My FC t2 project

[sim]

Had this car a while now and its been stood around doing naff all for ages now,
while the first photo does the car a shed load of justice don't let this fool you like it did me its a total dog,
after getting it back home I spent a little time getting the engine running a idling as it should before I whipped it out so I could start tidying up the bodywork and get it looking all nice.
at the time it didn't look to bad but the more I looked at it I was convinced it was hiding something as the sills had been patched up from what I could see, so I had a prod around to find a hole or two this caused me to just leave it in the corner and forget about it for a month or two
maybe four.
Well the last few months ive been back at it and instead of scraping the shell and trying to find a slightly better example im going to dig deep and try my upmost to keep it on the road.
So I towed it down to my unit and got cracking it wasn't long before I had bitten off more than I could chew but in for a penny in for a pound.
im an asphalt plant engineer by profession and work on my own cars but ive never tackled welding in floors and sills before but cant be much to it.
sorry to bore I have loads more pics so if you guys would like to see some more ill gladly bring you up to speed to where I am now.

I tried uploading pics from my I phone but the files are to large so all I can get to work are the thumbnails.

[clive]

Excellent news that this is not going to be a scrapper as they are going to become rare now real soon

Good luck and keep us informed

[Casey]

  yep, well done for deciding to spend time to get your car back on the road. They are getting rarer, so well worth the effort.

Ref posting pics; uploading direct to the forum, as you found, has significant limitations, but I see your pictures are hosted on PhotoBucket, so linking to those photos couldn't be easier. All you need to do is go to the photo on PB, left-click on the "Share Links", "IMG" option, which will automatically copy the link. Then simply paste the link into your post. Your have almost done everything correctly, it's just that the links you have created are to PB pics that are thumbnail sized (not full size)? I assume you have "full size" pics somewhere up on PB, so all you need to do is link to those, rather than the thumbnails. I'd try to fix it for you, but your PB account is private, so I can't see anything other than the thumbnails you've shared. Here's an example (sorry, not an FC!), it takes just three clicks once you are viewing your pic on PB and have started your post on here.

[TiddlesRX7]

Thought I was looking at the underside of mine for a minute then! Well done cracking on with it. I'll keep an eye out here and see if it gives me the motivation to finish mine. 2 years and counting! LOL

Ade

[Casey]

C'mon Ade 

I know how it is though, my FB is taking waaaay longer than I'd hoped 

[sim]

yep, well done for deciding to spend time to get your car back on the road. They are getting rarer, so well worth the effort.

Ref posting pics; uploading direct to the forum, as you found, has significant limitations, but I see your pictures are hosted on PhotoBucket, so linking to those photos couldn't be easier. All you need to do is go to the photo on PB, left-click on the "Share Links", "IMG" option, which will automatically copy the link. Then simply paste the link into your post. Your have almost done everything correctly, it's just that the links you have created are to PB pics that are thumbnail sized (not full size)? I assume you have "full size" pics somewhere up on PB, so all you need to do is link to those, rather than the thumbnails. I'd try to fix it for you, but your PB account is private, so I can't see anything other than the thumbnails you've shared. Here's an example (sorry, not an FC!), it takes just three clicks once you are viewing your pic on PB and have started your post on here.

Hi casey I did upload the full size photos but on the preview all it showed was a small black and white cross sysbol so I assumed the pics wouldn't of uploaded and the only ones that would work were the thumbnails. Thanks for the help

[sim]

well here's a few more photos it was hard to pic a point to actually start from but it does get a little better. oh and its not going to be repaired back to factory as panels as you are prob aware are quite hard to come by not only that but expensive also,
so ill do my best to make it look about right its a car I love and will more than likely keep until it falls apart (again) lol.
oh and it did come with some hks goodies but im not 100% sure what it does I did have a play when the engine was in and it did all seem to work.



anyway back to the floor and sills.

[lee-bo]

Thats cool, itl be a shame to get rid of it. Although it looks bad to start with, it actually wont take too long to repair. Just get a 1metre square panel of sheet steel - (1.0mm, or 1.2mm i think i used) and then go to Asda and buy lots of crisp boxes lol. Then just take it at a section at a time, cut out the rot, make up a cardboard template to fit the material youve cut out, and then make that template out of sheet steel and weld it back up. Youll be suprised how quickly it can be repaired.... Try and keep the sections that you cut out to 'square' or 'rectangle' shaped sections as that way its easy to make/cut out the steel. For the 'curved' sections, if possible just use the piece of material youve cut out as a kind of 'mould' to bend around, then tack it in and just shape it to fit. I have only basic mig welding skills but by doing it like this, ive managed to repair/rebuild some absolute pieces of scrap into near perfect cars...!

Good luck with it mate,

Lee

[lee-bo]

P.S. You didnt buy this from a guy in south london that had another black egr did you?

Lee

[sim]

P.S. You didnt buy this from a guy in south london that had another black egr did you?

Lee

No lee, I bought it from a guy in Wales. It was at some drift shop or something. Pretty sound guys but I think they knew it was a little worse than they let on lol.  But it was £600 and the engine and running gear is all sound.
I've actually completed the one side and its this side you can see in the pics I've posted. I will upload a few more tonight as I've had to take some time off from the Rex.

[sim]

P.S. You didnt buy this from a guy in south london that had another black egr did you?

Lee

hey lee, I was doing a search on hks fcon and come across a sale thread with my car on it from a guy in Essex way back it 2012. so you might be right.

[lee-bo]

Ha ha, well i viewed a black t2 just like that, but i think it had a 'MAZ2053' or similar number plate. It ran, had half the interior fitted, but both sills were rotten and needed a bit of work. It also had 1 of those 'air vent' rhs headlight covers that was unpainted lol. Anyway, after a month or so of deliberating, i called back and offered the asking price n then the owner had decided he wanted to keep it, and put the engine in an mx5 or something...... So a few months back i txt him on the offchance to see if he still had it, n he told me it had been sold!! It needed a good clean up and all the interior/dash/etc putting back together but once it was welded together it woulda been a decent car.

He lived in Romford, Essex. Itd be nice if it was the same car...! I since bought another FC so it didnt matter.

Lee

[lee-bo]

P.S. If you ever want to sell it then give me 1st dibs on her!

Lee

[sim]

P.S. If you ever want to sell it then give me 1st dibs on her!

Lee

no worries there mate but I don't think its going anywhere once its done but You never know what life throws at you.

[sim]

Well now comes the clean up and pull out most of that rusty crap and start repairing some of it, anyway here's some photos




as you can see from this photo its pretty much fell to bits the rail is quite bad so had to cut it out and make a new section.