Matts rallye project. operation derust

[Matt]

Cheers guys!

And Niall! I owe you many a pint for doing that! Even if you guys did pull it out with the turbonad!

Sam and Nathan, thanks guys. Appreciate the comments. It's spent so long as a rusty turd on various driveways I'm so happy it's finally on the road.

Haha yes grant! That was about two and a half years ago now! That caravan was the darkest place I've ever lived! So grimy and a pond for a field I had to walk through everyday!
But such good memories haha!

We'll have to organise something like that again soon

[Matt]

Little update

Picked up my old red inlet manifold up of Dum dum at the xmas meet
It's thick with paint has in totall about 8 layers of primer and at the least 10 coats of vinyl paint, as it was purple before the red but I just painted over it

I set about getting it back to complete silver and I got it to a paint where it looks really good, but there is a few bits of paint I can't get off as its in a real hard to reach area

So plan is too paint it silver instead now

Few pics

Stripped it down with nitro morse



Half way round



And the top finished, as you can see it the bolt holes it's being a dick


Will work on it for a while and see what I can do

[cully]

a decarb brush in an electric drill will help with the hard angles

[Dum-Dum]

Matt you are so close to having that ready to polish rather than paint, keep at the niggly bits and it'll be an awesome step towards a polished bay.

[Matt]

Think I may buy a demel and have a smash at it

[Matt]

Well I bought a dremel and took a wire wheel too it, that got most of it.

So how far do i go with polishing?

[Dum-Dum]

Well I bought a dremel and took a wire wheel too it, that got most of it.

So how far do i go with polishing?

This far!!!

   

[Matt]

Well dremel got it looking like this





Then went out and got some metal polish too clean it all up



Gave it a few cleans with this stuff, and it came out pretty good. Then cracked out the mouse sander with a polishing attachment

And it went gross



Then dos this a few times, got into all the corners I could and then went over and polished again

It's now sat on my side looking like this



I stopped at the cast line as you don't really see under it







I'm pretty impressed by this





I'm dead happy with how it looks, now to get hold of a spare set of rockers too do the same!
Throttle body is getting worked on tomorrow

[Niall]

Getting there Matt. Keep cracking!

[1616six]

Great to see you turn this round and if you don't mind me saying, it seems like you've turned your life round too Matt as I know you went through a rough patch a while back. Pleased for you bro.

[Dum-Dum]

Polishing looks great mate. If you hit it with finer and finer grades of wet and dry paper before metal polish you'll get it even shinyer.

[Matt]

Great to see you turn this round and if you don't mind me saying, it seems like you've turned your life round too Matt as I know you went through a rough patch a while back. Pleased for you bro.

It's great to have Done it, feels amazing being back in it, driving it everyday and thanks man, I didn't think it was noticeable, but yeah I have completly changed. I've cut some shit stuff from my life and now everything is better!

Polishing looks great mate. If you hit it with finer and finer grades of wet and dry paper before metal polish you'll get it even shinyer.

I didn't even know that! I went to 1200 grit wet, then polish. It will do for me. I don't want mega polished, just looking stupidly fresh.

Now can I lacquer over this? So it stays this clean or is that a no no?

[Jonny81191]

Yeah, you can lacquer it, it looks great imo.  
   

[Matt]

Okay awesome! What lacquer do I use? Run of the mill halfords stuff? As I'm not sure how well it will stick to the bare metal?

[Jonny81191]

Yeah, normal Halfords stuff, I used a wire brush on a drill and then brake cleaner to degrease it.

[Matt]

It's been polished with metal polish, brake cleaner to get that off yeah?

[Piggy]

Polishing looks ace...
The thing i would say from experience is... It takes a LOT of effort to keep it that way under the bonnet

[Matt]

That's why it's been lacquered, litterally wipe clean now

Throttle body is clean and lightly polished, didn't go through the same efforts with the body, but still looks good, will get pics up later!


Got a deposit down on some Rallye front seats from miles thanks to a tip off from Rowell, picking them up on Monday, also got some rears in the pipeline which is amazing! Just waiting on a delivery quote

So Rallye should have a full Rallye interior by the new year!!

Now does anyone want a gti rear bench and mustang fronts? Hahaha

[Matt]

Body is done, not so extensive but looks good with the manifold none the less, excited to get these on, but it's waiting till spring, when it's warmer and I can do the whole bay in a day

[Matt-Rallye]

Looking damn good sir was nice to see it at the chrimbo meet

[Piggy]

Sweet
...did the laquer take away any of the brightness?

[Dum-Dum]

Looking pretty damn good buddy.

[Matt]

Cheers guys

The lacquer did make it slightly less silver, but I still love how good it looks. It's a shame it didn't stay as bright. But it is still bright, still polished, and a lot easier to keep clean.

Just waiting to source some gti cam covers, but is taking forever to find.

[Jonny81191]

I might have some, I'll have a dig. Pester me though, else I'll forget

[Frosty]

Here you go, its rocker off here. Be worth dropping him a message

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Peugeot-306-Gt...Sw7FRWUlun

[cully]

Here you go, its rocker off here. Be worth dropping him a message

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Peugeot-306-Gt...Sw7FRWUlun

Ha Ha they were supposed to be on the fecked engine i bought off him!
said he couldn't find them

[7057sam]

Looks awesome mate

One of those things I've started and never finished,I used lods of autosol but only rubbed it in by hand,you should do the cam covers next.

[Frosty]

Here you go, its rocker off here. Be worth dropping him a message

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Peugeot-306-Gt...Sw7FRWUlun

Ha Ha they were supposed to be on the fecked engine i bought off him!
said he couldn't find them

Would seem like he found them lol

[Matt]

I might have some, I'll have a dig. Pester me though, else I'll forget

Yeah awesome, I'll drop you a message in a few days

Here you go, its rocker off here. Be worth dropping him a message

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Peugeot-306-Gt...Sw7FRWUlun

Sweet, I'll message him later on

Looks awesome mate

One of those things I've started and never finished,I used lods of autosol but only rubbed it in by hand,you should do the cam covers next.

Cheers dude, yep cam covers are next on the list.
Once they are done I just have to tidy everything on the bay and get them clean, and once spring rolls round, make a start on the de rusting of chassis legs and under neath

[306Dan]

Great to see this back on the road again