Repairing the sills

I started repairing my rusty as an old womens snatch crusty sills this weekend, armed with Hughs 40 year old mig and a very limited welding knowledge I managed to sort them out:

Big Brakes

My 282mm MG ZS 160 discs arrived the other day so I threw those on, should have some awesome stopping power now :)





Spent quite a while modifying the carriers as the discs foul them if you just plonk them straight on. Managed to take a chunk out of my hand with the angle grinder at the same time as well...

Spraying

Started spraying the car the other day, just doing some of the blue bits in red and some of the other little bits that need doing. It is about 3 different colours of red now - its not going to be pretty its not designed to.

Haven't updated this for a while so here goes

Basically this is a post to show all the work that has gone on since the last post. Its in a rough order of what has been done.

Welding the sills:

















The battery tray that I made to relocate the battery to the boot:



Me modeling my frankly fucking amazing battery tray:



Prelude calipers fitted, only got 260mm disks in there at the moment because I haven't got round to buying the 282mm ones yet:



Me getting stuck in and doing some work (think this is a great picture):



This is also a shot that I love, taken about 1am in the morning after working from about 8am:



The pet cat that turned up while we were working on the car and has hung around since: