mk3 astra gsi restoration

[Blitzer]

Looks good!
Great job too save him from the scrapheap!!

[Dell Balallan]

good job mate, it aint that bad for the price you payed for it!

[gsi34000]

Originally Posted by andyj775

yes but to be honest panels arent megabucks plus if your not paying for welding etc. then costs are quite low. and wheres the fun in buying a smooth astra from south europe anyway when you could be restoring a car basically given to you? yes a lot of work is going into it, but will be worth it in the end. you cant beat that feeling of looking at what you started with, then making it into something to be proud of. its what being an enthusiast is all about. thats my opinion anyway

Contrary to what might be though at first, I am agree with u !!! Much respect my friend, you're so right !

[mikelee]

:-)

[mikelee]

well the welding is now all finished!! its solid at last. prob is i didnt take many pictures cos i had lost my camera, basically its had all the patches an holes in boot floor done, new sills, new arches, new inner arches, new corner fittings on the rear valance and a couple more here an there. now all the welding is done its everything else to do and im struggling at the min trying to pop rivet the sills for the brackets for the skirts as i dont know where they go. its now all seam sealed and the bare metal is painted red oxide heres a few piks

the front stripped down and the cross member cleaned de rusted an painted


the arch welded on


plates welded in and seam sealed


corner piece welded on and all plates behind it made and welded


just a little bit of filler work on drivers side to see how much filling work its gonna take lol


out of the unit after welding, quick dust down and rattle can bare arch just for now

[SteveM]

Looking much better

[mikelee]

cheers steve its coming along well now

[big rich astra]

your getting there...nice work here

i love to see people putting these back on the road and not ripping its guts out for a nova

[mikelee]

i know, same as me, exactly why i wanted to do it. could of broke it at any time and to be honest there was many times during the last 7 weeks where i av nearly given up lol but now its solid so im half way there, need to get it sprayed now (dont wanna be chasing the rust round lol) well after ive figured out where to pop rivet the sill and the back bumper not quite fitting back properly so gotta sort that too

[Dell Balallan]

Looks alot better than when you started it already! Good work!

[toj28]

im right in the middle of doing 1 at the moment nice motors

[Jonny Martin]

As previously mentioned I'm glad to see your restoring it rather than using it for the engine etc. Top work!

[mikegray]

Some nice work there mate. Great progress, keep up the good work!!

[philip2]

you do know primer is porous? end up with rusty panels again....and ya washing the ****er!

will pop round satday if about

[mikelee]

somehow i dont see it rusting as its not bare metal under there

[2.2DTIdarryl]

looks mint mate. love to see another gsi brought bk from the dead

[mikelee]

cheers darryl

[andyj775]

nice one mike, looks really nice. went round to yours the other day to see it but you wernt in and she was undercover! was tempted to have a look though ! was it ched doin the welding then? or was it a philip2 special weld haha (pigeon)

[philip2]

special weld? can you weld?

[andyj775]

ive had a dabble in work when we have nothing to do on nites, so id say yes in a way, i can weld.

[mikelee]

it was ched. didnt know phil could weld?? pop round on weekend then jones, hopefully going for spray end of next week

[andyj775]

haha ok mike will do

[Barber]

good work in restoring the gsi

[Dan Boyes]

wish i had the time, money, skill and talent to take on a project like this.

well done mate

[mikegray]

How's this comming along? Any Updates?