Spot on. What did you use to treat the rust in the engine bay.

Going to be dropping the engine out of mine in the next few weeks while I rebuild up a new bottom end, thinking of sorting it out similar to you.

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Few recent Youtube track videos, more on my channel
Pair of Rallye's doing a few laps of Anglesey


Lap of Anglesey Coastal

3 sisters circuit

Few laps at Blyton

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Mid January got slowly started with derusting:



Car elevated using axel stands, took a few pictures before I started anything major.

Underseal needed removed and rear axel too, didn’t get this done straight away

Had 4 inch grinder with wire brush on standby, along with small handheld air grinder and various attachments, also used compressed air for blastings loose bits off. These first pictures were after a wee poke about with wire brush. Really looked bad...



This bracket got damaged and bent pretty badly 2/3 years ago when a taxi decided to try and push me out a junction. It needed straightened to say least



Exhaust heat shield before it got sand blasted





Drivers side rear arch had lots of underseal, which required lots of attention with 4 inch grinder with wire buff disk on it



Passenger side rear arch






Planning getting spare wheel cage sand blasted soon its still to be fixed



This was the thread that I fixed with the Recoil kit:


From : January 2011, changed links due to Photobucket fail
Mid January got slowly started with derusting:


Car elevated using axel stands, took a few pictures before I started anything major.

Underseal needed removed and rear axel too, didn’t get this done straight away

Had 4 inch grinder with wire brush on standby, along with small handheld air grinder and various attachments, also used compressed air for blastings loose bits off. These first pictures were after a wee poke about with wire brush. Really looked bad...



This bracket got damaged and bent pretty badly 2/3 years ago when a taxi decided to try and push me out a junction. It needed straightened to say least



Exhaust heat shield before it got sand blasted





Drivers side rear arch had lots of underseal, which required lots of attention with 4 inch grinder with wire buff disk on it


Passenger side rear arch





Planning getting spare wheel cage sand blasted soon its still to be fixed


This was the thread that I fixed with the Recoil kit:


From : January 2011

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After the above pictures I got to work with removing excess rust and underseal
Took a 4 inch grinder with wire brush disc attachment to 90% of underneath of car, the rest I tried my best to use a small air grinder with different wire brush attachments.

Will try and remember where the pictures have got to, but here is the next step I took
Can see the rear beam and most of the underseal has been removed by here

Hydrate 80 doing its stuff:



















Weblink : Bilt Hamber Hydrate 80

Done two coats of this stuff, you can probably see that I missed a few patches there

Next step was anti rust zinc primer...

From : January 2011

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Next bunch of pictures are after I had painted a few coats of white gloss spray tins, didn’t bother with buying Bianca white with rear... no one will see it or notice

Last 6 pictures are actually after I lacquered, just looks the same

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Christ she was rusty!

Not picking at your work but you should have taken the rear bump stops and cups off

Would have been plenty of rust under there for sure that needs treating

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Na thats fair enough coskev, but I couldn’t get it off
the recess had a few applications of Bilt hamber gel, pressure washed, air gun was poked in that we recess blew lots of dirt/rust out of it – done that a few times, dried with heater and heat gun. Then the Hydrate 80 everywhere...

Yeh just a bit Dan, doesn’t help when girl friend keeps asking “when will you be done” towards the end of it all when people asked me that question it made my blood boil…. FCUK OFF how long is a piece of string?

Anyway more pictures to follow, Davey at Sound of Silence has since rewelded the outlet of my supercharger then we had it on rolling road. Boost leak for now is fixed, although it seems to be intermittent, perhaps during hot weather while stuck in traffic it might resurface.

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Mates stuck this to front of car…. garage mascot bird with squint boobs


Back to work.... old mounts off


Old Rear beam back on, solid mounts fitted too. (April 2010 : Beam soon to be removed and replaced, not 100% about solid mounts either, roads up here are total w*nk)






Heat shield sand blasted, primed and sprayed with galv spray


Spare wheel cage sand blasted, primed and sprayed with galv spray



Fuel tank brackets got similar treatment, fitted here, copper seal everywhere




beam more bits connected up



Where old and new meets



Exhaust and spare wheel refitted



An attempt to stop me getting static shocks off the car basically old ones were long gone



Wheels in dire need of clean, wonder wheels to the rescue




Made it down to Falkirk in one piece



More pictures of the meet in our Meets section.
SoS Rolling Road day 27 March 2011

From : March 2011

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Looking good russ. are they solid rubber axle mounts or metal ones just painted black?

Whats next on your list before august meet?

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cheers folks

that ones pictured there are Birks solid ones painted black. They are nice and tight but couldnt really make a fair assessment with them when my rear beam was soo f*cked

bought Lemforder OE rubber ones to replace the solid ones, roads are too bad up here

yep I should be at next meet long as im not on holiday which I think I am at end of August, have to keep female happy

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Took the rear beam off at the start of June, took it to a local engineering firm who refurbished my beam. Replaced bearings, shafts etc.

Also took this as an opportunity to get 21mm Torsion Bars, Ash’s Hybrid Rear Anti Roll Bars and install a set of standard Lemforder rear mounts.


Solid mounts I had are a wee bit too harsh for my back roads.





Beam on with help from a friend or two

Still putting on rear hubs, bearings packed with appropriate grease.





And to my joy they hadn’t set the height correctly
(new torsion bars and thicker arb aside, they were only 80mm higher than I gave them the beam originally )
I had asked them to raise it 10mm




Next step was to sort the height.

For the eagle eyed..... yes the Engineer firm have switched the arms about and now the ABS sensors are facing the wrong way and now no longer fit in the holders ; in their defence they did ask for the beam to be without sensors..... but still

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it was going to be a manky green colour so blue it was, dont see rear beam anyway?
sprayed on with 2 pac commercial paint, surprising easy to chip - not really an issue as paint was just to help it reduce corrosion. Do plan on touching missed/damaged bits up

beam was already built up before i got it painted? it came red etch primed, not ideal i know

parts such as the shaft the rear wheel bearings slide onto had copper grease all over them, the paint wiped off
but i did have to run a tap through the threads

some of the red paint that looks like rust is actually red etch primer

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The size of that slide hammer!

yeh home made slide hammer, effortless ftw

edit : had to update a heap of previous pictures as links no longer worked (my fault)

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