kates 1303 'Dylan'

[thecrewkid]

Heres the 1303 i've been doing for a mate..

He's seen better days..

The start.. Some fiesta driver drove in the rear and up over the drivers side wing, not doing masses of damage but it was a total loss hence the rebuild.. The rear inner wing was slightly buckled.







Stripped down..

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And a few bad areas rubbed ground down ready for repair..


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And then the rot cut out ready for fresh metal to be welded in..



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All the plates are made ready to be welded in next week.. I did tack the plates on the bonnet in place.


God it's great working inside it's been along time since i've done been able to..



Rear pillars/gutters welded..

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And ground and sanded back..

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Fuel flap lock hole welded up.

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Also repalced 8 wing fixing nuts..

The whole car sanded back.. And masked up..

And a few repairs to the doors and rear quarters not yet finished..

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All bare metal areas Etch primed..

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Then a coat of bar-coat to seal any nasty's back where they should be..

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And finally for today a coat of grey primer..

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Right then couple hours work yesterday...

Rear end accident damage straightened out....

Rear valance removed and ready to weld the new one on....

Rear quarters repaired..


Then this morning popped down at 7:15 and got..

Both doors repaired...

Finished rear quaters...

4x wings preped and fitted...

Then everything apart from the front and rear valance got etch primed.. Bar-coated... and then a couple quick coats of high build primer..

Then home for double egg on toast BABY.....

Been a bit slow this week due to my hand being attacked by the grinder

But this is what's been done...

Front panel repaired.. Rear panel fitted.. Rear end straightened.. N/S door localised lower repair.. New bonnet rubber lips fitted..

Now primed and guide coated ready to be flatted back..

Need to sort the engine lid out cos the hinges are siezed and bent/twisted so doesn't fit :evil:

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Well the guide coat is flatted back theres a few bits that need doing and couple bits i'm not happy with so need doing.. And then re-spot priming

Redone the bits that weren't very good......re-primed most of it again.... re-flatted it all back smooth.....masked it back up......THEN.............































Chucked a couple coats of paint on him

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All painted now.. Got a couple runs in it though but they'll flat out easy enough..






Well still waiting for the rest of the polishing sh1te to turn up, it should of been here today but nothing yet.. But then the days not over yet..

Anyway i did say there would be some pics this weekend..

Been down this morning and finished flatting it down so is ready for a mopping... Nothing interesting really but a promise is a promise..






He's all G3ed now so just a fine cut needed then a polish needed..

Pulled the front wings off and swapped the springs over to the lowered ones..














Looking great with the rims and the chrome on

Finshed up making the front bumper mounts.





Just the windows and running boards to go.

[thecrewkid]

Here he is all finished...