What have you made/welded/fabricated/built recently?

[btcctroy]

You done a really good job of them wheels. They look brand new

[HAIRIBO]

Not very impressive,,,,,,, but I cut the badge section out out of a hatch spoiler, Fibre glassed the 66mm hole, and then filled and soothed.



beats buying a preface lift one and trying to sell this one.4

Any one know where to get a good colour match spray paint? I've used halfords stuff in the past and they dont usually match

[btcctroy]

Local auto paint shop

[btcctroy]

Looks good

[TurboDan]

You need to go to your local paint suppliers, they will be able to match any painted panel you take in, say take your petrol flap in or wing mirror casing etc.. and get it matched to that and it should be perfect then so long as its painted right. Allot of coulor matching is down to how you paint it not bad paint itself.

Lots of factors can affect paint coulor, air preassure, spray gun fan, prepping, drying, differant laquers, heat.

Near me we have a few paint suppliers that i use: Colourtone, car colours, supertune

All will be able to put any paint you want into a spray can for around £7 +vat (roughly)

[HAIRIBO]

Cheers guys

[Rage]

this is how me and my mate picked her up then 3 miles later and 3 massive backfires and we were left stranded trying to re time a replacement dizzy to get her running again to get the 80 miles home lol should have borrowed his mums fronty and car trailer lol
anyway got it recovered and now we are restoring it at the weekends. I don't know how it has a years mot.


we figured we would see what really needs doing under the skin





starting to shape some sheet steel ready to weld her back to health





unfortunately i don't have any pics of the finished state of this side but I do want to be sorting out better pics of before and after of the rest of the build but you get the idea of how extreme this rot is. The drivers footwell has been previously patched and the rot has made it so we need to cut the floor out and fabricate it back in with new. should be an interesting learning curve for both me and my mate. once i have helped him with this i will be turning my hand to my novavan as that needs some attention aswell

[kingcavalier]

Not one of mine but Had a landrover at work today for an exhaust build just look at what I found befor I started

[TurboDan]

[gsi pie]

how cool !!

[planetc]

Haha, now that is resourceful at it's best.

[Cavalier342]

Unique Should anyone say anything, just mention health & safety

[btcctroy]

Started my rocker cover this is number 2 as my brother had the last.

[gsi pie]

looking good troy

[gsi pie]

just finished masking the letters (never again!! lol ) @ 1.45am

[planetc]

Could you not have painted it and then just block sanded them off?

[gsi pie]

try that way before and didn't work that well

[gsi pie]

wrinkle black plug cover with polished letters to match rocker cover

[planetc]

That looks really smart

[vauxtillidie]

wrinkle black plug cover with polished letters to match rocker cover

like this alot

[gsi pie]

thanks both

slowly coming together

[Envoy CDX]

Not one of mine but Had a landrover at work today for an exhaust build just look at what I found befor I started

That is brilliant!

[btcctroy]

Well this is my Swindon rocker cover that I'm doing. Still got loads to do on it but it's coming on

[btcctroy]

Well in the last week decided to build a hydraulic tube bender from scratch. Even made the dies to suit 38mm cds tube.
It's almost finished, just needs a few nuts and bolts and bit of a paint

[TurboDan]

That really is mint. It should work nicely