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  1. El taller de carrocería ha estado ocupado. Waiting on a date to get it back.
  2. I still have a TT I bought cheap. It's nothing more than a 1.8 20v donor to me. A modern day Calibra XE. You know the engine and box is going in a shitbox to make it fast. Also means loads will be killed off and then these cars will jump in value.
  3. Cool project. Do like these and you're right it doesn't need to be mint, just good enough to enjoy and not worry about it. Am I right in thinking these use a lot of Toyota parts in it?
  4. Bumpers are improved. Kinda wished I'd got the Matt black paint now. Or maybe I shouldn't worry and wait until they are on the car again.
  5. Got high as ole Sass mate on some P40 today. Because I used a fair bit of a tub on the door cards. Not sure what these are made from, do know it does degrade badly. It turns to powder if it suffers any damage. Happy I've managed to something to stabilise these. Again saves me more effort to find replacements. I'll scuff this mess down another day. On to the bumpers. A good clean with some G101 and a green scratchy pad first. Then force dried with a space heater. Knocked down any scuffed bits with 140 and wiped with panel prep. Filled anything I considered deep with flexible plastic filler. Left this to cure for now. The last picture is of me doing a test section with the texture paint. My phone couldn't pick up the finish I got. Which I'm actually happy about! It blends in nice! Once I've spot sprayed the repaired areas and coated it all in the plastic dye I have, I'd dare say it'll give me the 10 footer look I wanted.
  6. I hope so 😄. Planning sooner if possible 🤞.
  7. Not much of an update. However I've still work ahead to complete. Door cards. The front card backings aren't great. Drivers is in the worst state. I'll get creative with some glues, meshes and fibreglass. Repairing them might not make sense. But I can't get replacements easily and I want to keep as much of the stock LS trim as possible. As it'll fit in with my choice of front seats. The LS fabric came up nice with a spell in the washing machine. Hand washed first to remove the buggered foam. Bumpers are rashed and in need of a revamp. Waiting on the products for that, I've bought the texture paint like what PeterC used on his Sierra. With cans of Buzzweld PIO to redye all the rest of the plastics. None of the above work will restore these parts back to as new. I just want presentable for this car. Repair is going to save me time and hassle in the long run.
  8. My goodness! I like the 205 wheels on that 924! Suits it! Glad you've made some progress with the 309. Giving it a follow as I want to see at least one of them live!
  9. Phwoar! What a lovely little car @SEATMad. Really liked the MK1 Ibiza's. Been watching promo videos about the development of these cars.
  10. Body shop time!! This turned out to be a harder job than I thought. Transport had to bail on me today due to unexpected issues with the tow vehicle. I tried everyone I knew with a trailer. Couldn't help, which is fair dos far too short notice. Then wondered up to a neighbouring shed on the off chance someone could help me. They could! Car loaded. Panels loaded in a another vehicle and delivered. I knocked the exhaust off with the edge of the trailer! But quickly tied up and we're done. Couldn't believe my luck today. Could of easily been a shit show. However thanks to the helpfulness of others it's made it. Sadly there was a high price pay for the gentleman's help.... 4 bottles of pinot grigio 😆😆.
  11. Did a little more last night. Tidied out the Corsa ready for moving. This weekend should see the car going to the spray shop. Here is a video of this Corsa running. Do like the fact it starts and runs. I will look at reusing a standard Corsa air box to keep it looking factory done. Slight howl coming from the charging whirler, think the bearings are suspect.
  12. Can't quote sizes ATM. M10 rings a bell, but for the length of said bolts, I'm struggling there. But I'd say if you found a Small block engined Vauxhall in the scrappies, I'd say you'd be pretty safe with taking them for the Astra. Again they didn't change much. Maybe at worse it'll be a torx head instead of a hex. I do have a 1600 8V on a stand. I could have a ganders this week and give you idea of what ones to look for?
  13. May I suggest getting the brakes from a Corsa B. Anything other a Sport or GSi will provide what you need. As they will be 236mm as your car. The ATE calipers are much better than the Delco ones. Bolt on swap. As they never changed the hub mount spacing for a very long time. These can be had in ventilated flavour too. But I reckon solid discs will do fine. Edit - Saw your last post. My bad. If your stuck for caliper mount bolts. I might have a set of four in my stash if you need some?
  14. Nicely bought. Without me checking. Is it the 1.2 OHV engine or a 1.3?
  15. Nice day here. Corsa came out. Fixed a leaky exhaust joiner. Readjusted the rear wheel bearings and handbrake. Ordered the paint last week. It's now with me to drop off with the car. I'm on with getting some transport sorted out. Fire me up! Can't wait to see this one colour again!
  16. So far, no rainwater has gotten in. Does leak in a different way. Those fucking metal heater matrix pipes have another pin hole in them. It's enough to dampen the pipes and no more. More epoxy required before it becomes a proper issue.
  17. That's another good point. I did check the rubber pipes to the pump and saw no cracks or weird flaking. However it could of played a part? As the diaphragm would be made from a different type of rubber I have been running this car on E10 fuel. That said, I do think it's more age and mileage being the cause of this failure. The one I took off look like the original pump and the car has done over 190K KM's in 24 years. Not dismissing the fuel though. As the MK2 Polo I owned did two pumps. The original and then the new replacement didn't last. Potentially that was down to me not using the car much and newer fuel.
  18. Good point. Plus I don't want to guddle about with wiring ATM. So this evening's farting about. With vidjas!! The fuel pipes were bone dry. Yep buggered pump. Not a terrible job to replace. Just awkward in a mildly annoying way. Once fitted, I just sent it with winding it over on the starter with a jump from a friend's Volvo. Not even 30 seconds later we had this! Was happy to hear the A-Series thrumming away again.
  19. Thank you. What will happen is, I'll fit the pump. Car will still not start. Go around in circles, bang my head and cause various injuries to myself. Break something. Then stomp home like a toddler.
  20. New fuel pump turned up for the Maestro. Might be a job for this evening. Could do with the car running again sooner than later.
  21. Yeah, it was a grainy copy and paste job. The fact certain Golf suspension parts do fit with a little modification is telling. Think the prototypes/mules just worked good enough to abandon any ideas of developing their own in house gearbag. Must of cut a good bit of guesswork out as well. BL/Spen King totally played it safe with the Maestro and Montego in the engineering side. It was all proven gear that would work and cause little bother. Though I hope the gear shift quality is better on the PG gearboxes. It's not fantastic on the VAG ones.
  22. Hands up moment here. Already knew it was a VAG gearbox. I just was surprised that BL didn't BL the driveshaft flanges to make it awkward for no reason. There wasn't much thought put into the post. I tend to post and edit afterwards. #stunnedasfuck 🤣
  23. Ach, that's it's own way of letting you know it's working. From half a county away 😆. Will look at them this week 👍. Managed to get recovered. So the Maestro can sit for a bit, while I wait on the new pump to arrive in. Went for a same again pump wise, just to get mobile again. Autoaid was helpful and got me sorted quickly with details on someone arriving. The recovery driver was spot on. He said it made a change from the more awkward jobs he's had of late.
  24. 🤣🤣🤣 Brilliant! Tempted to buy a clicky clacker anyway. Would be handy for pumping fuel out of my other projects if I need to drop the tank.
  25. @grogee Yeah a fairly standard lift style pump. Bolted to the front of the block. Getting fuel into it maybe a pain, however I'll worry about that later on. I've ordered two pumps. Genuine Rover NOS one and a aftermarket jobber just in case. Not surprised yours has a standard for the time pump. Couldn't of been many suppliers making EFi pumps for those at time. Or it was a license made one from another company?
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