Neil's Build Thread

[NeilW]

Started with the wishbones, easy at it with the angry grinder and my new favourite tool - the dremmel. Had no issues with them except getting the bend the front lower and getting extremely pissed with the angle of the front top. Thanks to Phil for bailing me out with a set of front tops.

Then got onto flowflex for the polybushes and crush tubes. Bloody expensive them things

A healthy coating of satin black once prepped.

[NeilW]

Spent days cleaning up parts and blasting whatever I could, diff came up quite well.
Got the diff and ns rear upright mounted.
Had an absolute nightmare with driveshaft CV's but eventually managed to get them together.

Also got the temporary engine in place so I could check the mounts etc, inlet manifold will be removed / replaced.
New engine will be 2.0 Blacktop Zetec, I have an eaton charger that I am toying with putting on.

[NeilW]

Plan of attack today is get the rear disks and calipers on. Stripped and refurbes the calipers yesterday. Bit tricky to get the circlip back in place against the spring but managed with a socket and g clamp.

[Rosco]

looked good mate, good bit of progress there, also what make is that scuttle?

[NeilW]

Thanks buddy, knowhere near as 'clean' as yours but I am quite happy working in crud...
Not sure what make it is, I got it from Porkchop on here. The rest of his stuff is Saturn, so I would hazard a guess at that.

[vmax1974]

Originally Posted by Rosco

looked good mate, good bit of progress there, also what make is that scuttle?

Looking good indeed

the scuttle bulkhead is saturn same as the one on my car

[NeilW]

Thanks, so much work goes in. Just a pain to upload all the pictures.
I am close to 150 hours so far...

[Rosco]

Looks pretty clean to me!

Photos wise, I take the pictures on my phone then upload them from my phone to photobucket using there app, then I write my posts on an iPad and copy n paste the links from the photobucket app on the iPad, not to bad