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 Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 10:40 am |
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Location: Essex
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After some consideration and being swayed by Edward (thanks!) and my dad, I am going to see if I can get the lower-leg fixed properly instead of moving everything over.
The car had an accident as previously mentioned and it is time that more items are pulled back into the right places and replaced before I can do anything more serious to the cosmetics of the car.
While this is planned, I am also looking into rebuilding the casing for the fan and radiators. I know that I replaced it with a nice OEM fan housing, but I want to expose the radiator a bit more and make it look tidier/neater/better/cooler. So am thinking of creating a metal (alu) housing myself to hold the radiators and to expose as much of the radiators as possible.
Furthermore I have on order a clock and some coloured filters, so going to play with my old clock and see what colours fit with my black and red interior as well as fitting a working clock.
With a bit of luck, I might also get my hands on some affordable SP-wheel arches, however they need a repaint into silver for now... Exciting times ahead and cannot wait to get my daily up and running again to sort the front of the Peugeot out for once and for all.
I still haven't given the bugger a wash... so a nice good clean will happen soon too! 
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Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 10:53 am |
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Location: West Country
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You could attempt to drill out the spot welds upfront with a steady hand, I'll do that with my HDi's headlight surrounds. New ones ordered in, on ebay comes cheaper than from dealer in this case, but the crumple leg might be harder to come about.
Then once that's done, I'll just weld it back. Thought of using rivnuts, but I think welding will make it more structural -- it's within the impact zone after all. You could bring it to a welding place, just make sure the car is not falling apart on its way with that leg missing/cabletied or perhaps just put a bolt'n'nut through?
Enjoy!
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Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 10:58 am |
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Yeah, thinking about to drill them out. May go visit a shop on Saturday or so, to get a quote. It doesn't have to be pretty (can always sand a paint it; perhaps as a joke make a bandage over it).
As it is a part of the crash zone, it needs to be structural fine I think. It's there for a reason unfortunately... 
Might just go to a breakers and crudely hack one off, prepare it... and go to the workshop to have it swapped there. Would prefer welded as to riveted, just to main integrity in case of an accident.
It won't fall apart yet, not a problem... but before I start doing more things and bend everything into shape... it just needs to be tip-top. Else I make everything straight and it suddenly snaps due to the stress on the points or something. Or I pull it all very straight and upon replacement it is wonky as hell.
Nice little winter project to be fair, should be a good'un!
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Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2016 12:05 pm |
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Location: Essex
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Hmm... General update.
Car is still running, but some plastic pieces are taken off for a respray. Doing the door strips (body colour) and the interior (black pillars). Keeps me busy enough.
While that is all going on, I recently had a great trip with the wife to Brighton. I learned that I need better seats for country roads, so am looking at reclining buckets. This ought to keep her a bit more in place, as well as a door strap (there is nothing to hold onto). Only shame about the door strap is, is that I will have to cut through the leather door panel. Which is a shame, but my navigator being chucked around is worse! -- This also gave us even more the feeling what kind of roads I like, and that has convinced me that I should not lower the car at all; I will lose my pumper and will wreck the bottom. So instead going to upgrade the suspension with Bilstein OEM height, and try to make it somewhat stiffer. Potentially a refurbished rear axle with 180 bars too, to give it extra stiffness.
However, the trouble and strife has put a stop to my spending for now, so it is little bits I will be doing for the next few weeks. Which should be done too
PS: Would like to make clear that I remain aware for blind corners/cyclists/pedestrians/traffic/t**ts. Also rarely exceeding speed limits... Just a lot of roads are fun while doing legal limits, if you know where to find them
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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2016 12:48 pm |
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Location: Essex
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Colour coded side strips:
- Short ones fitted yesterday
- Long ones tonight
Ordered:
- Front upper strut
- Mudflaps
And today arrived a door strap for the navigator. So soon I will be doing some cutting in the engine bay and will cut some holes in my door card
Excited, how silly that sounds. Even the heavy mud flaps excite me
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Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2016 10:08 am |
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Joined: Sep 28, 2016
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Location: The Netherlands
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Sounds good pAvax! I'm curious to see how the repainted body strips look.
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Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2016 10:10 am |
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Joined: Aug 01, 2016
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Location: Essex
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They look good! Not perfect, but good enough for me. Now I need to find a warm and decent day to wash the car properly to show you some photos
In the meanwhile:
- Mud flaps been drilled in
- Battery has been turned 90 degrees
- Top engine breather pipe has snapped
So for a while now, the Pug won't go anywhere until I have sorted the breather pipe... Going to replace it with something better than a rubbish plastic tube. Some reinforced Poly-Urethane tubing should do the trick long term. But need to find out if the company can deliver this to me.
But the engine bay looks tidy, yet I am sad that I cannot keep my engine cover on anymore... That said: weight reduction right?! I bet the few grams saved will add about 7 BHP.
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Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2016 1:13 pm |
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Location: Essex
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Busy weekend ahead...
- Taking front bumper off to make new guide pins
- Need to cut a bit of battery holder off
- Going to source some protection for the battery or clamps
- Need to cut a part of the battery box
- Drill some holes in the strut
- Fitting a duct from air intake box into the cavity of behind the bumper
Done some more research and head-on winds on higher speeds could cause too high pressure on the air intake for the engine to enjoy. Thus going to keep it in a lower pressure area where it still can take up cold air. Also means I can attach my fog lights again.
So ordered a fog light again, fingers crossed it arriving before Tuesday!
With a bit of luck I will get my new hose to replace the breather pipe this weekend too. Hoping to have it running Tuesday; so I can wash it soon... Keen to see how it will look like after a decent wash and clean.
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