A car I bought with my eyes welded shut.

[bellgtti]

To start with most of this is copied and pasted from various places I post on.
I shall make sure to regularly update it anyway.
Some may remeber I bought the car found lots of niggles and considered selling it, well.... I decided to stick with it and make it A. safe and B. f$%king fast, oh and light.

Long time since i've done a build thread but my thoughts are if i start documenting how terrible my car is i might actually do some work on it.

so i aquired this car on the 23rd of may 2013, with big plans toi turn it into my new drifter.
I think i must have bought it with my eyes welded shut, I missed so many bits that needed sorting and the fact that i had to wear sunglasses everytime I've been near it since hasnt helped.

Here the day after I got it home (and I actually realised how terrible it was)







YUP pretty damn depressing! i mean why would you rivet land rover arches to a bloody bmw! I dread to think what drugs the previous owner was smoking!

So I decided to get some new front wings from john at sumpscuffers and replace this mess



DEan and Doug from Austfab came over and cut the rear arches out and fitted my newly bought pattern parts.





I then started the filler work (a job i curse word loathe) primed them and pushed it out of the garage, where it sat for 2 months whilst I came up with excuses not to touch it. Then through work we got a unit and a month afetr moving in, I moved the 30 there (in hope it would spur me on)



I tucked it in and neglected to look at it for another 2 months (works been up and down and its more interesting sodablasting E type jags and infamous ae86's)

I did get an engine sorted for the masterplan



but it was shortlived, when I bought it it was with low compression, suspect headgasket that turned out to be a peppered head and a scored piton liner, the seller was good enough to accept a return though.



it sat again until my pal liam came over and helped me we spent a sunday ripping the front end off and then i decided to cut the boot floor out to make sure he was working.....



Then things tailed off again.... until today
my little helper popped by



and i got the lead on a good engine, from an unfortunate victim of brum wheels. needless to say I got straight on it and promptly drove the 36 seconds from our unit to the other lads handed the readys over and picked up a good compression uk sr20 with all the ancilleries.

so my parting photo is the e30 back lined up ready to get its original heart out (of which appart from a knackered spark plug there was nothing wrong with i just wanted to go faster) ready for a compression tes so i can sell the engine out of it in good faith (once we've degreased it and vapour blasted a few parts to help out any potential new owner with having a clean engine bay.



peace out






(I better remember the keys tomorrow morning ..........

[bellgtti]

screw it , update

got busy with the spanners, had an offer on the engine which is sold now.
ripped the rear axle off and got it fired onto the spit and pulled the engine.











shall be back on it sunday, stripping the subframe on the rear ready for blast cleaning,solid bushes, twin wing diff support and painting. aswell as stripping the necessary bits off the front subframe and a few panels on the car so we can spin it over and start attacking the tin worm underneath.

[bellgtti]

Update.

so we got the car on the rottiserie last week, this week i've pulled the rear subframe to pieces and we've got the car into the blast room so i can get the underside cleaned ready for matt at g.e motorbodies to come over and do the welding to the underside, which is desperatly needed. desperate because the car goes to john at sumpscuffers sunday for its cage to be welded in......

in the booth



the old man removing unwanted sound deadening, he loves helping with drift cars .....





rust was iminant on the old turd









we wrapped the top in an attempt to save the glass, as we would be using glass bead for the underside (yep we do, do soda blasting but for rust and underseal cag glass is usually far more effective)



i have started to shoot the underneath, but ive never come accross undeseal so bloody tough! we've cleaned the problematic areas in prep for welding and once that complete i'll complete the underneath. we also found a massive crease in the front wheel well which hopefully can be addressed by matt, although i havent told him about it yet..... lol

so with that done i got the blow lamp out and set fire to stuff, subframe and rear trailing arms are ready for blating painting and solid bushing.





probably more friday as tommorow is going to be stupidly busy.

[bellgtti]

So 3 weeks, a christmas and a new year have happened aswell as my sons birthday.
I havent been slacking, quite the opposite lol. Jon and jimmy over at Sump Scuffer's approached my company Sodablasting Ltd, with some wierd and wonderful vehicles they needed blasting (a mental caged Chevette, 3 year WW2 veteran Willy's Jeep and a 1in the uk Volvo C202 which Jon had save from a scrapyard) so me needing a cage if I ever want to compete in the near future and themselves wanting bare metal a deal was struck.
The e30 has been up at there place whilst I've been doing there stuff, what with christmas cds was in delay from the supplier, else I'm sure I'd have no space at work with the old girl being back.
Enough babbling, I awoke this morning to these picture's of the car on fb:

















I'm amazed, as I had dropped some of the loose parts back to the boy's yesterday afternoon and the car had only just got to the workshop (the saturday due to cds delay it was in storage for a few weeks) let alone even started to get things bent or measure or even welded.
12 hours in it looks completely different, which mean I need to puill my thumb out my behind and start sourcing stuff to get the engine into its how (desperatly trying to locat an s14 not 'A' wiring loom and ecu to chop up for fitting in the bmw)

Parting shot, Coffee definatly unleashes the mind Eh ;)



Hopefully it will be back this weekend so I can finish off blasting the underneath and rotten areas and get the welding complete with the help of Mat from further up the thread!

[Sanchez]

Cool. I remember that car for sale i think.

[bellgtti]

ha, yup it is a turd, hence im not overly worried about using at as I intend.

[bellgtti]

So the car is now back at the unit.
I recieved piccies of the cage and then a hurried phone call that it was loaded up and on its way back last wednesday, major rush to get the pig sty i call work sorted for its arrival.
pics of the cage complete















Sumpscuffers custom knuckle dusters added in as requested





Whilst jon and dan had the car up for a cage and whilst it was ona rotisserie they added the double link diff cover and associated bracketry.





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I also had the rear subframe solid bushed and the diff backplate solid bushed, just awaiting the back plate to come back from tigging.







so once back we got the car back on the rottiserie at sodablasting hq



the m20 and the associated gubbins were collected yesterday by coopster, good luck with it dude tis a good engine ;)

that brings us to today, well with the car on its side we continued to attack the underseal from hell, only we are soft strippiong it with a grinder and an angry wheel, i shall then glass bead the underneath once all the welding is complete and then prime and underseal it.

i had a minion come help me





then for the first time in 2 months we got some wheels attached to the old girl.....



castors so its less of a pain around the small workshop we have.

Big thankyou to Danny and Jon at Sump Scuffers, work is quick and very good quality cheers lads.
link to there face book page as these guys can do alterations for cages and all sorts:
https://www.facebook.com/SumpScuffers?fref=ts

[sweep]

I know this car ...

[Coops90]

Did it used to be blue?

[sweep]

yes

[sweep]

yes

[bellgtti]

It did used to be blue, then some pikey got hold of it fitted land rover arches and painted it primer grey
It wont be returning to blue either, as much as I'd love it stock looking a respray just isnt on the card (well not a pro job anyway)

[sweep]

did you buy it from lewis

[bellgtti]

I think that was his name, dont have the logbook to hand, I did drive to Sheffield to buy it though.