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Mark330d

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11th Mar 07 at 21:09

looks amazing so far.

Bendy

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12th Mar 07 at 00:02

Matt, new seat rail welded in:

Ben

corsa col

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12th Mar 07 at 20:42

Its great reading this, takes me back a few years when I built my corsa rally car. It looks like your doing a 1st clas job of it.

I know what you mean about getting the black sound and stone proofing stuff off.

. I took out 8kg of interior sound proofing crap

It'll be worth it in the end

Bendy

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19th Mar 07 at 19:17

19th March:
Not much of an update today but here goes.

Passenger side rear arch now fully cleaned off and primed, just the drivers side to look forward to now!!

Some previous owner had made a bit of a hash job at cutting the rear valance for the old exhaust:

So cleaned it up, re-shaped the cut-out and rubbed down and sprayed any little bits of surface rust:

And decided that the doors needed to go on a bit of a diet:

So attacked it with a grinder and primed the edges:

But the door is still quite heavy, so fibreglass doors might be on the cards for the future!! We shall see.

Until the next time....

Ben

jamesvalver

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19th Mar 07 at 21:10

mint progress mate! cant wait to see the finished result!

corsa120

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19th Mar 07 at 21:28

good to see someone doing a rebuild, thats different to the usuals with it being a rally car so to speak. good to see this instead of reading about people trying to outdo each other with who's got the faster/bigger spec 2.0 or 1.6

Matt H

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19th Mar 07 at 21:31

Tried cutting the door bars out? Apprently they contribute to a lot of the weight

PS its 19/03/07 not 19/07/07

Bendy

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19th Mar 07 at 22:07

quote:
Originally posted by Matt H
Tried cutting the door bars out? Apprently they contribute to a lot of the weight

PS its 19/03/07 not 19/07/07

I did think that the door bars might be adding alot of weight, might see what I can do with them. Thanks for the date reminder, I was a bit ahead of myself!!

Ben

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19th Mar 07 at 22:12

The door bars are solid steel. They do weigh quite a lot

Matt H

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19th Mar 07 at 23:06

Someone removed them & weighed them, can't find it out though as the search mode is gay

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20th Mar 07 at 00:08

I've got a pile of them at home. I'm not going to weigh them because thats silly

Dragxe

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21st Mar 07 at 23:14

where did you get the perspex window kit from ??

Rob E

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21st Mar 07 at 23:47

if i ever did this much work on a car, i would be too afraid to even take it out the garage incase of damaging it

Bendy

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22nd Mar 07 at 07:58

21st March:
Only spent an hour working on the car last night, and that 1 hour was spent, drilling, cutting, swearing etc etc trying to get the door bars out of the passenger door, but, its done!! And they were rather heavy, i'd say between 5 and 7 kilos!!

Sorry for the bad picture quality, phone pics!!

Ben

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22nd Mar 07 at 09:22

Looking very good mate!

Do you know if your going to be able to make those RING dates I gave you??? Hope so! Can't wait to see this car in action.

Neil

Matt H

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22nd Mar 07 at 21:27

Looks like a nice clean cut

Plus more weight gone

flybikeslee

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22nd Mar 07 at 21:29

should go for a poo before a drive to save some more weight

STEvieXE

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22nd Mar 07 at 21:32

quote:
Originally posted by Bendy
21st March:
Only spent an hour working on the car last night, and that 1 hour was spent, drilling, cutting, swearing etc etc trying to get the door bars out of the passenger door, but, its done!! And they were rather heavy, i'd say between 5 and 7 kilos!!

ha ha, drilling, cutting ,swearing, welcome to my world. imagine doing that to a whole front end of a car..

tis fun really

Bendy

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23rd Mar 07 at 08:37

quote:
Originally posted by flybikeslee
should go for a poo before a drive to save some more weight

Thanks for that, I'll bear it in mind!!

Ben

Bendy

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23rd Mar 07 at 21:31

quote:
Originally posted by Novaneil
Do you know if your going to be able to make those RING dates I gave you??? Hope so! Can't wait to see this car in action.

Neil

Not looking hopefull for those dates! If you'd have delayed it by a week it would be fine, but unfortunately I'd already booked my time off work for the 2 weeks after (conveniently!!)
Oh well, if you're going over later in the year I may come over, otherwise it'll be next year before she gets to be ragged round the track and try and beat my previous time!!

Ben

[Edited on 23-03-2007 by Bendy]

Bendy

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23rd Mar 07 at 21:39

quote:
Originally posted by Dragxe
where did you get the perspex window kit from ??

Pro-Tec Motorsport on 01772 633777.

Ben

Bendy

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26th Mar 07 at 19:40

26th March:
Dad came over today and gave me a helping hand for most of the day.

First things first, get her back up onto axle stands:

Then dad made up some new brake lines and temporarily fitted them before we spray the interior (they are where they are because of the hydraulic handbrake thats being fitted!):