Welding complete - I just need to dress the welds and prep for paint now. The photo's not so good but you get the idea.
8v Welding Complete
Repair Patch Fabrication
My wife's a star and arranged for the in-laws to come around this afternoon to buy me some garage time. I didn't waste a second. Used the cardbaord template made yesterday to outline the repair piece and then cut it from Zintec. Started marking up for spot weld drillings and sections to form. Drilled first... Continue Reading →
8v Repairs Continue
As predicted more chopping out was needed, making the hole bigger! This is going to make me think carefully when I have to fabricate a repair section: The boot floor on this side is in A1 condition. I chopped a couple of sections from the seam that had started to pit and started the repairs... Continue Reading →
The Other Side
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 →
Rallye 8v Repairs
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 →
8v Under the Knife
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 →
Every Little Bit
Removed some more surplus bracketry from the car - these were the rear seatbelt reinforced mounting points.
8v Update
Dropped the back box off (snapping the bolts on the clamping brackets in the process) and set to work cleaning up the brake pipes and unions. Over the last few days I've dosed it a few times in penetrating spray and have two out of the four brake unions loose and both the bolts that... Continue Reading →
8v PITA
So fitted the new catalyst, adjusted the headlights and having re-bled the rear brakes and ensured the compensator valve was free and moving, I thought that I had sorted the problem with the brakes, so dropped the car back in for the MOT retest on Monday. I found that I had slightly over filled the... Continue Reading →
8v one job down…
Bit more progress tonight. Finished drilling out the two of three sheared torx screw bits that hold the discs to the drive flange hubs. One more to do tomorrow, I just ran out of time tonight. Most of the time was spend sorting the sheared rear anti roll bar end plate bolt. Drilled and tapped... Continue Reading →
Rear Beam Refurbished
I organised a group buy with IM Axle to get the rear beam refurbished. Here it is having just come back with the 23mm torsion bars and polybushes fitted. I also mounted up the AST adjustable rear shocks for the photos.
Rallye Project 