Lowrider Dave's V6

[Lowrider Dave]

Not much progress on the cav. They have been busy with another car which will be out of there way by tomorrow. They have done small bits like working ont he front bumper and smoothing out minor dinks, etc. Welding will begin next week.

[humbucker]

progress is progress. will be strange seeing it without the red wheels lol

forgive me if you've mentioned this already and i've forgotten but to what extent does it need welding? i seem to recall inner rear arch, but what else?

[Mikebmth]

Can see how big that old V6 is with no wings etc

Bet you'll be glad to have her back and cant wait to see the finished car!

[jimmy]

Looking forward to the updates on the progress

[planetc]

Exciting stuff eh!

[cavboy180]

Nice one - look forward to seeing the final result

[Lowrider Dave]

progress is progress. will be strange seeing it without the red wheels lol

forgive me if you've mentioned this already and i've forgotten but to what extent does it need welding? i seem to recall inner rear arch, but what else?

Yeah, I'd grow quite attached to the rat look and red wheels. The cav is having new front wings, rear arches, and as much new sill as required. Not to mention any horrors that are found and the rear spring cups are being replaced as they were on 1-2 year advisory from my man with the MOT garage.
The respray including shuts.

[Lowrider Dave]

Looking forward to the updates on the progress

Exciting stuff eh!

Nice one - look forward to seeing the final result

Thanks chaps - updates as I visit the workshop!

[jimmy]

I think you might of mentioned already but I can't remember lol what wheels are you replacing the red steelies with?

[Lowrider Dave]

White Supertouring alloys.

[DiplomaXE]

lovely stuff dave

[btcctroy]

1/2 a cup of persil in the cooling system for a day or two works wonders for breaking down the oil. Well done chap.

You have got to be taking the ****! Lmao

Nice progress again dave how far are from putting her into action now?

Nope, totally serious this time.

Yes I ran it in my cooling system for about a year till I fixed my porous head

[soton]

Can't wait to see it finished

[Lowrider Dave]

Nearside arch was quite rotten so is having a good area replaced.


Off side was surprisingly clean, only surface rust present, but due to sill being replaced a section of the arch will be replaced anyway.




New bonnet

[jimmy]

Great stuff dave

[Mikebmth]

Nice one dave,

Cant wait to see the motor with all the work done..

[Lowrider Dave]

I'll be going back to the workshop on Friday so more updates then, hope to have it all done by end of December if poss. WIll be getting my supertouring alloys next week and taking them to alloy specialist for a refurb. Also need to get round to finding one or two bits I require for the rebuild.

[humbucker]

what bits are you lookin for dave?

[Lowrider Dave]

• Rear seat mounting bracket, that I need to get a pic of - I bent the old one struggling to get the back seat out.
• A NEW driver's side rear lens unit - plenty secondhand but I wanted to have a new one to match the new LH unit I have.
• bushes, washers, etc for front and rear suspension for when I install the bilstein/eibach new springs/shocks.
• Bits that I forget now but will suddenly remember when I get the car back for reassembly!!

[Lowrider Dave]

There's a pipe on the inside of the driver's side front arch - what does this do - I can't trace it back to anywhere as whatever it connected isn't there - possibly the lower airbox which I removed?.

[DiplomaXE]

the back of the drivers side wheel arch is where the carbon canister is dave, on mine anyway. different on a V6=no clue.

[Lowrider Dave]

the back of the drivers side wheel arch is where the carbon canister is dave, on mine anyway. different on a V6=no clue.

Yeah, from one of my other posts I know that's the carbon canister - but this pipe is at the front of the wing. I'll get a pic when I'm down the workshop today.

[cavboy180]

I Can't believe it's the same car from the meet...great Work there!!!

Kepp it going... am looking forward to seeing the finished result!!

[Lowrider Dave]

A bit of cleaning up require here when I get it back...


I didn't realise I had Eibach's already...



How hard is it to drop the rear beam out?

[Lowrider Dave]

There's a pipe on the inside of the driver's side front arch - what does this do - I can't trace it back to anywhere as whatever it connected isn't there - possibly the lower airbox which I removed?.

What does/did this pipe do?