Project Silver, PIC HEAVY

[ScubaSteve]

cars looking great mate

just wanted to ask about the servo swap, was is it worth doin? is it an expensive mod to do??!!
im gonna fit the 300mm on mine next couple of weeks might do the servo at the same time?!

about 40 quid for parts, pretty easy to do tbh little bit fiddly

 

[ScubaSteve]

Front and rear brake lines replaced

Front brake lines replacement now complete

Rears

Bent on the car

All in

Fronts

Also new battery fitted

And picked up from powdercoaters

Up to date Jobs list

Cambelt (done)
New Clutch (done)
Coilovers (done)
New wheels (done)
Rear axle Spacers (done)
300mm brakes (done)
Early brake servo/mc setup swap (done)
Replace rear shoes (done)
Better seats(done)
Induction Kit (done)
New Battery (done)
Custom front wishbones (in progress)
Replace brake lines, rear and poss front (done)
Rear beam bushes
Fuel tank
New steering wheel
Rear arches resprayed and 100% rust free
New droplinks

 

[Patch]

Saw this yesterday and looking very good k:

 

[Vitch-w]

Cars look good dude keep it up.

 

[haGGard]

Looking good. Where did you get the wheels refurbished? Anywhere local? I could do with getting my ZS wheels done.

 

[ScubaSteve]

TJ Wheels in Birmingham

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[clarkie]

how much does it cost for set of 4 wheels. and do they remove tyres also?

 

[ScubaSteve]

charged me 35quid a wheel, that included spraying the center caps to match

dont know if they take tyres off as i gave them mine without tyres

 

[JamesMalin]

Loving the recaro's...they look alot better in a Silver puma than any other colour in my opinion.

Alloys look mint too! I presume you live close to the TJ Wheels in Brum then?

You have basically done alot of what i have done already except my car is past rust salvage! haha

Also when i took my rera bumper off it looked nothing like your car?!??!

 

[ScubaSteve]

how did it look different lol?

i live about 30 miles from tj wheels

 

[ScubaSteve]

FRP bushes pressed in, balljoints and powerflex poly front bushes on order

also ordered these

 

[ScubaSteve]

This arrived today

so did this

Bushes

Fitted

 

[STEAVIE]

lots of new goodies! :-D

 

[ScubaSteve]

Slightly annoyed, only managed to fit one side as the bloody passengar side lower arm was slightly bent so wouldnt line up, car it come off must have been accident damaged, or hit a pot hole or something, so got to get yet another lower arm, get it powdercoated and fitted grr, to save any fucking about im just going to get a new one from ford then i know it will be ok, otherside went on fine and dandy, replaced my droplinks aswell

Here they are all made up pre fitting

 

[Bridlad]

I hope mine looks as nice when ive finished, those wheels look awesome.

 

[ScubaSteve]

My rust quest continues this weekend,

Started poking around the sills to find rust, most of it was solid with surface rust, chipped away at the stone chip protection to find fresh metal around the rust

however a couple of places had rusted through forming little holes.

The most concerning being near a seat mount plate point, luckily the plate itself was solid, but the rust and hole definatlely needed attention

Had to remove the seat to get to the other side of it

[img]http://www.corsasport.co.uk/carimages/9307/P1050615.JPG

So guaged all the loose rust out and surrounding edges until i found clean metal, then i applied rust kill paint to all point that were rusty

Then applied epoxy metal putty to the holes, probably not the best method but should at least hold it off from getting worse

Sanded the putty nice and smooth so it blends in and painted over the repairs

Once all that had dried, then went over with underseal paint

Area which has been repaired

 

[ScubaSteve]

done other side today, not quite as bad as drivers side just one small hole

as car was off the ground decided to freshen up my drums

 

[ScubaSteve]

finished off today by applying stonechip/sealant paint up to and including the chassis rails

 

[ScubaSteve]

Lower arm saga over! fitted the newly built up one this evening, old one that came off this side was shagged.

Ball joint gaiter split and leaking, and ball joint loose a fcuk

glad i got this sorted in time for combe this weekend

 

[ScubaSteve]

todays quick job was to spray insde the sills and chassis legs with rust killer/protection stuff.

this bilt hamber dynax s-50 comes highly recommended and comes with a length of penetratation hose and 360 degree spraying nozzle.

Pull back the rubber door seal

Remove the loom clips and in the hole revealed the tube goes

And spray

Oops forgot to put a towel under the sill drain holes

Drips out in a number of places down the sill

didnt get any pics of doing the chassis legs but done them aswell