ST205 Total Rebuild, Something a bit different |
ST205 Total Rebuild, Something a bit different |
Dec 16, 2012 - 1:28 PM |
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Enthusiast Joined Aug 25, '08 From England Currently Offline Reputation: 1 (100%) |
I was certain I started a build thread on here, but for the life of me I can not find it so forgive me if I start again and its old news.
About a year and a half ago my current GT4 failed its yearly inspection (MOT) with rusty sills, they were fixed and it subsequently passed but it set alarm bells ringing in my head that the poor things days were numbered. I decided that I would buy a shell and swap everything onto it. so I hunted for a reasonable shell to start work on. While I was looking, I had to extend my garage. I only had a single car garage so not enough space to work or store stuff. So I decided to extend my garage backwards a bit Work started. and after a few weeks, finished ;0 About the same time a shell turned up, well it was sold as a shell, but it was more or less a complete car minus the engine and gearbox. It was in good condition with no rust, even the interior was in pretty much spot on condition, not that I need much of it I set to wrok more or less straight away First job was to strip everything off the car everything went, all the looms, glass, suspension the works Next job was to remove the sound deadening material it then went outside for a thorough jet wash go get rid of all the years of crap As I was moving the battery to the inside I could remove the battery tray which I did Next up I needed to get to the bottom of the car....this was going to require some ingenuity. -------------------- |
Oct 10, 2013 - 2:43 PM |
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Enthusiast Joined Aug 25, '08 From England Currently Offline Reputation: 1 (100%) |
I could do the chassis welding route, but for two reasons, one, my welding isn't very good, and two, there is an art to chassis welding to get it right, It's easy to balls it up and ruin a good chassis....but mainly my welding isn't very good :lol:
Managed to put the bonnet catch back together after I dismantled it to get it zinc plated I also got some of this So I can make a mould of and replicate the rear high level brake light in clear plastic instead of the standard red, it's only practice as I will be filling in the standard high level brake light and rebuilding the trailing edge of the spoiler out of clear plastic and LEDs for a different type of brake light 8) I pick up the BC coilovers on saturday, and another gt4 front bumper to use the small slot intake on the hybrid 202/205 bumper. -------------------- |
Oct 11, 2013 - 2:54 AM |
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Enthusiast Joined Feb 3, '06 From Czech Republic (Europe) Currently Offline Reputation: 56 (100%) |
...on the hybrid 202/205 bumper. FYI it is called "ss-four bumper" . Official name for it . btw.: you are more crazy than expected... unbeliveable -------------------- No more replicas... This is evolution... This is SS-four :)
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