Hi guys,

 

My new shell came today, from sussex stu.

 

so got on a mission, took the doors, bonnet, wings, tailgate off.

swapped them with my ones.

 

stripped the engine bay, got to jet wash it tomorrow.

 

Removed rear diff, subframe, got to remove front cross member in the morning thrn stonechip arches and underneath the whole car.

 

one of the sills were dented, from a jack and I've sorted that.

 

Heres a couple of pics, I'll put some more up tomorrow.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hopefully couple weeks it will look like this again..

Oh and that blue heat sheild is cause that was the only high heat paint I had left.

Its cleaner then it was but aint gonna see it anyhow lol.

Hi Terry, I am doing a N/A to TT conversion and am trying to see how you got this pipe through the gap and out to the intercooler without damaging the fresh paint on it?

Hi mate there fiddly, I pointed the top down towards the cross member.

its kind of hard to explain but it does go in without scratching it up.

 

Where in essex are u if u get stuck, I have to pick my work van up from dagenham.

I could probably come round and help u.

Hi Terry, I'm in Leigh on sea..... just off the A127..... Thanks for the offer that would be great....

I could do with an experienced eye.... been avoiding doing the work on the engine.....I'm getting nervous that I may have missed something and need to pull timing belt covers and plenum to do deletes and check belt and tensioners again..........lol

Still have so much to do, no money left and running out of time.....lol

Dont worry im going nuts I spoke to u the other week didnt I lol...

it will be over the next week or 2,

Pm me your phone number I'll call u, and were arrange something.

Hi guys...

 

Spent today putting all the calipers back on, bleeding all the brakes, got the carpet dash and most of interior back in....

 

But....while bleeding the brakes I pushed the pedal a bit to hard with 1 leg on the pedal and 1 outside the car and kicked the car straight off the axle stands lol...

 

There was a wheel under the front directly below my brand new 99 spec bumper, the bumper wrapped right round the wheel, it was so bent was expecting it to have had it, but when I jacked car off the wheel the bumper went straight back to normal....glad its not fibre glass.

 

But the jack that was on the diff slid along snapped couple of fins off the diff then bent my fuel tank in half after I took it all to metal and resprayed it..

 

But i was expecting the jack or a axle stand to have gone through the floor, or the wheel to have split my bumper, so to be honest im glad its only the tank,

Got another tank at me mums so it just means cleaning up and refitting another.

 

Didn't bother with no pics today I was to pissed off, but now im not that bothered I'll take some tomorrow, it actually looks like a car its all together but about 10 different colours lol....

And try getting a jack under a zed with no wheels sitting on the deck, thats what I call low :lol:

terry cant believe its the same car, looks amazing mate, mine got the all clear yesterday, one advisory....noisy exhaust lol

Oh shit. Tez =(

But yeah. It is looking rather tasty ;)

Heres some more pics....

 

fitted all the panels and bumper etc to make sure they fit right, trying to get all the gaps small and even has possible,

 

I think its starting to look pretty good....just need it all in white lol....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All the bits next to the car looks like its been parked in Liverpool for a night Terry:lol:

I got some new seats....just need to cover door pads and all the dash trim in blue....get rid of that tweed.

Holy shit.

Somebody has been busy.

All the bits next to the car looks like its been parked in Liverpool for a night Terry:lol:

 

Lol, I dont normally work that bad but I had to throw everything out the zed...

 

ive got so many bits of zeds I can't help being messy...

Holy shit.

Somebody has been busy.

 

U know mate aint stopped lol...

 

hows u hope u ok....pop round any evening mate...

 

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Holy shit.

Somebody has been busy.

 

U know mate aint stopped lol...

 

hows u hope u ok....pop round any evening mate...

Coming together nicely bud. Well played sir.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hi guys loads of pics above of the zed, got it at my father in laws the filler work on the shell and doors and bonnet all done now.

and its actually all in primer.

There was to many fumes to take pics of the primer on the car I'll get some tomorrow.

Took a pic of him painting the bonnet, thats all I could hold my breath for lol.

 

We used quite a lot of filler in the doors and rear quarters, there not actually big dents we sort of skimmed it to get waves out.

We are gonna block the primer tomorrow, then put another 2 coats of primer on and block that too.

 

the doors and rear quarters seem quite wavy on zeds his trying to lose it and make it flat.