De Lorean EuroTec

Well this wasn't quite the next day but I thought I should upload something that is worth uploading, anyway
I've been relatively busy with the lady:

The engine needed a good going over and as it was in pieces I thought lets make it look like this!


Took a life age but totally worth it!

Oooo and the pistons for those you who like seeing my lady's bits

Before and after


Thennnn I removed the gearbox and wiring etc.


It really was quite a mission removing the linkages, nearly being crushed by the car etc. haha. And as you can see it was blooming filthy! Annoyingly I forgot go get a photo of it al thoroughly cleaned before I did this



Allllll, and amazingly minor, rust spots grinded away and treated. Then a lick of stone chip as an undercoat (use as an undercoat is fine)
I was originally only going to redo the minor rust spots but hell, I thought, lets make this look good!
So then came the top coat!



Yummy! 2nd coat coming soon as it's a bit patchy in person.

That's it for things I've done. But as of yesterday, the March meet which I, very annoyingly, missed because I was ill!
My brother took my engine parts for our kind Tony to cast his trained eye over. And it's good news they're all good, so much more to be getting on with now!

Keep the pictures coming Tom, it looks like you're doing a great job

Awesome work on the car, congratulation

Brilliant mate , well done
Like the idea of stonechip undercoat

Big update coming soon!

I'm looking forward to this!

+1!

Westy wrote:Big update coming soon!

With pictures?????

Chuffingheck wrote:

Westy wrote:Big update coming soon!

With pictures?????

Oohhhhh yes indeedy!

Its been longer than I thought since I've updated my progress!
Next thing to was to get the whole car up in the air so that I could access everything. And with no lovely car lift, that's always a challenge, but luckily it went spiffingly!





With her up in the air the next stage was removing........everything.

Fuel tank was first in line


Ohhh.........





But no sense worrying about this now, that comes later so, onwards!

Tank. Out.


Cleaning time...........elbow deep. Ha! Too easy!


Encountered some rust where the fuel tank lives


But nothing a grinder couldn't sort out!

Later will come sort rust treatment, stone chip, weld a new plate, paint and fill, to make it look nice

Now for the suspension, lets start with the front


The front springs were actually both snapped and were just simply clamped together to make them function. But new springs were already on the agenda, so no worries there





This entire process is obviously X2, the other side.
So with that all done it was time to do the rear suspension








Trailing arm removed

And again everything done the same on the other side

Then I thought it was time to make some bits look good!





Before and after, yummy!!!





With some bits now looking damn good it was time to concentrate on the frame
First came the deep clean ready for a full stone chip and full repaint













Then looking at brothers pristine wheel arches and underbody in general, I decided to do the same