my first mk2

[south west restorations]

Little update, the floor fitting was held up as I got in touch with a real helpful chap that was cutting up a rotten mk2 and after speaking to him Wednesday I arranged to go up and cut the roof off the car this morning as my shell has been sunroofed. I couldn't believe how rotten the car was I opened the passenger door to cut roof of and the a pillar came with it


After a bit a sawing to remove the roof a jack had to be used to jack the centre tunnel up as it started to fold in half. Really helpful chap I must ad and after exchanging some beer token I left it looking like this

I pained me to cut this off a 2door but it really is too far gone and the bulkhead and what's left of the boot floor are going to be used to repair other shells so that made me feel better.

ye the big yin wouldnt have seen u stuck .great guy
no him well.a have just not bought a car from him.
got to no him thru my m8.
ye saw that mk2 when a was down couldnt belevie how rotton it was.
and my m8 didnt even tell me he had a share in it lwae the big yin.lol.
it came from up my way .
all the best with ur resto on ur car .

[13sport]

yeah he's a cracking chap helped me out, could have done with the quarters to but he wanted to keep them for one of his own projects. will keep in touch with him and hopefully i will be able to help him out one day.

[13sport]

a little bit more done this evening, had to put a few hours in as im at a friends wedding tommorow. ive set myself the task of having the front end all done with front panel fitted this weekend. id been putting it off as the front edges of the innerwings were a bit raggy




i would not class it as being rotten, just light rust and pieces missing and has had a number of front panels on over the yeaRS, i decided i wouldnt be able to live with myself fitting the front panel like this so i knocked some new pices up on the shrinker/stretcher and let them in
got this one slightly wrong so had to put a nick in it then weld it up later. the finished part here

and the back side

top area forgot to get any pics of the other pieces i made as i was keen to get them in

back side of this one

other sides welded in but not dressed up yet. im not sure if they are quite factory looking but i have nothing to copy so just guessing really from what was there. hopefully be able to spot weld new front panel to these now, hopefully sunday and probably with a hangover lol

[13sport]

forgot to show the pieces ive made in above post, the one that wasnt right

made them 15mm by 10mm, let into the inner wing by 10mm to get rid of any rust and leaving a nice strong 15mm new edge to fix front panel to

[south west restorations]

looking good m8.

ye the big yin is a good lad to no.good welder.

[13sport]

Got the front end finished off and front panel fitted, starting to feel more like a car again can't decided wether to fit wings now or leave them until last before paint?

[13sport]

been busy with other commitments for the last week or 2 but managed to get a fewhours in this evening. pass side inner sill in and front floor pan in, cheated both front pans forward so there was a nice edge by the front bulkhead then piece in under the seat boxes, looks nice from underneath as all the welds are hidden pretty much, at this point i decided the shell was plenty strong enough to cut the horrible abortion of a homemade tunnel that was bodged into the car.

just when the floor was nearly free of holes this ended up the biggest yet!
chucked the standard tunnel underneath and held it into position roughly with the jack and a piece of wood hopefully if i have time tommorow il get it set up properly and welded in properly leaving me able to finish floors next week.

ive got quite a few hours of fabrication work to get the tunnel to gearbox area looking decent again but to be fair it couldnt look any worse than it was if i did it blindfolded..
hopefully another couple of weeks and il be able to attack those rear tubs and quarters

[13sport]

above post should have read gearbox tunnel to bulkhead area looking decent.....

[13sport]

had a free afternoon so got on and did a bit more, tunnel in, and floors finished off barring one tiny patch

certainly plenty to do to get the bulkhead looking somewhere near

could really do with another seat box as one of them isnt so good might try mark at escort tec this week see what he has. if get chance tommorow will get sill on as its just clamped on roughly in pics.

[HarrierTony]

Its coming along nicely mate, soon be ready for some paint on it. I need to get my arse into gear and get the floors finished on kermit lol.

[13sport]

Could be a while before paint yet, might get a quick coat of etch on the bare metal sometime soon. I've been eagerly awaiting to see some more progress with kermit

[HarrierTony]

Lol and you will, between starting kermit and now i have been re-roofing my dog kennels and bought a silver harrier that also needs loads of tlc, so i have my work cut out for a while to come.

[13sport]

Get some pics up of the silver one!

[13sport]

just back in the house after my latest purchase for the escort.....

didnt really need this as my engines freshly rebuilt but its a 68k mile 205 block injection motor and it was a bargain so i had to have it.
i questioned the mileage for a moment but when i saw how clean everything was especially the exhaust manifold i decided it had to be true

even the studs that hold the heat shield to the exhaust manifold where like new and came straight off like they were fitted yesterday!

[HarrierTony]

Nice find, that engine deffo looks decent, even the fan blades dont look that used and they are a good indicator on high mileage engines as the edge of the blades turn black and you cant get it off them.