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[MAD_Adamski]

umm i'll pass on the ear thing mate .. thats more up your street wheres luke at these days!!! never doin his car aint seen him for a while either

[muz]

your loss, yeah hes too busy with football at the moment, owning his own team or whatever but its last game of the season saturday and a bank holiday so i think hes getting stuck in this weekend. think hes realising im getting more done on mine so hes determined to work on it

[MAD_Adamski]

wind him up get him working hard on his

[muz]

haha yeah i bin trying, now he'll have more time he'll get stuff done i can work on mine 24/7 whenever i want but he cant so...u get onto him, he wont listen to me. how fars yours from completion, engine wise?

[andyhardy]

That's a great idea with the engine bay plates guys - wish I'd got that done to mine when it was in for it's respray!

Cheers,

Andy

[luke eversham]

i am still alive adam , and yes football is taking up all my time at the momant , i will start work on the turbo next weekend then look out

[muz]

little update.......

oh no, where will the fuel go...







like a glove...




no areal either



and bumpers are almost finished, need more filler!

[Sphinx]

Damn i need to get a welder and start practicing

Looking good fella

How do you find warping of the panels when you weld on such a large panels, like the roof? do you just take it really slow?

[adz]

little update.......

oh no, where will the fuel go...

i'll second your own question! lookin good tho!!

[MAD_Adamski]

fuel cell or relocate it

[muz]

haha the fuel is going in the boot, having an alloy race tank. and with the pannels, u have to be real carful with the pannels, especially if its a MK3.5 cos they are thinner, i take it slow and its ok, apart from the driver door, thats warped, but esilly fixed with a hammer and filler.

[j_man69]

snap, my drivers door warped too

looking gooood tho, will be very smooth when its done

i was gonna relocat my filler cap too

[muz]

aint it funny, my driver door warped when nothing else did and so did yours, everyones sills go in the passenger side back corner first...damn fiestas

[andyhardy]

aint it funny, my driver door warped when nothing else did and so did yours, everyones sills go in the passenger side back corner first...damn fiestas

Drain-holes and puddles all form on the nearside of the road, meaning that the sills there always get covered in muck/water from the road - hello oxidisation!

It's much more pronounced on cars around my way due to the high salt content sea-air. Car's have to be garaged around here and waxoyl'd to high heaven.

Cheers,

Andy

[Richardson]

Looking good. will look mint when finished

[STOKE7UP]

looks top mate some good mods there

[royalwithcheez]

Theres a nack to welding. Obviosuly go slow, but theres a way of tacking it with welds in certain places, then go fully along the line.

[muz]

yeah i do take it slow, i tack it down in numerous places, depending on the size, then run it a bit at a time, dont know what happened with the drivers door, but its nothing major, its about 2cm square indent, so i hammered it carefully from the inside with a wood block on the outside and skimmed it and its fine. wasnt over and creases or anything.

[muz]

just a little progress. the back bumpers gunna be a touch different agian




ive cut the ridge off so it will all be totally flush instead of just smoothing the stripe line.



havent got any fibreglass to build it up yet, so a job for tomorrow if i get round to it.

[sleeky]

Neat idea that with the rear bumper!

So do we have a time for when this project may be finished ?

Lee.

[MAD_Adamski]

last eta was 5 yrs

[muz]

can it ad, we cant all afford to get soemone else to it it for us got a big shopping bill for this one, so ETA is when ever i can get all the parts together really, wont be for year or so yet mind, but have fun watching

[muz]

well got some more work done to her, should be ready for primer very shortly. all the sound proofing off the doors and floor is up but havent taken a pic yet.

both doors smoothed, as have the filler cap and the side repeaters







(note the smoothed lines through the skirts and arches)

the rear bumper is 80% finished and gunna look clean when its done






and this is how she stands at the moment (look how low it sits on the rear coilovers)





who else has a volvo 720 as a toolbox

[TIL13R]

looking good mate!

[Sphinx]

I'm loving it, loving it, loving it, i'm loving it like this

Oh btw, make sure you dont loose the line that runs through the middle of the filler cap along the side of the car

[muz]

yeah that line did worry me when i first started filling it, but ive got it spot on now......after much sanding and wasted filler

[adz]

lookin good! hope that filler doesnt crack on your bumper, mine did

i used bumper filler instead now and its ok. but i guess u fibreglassed it 1st? should b ok then?

[rs-wannabe]

lovin this project!that rear bumper is gonna look amazing!never seen it smoothed like that and wit twin exhausts kep up the good work i say

[muz]

lookin good! hope that filler doesnt crack on your bumper, mine did

i used bumper filler instead now and its ok. but i guess u fibreglassed it 1st? should b ok then?

yeah i had to fibreglass the rear bumper cos it was such a large gap, i didnt fibreglass the front but drilled the line and used alot of hardener. i used U-Pol filler this time , not the Isopn p38 and it seems to be much tougher when sanding so should be ok. both bumpers have been put on and taken off 4-5 times each already lining up and for cutting etc so i think they should be ok.

yeah ive never seen the rear bumper smoothed like that at all, let alone with the twin exits so im hoping its a first.

[Fiesta LX]

Probably been answered before but I'm too lazy to find it, what colour is the car gonna be?

[muz]

the cars probably going to be like a dark metalic graphite grey, almost black. ive been thinking carefully about colours and havent 100% decided yet.

[XR_Craig]

Looks like its gonna be cool mate.

As for volvo toolbox, i have a rather dead grey sierra sapphire as mine

[Appel]

looks great to me ! very nice work !

cool... im waiting for the result !

bye

[muz]

well i dropped the rear bumper today....but it didnt crack fell about 6 feet as well, i put it up high to stop my bro hitting it when he takes his crosser out and it fell off the shelf thingy, but it didnt crack or anything so im confident ill have no problems with it. i almost finished it today as well before it started raining so should be 100% finished by tomorrow night....as will the front bumper, we'll wait and see.

[knuckles]

Hi,

I like the progress you have made on your fiesta.
One thing i thought you should know about the side repeaters you have got rid off, It is actually illegal to remove side repeaters.
The car Wont pass the MOT, plus police will have a few words with you if you get caught driving.

I wanted mine removed but was informed by the police when i made a inquiry.

Also a word on removing door handles , You have to inform insurance company about that.
Because if you had a crash and firefighters couldnt get you out of the burning car because you removed door handles ? ? ? then what . . . .

From knuckles