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

Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 11:06 am
by Scabs
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!

Jake

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

Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 9:16 pm
by Scabs
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.

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

Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 9:20 pm
by Scabs
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

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

Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 9:22 pm
by Casey
Nice, steady progress there :D

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

Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 10:23 pm
by MelloYello
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

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

Posted: Fri May 18, 2018 7:23 am
by Scabs
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!

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

Posted: Fri May 18, 2018 8:42 am
by A7RXY
Jake keep the posts coming, l'm really enjoying them. My Dad had the same shape 929 Waggon.
Dibs

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

Posted: Fri May 18, 2018 10:06 pm
by Tepper
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.

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

Posted: Fri May 18, 2018 11:48 pm
by codge
Hi Scabs, I've been keeping quiet but watching with interest.
Keep up the great work.

Codge (Dave)

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

Posted: Sat May 19, 2018 10:49 am
by gt_james
Love all the work and updates going on here