1.3 Ghia rebuild

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Ready for Croft for sure!

I do hope so. Need to sort an engine too

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Done a bit more. 4 hours to make some holes bigger.
The front panel had 2 small'ish holes at the bottom for the rad cooling. As i'm fitting an intercooler in, i need more air. So a bit of cutting and they were opened up. But they looked crap.
Small old openings

Cut out

So the rolled edges were fitted back in to make it look better.

Then the intercooler fitted behind.


Then a play about with some throttle bodies i got. Removed the secondary chokes and stripped them down as they need to be spaced out about 65mm to line up with the manifold better. Then weld up the conector flange and pipework.

[south west restorations]

hi

ur doing a cracking job there mate .
keep the pics going .......

[vinny]

great work rob

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Time i got doing some more. So ordered a few bits :thumbs:

Brake lines, fittings, coil over kit, hand brake, Poly bushes, bias brake box, bonnet pins..etc





Also got a double tube core rad, currently fitted in my white RS for testing.



Plated diff :thumbs:



And a little front bib.

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Not been long since the last update



Off to a new home for now





Out with the pinto. Just had that in to align the mt75 up and make the mounts.









Bulkhead lip going to make room for the zetec





A small amount of rust under the heater bowl to sort out.



Roof getting glue removed and one bit of surface rust found






Many thanks to Mr West

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More from garage West. Clean up and onto the spit.










Heavy duty shell skids to go in.



Anti tramp brackets also going in
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Bulkhead lip gone and welded up.

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Rear chassis rail had been repaired before and then fiberglassed over and filled ?? So the rubbish has been removed and cleaned up.



Arch was not too good either so that’s been changed.


Drivers side arch clean up.

Tramp bar brackets fitted and skids welded in.

Some chassis repairs and a new section put in. Also seam welded.


Etch filler on inner wings. Strut top plates still to be fitted.



Drivers door bottom had rotted a bit so skin off and repair.






Trim holes filled




Passenger and drivers sides in etch filler


Lower ¼ rippled due to heat and previous damage.
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Floor in etch filler then some sealer





Starting to take shape


Front end lined up



Boot and bonnet clean up






More fine work from Garage West

[rs new boy]

some good stuff going on here

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Filler and dent reduction.



Finally some paint going on. Starts to make thinks look better.






Axle back in and rear back on the ground.





More dent work.

Grill dent removed.

Group 4 top plates, not seam welding the edges yet.

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[Davecos4x4]

looking very good.

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Cheers Dave

[LOUIE]

looking very good.

Where's yours up to??

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Last bits of primer



Time for paint













Starting to look a lot better


Started to get new bolts. Boot and bonnet bolts.