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The car started for the first time on Friday, first time in 14 years. I did not paint the shell, someone was dumping it on the internet and I purchased it for parts. The shell turned out to be way too well restored and painted for me to scrap it. It was an almost bare shell with wiring and 4 wheels (doors, boot and bonnet of course)

These photo's are a couple of months old so I will post something more up to date next week. I will also adjust my camera to a higher resolution as well!



Plated everything I could, New Brakes all through, new Shocks, Nolethane in the front, probably should nolethane the rear suspension too





Garage is way too small for the project



New Tail light lenses, in fact most things are new. Do you like the spoiler, it came with the car?



The car now needs the headlights indicators and an interior fitted, it is very close to completion. Oh yeah.... my most hated job.... a water pump.

Jolyon

Nice work, congrat's. [:)]

I recently did my first water pump replacement on a 7 (believably, non of my past 7's went bad on me!) and if I may speak for myself, it really wasnt too much of a chore.

Johnny

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It's not that the garage is too small....like mine you have too much junk in it.[:D]

You said you plated everything you could, do you do your own plating? If so what kind, chrome, zinc, other?


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The plating is done by a local electro plater.

It is Zinc but I then have him finish the parts in Gold passivated. No extra cost for the gold colour but it seems to contrast nicely with the emerald/blue colour of the car.

Just plating every bracket and replacing every grommet has added a lot of time and $ to the project but it really finishes it off. When I take it for its WOF (6 monthly safety test to be allowed on the road) the mechanics there will see that nothing is hidden or rusted.
I have plated lots of stuff like the hand brake adjusters, exhaust hangers, gearbox mount parts, cup washers on the sway bar bushes, little bracket behind brake proportioning valve, headlight lifter springs, fuel lines around carbs and brackets for the horns.

It will be an easy V8 conversion later if I decide to do that, everything is clean and easy to dissasemble.


Water pumps are a concern of mine becaue of a practice run I did on a spare engine.I suspect that the DPO had locktigthed everything in because it was a huge mission that took a week. Hopefully the covers are meant to come free much easier than my practice one did. I had to hammer it with huge pieces of wood and saw around the cover to break it free.... all the time wondering how I would do this if it was in the car.

Second time with the water pump will be easier!

I am looking at buying Superseal electrical connectors to replace all the headlight plugs. Once the car is road worthy I will cut into the front loom and add a relay box off on the inner fitch. Subaru have a really nice one designed for that location and I can run the headlights, horns and future electric fan off it.


Jolyon

Found out how to put up full sized photographs and have corrected the first post on this thread

Jolyon

nice job Jolyon ....ps your garage looks bigger now [:D]

Ron.

Nice photos Jolyon. I wish I could come & help but you probably prefer to have it done properly. [:)] Your front bumper has an unusual shape - in fact it is a one-piece! It has been made flat at the centre. Is this so you can close the garage door?



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