My FC t2 project

[Casey]

Great work so far, looking forward to the next episode 

[sim]

Cheers guys. I will keep plodding along with it I'm enjoying working on it and learning new stuff. I know it's not original or an oil painting but it will look as good as I can get it.

[sim]

Right well my new compressor turned up and had a weekend on the rex so ill give you guys a little update,
well to do any work in the foot well on the passenger side I needed to tidy up the loom and remove the hks fcon and ecu and after digging threw several alarm systems that have leached into the system and chopped wires all over the place I think I managed to get it all about ready for the weekend oh and while I was there I whipped out the dash.




so now there's a bit more space for me to work I started cutting out all that rust and start getting some solid panels back in,
was in to minds to cut out more than I needed just to make it mirror the drivers side but then decided why make more work for myself and got back to the graft.







so that's the floor all solid I'm pretty happy with it, just need to add the swage lines to add a little shape to the panels and I can forget about the floor for a while, just the sill to go next and I can start getting the small bits sorted like around the window and sunroof. im not the best with words and some may find me hard to follow I can only apologise.

[clive]

Excellent to see this coming back to life a bit and a bit 

[sim]

Well its been a little while since I last updated but I've managed to sort the floor and sill out on the passenger side looking pretty good for now
so still a lot of metal work to do but I'm going to give it a rest for a bit and strip back the engine bay,
Any of you guys done a wire tuck or can shed any light on what bits I can get rid of.
PAS is going
Cruise control is going
ABS is going

[grinder]

Stunning work , just stunning

[Ricco_04]

Good Skills

Any more progress?

[sim]

Hi guys, been a while but i've managed to get a little more done, I now only have the rear of the car to sort out rust wise anyway.
but in the mean time to have a break away from repairing rust I spent a few days at the unit welding up holes and digging out sealant, ill upload a few pics in an hour or so.

[sim]

well as I said, id had finished working on the sills and I couldn't bare starting the boot floor and lower rear quarters,
so I had a small bit of rust in the bay so I started welding up all the holes and grinding them all back for a nice smooth but factory look.
there is around bar section in the bay that had started rotting back into the chassis legs also so while I was going great guns on the bay I sorted this also. anyway ill upload pics,

[sim]

so after finishing the other side and a few more small sections I wont bore you with the front was pretty much rust free, so out with the etch primer then a top coat of filler primer,

I'll say this now, lol im no sprayer but my mate is and he let me have a blast with the primers as apparently you cant really get it wrong at this stage as ill be smoothing the bay anyway and re-priming before top coat.

[clive]

Really impressed with this as I know what it takes to get the bay looking this good as I did this to my FD to change it from black to yellow, well done

[Brett]

Good work!  It always amazes me that Mazda were able to find a material thinner than a Aldi carrier bag to make the floor out of on the T2's!

Can't wait to see it finished.

...anyway, how come Grinder hasn't found this thread yet?!

[sim]

Cheers guys, things are starting to take shape now. And your right about the metal, this is my second and I've never seen rust on anything else quite like it.

[Ricco_04]

Just love seeing how a car has life put back into it

[grinder]

i have and im loving the work