GingerNuttz

Couple of Manta pics.

Just doing tons of bodywork.

Test spray of the colour on the boot.

Quarters are body worked ready for the kit to be bonded on but I need to wait till  @dome is here so I canny be blamed for any squinty arches.

Doors are all prepped and in primer with the rears ready to spray on Wed or Thurs.

Engine bay and all the inner arches should be white before middle of next week.

There's piles of other pictures but I canny be arsed going through my phone for em, slept 3 hours since yesterday so I'll update it all at some point or just post pictures when it's painted since it shouldn't be long.

19 hours ago, hairnet said:

@Skizzer to the big gm hatch shaped telephone please

@GingerNuttz you could make that pretty again no?

Doesn't look that bad tbf but I like torturing my with rusty crap 😂

Baby needs surgery, absolutely gutted 😑

Spent the last week in and out of hospitals meeting different pediatricians/specialists just to be told the same thing we already knew.

 Poor kid has had more pills than a junkie over the last 5 months and nout has worked so surgery looks like the only option.

Mentally exhausted with this shit.

I think it was 2000/2001 or there about, things you do for your hole 🤣 

First and only pink paint job I'll ever do 🤣

8 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

What type of car is that?

Fiat doblo that's had a wheelchair conversion.

4 minutes ago, primeradoner said:

He is really lucky to have you for a next door neighbour

I've got far too much on to even think about welding it so he's not that lucky 🤣

Next door neighbor's car failed it's mot for £1000 of welding according to the garage 😑

A grand for a bit of box section, robbing bastards 😂

Floor and outrigger done. 

Half of what's been cut out. 

Other side nearing completion, just floor pan and outrigger to weld in,

As ye can see from the floor there was a wee bit of rust 😂

Bloody Beyerdynamic DT 770 sliders broke 😑

No even a year old and they want £20 for a new set that are the same shitty plastic.

These better not break or I'll bin the headphones 😂

2 new outriggers made and welded in. 

Other outer sill next. 

2 minutes ago, martc said:

Any ideas? It looks familiar, I can't get Peugeot out of my mind, but that tends to spelt horizonatally, not diagonally, and that flourish above the letters....

15 hours ago, SiC said:

Getting a bit more time to do my own stuff recently. Except I've had a rancid cold last week that developed into a chest infection. Completely buggered all my plans on doing stuff in the garage as felt shite and doing metalwork with dodgy lungs isn't a great idea.

Anyway it's getting better now so this evening I spent a few hours tidying up.
While I was there, I couldn't resist putting the panels in place to check how things looked. Now in hindsight I probably should have done this before finishing the a-post. Including putting the wing on to check alignment. Haven't done the wing but at least the door seems to fit roughly right.

Hopefully won't be too far out with the wing on. If it's a little out then I'll just say it's just the typical BMC build quality of the time.



Anyway I need to get the back wing area repaired next (under that large panel) and start cracking on to try getting it done for next summer at least...

I'm certainly no speedy Gingernutz.

I'm as slow as shit but I get there in the end 😂

New Epilepsy meds fuck me working till late now. Knowing my luck I'd prob lose a foot in a grinder accident while smashed out my tits, wouldn't feel it mind you 🤣

Just bottom spot welds once floor edge is in. 

15 minutes ago, Saabnut said:

Bonus spare floor and rapid progress! Cheers!

This side should be complete by tomorrow night with just the wee bit on the rear arch to do.

It needs a whole outrigger doing on this side but it's just a bit of box.

Other side only needs 2 bits of inner sill about 100x30mm so I'll just make them up and it'll give you another inner sill for a future car, no point in wasting a good pressing for 2 stupid little bits.

It's no where near as bad as it looked and this is the worst side.

Onward! 

Inner is fully welded. Was thinking the car could do with a floor pan edge on passenger side, lifted the carpet and the welding gods had placed a brand new floor pan with a single tack weld over the old floor. 

Would have kept going but I had a wee accident 🤣

Fixed it right enough with some superglue and masking tape. 

Outer will be on tomorrow and the drivers will be cut off before leaving. 

4 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

I got my Aero splitter painted by @GingerNuttz and I fitted it today. Looks brilliant!

 

That colour was close af 😂

Ford race red from an 09 Fiesta ftw

You'd be better just doing a set of outer sills and be done with it.

If the inners are bad just do them too or you'll be patching it every year for mots.

56 minutes ago, Lankytim said:

I’m on the P4 group on Facebook and there’s lots of people saying I should replace the chassis and how easy it would be to do and how scrapping it can never be an option but when I ask anyone if they’d like to buy it and do the work themselves there’s just tumbleweed.

 

Moving on, the fuel tank has been refitted in the 145! The corroded and seized tank sender was gently coaxed back into life too meaning the gauge actually works now. 

If  you need it welded I can do it no bother but I'm in Scotland.

22 hours ago, Lankytim said:

I wouldn’t speak too soon! I’ve been working on the brakes, refitting the master cylinder when I spotted a very old looking  welded patch on the NS chassis next to the steering idler, I poked about at it and it fell off.. I kept poking and poking…… Unfortunately it looks terminal as it would need a lot of dismantling and skill to fix. It would be easier to simply replace the chassis. I was already considering replacing the body tub with a better one, but what do you have when you replace the chassis and the body? Might as well start with a different car.  It’s a shame but I factored in something terminal when I bought the Rover, the rust was well hidden until I pulled the patch off, I’m just glad I wasn’t too many ££££s in when I found it. 
 

I’ve definitely got the P4 taste now though, they’re just such fun cars to work on! Perhaps I should keep my eyes peeled for another project and use this one for spares….

That's fuck all, get it fixed 🤣

Body filler over rust will do that to paint or poor prep so could be either.

On 8/25/2023 at 2:11 PM, Split_Pin said:

I went to see this last night. It was 1 mile from me. I have wanted a Jaguar for some time so I couldn't not go and see it.

2.7 V6 diesel. It was a lovely, honest car and knocked spots off the 75 in the driving experience department. But with just 4 weeks ticket it seemed a bit dear at £1500. The seller was a respectable looking older chap and said it would pass another MOT no bother. I couldn't make sense therefore of why he didn't just submit it for a test and be able to get at least £500 more for it. For a car that he's had for 8 years, it's free money.  I also couldn't see the sills properly as they are covered in plastics and on that basis I walked away. Had it been £600 or so I may have bought it. 

I'd still really like one though as I think they are cracking cars.

I've done countless pairs of sills on these and the Mondeo chassis one, total rot boxes.

Mines had some cracking repairs.

wasn't even gonna bother fixing the wings so I just bought two new ones.

They're so bad if you park the drivers wheel on a kerb you can't open the passenger door 😂

I've stiffened this chassis by boking a lot of it in and adding gussets but it's still gonna be a death trap.