Graeme
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quote:
Originally posted by Marc
Good luck! 
why u say that? nothing i havent delt with before and its in good nick for an old car!! 
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Marc
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Lot of work involved, was meant injest 
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Jambo
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quote:
Originally posted by Marc
Lot of work involved, i like incest
 marcus!
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Marc
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Thats not a good example to set as a Moderator James 
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Graeme
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quote:
Originally posted by Marc
Lot of work involved, was meant injest
not really alot of work, ive done far more to cars than this! 
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Graeme
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DAY 3:
Well its really a combination of an hour the other day and about 2hours today.
Spent a while try to get the wings off and see whats under there and finding out that the wings had been welded on, also found some big holes on the inner wings so they will either be renewed or plates welded in there!
Ive also got a leak in the sunroof which i dont need to bother fixing as that will most probs be going so i can fit my new toy into the car which is my full 6 point cage made by saftey devices picked up for the rather expensive £80  with door bars and i need to make a cross bar for it!
also took the rear spoiler off hench the duck tape over those holes!
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Robin
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inner wings look interesting
at least you are doing it properly, and finding these things now
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STEvieXE
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replace those flitchs mate... be a much better job... hows the availibility of parts???
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Chris F
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Nice Sunroof
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Marc
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Did you grind the wings off then? As said inner wings look erm!!! Are you plating over the sunroof then?
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dna23
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hmmmm nice inner wings 
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Graeme
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yeah they will more than likely be new ones, can get repair parts not to hard but just more work but suppose no point doing a half job!
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a_j_mair
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inner wings look rather emm ....
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Jambo
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inner wings 
As mentioned, hard ot find parts??
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ed
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Doubt it's hard to find, you can still get new front ends for Vivas...
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Graeme
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yeah parts are not to bad to source, have got a few big books at work with diagrams of what you can get patern panels and thankfully i can get most parts!
they do repair panels for the inner wings but i dont know how far they go down so may need to weld some plates in my self and tbh you cant see them so aslong as there in place they just hold the wings and bonnet on and its all good!
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Graeme
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and also for the person who asked i had to just angle grind them off, not a big job really but will need to make some proper holes for them to bolt on when i do it!
i hate things that are bodged up badly, u can do a good bodge but its a hell of alot different from a bad one!
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Graeme
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UPDATE : 14 - 06 - 07
So havent had an update in donkeys now, the car is now out of the winter storage and have managed to rent a garage off a mate where its nice and dry to work on!
The car is more stripped than what is in the pics but dont have any pics of it at the moment but i have started to buy things for it!
First off i have bought some very nice Porsche Silver Rose Wheels.
Never seen these before but unfortunatly they came in a shitty metalflake colour so are going to be refurbed with gloss black centers and polished lips, these also come with alloy caps which arent cheap in themselves!
Front wheels: 7j x 16
Rear wheels and main reason i bought them : 9j x 16
Both together:
Also have some FK adaptors on there way and also a mercedes sprinter vent and 3 door solnoieds in the post, this will hopefully happen quickly as the boss is going away on holiday for 2 weeks in about 5 weeks time so wana get it all complete for then so i can take it in and spray it when i decide on the colour!
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sam-smith
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theres one of these for sale near me. i dont like that colour of the finished one
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Graeme
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it will be different to that now!
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k e l
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i drove a white gte around for a day and everyone couldnt stop looking at it. got lots of respect the car. really love them . yours will look ace
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bieransri
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fook! wheels are porn
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STEvieXE
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wheels are nice, take it this is to be decked and smoothed out??
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jr
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never seen those wheels before
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j10E W
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forgot about this project
will look very nice whn its done cool car
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