my first mk2

[HarrierTony]

Your deffo pressing ahead with this, and I agree with chopping all the crap out, will be a really solid bus when you have done it

[south west restorations]

nice update there
u getting in about it now
keep it up m8.

[13sport]

managed to a good gearbox tunnel,picked it up this morning off rstwo

everything i need to put mine back to standard. only got an hour in this afternoon so had a butchers at the dodgy passenger side sills, as promised some pics of how gash it all was


This is the lump that came out, 4 layers one on top of the other all of them rotten, glad i took the over sill off now, heres the piece i pulled out

didnt know how much i could cut out without it starting the give but at the moment its still strong enough. will leave this for mark and keep going at some of the smaller repairs if i get chance this week

[HarrierTony]

Coming on nicely, keep up the good work

[13sport]

not much done today been busy rectifying some wiring on a series 1 rs turbo. Did manage to make a start on something thats been bugging me for ages, the previous owner started to cut the floor in the rear to fit 4link boxes, luckily the piece was still attached to the floor and even tho it was very bent and twisted it dollyed up ok and i tacked it all back in position

will need to finish welding fully then dress up with the power file and should be good as new again.

[13sport]

Lol yeah I guess it must look familiar, it was already blue but had discoloured quite a lot looks much fresher now.

[pinto48s]

Very nice! Looks familiar :-)

[13sport]

well i had to order a new nearside sill as the origional wasnt clever underneath the gash cover sill, it looked like the origional sill botton had been removede with an axe! will post some pics up of this over the weekend.
Called into my friend grahams tonight as hes kindly building up the pinto motor for me while im on with the car. its all very recently been done, rebore, 91.75mm new pistons (is this 2.1???) new shells etc so thats a bonus. he has given the block a couple of coats of vht and looks nice enough

hopefully more done on the car over the weekend

[13sport]

We might need to replace the offside sill yet as it's got a full sill on top of the original but going by all the other stuff that was clagged over the top of good original metal I won't no until I trim it up later this week. The drivers side sill was good as new so that was rescued.

[eagie]

Good progress here keep it up

[mike77cos]

I can't believe I'd missed this thread, great work gone on already

[HarrierTony]

Thats looking really well mate, coming on nicely. I havent had chance to sort the floors out yet, but thats the next job I will be on with when I have sorted the O/S door out. I still need to get an A post for it and the outer sills bought.
As for the Harrier, I have only done some small cosmetic stuff on it so far, but once I get my new garage built, I will be stripping it down and doing a full resto on it.

[13sport]

Just got to get rid of that total abortion of a gearbox tunnel, hopefully got a good standard one on it's way from a 4door that's being chopped up.

Pintos also stripped and getting rebuild ready to go in whenever the cars done!

[13sport]

[13sport]

Made up some sections yesterday to finish off where the rad support panels had been previously butchered. Measured a stock panel, knocked a couple up on the folder and then spotted in place, job done on the front end until I feel like fitting the front panel and wings. Mark came round tonight and got stuck into the drivers side pans and inner sills, at last I have one side that's solid now so hopefully by next week all the floor will be done then time to tackle those back arches!!