So Friday morning got to the unit at 10:58. Coincidently the same time as Jim arrived!
He soon got stuck into the Kerb side of his Mk1 Rocco after sorting his rust issues on the O/S..
Before
After
Boy got skills!
I started with a sweep up and got the plant out. Tom had sorted me some Argon, so happy days. No excuses!
Whilst taliking to Martyn, who had arrived ready for some works on his Mk1 Golf, I thought.. I wonder what the engine code was out of Princess (Bakers MK1 polo), which is looking criminal atm!..
There's a polo under there somewhere!
Iv been looking for my mk1 golf top fill rad for weeks now. Said I'd measure it for Polomon, this seems to have been the problem..
So had a look.
What do you know! It's an HA code. 8.0:1 comp. ratio. Hmm.
Bakers VR6 conversion pile was growing..
So while I got on the Knotwheel for some final weld-prep Martyn made use of the TIG plant. Getting his drivers side engine mount welded in. Someone had previously removed the small block bracket. Which he needed!
Jim got involved..
eyes
While Martyn made use of the plant I had another go at the battery tray area and left over remnants of scuttle panel.
More gnawsing..
Got bored of the Gnawsage and made a bit of a mess of things. Having had a bash with the knotwheel and blowtorch I thought i'd get on the welding for a change of jobs, as Martyn was done with the Plant.
Tried a 1.6mm Tungsten as Jim had some.. this went a lot better. 40 amps, lay the wire in and weave over it. Had mixed success. again all down to getting rid of that underseal!
on the bad practise torch holding!
After much grinding of the tungsten I had got as far as welding the tops of the turrets and a couple of stitches on the bottom. At this point I needed a blow torch to get rid of the underseal. We had run out of gas for it! So that put a halt to the welding.
Jim was generally balls=deep
Martyn had paint on!
By which time Chaz had arrived with some welcome cold liquid refreshments!
Martyn had some lawn-mower inspired green from his old mk2 golf that he never used, so got some of that on..
The rado got more pillaged
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I'd been giving this a further scrub..
I took the steed to see how chaz was getting on with his mk3, which I agreed to do some work on..
James had a run!
Chaz in typical van-driver pose
Whats messerschmidt Hans up to?
Baker was doing prep..
Martyn was busy smashing his Golf together with a motorsport fucntional no frills approach.. i'll follow his lead I think..
Lawn mower green was looking good from here..
Martyn found a bonnet.. i cant even recall where this came from!!
I ripped out more redundant stuff!
After a bit more gnawsing of the O/S rear seat mounting points I was pretty much done for the night.
Baker had created a massive pile of parts for the powdercoaters in the morning. Can take my uprated driveshaft for the other one.. thanks Karl! :-D
Left the unit at 1:20am. It's now 5:00am.. Shut eye time, then more tomorrow! :-D