My new RX3 and restoration

[steve garbutt]

So i made a replacement section out of thicker steal as this is also a mounting point.

[steve garbutt]

offered it up a few times to make sure fitment was correct.
The leading edge needed to be a little more curved than the wing outer skin as the outer skin needed pulling in to follow the correct body lines.

[steve garbutt]

After a bit of welding and grinding it was looking a little more like it should.

[steve garbutt]

These turned up from Australia Saturday and to my surprise i found they were polly bushes instead of the stock rubber ones i thought i had ordered, so i couldnt help myself i just had to put them on the car

[steve garbutt]

The old ones werent that bad on the inside, they just were falling apart on the outside.

[steve garbutt]

Dimensions were also spot on, so all in all i was happy

[steve garbutt]

1st to sort was the rear spring and diff bushes.

[steve garbutt]

Seen as the rear was all polly bushed up, i decided best place for it was back on the car

[steve garbutt]

Im not fitting the front suspension as of yet as i need to paint the engine bay 1st, but i offered the bushes up to the roll bar to see the fitment and again they look spot on.

[steve garbutt]

Today i got carried away getting some shape back into the front wing.
after about 2 hrs it was time to put a layer of 2 pack primer to see how close i was.
Not perfect but getting closer, the primer when blocked back will help me see what work iv got let to do.

[Grant Monkhouse]

I thought 2PAC was now for industrial use only now steve? Or something along those lines, all cars must be sprayed with water based paints. Hehehe.

Good Job the paint shop I go to doesn\'t care too much about rules and regs.

You are going to have to slow down on the rebuild steve, the car will be done before mine and I just can\'t have that!

Could you let me know where you got that bush kit from? Might need a couple o es for the front that we can\'t make in the lathe.

Just got a steering rack today. 2.4 turns lock to lock. Frees up space fOr turbo down pipe and easier to catch the car if I go sideways when I don\'t want to. Standard steering box is 4.5 turns lock to lock.

[steve garbutt]

Its an industrial car grant

Im actually going to be speeding up on the RX3 as a relative who is a painter by trade is having 2 weeks off at the end of april and he put aside 2 days so we can both paint the RX3

Busings i got from Australian ebay but i found later i could get them in this country here (ill pm the link)

2.4 ? thats a quick rack, careful on those corrections on the strip Grant.

[Grant Monkhouse]

Well im hoping I won\'t have to do any corrections up the strip if I have the front wheels in the air all the way. (I can only hope!) heavy right foot, a side step with the left and drag slicks. Lol. Wheels up or broken parts is the way is see it!

[steve garbutt]

Well lots dun since the last post but most of it fiddly bit of cleaning and painting parts that are going to be bolted back on.

everything eventually turned up for the brakes so 1st on the agenda was reassembling the rear drum brakes and fitting the hand brake cables.

[steve garbutt]

Biggest step forward has been the engine bay that also gave me the drive to do more on the car.

at the beginning of the day and lots of hard work, it started off looking like this.