Well I've progressed abit more with the rs over the past couple of days. Wanted to get more done but had to get the runaround mk3 1.1 through its mot so been working on that instead!

Anyway, did a load of derusting on the underside yesterday (abourt 9 hours lol!) and decided I would replace the sills whilst I was doing everything else so cut them off today. Inner sills arn't too bad (drivers side is worse) so next up is to get the new sills on and carry on treating the rest of the underside ready to start building it all back up again

Getting there!

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good lad

i want one

Pick up a cheap one mate with some of that 5k your going to have soon and have it as a project car

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well i'm hoping to sell the KA for £7k its only a year old, and done 12500 miles

planning to save £5k of that towards my own place

so no rst

Oh well, maybe one day!

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lukin gud fella keep up the gud work

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RuLeThEbEnDs

Update time!

Well, I've been working for 5 days solid on my car from about ten till 8pm every day getting the underneath sorted. Before ford fair I welded on two new sills and a couple of patches that needed doing and got it all done just before I went away for ford fair.

After getting back, I ground back all the welds, painted it all, cleaned up the whole of the underneath of the car and then finished it off with two coats of smooth red hammerite. To say i'm pleased with the result is the understatement of the century, I'm absolutely delighted with how its looking now.

The shell is just about done now so next up is to derust and paint all the bits I took off the car and rebuild it.

I also ordered all the performance bits today including mongoose 4" outwardly rolled exhaust (turbo back), full set of powerflex polybushes and exhaust mounts, fast road piper cam kit, magnecor kv85 leads, gmax shocks and springs (-35mm) and a set of samco hose clips for turbo and coolant hoses.

I've already got a dump valve, samco hoses in blue (turbo and coolant) and chrome bits and pieces for the engine bay.

I can't wait to start building her back up now!!

Anyway, here's some pics of progress:

New sills:



Painted:




Back end painted:



Before and after of underneath:



Cleaned underneath:



Painted underneath:







Comments welcome

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been very busy there mate looks fab been meaning to paint underneath mine for ages now

top work fella lukin very gud
al av to pop threw n see ya one of days tthis week or next

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RuLeThEbEnDs

Top work mate, well impressed. You planning on bringing this out to some shows next year then ?

Might have to come and have a look for myself, your not too far away from me

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good work mate

minty mint

looks mint mate an just reminds me that mines will need to be done before the winter kicks in again (not that weve had much of a summer) keep up the good work

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Understeer: when you hit the wall with the front of the car.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
Torque: how far you take the wall with you.

Cheers mate and yea, the winter is harsh on cars with all the salt, its good to get them protected to stop them rotting away! I only ever use my 1.1 five door in the winter to save all the salt etc going on my si and rst, love them too much to see them rot away infront of my eyes!

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mite just buy myself a little diesel shit tin for gettin about in the winter keep the si of the road an do a bit of work to it

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Understeer: when you hit the wall with the front of the car.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
Torque: how far you take the wall with you.

Great work on the underside of that mate

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Daily isn't so Special. And it makes me sad.
Need space and time and I'll crack on with Jams si!

Catch me on Facebook as I'm rarely on here.

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Yo just posted a thread up in the general area about rs turbos so please contirbute

you say excessive insurance where are you trying
try admiral there my best place for all turbos and at my age 18 and a bit its not too excessive

looks super clean

any plans for it

FMIC

dumpvalve

good work purchasing 1

sorry if i havent read the thread properly but how much did you bag it for mate? if you dont mind me asking
cheers

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and wow you have been busy only just noticed the page 2 !!

do you offer your services? as im not very pratical like that

top work !! looks better and better and cleaner lol

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Understeer: when you hit the wall with the front of the car.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
Torque: how far you take the wall with you.