Pocket money project: My Mk2 'Le Silver'

I be freakin' mad!

wow.......welcome to the land of the water cooled - gutted u gotta sell ur civic tho due it is sweeeeet

hey mate, car looks sweet, really have a soft spot for these wagons!! nice to hear youve been getting some help where needed too!!

good work chaps

Cheers chaps I can't wait to hit the road and the shows in it!

I just remembered, it also has a 4 branch.

looks like a good place to start mate and seems like a load of cars in that green house
scrap?

nice inspiration!

This is really quite exciting, good to see the pictures and hear you are really getting into it.
As you say, lets hit some shows...

This is gonna be sweet, wish I had the space, me and my mate would have a ratty Mk1 up on ramps before you could say "angry wife" Gotta love pocket money tinkering

My 16v was a small bumper later spec (full front windows), definitely liked the look. I must have piccies somewhere.. Spooner bought and broke it so there's probably still bits of it in Nomads' cars (anyone got the scorpion DTS system? want it back )

What's with the greenhouse? Looks like you're growing cars

that greenhouse was the birth place of the ratt

and now the rebirth of "le silver"

it is being slowly taken over by yank tanks!



good work stu, i went and hadda look on sunday, lookin 10 times better


and as for the wheels red dish black center's, preferrrably same red as grill

Hmmm interesting Mr Dread.

I may do one side silver and the other side different and see what I prefer!

Lookin good Stu... i be keepin my eyes on the build thread as me and Dan got quite attatched to le silver! it certainly has bags of character and i remember being very impressed by the way it pulled through the gears, its a bit of a project but think thats exactly what Stu wanted... and im very glad its gone to a good home he,s top fella!

LONG LIVE LE SILVER!

vr6brew wrote:

i remember being very impressed by the way it pulled through the gears,
LONG LIVE LE SILVER!

LOL, I still havent driven it! I know it inside out now, but havent driven it other than the time I took it outside to hose it off.

Can't wait for saturday, I hope it passes, I have a whole heap of cleaning products waiting for it.

Fingers crossed for you buddy!!

nice one stu, i remember that car before dan & steve had it, gonna try & get my mk2 sorted like that white one before summer

Hi Blakey,

Care to fill me in? I have no history Pre dan and Steve. PM if you prefer.

Cheers chaps.

Stu

sorry mate nothing really to report, just know where the last owner lived & what the car looked like (flushed boot, crystal rear lights etc) as passed it every day on way to work.

as to wheels black centers silver lips ?

cheers jay

i know its got my old jetta wheels on it!!

What were they again?

Its now insured!

Civic VT is now on as a temporary car until it sells.

Tonight I fitted the standard rear lights (cheers Calimori for the loaners)
Coolant system bled.

I have Friday off of work to get it MOT ready.

Need to;
Change oil
Weld a new drivers seat adjuster lock thing to the floor. (Cheers DubDread)
Fix the horn
Glue up a small split in a CV boot up
Sort a dodgy earth on one rear light cluster.
weld a small patch on the sill
Finish putting the arch trims on.
Check/adjust the CO
Check timing.

Wash it! It looks like it was found in a hoover bag! Its so dusty up there!

Early start Friday methinks!

Stu

Just a small list dude, can't wait to see this bad boy on the road.

It is worth knowing that a dodgy earth on the rear light on mine ended up as a dodgy earth on the front lights spots as they were on the same circuit. However, no two cars are the same.

That is nothing for you to do, keeping my fingers crossed you get it all done and she passes the test.
Remember I let you drive mine....

Calimori wrote:

Remember I let you drive mine....

Yes, so a proportion of blame from Jen will be allocated to you!

The keys will be in your hands at some point dude, don't worry aboyt that!

Stu

good luck with MOT stu

will be up ratt headquarters tommorrow gettin DIRRRRRRRRRRRRTY

Friday was hard, but I did the jobs on the list. I was very dirty, and after 10 hours hard graft I was proper fooked.

Not many pictures as most was just little tweaks.

Biggest job was welding, 10p hole.. well when wire brushed was much bigger as usual.


Used some metal I'd cut from the beetle, keeping it dub.


Welded, not my best as hot bits kept going in my hair an up my arm, so it kinda distracted me.


Then I saw some scabbyness at the end of the sill inside the rear wheelarch, so after a prod I cut it out.


Welded more beetle to it.

Good times.

Then I sorted the horn, 5 min fix, the rear light by running a new earth, adjusted the rear wheel bearings, superglued a split CV boot, repaird the seat lock mechanism as it looked easier than replacing but its not perfect so I may do it properly soon. Changed the oil.

So today I gave it a quick wash to remove vacuum bag style dirt, and drove it for the 1st time, down the A41 to the MOT'er.

Here she is waiting. Bloody cable come off the bonnet latch so I had to hastily fix that before they came to take it in!


During....


No after pictures I'm afraid as not only would it be a pointless picture but Iwasn't in the mood to take pictures.
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Because I was over the bloody moon it had passed!!! C'MON!

I need to change the rear pads and keep an eye on a front wheel bearing, but the biggest advisory was where the 4 branch wasnt sealing to the exhaust system properly. As this would bug me I nipped down discount, saw my mate Dan and he sorted me out proper quick.

It drives nice, not given it any stick yet as I'm too sensible for my own good with new/old cars.

Now I need to sort some paint, sort the wheels and generally clean it up. ideally I'd like to machine polish it, but I'm not sure yet. I usually do it by hand. I'm just feeling a bit lazy.

More updates as and when I make progress.

Again, thanks to dubdread, Papa Steve, and calimori for loaning me bits.

Off for a drive....

Stu