The rebuild begins....

Rachel · Post by **Rachel** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 8:53 pm

It was by the Power of Greyskull.

Rachel · Post by **Rachel** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 8:23 pm

Getting a bit inpatient waiting for my mate to be able to do the welding, especially as everything else is coming together now, so I have asked for a mobile welder to come out and gimmie a quote. He's coming out on monday, and if I'm happy with the price he'll do it that day!

Not really sure how much it's gonna be, but at least he wont have to strip the car, get parts or remove panels.

Fingers crossed (again) that he quotes me happy

bigdickbuster · Post by **bigdickbuster** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:58 pm

Excellent work!!! Looks great

martinholmesuk · Post by **martinholmesuk** » Fri Mar 27, 2009 5:37 pm

Been removing surfast rust off a brake carrier. Looked nasty before but getting better...

Going to be using metric capped bolts for replacing those manky old rusted bolts. Got the idea from seeing may big brake upgrades.

reevio · Post by **reevio** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 8:44 pm

nice work mate

Rachel · Post by **Rachel** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 3:14 pm

Happy days....the welding is done!

Brian, a mobile mechanic and welder, gr8 guy, did a fantastic job today and all for 140 notes...even the weather stayed dry for the occasion

Here are some shots....

(There is masking tape over the sill plate thingy)

and all under sealed....

It's really straight and so good to have to bent bits removed

Now just have to wait for the paint shop to get in touch about the panels and start to refit!

martinholmesuk · Post by **martinholmesuk** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 4:12 pm

Insurance write off my ass! Take that!!

Looking great!

rgreenhalf · Post by **rgreenhalf** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 6:32 pm

I Love stainless caphead screws. More so that I should.....

Cars looking awesome!

Murf · Post by **Murf** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 8:04 pm

Good job! You'd never know how it looked before

Rachel · Post by **Rachel** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 7:12 pm

Cheers.

Cleaned the carpet (used Rug Doctor.... OMG the colour of the water!!) and started refitting stuff today. The trim all went on very nicely next to the new sill which just shows how good a job Brian did. I will get it painted at a later date...when it's all really nice and warm...for now that bit can stay as it is.

I would like to treat the inner wheel arches as they don't look great. Planning to spray in some Waxoyl. Maybe job for tomorrow

JohnTurbo · Post by **JohnTurbo** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 10:24 pm

Awesome. So warming to read this.

pol · Post by **pol** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 8:40 am

Proper job!

Glad to see it coming together.

pol

bigdickbuster · Post by **bigdickbuster** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 9:02 pm

It's nice to see that the work is in progress and goes ahead

Next 480 will save from the scrapyard

Rachel · Post by **Rachel** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 7:45 pm

Been doing some ICE today....decided to up grade the speakers....only managed the drivers side as I don't have the passenger side door yet, or the interior in the rear, but it's a start. Can't test either cause the battery is as flat as a really flat thing...look good though

The ones I got are Pioneers - not the best money can buy, but I'm sure will better than the orig Volvo jobos

Along side some of my son's car collection

martinholmesuk · Post by **martinholmesuk** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 11:29 pm

You mean you don't want some computer speakers in your car? lol yes your right mine do sound shit! Never noticed but do you have side speakers in rear or cubby hole speakers?

Rachel · Post by **Rachel** » Sat Apr 04, 2009 9:06 am

Side speakers....I got 2 pairs of the Pioneers to replace all 4.

Rachel · Post by **Rachel** » Sat Apr 04, 2009 2:42 pm

Did my rear clusters today.....nice shiny ones went in.....was 'fun' taking the old ones out, but the end results is very good....I'm well pleased....

Removal of old faded clusters....

Replacement (thanks to Colm

).....(note I had to clean the surrounding bits of 480 to match the shinyness of the clusters

)

What ya all reckon ??

pa.chab · Post by **pa.chab** » Sat Apr 04, 2009 2:48 pm

Rachel wrote:Happy days....the welding is done!

Brian, a mobile mechanic and welder, gr8 guy, did a fantastic job today and all for 140 notes...even the weather stayed dry for the occasion

Here are some shots....
It's really straight and so good to have to bent bits removed

Now just have to wait for the paint shop to get in touch about the panels and start to refit!

A belgian Friend of mine have the same problem!

I will noticed him the way you managed to fix this!

What a great job

Rachel · Post by **Rachel** » Sat Apr 04, 2009 2:59 pm

Yes, you should.....it looked so bad before, but for relatively little amounts of money it looks great now....tell your friend not to give up on the 480....they are worth all the effort

pa.chab · Post by **pa.chab** » Sat Apr 04, 2009 3:19 pm

Yep! More over he's got a GT turbo paris blue, he must get it nice!