one of the axle mounts and the bottom of one inner wing - dead happy!! Also had a snapped axle mount stud……theres always atleast one snapped stud!!!!
Luckily though it was on the same side as the rot, so made life really easy - cut the rot out, while the hole is there drill out old stud and put in a new one, then weld the hole back up
Then with the body back the right way up made a start on the cage. Not a full on roll cage, but beefier than a show cage, sort of a half way compromise that should give me a little more stiffness without adding too much weight
Still need to put a few more bars in, but ran out of tube, and being bank holiday, bob all chance of getting anymore today!!
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