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Project: MKII Cortina

Started by _jabba_ , Apr 17 2011 08:53 PM

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#1 _jabba_

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Posted 17 April 2011 - 08:53 PM

Out of the blue my mate decided to buy a Cortina off Ebay for the huge sum of $700. He owned one a few years back that he sold and wished he never did, so here we are

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On saturday we drove from Dubbo - Armidale - Dubbo, it took us around 11 hours total.

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I have moved my Statesman over to his shed while we do the panel/paint work at my place. He only lives around the corner about 100m away

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So far his plans are:

Cut out rust and weld in patches
Paint it a purple colour, unless he changes his mind again. Yesterday it was blue

Fix any suspension issues that it has, long with brakes etc.
Some form of bucket seats for the front
Rego and enjoy for a little while.

Phase 2 plans are 500hp Turbo'd SR20

. Hopefully this will happen sooner rather than later!

We are planning on having this painted in the next month or two, we dont want this to drag on forever. We are planning 4 hours per night, 4 weekdays and 1 full day on the weekend until its done. He owes me

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#2 dirtbag

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Posted 17 April 2011 - 09:00 PM

Cool. I restoed one for my mate years ago and he absolutely hated me because I always called it a Hillman Hunter : ) hahaha it was funny at the time.
We stuck in a twin webbered 2 litre pinto motor. Was a good little car.

Look forward to seeing it progress.

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#3 rodomo

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Posted 17 April 2011 - 09:00 PM

Mods, please remove this thread for a few of reasons.

1: It will shift some of Jabba's focus off things that really matter (HOLDEN)
2: It's a F@4D!!!!
3: It's a F@4D!!!! with no creditable history!!!!!!

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#4 _jabba_

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Posted 17 April 2011 - 09:03 PM

haha, i shit stur him and call it an ugly box with a box sitting on top

. Hopefully you wont have to wait long for progress, pity i'm not up to your god like standard for rust repairs yet :(.

Today we started stripping it and stripped the suspect areas for rust/dints. Its amazing how simple these cars are, its basically stripped now are we hardly removed anything!

The front and rear screens were the first thing to come out, the windscreen channels are perfect. No signs of even surface rust!
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This is the nastiest dent/repair. Someone had a great time butchering this then bogging it.
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Another previous repair
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Ohh yeah, rust under there

Driver side sill
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Passenger side dodgyness
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The drivers side rear door also has a bit of rust down the bottom.

If i get a chance tomorrow ill start stripping it back to bare metal.

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#5 _jabba_

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Posted 17 April 2011 - 09:12 PM

Mods, please remove this thread for a few of reasons.

1: It will shift some of Jabba's focus off things that really matter (HOLDEN)
2: It's a F@4D!!!!
3: It's a F@4D!!!! with no creditable history!!!!!!

hahaha, like that Monaro thing in the shed? :S. I might send the door caps off to dash originals, see im working on it

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Its a ford that will get a nissan engine and possibly a volvo diff and do skids

. Its fineeeee.... I mean c'mon, its got leaf rear springs! Nothing says handling like leaf springs!!!

Edited by jabba, 17 April 2011 - 09:14 PM.

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#6 _77hatch_

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Posted 17 April 2011 - 09:18 PM

give me a yell when you need a tailshaft , i know a bloke who makes them for a living ;-) !

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#7 _jabba_

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Posted 17 April 2011 - 09:20 PM

haha, done and done

. Thought i might also hit you up to setup the volvo diff center for me when that conversion is done in the celica

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#8 rodomo

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Posted 17 April 2011 - 09:34 PM

It's a [email protected] can't be fixed..............regardless of your efforts!
But good luck trying! :spoton:

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#9 _jabba_

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Posted 17 April 2011 - 09:49 PM

Its ok, its not my money

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#10 _stretchlc_

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Posted 17 April 2011 - 10:30 PM

500 horse SR???????..........Ummmmmmmm!

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#11 _nzstato_

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Posted 18 April 2011 - 05:47 AM

Looks like someone is going to be busy with the welder and grinder.

These things are real popular classics over here, especially with the 'young folk' with engine transplants and the like.

Check out this if you have time, its NZ based (and hence awesome) but might give you a few ideas. The high dollar build is more the exception than the norm, but they're keen enough to give someone an earful for dodgy modifications.

Oldschool Forum

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#12 _jabba_

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Posted 18 April 2011 - 09:15 AM

500 horse SR???????..........Ummmmmmmm!

Supposedly possible *shrug*. He already has forged pistons and rods and a massive turbo, slightly larger than an xr6t garret... Cant remember the specs. It would be a laggy pos whatever it makes

. I think he might have a crank to stroke it too, i dont know. Nissan engines not really my thing

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Looks like someone is going to be busy with the welder and grinder.These things are real popular classics over here, especially with the 'young folk' with engine transplants and the like. Check out this if you have time, its NZ based (and hence awesome) but might give you a few ideas. The high dollar build is more the exception than the norm, but they're keen enough to give someone an earful for dodgy modifications.Oldschool Forum

Ill check it out, thanks

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#13 _jabba_

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Posted 18 April 2011 - 10:22 PM

Found a sr20 cortina on that oldschool forum, thanks for that

. Its a tighter fit than i would have thought but looks easy enough to do

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We did a bit more stripping tonight, Neil removed more chrome and door handles etc etc while i stripped the paint. Were about half way done now

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Found a bit more rust behind the chrome strip, damn.
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The drivers side guard, not as bad as the passenger. I will probably just keep this repair but panel beat it smooth first.
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This is the back of the bonnet, not sure how we will tackle this one yet since i cant get to the rear of the panel. We will probably just bog it again *shrug*.
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Brazil Nuts anyone?
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#14 _Bomber Watson_

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Posted 19 April 2011 - 07:10 PM

That is so cool.

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#15 _jabba_

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Posted 19 April 2011 - 10:14 PM

Nothing really pic worthy, car is finally de-chromed. Damn stubborn chrome

. The car is now 3/4 bare metaled, it has just the drivers guard and doors to go. Neil and I are both doing other stuff this long weekend so no more updates until next Wednesday. I have to get the Celica ready for Toynats

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#16 warrenm

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Posted 20 April 2011 - 08:46 AM

jabba. Are you racing on Sunday? I'm taking the Torana over for a skid.

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#17 _jabba_

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Posted 20 April 2011 - 09:57 AM

Yep i'm going in the drags and the motokhana, as long as my diff can be fixed... Ill be pissed if i cant do it, i've already payed

. What does your torry look like, ill probably see you out there

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#18 _Quagmire_

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Posted 20 April 2011 - 04:06 PM

if graig lowndes ownes one
they can't be all bad

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#19 Potta

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Posted 20 April 2011 - 04:17 PM

Craig is spelt with a C mate.....

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#20 _nzstato_

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Posted 21 April 2011 - 05:15 AM

Just looking back at some high school stuff and I remember a local shearer had one of these with a 289ci and army green paint. We thought it was a coolest thing ever. I like the idea of an old school turbo 4, anything ya can just thrash (legally of course) and have fun with.

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#21 warrenm

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Posted 21 April 2011 - 07:41 AM

The car looks like this.

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#22 _jabba_

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Posted 30 April 2011 - 10:30 PM

The shell is fairly well gutted now, all thats left inside is the dash/crash pad. All doors are off ready to be soda blasted around the door jams. We have started cutting some rust out but this is the bit we have been working on tonight.

The more we stripped the 'better' it got, someone loves pot riveting pieces of steel over rust.

Heres the corner of the 1/4 cut out
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The spare wheel well, loverly eh. Turns out bog CAN be used as glue.
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Most of the wheel well unpicked
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Tomorrow we will cut the rest of the well out and start making the replacement panel.

The exciting news is my neighbour two doors down gave me an entire 2k paint system, well some tins were empty but we had enough blue/silver/white/pearls to make a custom mix of paint. I think it will look awesome, i think we put way to much pearl in it tho

. Its a darkish blue in the dark, heaps metallic light blue in some light that flips to a few different purple colours. Very very purple under fluro lights. We mixed around 5L of paint and still have tonnes of other colours left over for later projects too!

Edited by jabba, 30 April 2011 - 10:32 PM.