My first ever attempt at a light restoration

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Well peeps, bit of an update.

I managed to finally remove the engine loom from the bay which was quite time consuming for me, due to the fact that I have never removed an engine loom before and had to take plenty of pictures and label every connector.
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I then had to raise the car up further so that I could disconnect what I thought would be the cat from the manifold, but it turns out there is just a bit of pipe welded in its place. As expected, it was a right B****** getting the two bolts out.

I raised the car up the neck red way
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Next I made a beginners mistake of thinking I had drained most of the coolant from the block due to removing all the coolant hoses last weekend, but today I removed the heater matrix hoses from the block, and coolant literally started pissing out of the coolant pipe at the bottom of the engine covering a few of my tools in orange coolant/water/rust.

Check out some of the rust I have to deal with. Im going to have to take more than just the engine out of the bay I think. Excuse my hand of destruction and check out dat rail....................
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This means that the project is going to take much longer for me to complete but it should be as good as new when finished.

The more I check out the bodywork, the more little dings I see lol.

To top the afternoon off, I attempted to remove the master cylinder and ended up taking tin sinps to one of the brake lines, as the nut on the line was completely siezed. It wouldnt even move with bashfull vice grips (which was last resort).

The interior on the other hand needs nothing and is the only real decent part of the car for now!

Again, I apologise for the picture quality.

Spotted a blaze DTurb at my local scrappies with perfect panels, but came back two weeks too late and its ended up like this.
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Hopefully the engine and gearbox will be out on sunday, I only have the power steering pipe to go before I can remove it from the car.

Just wish I had a shed at this time of the year for rust treatment and painting but way she goes.

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when i had mine done no money changed hands at the time.
but time wise the guy took a good 3-4 hours from start to finish most garages charge £40 plus an hour some times more for welding work
the £100 quote you got i would be questioning what they will do for the money??

stuff it with cardboard and paint it or do a proper job in cuting, fabrication,welding and corrosion protection?

Hey Cully, managed to read through your thread. Love the colour of the car and the wheels really suit it in my oppinion. I really like the attention to detail with your car and it looks like your exterior paintwork and body is in better shape than mine .

I want to get my underside repaired exactly like yours, but by the sounds of things, around here is a lot to ask for.