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Matt H
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15th Apr 07 at 20:41   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
***BIG UPDATE TODAY***

FInally had a bit of time to get cracked on with things today. Spent at least 3-4 mins putting the car on axle stands. Definately makes the car look a lot higher than usual. Might try & do some more tomorrow, Im too tired after all todays work
ed
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15th Apr 07 at 20:46   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
You make me feel less guilty about the lenght of time I have spent on my project
Matt H
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15th Apr 07 at 20:49   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Mines not even a year yet

JR is the worst
ed
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15th Apr 07 at 20:50   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I just realised. My car hasn't even been on tarmac now for over 1.5 years
Matt H
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15th Apr 07 at 20:52   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote


Yours is having lots done though, mines just going to be an empty shell with an engine. I need to get it done for PVS08
jr
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15th Apr 07 at 21:01   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Matt H
Mines not even a year yet

JR is the worst


mines not a year yet either you badger
ed
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15th Apr 07 at 21:05   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
You are running behind now too. Wasn't your car supposed to be painted a few weeks back?
jr
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15th Apr 07 at 21:08   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
yes apprently, but then a bloke up your way had some engine bits goign cheap, which knocked me back a bit
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15th Apr 07 at 21:13   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Oh yea, you bought a pile of oily scrap metal didn't you
jr
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15th Apr 07 at 21:14   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
yes, its all clean now


btw sorry matt taking over your post
Matt H
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15th Apr 07 at 22:29   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Its OK, it makes it look like Im making progress

Keep going at this rate & it'll be 30 pages long just like Brosters
STEvieXE
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16th Apr 07 at 17:33   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Matt H
Mines not even a year yet

JR is the worst


im the worse and the lazyest

mine has been in my garage since sept 03
Matt H
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16th Apr 07 at 21:00   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I actually did something tonight

Swept up the millions of bits of glass that went everywhere after the window removal incident. Also got rid of the remainder of the window sealwhich was a right pain in the arse. Cut myself lots

Took off rear suspension on both sides & removed the rear beam.

Also sprayed a bit of Gunk onto the horrible arch liner stuff

Bodge of the day goes to me for forgetting to disconnect the brake flexies before dropping the rear beam. Stanley knife through the rubber bit soon sorted this out
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16th Apr 07 at 21:10   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
vsport special coming right up sir!
Matt H
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16th Apr 07 at 21:13   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by willay
vsport special coming right up sir!



And a "genuine" one at that
Matt H
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17th Apr 07 at 19:02   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Doing some more tonight. 3 days in a row

Could do with a bit of help though,stripping the arch sealant stuff off & its coming off but not very well

http://www.corsasport.co.uk/board/viewthread.php?tid=353732

Spent about an hour on it so far & not a lot has come off. If there's any useful tips I could do with them as its a stinker of a job!
Bendy
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I sat under my arches for god knows how long scraping away with gasket scrapers!! Heat it up first with a heat gun, the it comes off well! Wire brush tends to make it very messy.

Ben
Matt H
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19th Apr 07 at 19:55   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Cheers for that. I'll get a thinner scraper & dig the heat gun out



(Don't know why Im grinning about it, will still be nightmare!)
jr
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19th Apr 07 at 20:20   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
matt go to halfords and get a paint removerd (its a drill attatctment, lloks a bit like its made from sponge) that will do it
ed
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They are probably the same as the 3M Scotch wheels I used to take the rust and crap off of my car. Get yourself to a bodyshop type place and get a load. They'll be cheaper than the Halfords ones I think I used the blue ones...
Matt H
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Like a paint supplier shop?
jr
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yes matt
ed
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Then a wire brush attatchment on a drill will polish up the metal nice and clean after - the Scotch wheels can't really get into seams and things...

You having no underseal on it at all?
Matt H
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21st Apr 07 at 18:53   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Still undecided

Its going to be garaged all the time except for when I use it, so it won't be in the rain etc.

Plus its easy enough to underseal it all afterwards. So Im going to have it all painted up & decide at a later date
ed
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Sounds like an odd way to do things

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