92 City, My First Rebuild by big-jay

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Parts update,

Went to Minispares today to pick up my panels, here's some pictures -



Also picked up these ready for when I refurb the front subframe, Rebound Buffers and Poly Bump-stops.



Will be getting some work done on the car tomorrow so will put pictures of progress up soon !

1-11-2014

Update guys,

Me and my dad got the floor pan welded in today, took some persuasion but nothing the grinder and a big hammer couldn't sort out. Really happy with how it came out, got some pictures of the process.

In position to be welded -



Welded, tidied up and temporarily primed to keep the rust at bay -



Ill be sanding the whole floor of the car, priming, applying Tiger Seal on the welds, applying more primer, top coating and will then be applying Dyna-Mat with underlay. Then I think I'll be buying a new carpet set from Newton Commercial, so that should smarten the inside up !

Also I removed the shock absorber mount today, I new it had gone but didn't think it would be too bad, couldn't of been more wrong !



Rot cut out -



Temporary primer applied -



Will have to make a repair piece for this and then I'll be purchasing Lowered Shock Absorber Mounting Brackets for both sides from Minispares.

Also made a small patch for the bottom of the Flitch panel -



You can't really see the patch but if you look back at the earlier photo of when we put the Flitch panel In You'll see there's a small hole at the bottom.

So, to do list for tomorrow is as follows, make a piece to fit the top of the Flitch panel, ( as you can see in the photo above ), and also get the Cross Member repair section welded in. Feels like we're making good speedy progress with this so I'm happy. Can't wait to get this welding phase over and start prepping the whole car for a nice new shiny paint job. Still got the other side to do though but hopefully won't take us too long.

That's it for today guys but I'll have some more to update tomorrow !