What an eventful week i have had.
Got the outer walls finished up on garage and cleaned up,got my metal workbench back in and when that insignia subframe eventually sells im left with loads more room than I thought. Just gotta organise a bit more.
The next thing was a little bit more work on the inner arches,I now have enough room to ide my hand behind wheel on full lock at full compression even though pics don't look like it,gonna weld on this first plate and then a secondary one above to cover the rest,seems to be working out fine,just gotta clean and rust proof all my cut edges before welding plates up for final time. Since this pic it now has tabs all the way around folded to weld with.
The very last thing is the biggie.....after a wee bit of looking every day for a 3.2 engine or a cheap enough car.
Thanks to that banned member zoe who spams car sales,to be honest I seen some cracking cars for sale Thanks to them. A 3.2 gsi came up in Leeds so I looked as I always do and the car was on bid and reached a couple grand but in his description he stated if car reaches intended value he has wheels,engine and whole host of other parts to go with it.
I messaged him to ask about selling the engine separate and he sent pics and agreed to split it for me, its done 90000 miles so I hope all is well.
Got it for £280 delivered or I could have got the whole thing for an extra £100 and a bit more postage but didn't need it also didn't even have the money for block but as we know they are kinda rare so i went for it so yeah it comes Monday.
Fingers crossed its all straight. He said it was a working well maintained engine.
I will update more when it comes
Got the outer walls finished up on garage and cleaned up,got my metal workbench back in and when that insignia subframe eventually sells im left with loads more room than I thought. Just gotta organise a bit more.
The next thing was a little bit more work on the inner arches,I now have enough room to ide my hand behind wheel on full lock at full compression even though pics don't look like it,gonna weld on this first plate and then a secondary one above to cover the rest,seems to be working out fine,just gotta clean and rust proof all my cut edges before welding plates up for final time. Since this pic it now has tabs all the way around folded to weld with.
The very last thing is the biggie.....after a wee bit of looking every day for a 3.2 engine or a cheap enough car.
Thanks to that banned member zoe who spams car sales,to be honest I seen some cracking cars for sale Thanks to them. A 3.2 gsi came up in Leeds so I looked as I always do and the car was on bid and reached a couple grand but in his description he stated if car reaches intended value he has wheels,engine and whole host of other parts to go with it.
I messaged him to ask about selling the engine separate and he sent pics and agreed to split it for me, its done 90000 miles so I hope all is well.
Got it for £280 delivered or I could have got the whole thing for an extra £100 and a bit more postage but didn't need it also didn't even have the money for block but as we know they are kinda rare so i went for it so yeah it comes Monday.
Fingers crossed its all straight. He said it was a working well maintained engine.
I will update more when it comes
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