21 Turbo my red 21

[joff]

1. Thought it was high time I put something on here...
   
   All of the old members will know this one. Craig and I found it in a hedge with no gearbox, bonnet, headlights, indicators, engine... The body was strangely unrusty so I did the decent thing. That was back in 2005 (ish). After going to France in it in 2007 it had oil pressure problems and I had life problems, so the car got abandoned.
   
   Well earlier this year I decided it was time. So I swapped the engine and MOTd her Since then she's been mostly a daily driver (at least once a week) and I've (very) slowly made things better.
   
   Here's a link to a few photos https://goo.gl/photos/UhjTBYEs6oMt5C5v9
   
   
   
   
   First time back on the road since 2007
   
   
   Engine swap
   
   
   It's a phase 3 engine management :s
   
   
   
   This is the bullshit left over from the door pins. Both pins had snapped in two places. I effectively had to remove 6 bits of pins. Absolute bastard.
   
   
   
   All sorted though. Just need to touch up the paint a bit
   
   
   Had to make a new wing mirror gasket (truck inner tube) when I fitted the new wing mirror (narrow bridge + idiot thought their car was bigger than it actually was)
   
   
   
   Sloooooowly polishing it!
   
   
   
   
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[ferswin]

brillinant work getting back on the road, wish I had time to save some aswell.

 

[joff]

So I started my 4-yearly clean of the car. Took the sills off knowing they probably needed doing before the next MOT:


To be fair, I dont think they were tooooo bad...


But now they are slightly better (not pretty, but strong)


And finally:



I've been updating the photo album linked in the first post. Take a look if you're bored (many, many photos...)

 

[andybond]

We like many, many photos!

Great work so far !

 

[DaveL485]

Any danger of it actually getting out there on the streets or is it going away for another 3 years now? LOL

 

[joff]

Any danger of it actually getting out there on the streets or is it going away for another 3 years now? LOL

It's like I have a history of doing that...

I would like to sort out it's foibles this time. Like the rev-counter not working (due to it having ph3 ECU) and perhaps replace the alternator

I'll leave you with a nice picture of a clean wheel-arch (well, clean-ish!)