Stiff upper lip and all that, what what....no surrender!!!

 

Chin up Ryan

 

It makes me smile as well, I pinched if from Facebook I think it was Bodski's post.

Chin up and keep up the good work.

 

I hope it wasn't your trigger finger.

 

Thanks guys for your kind words,this is just a stumbling block but will be even better after the wrong is put right!
So at lunchtime today I put the braided brake lines on the rear with handbrake cables as well so I could fit the fuel tank back in after hours tonight,all went well this time lol.
Finished up with painting the fuel filler neck and breather pipe.

 

looking good, so what damage was actually done then?

 

Basically I will be cutting the lower front panel out and replacing it with a space frame tube along with dressing the upper slam panel back into place!

 

Just from the pics i can easily say your motor will probably be one of the best classics in the u.k.

Looks proper sweet ....

 

That's very kind of you to say mate,I hope I can live up to that comment!

 

Should hope so, it's taking you long enough!

 

 

x2

looking forward to seeing this..

 

I look forward to being able to showing people

So I'm trying to use any spare minute to get little bits ready to go back on,clean up and painted the rear diff and installed the rear cover plate.
Fitted fuel filler neck.

 

Good work Ry this is going to be too nice to even drive

Martin

 

LOL Mart,like I said before I'm trying not to think about the cleaning it part

 

First off I would like to thank Ross for taking the time today to come over and help me have a big push on getting parts back on the car,it went pretty much straight forward par a couple of hicups lol
The pictures say the rest

 

That's looking mint mate, wish I had the space to get my car apart and get the underside looking half as good as that

 

Thanks Jon I'm very happy indeed but I still have a few bits to clean up like the steering rack arms and a few bolts to remove and have zinc coated buts it's a great feeling to be getting it back together!

 

This is exactly how I will be doing mine. Beautiful job mate, could you tell me what undersell type stuff you used for all the underside and under the arches? And can you paint over it? Wat kind of paint you use for the subframes, 2 pack or powder coating? Thank. Lee

 

Hi Lee,most of the under pinning parts are powder coated and the under seal is WURTH stone guard which is paintable mate to which I then painted with 2K direct gloss paint in some area's but in others I just left it as stone guard alone.

 

Looks great. I love cars that are as clean underneath as on the top. When I started taking mine apart all I have been finding is sh*t loads of rust haha but one day it'll hopefully look as decent as yours. Anyway, cheers for the info.

 

Thats going to be one nice car like it,how are you replacing your lower slam panel/rad support panel any photo's as mine needs replacing wanted some ideas?cheers ian

 

I'm planning to cut out the standard one which is cough damaged lol and replace it with a space frame tube and make my own rad supports to weld to it mate

 

sounds like mine that bloody cough damage,im not brilliant in the body work department,so is there any specific space tube to get,& would you just spot weld it how the part in there at mo or seem weld?thanks ian

 

You need to get the old one cut out first and weld over the ends to create a flat platform to weld the tube to and then measure it to see what diameter tube you require.
I'd most certainly seam weld it chap as its a structural part of the car plus it's your lower slam panel for impact resistants in an accident.

 

Good to see some positive progress Ryan.

 

Never realised subarus could be so clean underneath ...

 

looks lovely mate

 

Looking good Ryan

 

This is going to be the cleanest scoob on Scoobynet

1st dibs Ry if ever its up for sale

Martin