Rightio, after almost a year of hiding under a rock i'm back into it...thank god! :)
the car has moved home again, three hours away from where i live, but i now i have my own garage in which to work on it.
Within an hour of it being offloaded from the trailer i started working on it lol
stripping it down and so forth
so far i have removed:
-front panels
-doors
-boot
-seats
-plus whatever the hell else i could find to pull out
went over the entire car to find all of the rust spots, found quite a few unfortunately :(
some of which are quite extensive, so lots of work to fix all of them up...yayyyy lol
got the old man in on the car now so having that extra pair of hands is always helpful :)
after taking the car apart, we became quite suspicious of the rear divers side, thinking it had been in a bit of a bung.
i couldn't find anything wrong with the chasis rails (phew) but we went about taking some of the paint off to find nearly the entire section around the fuel cap was full of bog
joys for all
"WHY DON'T YOU JUST GET RID OF THIS F*#KING THING!?!?!" was the response i got from my father when we found this out
pfft, i wouldn't have a bar of that, and after many arguments and debates i got him to side with me, and that we'll try and get it back to as close to prestine condition as we can.
Much things have been fully decided:
Eninge- 4AGE, after my father trying to convince me to put a rotary in it haha
front suspension - Coilovers
Rear suspension - still undecided
colour - red
Interior - black
Wheels - something dishy with good offset
The timeline we have set to have the entire car finished by is the end of 2012 (i know, a long time but i have to save for an overseas trip at the end of the year)
Quite a long update and blab, but f*#k it feels good to be able to say that I'm back working on the rolla :D