Goosie's S50 Moredoor, 'Ring action

[Greeny]

Seam sealer and underseal cover a multitude of sins! I swear by the stuff.

[goosiegander]

All done,

Wing on, sills and rear arch treated for surface scabbing and touched in, and now back on the deck for the first time in weeks




Fook am i tired of it now...

[goosiegander]

Fresh ticket and minus a set of tyres ready for the Nurburgring next weekend

[Tan91]

Could I ask what welder did you get..

Gas or Gasless?

Make and Model if available?

Because I am planning on buying one to do the same this summer, Looking at the Clarke Gasless MIG 145,

Any help greatly appreciated as, being able to weld good eventually is a very good skill to have, looking good for a first time touching a welder LOL, but hey ho you will get better like you've said.

Tan.

[goosiegander]

Its a clarke welder dude, i'll get you the spec later this evening,

Using 100% co2 gas but will switch to Argon/co2 mix when this bottle runs out 0.6mm wire and 0.9mm steal sheets

If i'd had more metal working tools perhaps i could have made a slightly better finish but i'm happy for now

[Tan91]

Its a clarke welder dude, i'll get you the spec later this evening,

Using 100% co2 gas but will switch to Argon/co2 mix when this bottle runs out 0.6mm wire and 0.9mm steal sheets

If i'd had more metal working tools perhaps i could have made a slightly better finish but i'm happy for now

Yeah that's expected anyway, look at it this way, you have no rust, regardless of appearance. Just wondering if bonnet skin could be used or wing skin as I have some laying around, because I will be doing those exact areas on both sides.

Don't worry take your time dude!

[tomislav]

Off to the ring eh? When you going?

There's a load of us going out for the 24 hour race 15th to 21st may then back again to track the new 325 1st to 5th august

[goosiegander]

Off to the ring eh? When you going?

There's a load of us going out for the 24 hour race 15th to 21st may then back again to track the new 325 1st to 5th august

Heading over on saturday next and returning on the monday so evening and full day on the circuit with at least one evening meal at the pistonklause,

Defo up for going over in august hopefully that will have been enough time to sort the sport out for some light track work

[hennared323i]

Yeah that's expected anyway, look at it this way, you have no rust, regardless of appearance. Just wondering if bonnet skin could be used

Brianmooooooooore admitted a few years ago that he uses E34 bonnets for repair patches.

Respect Goosiegander

[Tan91]

Yeah that's expected anyway, look at it this way, you have no rust, regardless of appearance. Just wondering if bonnet skin could be used

Brianmooooooooore admitted a few years ago that he uses E34 bonnets for repair patches.

Respect Goosiegander

What do you mean by 'admitting', is it a bad thing, metal too thin?

[hennared323i]

Yeah that's expected anyway, look at it this way, you have no rust, regardless of appearance. Just wondering if bonnet skin could be used

Brianmooooooooore admitted a few years ago that he uses E34 bonnets for repair patches.

Respect Goosiegander

What do you mean by 'admitting', is it a bad thing, metal too thin?

Nope, it is the mooooooooore we are talking about, bonnets are ideal

[goosiegander]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/180654184762? ... 1497.l2649

Theres some steal, same thickness that i used,

Thanks guys BTW

[goosiegander]

Could I ask what welder did you get..

Gas or Gasless?

Make and Model if available?

Because I am planning on buying one to do the same this summer, Looking at the Clarke Gasless MIG 145,

Any help greatly appreciated as, being able to weld good eventually is a very good skill to have, looking good for a first time touching a welder LOL, but hey ho you will get better like you've said.

Tan.

Clarke 120E Dude

Well, following the welding and other council activity visited on the moordoor turd today was set aside for sorting out the replacement wing which was rust free but had seen some sponge and fairy liquid action in its past;



Especially here,


and here


...


...to be continued

[goosiegander]

So wet-sanding isn't everyone's cup of tea given how poorly it can turn out, as in 'i went through to the primer and am going to be poor having to pay for paint...'

But with a little practice,





Now when Dan polished the car previously it was done with PF2500 which can be used as a bit of a 'one trick pony' good overall result and skips the heavy cut and refinement either side of it...

That being the case sections of the car have been redone with other bits still to do, anyway 50/50's are gay so,

Wax on,


...and wax off














Shiny!

[Tan91]

So did you wet sand the wing then went over with pf2500? came out pretty decent, I sprayed my front wings first time and got some orange peel in certain areas need to correct to it look better.

[goosiegander]

So did you wet sand the wing then went over with pf2500? came out pretty decent, I sprayed my front wings first time and got some orange peel in certain areas need to correct to it look better.

Clay
Wetsand
Fast Gloss Heavy cut x2
Power finish Med cut
Final finish Light cut
Glaze and wax

I could have taken it a hell of a lot further but to be honest as most of the rest of the car needs going over again i was happy with that...

PF2500 by itself will not be man enough to get rid of wet-sanding marks unless you want to do 20 passes with it...

[scott180gtb]

Shiny

[goosiegander]

Shiny

Thank you sir!

[toby]

That's great stuff! Did you use the Menzerna gear?

[Rav335uk]

~BUMBACLAAT!

[goosiegander]

That's great stuff! Did you use the Menzerna gear?

For the polishing stages yes,

Mainly CG products from there on in,

[goosiegander]

~BUMBACLAAT!

LOL!

Whens the cab coming out for a clean Rav?

[Rav335uk]

It's now Insured, so hopefully when the chromie goes off to have some minor welding to be done, i'll have space on the front to get the cab on.

[goosiegander]

Well an evening and a day on the Nurburgring:






















Car performed well and was an awesome holiday

[Jonas]

Looks awesome stuff !

[maxfield]

[tomislav]

So exectly how much did you enjoy yourself out there eh? Fun isnt it?

[E30Kop]

WOW I just went through your entire thread...hats off to you for keeping you hand on this one hey.

My ultimate dream is an S50/S54 in an E30

Mmmmmm maybe I should liberate my S50B32 from my MoreDoor

[goosiegander]

Thanks Guys!

Yes awesome experience though i still have much to learn!

Really have an itch to build an S54 track car now with M3 pannels...

[tomislav]

Time to get some deep pockets!

[goosiegander]

Some random pics:

[Rav335uk]

New camera good then

[Tan91]

This is Bad-Ass the banked picture looks amazing

What sort of speeds you get up to on the straights??

[Jamie8GTi]

Love this car mate! looks spot on

[goosiegander]

Thanks guys, only clipped a ton a couple of times, was more concerned about coming home with the car in one piece