Vtecmec's 4th Gen

Dbo · Post by **Dbo** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 10:50 pm

i have to +rep that just for the amount of work that has to have taken

when you finish can you start on mine

mart609 · Post by **mart609** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:35 pm

excellent as always

Post by **Vtecmec** » Fri May 25, 2012 11:31 pm

I move house in 3 weeks, so there’s been a big push to get the car in a state where I can transport it, but there’s so much left to do, it's going to be tight!

I picked these up from JDM-BB4, little covers for the brake callipers, the're something that have always been missing from my car.

I popped out the little metal inserts, de-rusted and painted and cleaned up the plastic too.

Along with all the other little plastic trim pieces from underneath.

I started to fit all the fiddly little bits, as much as possible before crawling under the car, so I started to bolt stuff together.

All these bolts, there seems so many!

I finished the brakes off with stainless stuff, and while I was at it painted the wheel brace. You can also see one of the ABS sensors lurking in the background.

I’ve de-rusted and cleaned the handbrake cables, totally unnecessary really, but it would be rude not to finish these last bits off.

Some other underfloor stuff, the rusty bracket is currently holding the pipes in correct order, I'll do that too once the other have been refitted.

The repair panels I made earlier finally found their way onto the car.

The welder was playing up big time, hence the scruffy welds, I struggled with it for a while before deciding to completely refurb it, pretty much replacing every wearing part, after this it started behaving, but I lost so much time; also at this point I also switched to 0.6mm wire rather than the 0.8 I had been using. I wish I had done this earlier as it’s much more suitable for the thin panels.

Some more stuff in place.

Removing spot welds.

And off comes the rest of the sill.

Trial fitting.

A solid inner arch.

And some more bits in their place.

More sooner rather than later I hope.

h10ndr · Post by **h10ndr** » Fri Jun 01, 2012 6:50 pm

Wow and wow again.

I hope your not moving away from west yorkshire....

I was thinking of doing a mini meet to look at the work in progress...

Post by **Vtecmec** » Fri Jun 01, 2012 7:36 pm

I'm afraid so, moving to Oakham in 2-3 weeks. Your welcome to pop round before if you want.

nitin_s1 · Post by **nitin_s1** » Fri Jun 01, 2012 9:36 pm

Rep well deserved!

Post by **NafemanNathan** » Fri Jun 01, 2012 11:29 pm

Phenominal as always mate

I certainly envy your skills and dedication

Supercharged 無限MUGEN BB1 Profile · Post by **nucleustylzlude** » Sat Jun 02, 2012 10:34 pm

Dedication bud, attention to detail is awesome.

Nice fabbing skills too, really coming together now.

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Sun Jun 03, 2012 9:56 am

great work bud

h10ndr · Post by **h10ndr** » Sun Jun 03, 2012 8:08 pm

Vtecmec wrote:I'm afraid so, moving to Oakham in 2-3 weeks. Your welcome to pop round before if you want.

Wow that's quite a big move, Rutland near Leicester?
pm me your current postcode and i'll see how far from my work you are...i might be able to pop over before you move...
Hope the move goes well anyway...(have you got a workshop or at least a double garage where u are moving to?

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