I introduced myself after a long time lurking during the week, so now it's time for my latest build thread.
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Technically this began back in October ish last year so I have a few bits to fill in first.
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The car as I bought it looked quite clean and respectable
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I drove it from purchase on 7th December 2013 until the engine gave out
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(later diagnosed as major head gasket failure) in early Febuary 2014.
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It was parked down he side of the house and left for the year as I had other commitments, like getting married and honeymoon.
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Once I got back in August I had planned to start straight away, but beer got in the way, and it was nearer September before I pulled my finger out.
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I had to start by giving myself somewhere to work.
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The house was equipped with a rather crap pile of gravel for a drive, not nice for working on cars, so cue 120 slabs and 2 tons of sand/ballast along with 2 weekends slaving I had my work area.
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So I dragged the car out, gave it a wash and got it up on stands
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The following weekend it was time to get the engine out.
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I started on the Saturday after work at 12.
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The engine sat on the floor less than 3 hours later, love these mr2's, so easy to work on
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Now it was time to have a look around the car and evaluate the rust, apparently it had has arches at some point, but during it's sit down the side of the house a few patches had started to show
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With the skirts off things didn't look much better
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The front wings practically fell off, but I don't have any pictures of them.
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Nothing at the bottom where they join the sill, the side skirt was holding them on.
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There was also nothing under the front splitter where they overlap the wings, and the separate valences were sieves.
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