Stalled projects confessional

[John F]

Inspired by a comment by Mr Bollox in the recent Maserati buyage thread, and my own deep shame at not cracking on with my own Maserati project, what stalled projects do we all have?

 

I'll go first:

 

Maserati: I got as far as welding in the new driver's side sill, realised the passenger sill had been seam welded in place & then baulked at the grindathon required to remove it. Also, the fuel lines run down that side of the car & would need removing, which would mean the car was sat immobile on the ramps until the hot work was done. I suspect the last time I did anything with it was about 2 years ago.

 

Calibra: I bought a 3.0 V6 engine and an F26 6-speed gearbox for it about 5 years ago, they've been sat in a corner of the workshop ever since. The Calibra has been off the road ever since I had to press it into service as the 'only working vehicle' a year ago, despite a known leaking radiator (which are now almost unobtainable). The coolant loss got worse & worse, requiring daily top-ups, until the inevitable OMGHGF happened. Car has sat waiting for attention ever since, duff radiator not even removed for re-coring.

 

Land Rover Series II 109: has been practically ready for its MOT for the last 8 months... just needs the wiring sorting out for the electric fan conversion and a new set of tyres. A massive dose of CBA has prevented these trifling jobs from being done, although I'm going to try REALLY hard to sort it out over the next month or so. Promise.

 

Suzuki GSX1100 SZ Katana: I got it running just over a year ago after it had been stuck in a garage for 12 years. Done nothing with it since.

 

Honda CBX750F: I changed the leaking fork oil seal about 2 years ago... still haven't even topped that fork leg up with oil.

 

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Personal shame rating: Hello Kitty boxer shorts worn over suit trousers to a job interview. One eyebrow shaved off & replaced with a drawing of a little dog.

 

[fordperv]

My mk1 3 door sierra, held up for ages by my mate at the bodyshop not being able to fit it in, everything else is pretty much done, it's still not there he says it's going in over winter.

 

My Capri laser, i need to do the engine conversion and fit new wings, it's halfway there with the wings as one is cut off and a replacement bolted on, it needs to come around mine when my sierra is in for paint as I find it difficult to work on at my mums because she works nights, I'm a brave man but I ain't waking her up working with a grinder etc

[Jim Bell]

No projects. Two boring cars on the road.

 

Personal shame rating: Getting caught smelling own finger when lift doors open.

Must try harder.

[chaseracer]

Dyane.

 

FPB7 is going to kill me.

[Sloth in a bowl]

260Z, been meaning to convert it from carbs to injection for years. Until then it will never be a daily.

[John F]

Sloth in a bowl, on 05 Nov 2015 - 7:45 PM, said:

260Z, been meaning to convert it from carbs to injection for years. Until then it will never be a daily.

 

That doesn't sound like an easy job, unless you can fit the head plus efi gubbins from a later model...

[beko1987]

I have:

 

Hoover Junior 1334 - need some deox-C, red blue and white spray paint, sandpaper and some motor housing screws from a scrapper. Keep meaning to get it down from the loft and make a start, but haven't. 

 

Hoover Junior U1346 - Need the Deox-C again, and some black spray paint

 

Parnell tenten - Need a switch, I should post up on here as it's probably a good place to get an obsolete 1950s electrical switch...

 

Dyson DC01 - Been in the shed for a year, annoyed at myself that I havent had it out and apart tbh

 

and many more besides. I blame the new baby, dont quite fancy stripping one apart on the front room floor atm, incase I wake him up/he inhales a load of dust...

[I_am_Diesel]

My Golf is still waiting for a bit of weldage on the front chassis members. I bought new bumper brackets, cross member and engine mount and managed to remove the old cross member and bumper. Then I had to go on a course for 2 weeks. When I came back the Land Rover was due MOT so that took a couple of weekends, then SWMBO pressed me into allotment duties and a multitude of other jobs has consigned it to the back burner. I am constantly beating myself up about the neglect and there are some piss take rumblings at work but I will get back on it soon so it's ready for the road come spring. That's unless I buy something else before then and there could be some extra cash on the horizon.

 

Shame rating: Being caught masturbating into a customers knicker drawer by a hidden Rogue Traders camera.

[New POD]

I have some daisies in the shed, which I want to paint a weird shade and a pair of front wings in the wrong colour hanging in the garage. And I have an astra GTE mk2 bonnet vent with a section of steel bonnet.  All of this is for the Mx5 which has an MOT and is taxed and insured and used occasionally.

The wheels (with good tyres) have been there as long as the wings (4 years maybe) and the gte bonnet vent has been there forever or at least since I had a CalibRE and obviously wanted to fuck it up. That might have been 2006. The problem is that the Mx5 bonnet is aluminium, so not sure how to weld the section of astra bonnet with hole designed for the vent to it.

[Sloth in a bowl]

That doesn't sound like an easy job, unless you can fit the head plus efi gubbins from a later model...

 

Manifold to fit webber carbs, not difficult to get.

Webber throttle body kit with electronic control from Emerald will cover a surprising amount of the parts.

Electric fuel pump, dash pot and fuel return are parts for rally cars.

Electric sparks control, are standard dizzy replacement kits

Crank sensor, MAF sensor, etc are all possible to get.

 

Not an easy job, but it is definitely doable. I have to man up and accept that there will be a lot of 2 steps forward, 2 steps back in the process.

[KruJoe]

My sad Mk2 MR2 is still sad, still stashed in the "cow through the roof" lean-to opposite the house.

Untouched since Shitefest 2013.

 

Personal shame rating: Exiting the pub bogs with loo roll trailing off my heel.

[Tamworthbay]

My capri still keeps ticking over. I hoped to have it on the road this year but it needed more work than first thought (there's a surprise). My AJS hasn't done anything for ages but that's because my knees are knacker so it will be for sale as soon as it's finished so not much enthusiasm to work on it anymore.

[4wheeledstool]

I've been threatening to rebuild one of my Lambrettas (my first) for 3-4 years now. It was last done in 1993. I just seem to keep buying other crap that always seems to have a higher priority rating.

Personal shame rating: Dropping my guts while brewing up in the canteen, then realising one of the girls from sales was eating her lunch just out of sight.

[John F]

New POD, on 05 Nov 2015 - 7:55 PM, said:

The problem is that the Mx5 bonnet is aluminium, so not sure how to weld the section of astra bonnet with hole designed for the vent to it.

 

Silicon / pop rivets?

[twosmoke300]

When I opened my garage I expected to be quiet at times esp over xmas etc . I wasn't too worried as I had my Mf35 which needed a resto and brothers cb750 engine rebuild to do .

Fast forward three years and they haven't moved let alone had a spanner thrown around them

[Six-cylinder]

22 stalled projects, yes twenty two!

[cort16]

I had s tr7 I bought cheap with a short mot. When I started picking at it, it was very rotten so I chopped all the rot out then it just sat for months until I decided I couldn't be arsed and sold it with no floors in it.

I thought that was that but it reappeared on eBay with all the work done a year later for like 800 .

quid. I didn't buy it back

[HMC]

The mk2 Granny estate is 'stalled' in every sense. The knackered carb was responsible (now replaced) but the second stall episode is me having started welding the rotten bonnet, and not finished it. It also needs new tyres to be useable but I fancy tracking down some steel wheels to go on it to replace the ghia alloys. So near yet so far; MUST TRY HARDER.

[John F]

Six-cylinder, on 05 Nov 2015 - 8:14 PM, said:

22 stalled projects, yes twenty two!

 

 

You're the reigning champ. What's your personal shame rating, then?

[derskine]

 

I never intended it to look like this, I just gave up before perfecting the bodywork and painting it.

No one is repulsed by it though so I can't be arsed doing anything else.

[John F]

derskine, on 05 Nov 2015 - 8:19 PM, said:

 

I never intended it to look like this, I just gave up before perfecting the bodywork and painting it.

No one is repulsed by it though so I can't be arsed doing anything else.

 

Didn't you post that on here a while ago and everyone said you should keep it as it is? It looks ACE.

[derskine]

Yep, no need to do anything to it, so stalled project actually had a good outcome.

[Taff]

My Galaxie. Garage thread elsewhere, it's been at my mates farm for years and I haven't been near it with a spanner since March. In my defence, it barely survived a divorce and two house moves (it was up for sale for a month, 2 views but I stuck to my asking price and thankfully kept it).

I have in the last two weeks got my arse in gear and cut down the bramble bush that had grown over it, got it started, bought a carb damper for it and I PROMISE not to be sidetracked by any tinder milfs this weekend.

 

Shame rating. Staring at shoes while being lectured about speeding by a police officer 15 years younger than me

 

 

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[KruJoe]

Oh, another: The "Offensive Wreck" ex-field car Justy.

All the floor's welded, new brakes and suspension done, it only needs throwing together really, and tidying up. Now buried at the back of the shed.

 

 

Personal shame rating: Spotted picking my nose whilst stuck at a red light.

[Six-cylinder]

 

You're the reigning champ. What's your personal shame rating, then?

There is no history of madness in the family but........

[vulgalour]

Poor little old Crapaud the Renault 6.  I finally got the engine in bits and now I can't put it back together again because of a chronic lack of funds, motivation and a house move.

 

Personal shame rating:  shame is something that happens to other people.

[anonymous user]

Mine is the TR7, it wasn't a project, it was running, driving, MOT'd, taxed and insured. I drove it down to my brother's in 2012 because I needed my garage space for something else. 

 

It's still there. I know I'll never drive it again and often think about selling it, but by now it will probably need a lot of fettling to put it back on the road and I just don't have the time or inclination to do anything about it.

 

Shame rating: passing the port to the right

 

 

 

[Tamworthbay]

Mine is the TR7, it wasn't a project, it was running, driving, MOT'd, taxed and insured. I drove it down to my brother's in 2012 because I needed my garage space for something else. 

 

It's still there. I know I'll never drive it again and often think about selling it, but by now it will probably need a lot of fettling to put it back on the road and I just don't have the time or inclination to do anything about it.

mmmmm tr7........ wedge shite extraordinaire

[vulgalour]

One day I shall have a TR7.  Not today.  But one day.

[Taff]

Mine is the TR7, it wasn't a project, it was running, driving, MOT'd, taxed and insured. I drove it down to my brother's in 2012 because I needed my garage space for something else.

 

It's still there. I know I'll never drive it again and often think about selling it, but by now it will probably need a lot of fettling to put it back on the road and I just don't have the time or inclination to do anything about it.

 

Shame rating: passing the port to the right

 

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VVC alloys? You, Sir, are a bad man.

And that's why I like you so much

 

 

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