This weekend saw more work on the 110, (oddly enough, it’s my obsession at the moment and I think it has to be exactly that in order for it to get a wriggle on). First up, after taking the advice from Craig (Vegie) in his comments and using Turpentine to remove the sound deadening residue and thus completing the passenger side, it was onto the driver’s side. Which was completed in two simple steps.
Before
Got a little more done today, quite happy with how easy this stuff is to chip off. I assume there’s a solvent that can be used for tidying up the residual crap? If anyone has an idea, let me know. Keen to get the solid floor sparkling.
Forwards
Backwards
I love that the previous owner left the floor alone, it’s so satisfying knocking out 1.5kg and finding clean floor underneath.
Also, since I’ve had the 260C it’s had cartaracts. A foggy LHS high-beam lamp, initially it still worked despite this but I noticed a few days ago that it stopped working so I dug into my spares and got that sorted too seeing as the weather was so good.
A couple of weeks back I got cajoled into entering my 4WD TX3 as part of the AMAZD (non-rotary Mazda) club stand at the Auckland 4 & Rotary Nationals which takes place at the end of this month. I was a bit reluctant at first but then decided “ah what the hell, it’ll provide the extra little burst of motivation I’ve been sorely needing to get a few things out of the way.”
and hey, I’ll freely admit that since my little roadtrip to Wellington in December things have stagnated a bit, viz. Real Life ™ and other crap getting in the way. so after an interesting couple of days away racing around Taupo in the other TX3, I got back to Auckland and immediately got stuck into things:
first, a quick trip to a signwriter recommended by my friend JP to affix the Original Equipment decals (replicas, but commissioned by a friend in Australia and 99.9% accurate) – thanks Michael @ Icon Signs for the quick and easy installation of said items:
just so no one confuses it for one of them front-tug models.
More done today. I started with this front end;
Looks worse than it is.
You can see residual over-spray from many effort as well as the surface rust from the chassis section that sits behind the front apron. Thankfully it’s only that and the structure of the car is in very good shape as far as those sections are concerned. I gave it a quick once over with a wire brush and it came up like so… (more…)
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Another Trial Fitment. It Looks Staunch.
I got a little bit more paint stripping done, this time on the front apron, which as to be expected was riddled with bog also. However, I neglected to take any photos of it. Instead after I finished with that I decided it was time to mark out where the flares sit and then how much steel (roughly) is to be cut out. As you can see, there’s going to be plenty of arch to fill both width and diameter wise. 16′s I think would be ideal in the long run but I’ll only go as small as 15. I’m thinking though that 8.5″ and 9.5″ might not quite cover it. I’ll have to play around a bit with my 7.5′s to get an idea of what might be workable.
Anyway! here’s a basic jist of how much steel has to be cut out… (more…)
