Soda blasting

[notenoughtime]

Couple of pics of my mk1 

It’s going to need a complete floor, boot floor wells, inner wings and a few others lol 

 

 

[notenoughtime]

Picked it up today although it’s still solid, needs more than first thought as always the guy who previously done the filler work was a genius with it

think I’ll start from the back and work forwards, I was going to keep it standard but arches and inners need doing so a bubble arch  mk1 is going to be built 

needs

rear panel, rear wells, arches inc inners, outer sills, complete floor, upper bulkhead, lower bulkhead repairs, inner wings, inner front panel, front panel ,outer wings 

i have everything apart from wells, inner arches, bubble arches, and inner front panel so I can get started soon 

pics to follow 

[notenoughtime]

Few pics as you can see it’s solid 😂

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[notenoughtime]

I probably should start a project page lol ‘not another one I hear you say!!’ 

Some more pics of previous repairs 

 

 

those repairs all need removing so I’m starting at the back and working forward, bubble arches have been ordered from gartrac so will lose the repaired outer rear tub and badly repaired quarters 

 

[Johnny Boy]

Definitely a more difficult repair , if somebody has had a go before.

I've  had a bit of that on my Cortina.😬

[notenoughtime]

26 minutes ago, Johnny Boy said:

Definitely a more difficult repair , if somebody has had a go before.

I've  had a bit of that on my Cortina.😬

Yes I’ve seen the cortina but all these cars have had previous repairs of some sort unfortunately but this has had a lot lol 

 

[DT36]

46 minutes ago, notenoughtime said:

Yes I’ve seen the cortina but all these cars have had previous repairs of some sort unfortunately but this has had a lot lol 

 

So, is this the orange rally car? 

Do I remember right that you had a yellow MK1 as well? 

[notenoughtime]

8 minutes ago, dt36 said:

So, is this the orange rally car? 

Do I remember right that you had a yellow MK1 as well? 

No the rally car wouldn’t have survived the blasting I don’t think 😂 ,Yellow one wasnt mine, this is my other one lol 

[Johnny Boy]

As people have said before, when they were worth not much money, they were just patched up to get though an mot test cheaply.

No one did a proper restoration style , cut out, and let in new steel repair.

So when we attempt to do a nice restoration job, we're met with a load of patch repairs over the top of the original rust, and twice as much work . 

[meXEco]

That weldings alright-barely see where it's been done lol. 

[notenoughtime]

3 hours ago, meXEco said:

That weldings alright-barely see where it's been done lol. 

Just how it should be done eh lol 

[notenoughtime]

Had a delivery this morning 

Quickly unwrapped them

 

 

I’ll start a new build page later with details of fitting the arches 

Edited March 30, 2021 by notenoughtime

[notenoughtime]

Thought I’d have a a quick go at cutting the arch out, I can then replace the inner tub easier  

 

fitted the arch under the quarter as I can then weld to the arch rather than over the quarter which would creat more work to get it to look right 

Edited April 5, 2021 by notenoughtime

[BROWNY 1968]

nice job dude, gonna need some serious rubber to fill those up 👍

[notenoughtime]

9 hours ago, BROWNY 1968 said:

nice job dude, gonna need some serious rubber to fill those up 👍

Thanks, I think some 8 or 9 in should go nicely under there 

[notenoughtime]

Picked up a better spot welder 

 

which has a selection or arms aswell

 

inner arch cut out 

 

 

engine should look nice in the bay, way off that going in though 😂 

 

 

 

Edited April 7, 2021 by notenoughtime

[BROWNY 1968]

That spot welder looks like it will make your job a bit easier 😉