Great job! I follow this thread with great interest!

I would love to start on a project like this once... but my bank account tells me differently

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My car park:
'96 Sigma Blue XSi6
'98 Diablo Red GTi6
'99 Onyx Black S16

All RFS powered!

Plus various other Peugeots

Hell I hate doing doors.
Groundhog day again with the other door today. Did the whole blocking it down to the carbon.
Also did some POR15 rustproofing underneath and drill some more drainage holes as well.



Discovered my carbon door inner panels are a little different to my existing one, but worked out everything should cross over ok, but I'll need to get the drill out and rivet some brackets in to make it work.



Did the whole crack repair malarky again, and the weather helped enormously with curing times etc.
And finally managed to get the buggers in primer by the end of a very long day.



I masked the outline of a door number square into the door, so if it's gone well, I'll have a carbon outline when I peel back the masking tape. Only time will tell with that one, whether it's a) square, visible, and C) kack, or cool..



Not much of an update I know, but God, some sweat has gone in to these today! Don't know what the weather has in store for us tomorrow, but I'm hoping to get them in paint, and possibly even tackle the rear hatch and filler flap, at least to primer if not paint..

Hope you're all having a decent weekend on the cars - even better if driving the buggers!
Cheers
Iain

cant wait to see this all done attention to detail
Is top notch!
Great work Ian!

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good knowledge thanks mate, might clean that top layer off then! Will double check what I've used.
Then again maybe some of the 28deg days we've had will have helped things along a bit..
Cheers
Iain

Yeah I know Damo. I've got them in to Flickr, but I'm lacking a spare 40hrs to do anything about it!

Yeah I think it'll take a while to pick through all the thread and add new photo links back in!

It sounds like we have the same mirrors. These are mine:



Cheers
Iain

From Tony at Maxi Motorsport Damo. I can't honestly remember the price. If you went to the MC Racing site their price in Euro's is roughly where you in end up in GBP give or take.

Quick update; last weekend decided to repaint the car again, as you do.
I'd got away without any issues after polishing it a bit early, but I just couldn't get it quite as good as I wanted to.
Having painted my doors using my primer gun (1.7 nozzle) and a little adjustable regulator at 35psi I got such a better result, I wanted to go again on the actual car.
The weather was due to play ball, so followed hours of flatting, and masking getting ready.



One thing impressed me was how tough the paint was in taking the flatting and sanding prep before paint. I can be confident in the finish if I could get it how I want it.

The painting is the quick and easy bit once all the masking is done!





Well, it came out so much better than first time, and I'm really pleased with it now.
I guess it's just going through a process of trying and learning as you go.

Also found myself a white ph1 hatch locally, which 1) saves me a paint job on that and 2) Mean't I could clean it up and fit it straight away. £12 well spent! Not a perfect colour match but ok for now and will benefit from a good polish too.



And everything back together the next morning.



Just picked up some new top mounts. Went eccentric alloy type in the end as I think the bearing will tolerate the camber and castor on this set up better than a standard type. Need to weld in my turret tops now, but I think I've got mostly family time coming up this weekend, so progress might slow back down for a bit.

I've also come to the realisation that I'm not going to make my deadline for the Sprint I had booked in at Curborough next month, so I've handed my entry back

My axle is ready to collect now, which will take me a big step forward, but I'm still missing some big bits of body work as well as a wheel in each corner (which I've heard is important) so I'll need to move my deadline on a bit, whilst still keeping myself honest..

Cheers
Iain

I've been to Curborough quite a few times lately.
Hope to see you there soon!

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61k miles Ph.1 Diablo '6 Project Thread

looking good iain

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wayne mcardle

Thanks fellas.
Got a sneaky hour on it this afternoon.
Thought I'd bolt the beam up. Heard folk say don't do it by yourself etc, but figured it's only a few bolts, how hard can it be? Fortunately not very!

Jacked it up and realised straight away keep the beam mounts fairly level would help the mount bolts thread their way through the boot floor better, so put some hard board under the rear-most mounts.



I rolled it under to get close and realised I needed to jack the end up even more to level it out so used whatever came to hand. It wasn't taking a lot of weight. Then afterwards I could use the trolley jack to pump the mounts through the holes and tighten the nuts up.



And home:



Didn't really torque it up, as at some point it'll end up sitting back down on the ground, and that's probably the time to roll it back and forth a bit then tighten things up fully.



It all went very smoothly and only took 20mins from start to finish, so chuffed with that. Especially as it seems like a big milestone.

I've got new discs and pads coming, so when I get those I can bolt them up, along with new studs, and finally finish off the rear brake lines, then the back is done mechanically.

With any luck I should be able to slap the other door on by the end of the weekend. Have also remembered to satin black paint the trailing edge of the window frame this time, so will need to go back to the one I've already fitted to do this.

Cheers
Iain

Brakes are done
Top job by a fella near Stockport Gaz Watson (he's on Facebook)

Got pretty much a full day on this today. Decided to tackle the NS door.

As I mentioned before the inner panel on these doors is ph1, so some the door furniture fittings needed holes drilling to fit my ph2/3 (?) door cards.



With that done I could rivet them. This pic is after fitting up the wiring and starting with the seals, handles, and locks.



A scary moment - sorting the hole for the door lock



Plenty of carbon in this door skin!





9 hours later, a fully fitted door, with working lock, refurbed seals etc is complete!



One of the little wins along the way was sorting out the check strap thingy. By overhauling that I've got rid of the hair curling 'crack' crack' when I open and close the door. I'm also please to say it closes with a very re-assuring 'thunk' which sounds a lot more Mercedes than Peugeot.

I think I've cashed in all my garage tokens for the weekend in a one-er today, so I reckon that might be it for the weekend for me!

Have a good one
Iain