With the passenger side repairs under two coats of POR15 it was time to crack on with the drivers side which I knew was worse. I'll let the pictures do the talking: Needs some tidying up and I need to take a closer look at a few bits to work out if a little more... Continue Reading →
Cut about 5cm width out of the boot floor and welded in a new piece yesterday and finished welding repair sections in tonight. Just need to dress the welds and get it under some paint now. Boot floor from yesterday Wheel arch side plate Seam welded it from the boot side too for a little... Continue Reading →
After a summer of (occasional) use the Rallye was SORNed in autumn and has been hiding out in the garage. As I'm selling this one on this year, it was time to do a few little jobs before putting it in for a new MOT and getting it on the market. First job to sort... Continue Reading →
Following on from the end of the week, I fabricated up a wedge plate for the rear of the hydaulic handbrake mounting: Levelling wedge plate mocked up This is now welded in and in primer. Photos to follow at some point. The initial location for the brake bias valve which was to suit the braided... Continue Reading →
Managed a bit of progress towards getting the handbrake sorted. I have the same setup as jools is using on his car, which modifies the existing handbrake to drive the piston in the cylinder. First a bit of fabrication to create the pivot point from a bit of 1.6mm zintec sheet. Two halves welded together.... Continue Reading →
Well over the last week or so I have found bits of time to work on the dash, managing to reduce the weight by chopping out unnecessary bits, removing double skinned sections and hole sawing here and there. No where as near as Dean's attempts, but I do want it to look standard from the... Continue Reading →
Been up to my eyeballs in work for the last month or so and getting very little time to work on the car. In fact haven't been down to the garage for more than a few hours in all that time. Managed a few hours this afternoon which was a welcome relief. In the mean... Continue Reading →
Thursday night I was quite busy and didn't have much time, but decided I had just enough to finish up the EPAS work. Oh, how wrong could I be. I needed to press fit the inner bearing race onto the machine top hat. This was simple enough, just a case of getting the parts lined... Continue Reading →
About to become exceptinoally busy with work which will put a dampner on much progress in the coming month or so and as a result I am trying to make a bit of a push on the car. I suspect the biggest development is to finally decide the direction for the build, which is now... Continue Reading →
Well had a bit of time away and a chance to get perspective and decide what I wanted to do with the car. Came back with a bit more enthusiasm and then tonight managed to get a good few hours working on the car. Fabricated up some mounting points for the retaining straps that are... Continue Reading →
Found a bit of time to dress down the welds on the rear cross member and then weld on the final parts wihich are part of the reinforcements for the rear suspension mounts... Next step is to clean this section up and get it painted.
So bit of progress in the last month... moving further back under the car I didn't like the look of this: So chopped it out... Then decided that the bottom of the box section also needed to be repaired, so chopped that and welded in a repair section. Finally finished the welding off tonight. Getting... Continue Reading →
Rallye Project 