NZ: MKII 3 Door Project Car

[moostin]

Did you remove the whole wiring loom, if so how did you get it all though the bulk head and where are you going to get a new one from?


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[ranton-inc]

Did you remove the whole wiring loom, if so how did you get it all though the bulk head and where are you going to get a new one from?

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Hey Chief from Memory Most of it was already gone anyway.

I have a MKIV DBW Loom waiting to be removed from a Wreck at the local wrecking yard... Im just waiting for them to call me and let me know when I can come and pull it out!

Just retaining the MKII Plug ends for the Tail lights/Interior Lights/Door Switches etc..

The MKII Wiring now is all a bit decrepit and perished to re use any way.

On another note

Im down to 4 Colours I like that I will more than likely paint the car in!

[nacnud]

Hi Anton! Some good progress on this bro!

[ranton-inc]

Can not wait for saturday to come around

Got a Fair List to achieve by the days end so far!
- Get the Dry ice on Friday and Destroy the rest of the old Sound Deadening on saturday morning
- Remove Front Guards
- Remove Front Hubs and press out the decrepit axles
- Sandblast anythign that needs it
- and finish Shaving ugly brackets off the engine bay!

If time allows make patch template for windscreen rust repair.. and start preparing the patch peice out of panel steel..

Thats probably a fairly ambitious list.. but this project is early days so am still learning how to guage/manage time

---- On another note Lots of Goodies arrived today (un-important **** but goodies none the less!!)



Big Bumper Bits

and also secured a set of 90s spec arches and Side Sills to come here from the UK!

[ranton-inc]

Well Saturday came and went, and I feel that Fizz and I achieved a fair bit on the car Started around 9ish finished the day around 5:00pm



Still right at the beginning of the prep work stage but i feel this is super important for a better finished result.

So yeah its taking ages but what the hell..

We ran down the road to BOC Gasses and grabbed about 15kg of Dry Ice (Solid CO2),
with the intention of removing as much of the manky and old sound deadening that was stuck-fast to the floor pan.

Poured it on in to all the foot wells and kept on waiting a little bit then moving the Dry Ice and then whacking with the Mallets... It didn't work, so we decided to leave it to "cook" ( so to speak ) for 20minutes and to kill time decided to start preparing the Front Guards/Arches for removal....

If you leave the Dry ice to sit then give it a belt with a Rubber or plastic mallet you will be surprised how the old crap just shatters and can be picked/swept up and thrown away!.

Here are some Shots of the Progress of the Removal and the finished result





All in all pretty good cleanish and not as time consuming and messy as a scraper and heat gun method
(Which is still needed to finish of the tunnel Area!)

Turns out making dry ice bombs is extremely loud... fun... and easy to make!!!!

Was good to get the Fenders/Guards off too. really expose this bad girl up...
Man the manufacturer went overboard with the Underbody Silicone ****!

Only discovered a pretty minor looking rust under the Passengerside Guard




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The Next Job was to get the Driveshafts out of the Spindles... ( I tried removing these the other day and left the shafts soaking in CRC for about a Week, and they still didn't budge!) and even using a puller tool they wouldnt move at all

(Copper Grease goes a long way when you are assembling parts)

Removed the Strut from the Spindle
Removed Tie and Ball Joints
Removed Spindles and Drive Shaft away from the Car in one



Had to apply nearly 15 Tonnes (Indicated by my Hydro Press) just to the god dam old Shafts out of the hubs

Decided I'm going to order all new stuff for most of the part we have been working on thus far.

So that means...
- New Tie Rod and Rack Ends
- New Rotors
- New Calipers
- New Ball Joints
- New Wheel Bearings etc



And While we were at it we thought f*^& it less remove the subframe too... was we can tidy that up as well!
New Paint / re movver





The Shell is now carted around with the use of a trolly jack and pallets



Next Weekend will Probably entail removal of the Rear beam axle to give that a tidy up too!

New Bearings and probably a powder coat..

Going to have to attend to the Rust as well but for the time being i have doused it in Rust Converter untill i have a day good enough to sand blast it back and see how serious or not it may be!

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On another note last week I also had some goodies arrive from Tim @ dubaddiction

juicy!



---------- Post added 21-05-2012 at 04:48 PM ---------- Previous post was 20-05-2012 at 11:43 PM ----------

More shtuff ordered today...


- New Tie-rods Left and Right
- New Rack Ends Left and Right
- New Ball Joints Left and Right
- New Wheel Bearings Front and Rear
- New Discs for the Rear


The A-Arms already have some Polyurethane goodness installed in them...

[ranton-inc]

More Pics... Drive Shafts being removed from their Prison!


New/Old Dashboard

[ranton-inc]

Another write off of a weekend was on call so half way in to cleaning up the inside of the wheel wells i had to go to the docks and leave fizz and my cousin cleaning it up.

The morning started off alright
Got the rear beam off so now thats ready for a new lick of paint and a rebuild too

These shells are un believeably light 2 of us to pretty much lift it 3 of us to carry it around the workshop with ease!

Did some sandblasting on the discovered rust in the wheel arch looks like its not big enough to even bother worrying about so i etch primed it ( got to play with my new gun and mask)

And will probably zinc it today since it has dried and the wax the crap out if it

Inside of the car looks like a beach at the moment i tested the sand blaster on the seat rails and then etch primed them by by surface corrosion

Also blasted the inside edge of the bootlid at the top where surface issues were showing primed that problem solved interesting usinf a spray gun for the first time ever i didnt realise how far primer paint went! 600ml lasted ages!!! No pics as we didnt achieve all that much and spent the balance of the day

Thrashing my mk2 donor car around the yard hitting static objects and explodong dry ice bombs ... Poor mk2 the engine fl out by the end of the day

Will post those videos later hahah

[KI11Z]

haha, man this build looks insane, a true project! Keep it all coming!

[ranton-inc]

Dry icebomb 1 - YouTube


Dry ice bomb 2 - YouTube


Dry ice bomb 3 - YouTube

[ranton-inc]

More Goodies arrived from the UK

Waiting for even more...

May as well announce the powerplant too



But it wont look like that for too long...

[ranton-inc]

Pretty solid day today

Had the opportunity window open to go source a drive by wire loom from the local wreckers!

Fizz and I wrecked an entire mk4 golf wagon.

Scored basically everything i will need for my swap electronics wise keys pump booster dash. Dash re bar etc etc

Also got a mk3 air con condenser



Got heaps above is just the wiring loom we used a saw and carved the loom hole bigger just to make it easier to pull the loom out undamaged



More to come tomorrow hopefully

[ryana89]

But it wont look like that for too long...

Good lord, your gonna be tyre spin'n past 3rd gear!
Really cool project!

[ranton-inc]

Hopefully not thou..

The intensions are as follows

Run mk4

ESP
ABS
Aircon


I have a LSD and new clutch to throw in to the mix also!

So hopefully it doesnt wheel spin to much

I owned a mps for 4 years and that did great with the factory lsd and 320-350hp

[nacnud]

Good work mate!

[GoLfMan]

I like where this is going! That'll go quite nicely with a 24v VR6 lump