De Lorean EuroTec

Hi all,

A few of you know I've been busy restoring, fettling, polishing, painting and plating my Aston V8 engine, bay and subframe most of this year.

Well I got it all back together and a run out of it today. It's been a long hard slog, a few ups and downs (steering rack included) but well worth it.

Enjoy!

nice, now wheres my kleenex

very nice indeed

That looks stunning Darren

Looks superb

Looks superb

I think that's the cleanest engine I've ever seen!

Very nice Darren, nothing less than I've come to expect.

Cheers Guys,

The Aston V8 is going to be the next big money car, so invest in one now

Jokes aside they have gone up by £10K since last year, (even if you did nothing to it) a sh*t one now will cost you £25K, average is £35-40K.

But god do they rust

I searched high and low for an average car a couple of years ago, got one on a ramp in Jersey and put my hand through the floor, only 30,000 miles on the clock.

This is how mine started off when I first got it...and this is bloody good condition for an average V8.



lots of stripping down to bare metal, pretty much the whole front of car, subframe & chassis and engine bay.





All plated parts were stripped, polished & replated. All castings hand polished (inc block and heads) (check out around spark plugs, and carb inlet manifolds in before and after pics)

Many heat shields and covers were remade as the originals were too rotten, and ALL nuts and bolts were changed to stainless. Most of the unusual sized ones I had to make on my lathe (such as rocker cover long nuts). Then all hand polished.

I even replaced brake pipes with hand polished ones and new clips.

The A/C compressor was rebuilt, new seals and body hand polished, all pulley wheels were skimmed on my lathe to get rid of corrosssion pitting and polished.

The air pump (by dissy) was treated to the same.

All removalble parts (brackets, rocker covers, air box etc) were soda blasted and powder coated.

No wonder it took me a whole year.

I'm chuffed you like it.

Trouble is..... now I gotta do the rest of the car.

I've started under the wheel arches and I'm as far back as just under the front, seats restoring the chassis to as good a condition as the engine.

Aston use hand made aluminium arch liners. These rot out as they are usually covered in mud, sh*t & water. Aluminium with steel bolts usually rot big holes.

After paint stripping and soda blasting, they really were rotten, so I had to remake them (as no longer available) Each guard has a stamping with the cars chassis number, so I searched again for the correct size and font to stamp the ones I made.

Old & new.






After powder coating and with new hand made 2BA stainless bolts, they're back in place.





Hopefully these will last a little longer.




I hope this inspires you, especially when you think there is no light at the end of the tunnel....anything is possible.