1975 RX-4 SEDAN - BUILD THREAD - SCABSY

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Re: 1975 RX-4 SEDAN - BUILD THREAD - SCABSY

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Cheers mate!

Hopefully so, to me it feels like I'm going quite slow as I'm working on it by myself. But I'm putting everything into small chunks so I can manage it all without overwhelming myself.

Putting on average about 6 hours into it each night and on weekends more. So doing the maths I will hopefully be on the road and able to come to some car shows with you guys next summer (fingers are crossed).

The main issue I'm going to come across is finding a good supplier of fastners as everything is in metric fine!

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Painted the footwork tonight and a couple other odds and sods.

Tomorrow's going to be the big night of welding all the pin holes etc on the chassis. Hopefully my friend and I will smash it all out. I've pre marked everything up when I went over the shell with a fine tooth combe.
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You guys probs think I'm bonkers for priming before doing the majority of the welding but I was fighting a loosing battle going back and fourth every night and grinding the same rust off that grew overnight lol
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Post by Casey »

Nice, steady progress there :D
KIMI 1 : 1st Gen, "hybrid" 1983 silver S2 running gear in a 1985 S3 shell, SORN'd, long term resto project
KIMI 2 : 1st Gen, 1983 silver S2 - now sold to Ian Mothersole on here.
KIMI 3 : 1st Gen, 1983 red S3
Plus a 2004 Full Bridgeported RX-8
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Scabs wrote: Thu May 17, 2018 9:20 pm You guys probs think I'm bonkers
Nothing but admiration for the effort going in here
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Cheers guys, making it second nature to try and doccument this build every night/as much as possible as I know all of you have rotor shaped brains like myself 😂.

Will update the tread tonight!
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Jake keep the posts coming, l'm really enjoying them. My Dad had the same shape 929 Waggon.
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Slow down, you're showing some of us up :oops: nice work though, will be interested to see if you find somewhere good for metric fine fastenings.
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Hi Scabs, I've been keeping quiet but watching with interest.
Keep up the great work.

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Love all the work and updates going on here
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