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[jayrs]

, no mate, as the kids were off, so was i, so havent done anything to it, nor this week as the wifes car was in the garage waiting on a part (parts and labour under AA cover ) so she had to use mine untill wednesday, yesterday i was over the workshop but repairing the compressor and i made up a bracket for clarks mk2 to hold the ecu.
things planned for today, clarks over sunday for 3 days with his missis, so i wont get on it untill thursday next week now, but in the mean time, i need to sort my own RS out, so updates from now will prob not be of much and not very ofton untill my rs is sorted, but that should only take a few days, but im setting aside a week as theres bound to be other bits and bobs i wanna do to it

[Michael!]

i have thogutn about but its too much of a ball ache to prep, paint red, then prep to paint white again

Red Sharpies !

[jayrs]

fcuk me ill be there for ever

[jonyb4]

cut a goats throat over it

a tad bit morbid thou

[jayrs]

cut a goats throat over it

a tad bit morbid thou

holy $hit man

[fezza89]

cut a goats throat over it

a tad bit morbid thou

fu*k letting you do a respray

[jonyb4]

what? i love animals, we got no dead cats

[knuckles]

i love animals

i fixed that for you

[jonyb4]

especially sheep?

come on someone say it

[jayrs]

i love animals

i fixed that for you

especially sheep?

come on someone say it

johnny loves sheep

[frst toady]

johnny loves sheep [/quote]


lots and lots

[jonyb4]

damn right, lovely lamb sunday dinner

[jayrs]

good come back johny

[fezza89]

sometimes they need pushing through the fence aye jony

[jonyb4]

sometimes they need pushing through the meet grinder aye jony

corrected that for you

[Sphinx]

Amazing work Jay!
I love you even painted the brace you made up

[jayrs]

cheers mate, yeah had too, more professional and all that

[jayrs]

jesus, this aint been updated for some time

well it aint gunna be now

i still havent managed to get back onto it, and the house move will be within the next couple weeks i hope, and i hope to get back onto this asap, and once i do, it should go quickly (i hope), so for anyone thats following this, dont worry, its not been stopped, just delayed

[jayrs]

well gents, there is a update coming!!

clark had some holiday to use up and wanted to come over for a week to do some bits on his RS, and as i was free to start on it again (for a short time anyway) i said yeah come over and we done some bits on it.
clark will update with details and pictures as i was too busy working to take any


apart from these when i stopped for a fag

[knuckles]

yep im back from isle of wight - i planned to go over to do some work to underneath , remove old under body sealant and generally clean up rust etc.
Upon stripping the car down to a bare shell we came across more dreaded rust on the front floor pans and bulkhead. The common areas for a 21 year old car.

i will let the pictures do the talking - Jay's workman ship as usual is second to none.





Started by removing the engine , gearbox and running gear




Dash out , complete car and engine loom removed




Drivers side floor showing rust. Seam sealer removed to show holes through to the floor.

New battery tray already showing surface rust


Bottom of N/S scuttle panel



Wheel arches was mostly surface rust. But certain areas have suffered , lack of seam sealant and under body coatings have led to this. Also this car was once ran with big wheels and no plastic arch liners.


After removing the seam sealant on the Drivers side upper bulkhead where it meets the top of the wheel arch. This revealed a hole




Jay started by cutting out all the rot on passenger side front floor pan. We couldnt find any mk3 fiesta's up the scrap yards and nobody makes a pattern part floor pan for the mk3 so we had to create our own replacement panels

[RSGeorge]

Good work lads. When can I drop mine off for a resto?

[knuckles]

2nd half of the update !




Cleaning up the inner front arches was easy peasy when you have a belt sander and a angle grinder with wire brush attachment.



Cleaned up and now primed with red oxide. The following day i had them seam sealed using genuine ford sealer


rebuilding the floor on passenger side


Welded up - jay created panels to fit and bent them to follow the shape of the mk3 floor.





Both front floors welded and all sound deadening removed. Surface rust treated and primered.


Floor welding completed ready for seam sealer



Laying new sound deadening after seam sealer applied day before. Hot air gun was used to get it in all the grooves in the floor.



Front floor finished ready for painting


lastly i been wanting to clean up my scabby front suspension turrets.


Welded up the strut brace holes. Belt sander came in very handy underneath removing surface rust.

thats all for now

[jayrs]

RSGeorge, if i was doing others there would be a bit of a que but xr2 next then i think i'll knock the restro lark on the head,
well for the forseable future anyway......... never say never


was good to get some done on it clark, cant say im still happy with the passanger floor repair as its not very neat, but you were so thats good enough, but you know its gunna bug me

[jonyb4]

very impressive as usual mate, some Skilled minds on this forum!

[RS rob]

nice to see it moving forwards gents

[- Danny Boy -]

Awesome stuff Nice to see a rotten shell made good again!

[jayrs]

it is, i didnt wanna leave it for as long as i did, but i had a lot going on with old house, house move and what not, plus some other things, but its all done now so i got the time to crack on with it again, but soon it will be to the point i can/wont do anything else untill new year due to weather, as the workshop can get real cold and im not working down there when its like 2-3 degrees C like when i first started on it, and the gas for the space heater dont last that long, would do a 13kg propane in less than 2 weeks easy, and at £28-£30 a pop, its a bit expensive per month just for heating

[Dave G fsi]

Very good work there, nice to see some progress

[Excursion]

Good progress lads, very swift!

[SEG1]

At this rate it wont be long 'till i see it flying around enfield again!

[niracka]

WOW looking real good there guys. Keep the good work going!!

[jayrs]

if i hadn't had to stop work on it, it would of been at fordfair for sure

just waiting on some bits which should be in this week then i can hopfully get more done on it for clark

[jayrs]

i have been doing a little more on this lately, not a great deal as i havent had hardly any free time so far, but ive done a bit on cleaning up the underside, the passanger side is stipped of all under seal and what surface rust was about has been delt with.
plus, as clark wants exhaust heat shields fitted theres been little point me doing much more untill it all came in (as he got it all new) but now it's all in, and its been sent to me today along with a few other bits as well as new studs for the heat shield nuts.

so i'll get them welded on, the floor all primed painted and undersealed, then that will prob be it this year unless i get the odd day and its not too cold.

will get some pics next time

[Brammer]

Now thats proper stripped, be nice to this complete again

Good work lads

[jayrs]

yeah i bloody will be mate

and once its finished, i gotta start over again on the xr2 and get that done