Project Overtime

Todays update - parts car!

Picked this up for $400 off a Toymods member:



Looks OK, right? Check out the other side!



An electrical fire started at the battery, was put out before any fuel or oil ignited but by then it had melted pretty much everything made of rubber and plastic under the bonnet as well as stuffing the bonnet and front guard and popping the front tyre. I'll put pics up of the underbonnet carnage when I've taken some.

So, the bits I get for my $400 - a complete black interior including the cupholder centre console , black carpets and seat belts in great condition, electric windows, a parcel shelf (mine didn't come with one), a spare wheel well with much less rust, a straight lower rear guard section to replace my bent one, and an SSV rear skirt . The lower front guard sections are rust-free, I don't need the guards (I already have six, lol), but I'm going to cut the lower sections off for a future project (I want to build a die and press so I can make new lower guard sections so we don't have to search for the ever-dwindling number of complete rust-free guards)

Bit's I don't need but can pull off and sell and hopefully get my $400 back - 17" wheels with near-new tyres (well, three good tyres, lol), a late model Gen1 motor (8-bolt crank) allegedly rebuilt 20,000km ago, Genie extractors with full 2" exhaust system, possibly some other random odds and ends.

More updates over the next few days, I don't have long to pull the bits off that I want and then send whats left to the scrappies because the car is parked on the nature strip (it doesn't run obviously, and my yard is too steep to back the trailer up to a level spot) and I don't think the neighbours or the council will take too kindly to it being there for very long.

 

No problem, PM me your address

It probably wont be cheap, but PM me your zip code/post code and I'll get a quote for you and if you're still interested we'll figure something out.

 

Started stripping the parts car today, poor thing has been pulled apart and put back together a few times, there were mismatched and missing bolts everywhere. Surprisingly not too much damage though. I got most of the interior bits I wanted out, only have the carpet left and the electric window mechanisms left to pull but ran out of time. I pulled the window mechanism from one door then realised that I don't have time to do a full swapover with the manual mechanisms from Overtime, and now don't have a way of putting the window up either *facepalm*. So it's currently held up with duct tape, lol...

The rear skirt on the car is interesting, the seller told me it was an SSV item, but it turns out that it's a 3-piece construction that is separate of the main bumper bar rather than one piece and molded into the bumper like every SSV kit I've ever seen, and it also appears to be made of plastic not fibreglass, so I think it's actually a genuine factory option part. Don't get too excited though, it's pretty well munted and has been (badly) repaired several times, so I'm going to have to re-make it, probaby right around the time I finish making that front spoiler, lol.....

More pics coming...

 

Lol yeah it looks pretty ghetto... It was either that or remove the glass and just tape some sheets of plastic over the window aperture, but I do have a small amount of dignity :lachtot

I haven't forgotten about the extractors either eNtrax, I'll get that PM to you shortly.

Anyway, here's that rear skirt. Off the car it looks OK from a distance:



but get up close and it gets ugly. Cracks;



Dings;



Dodgy repairs;





Even dodgier repairs:



(yep, that's four holes drilled and two bits of wire fed through and tied to fix a crack. They just slapped some resin over the wires on the front side of the bar then painted over it. Quality work.)

So yeah it's pretty close to rooted, but I'll patch it up and make a copy (in my infinte spare time of course, lol....)

Forgot to take a pic but probably the biggest surprise of the day was finding a pair of absolutely mint rear speaker grills, I don't think I've ever seen a pair that weren't cracked or busted from someones ham-fisted attempt at removing them, or where some retard has cut and drilled holes in them to mount new speakers on top.

 

That was the idea. I would have to remake it in three pieces like the original though, one piece would be impossible to remove from the mold.

 

Yeah I was waiting for you to chime in, lol

I actually didn't see the grand final but that's what everyone tells me, the Storm just shut them down. Slater is probably close to the best player in the world at the moment. I actually used to be a Bulldogs fan, my old man worked for HFC Finance back in the 80's, who were the Dogs major sponsor at the time, so I had all the merch. My affections were very easily bought, lol... I don't follow the game that closely any more, but if pressed I'll confess to being a Newcastle supporter.

On a car-related note though, I finished pulling the interior out of the parts car today and cut the spare wheel well out of it as well. Managed to not set fire to the car or my lawn in the process either, good times. Took some pics of the crispy-fried engine bay, will chuck them up in the Fuk'd gallery soon.

 

I don't think the factory/TRD kit like on the coupe above had a different front spoiler, every car I've ever seen with that kit just has the stock splitter colour-coded.

I actually don't like the bulked-out side skirts, otherwise I'd take you up on them. Those cutaway rear bars were too cool for school a few years back, not my cup of tea though.

 

Just bought some new shoes for the car :bounce



They're 16" Simmons FR wheels. Simmons are an iconic Australian manufacturer of road and racing wheels, sadly no longer trading. I've been looking for a set of FR's or V5's for a long time but of course they are absolute hens teeth in 5x100 PCD, this set came up on eBay this week and even though the seller is nearly 1000km away I had to have them. They came off a Subaru so the offset is probably wrong, but being proper three-piece wheels that's an easy fix

Unfortunately I'm about to leave for a 4-week holiday so I won't be able to pick them up until I get back, but luckily the seller is a great guy and was fine with that. So excited :bounce

 

Wheels have arrived!







They're 16x7 or 7.5 with 205/50 tyres. I don't know the exact offset, I think somewhere around +45, they have about 150mm backspace on them. Only the front wheels fit, surprisingly with heaps of clearance from the tyre to the suspension. The rears were hard up to the spring cups though and you could almost stick your head up between the guard and the wheel, lol..

I've also started repairing the rear skirt and sanding the first attempt at fibreglassing off my front splitter (yeah yeah Spiderman, I know...)

 

They're three-piece, the answer is change the offset

When I pull them apart to paint the centres, for shits and giggles I'll reverse one of them and take a pic of it with epic dish on the rear, lol...