First day of our holiday August (9th)

As I have said In the title I have stopped playing with Cars and until sell the Rx7 will not be doing anything with cars..........

So it was time to be with Julia just her me and a tent and wilderness what could go wrong :-

First night.

The Lake District = GRIZDALE CAMPSITE

The best campsite ever > Relaxed and very friendly atmosphere on a working farm.

We were asked if we wanted to pitch our Tent down on the bottom field where there was a good 20 tents gathered or would we like to have a look up in the woods. I opted for the woods and we drove up the gentle hill turned the corner and went up a rather steep hill to a little car park that took about 6 cars (if the cars were 4x4 that is) however if normal cars there was enough space really for about 4 and that was pushing it. How ever we were there early and space was a plenty as there was only 2 cars. We got out and had a look around the different plots, these were all very individually set out for two man tents with a stone circle to have your own fire in. Julia picked a plot with no stone circle but it did look very flat and and a good size.






We got set up on our spot pretty quickly and sat down and chilled out I was really tired but thought that might be to do with driving and been hungry so i got the stove out what cool little gadget this thing is so simple in design and hot instantly just brilliant.









We had our tea and got ou books to have a little read. I was still done in so had a lie down for few mins never went to sleep but the shutting my eyes helped so I rejoined Julia outside on the chairs. Our neighbours down the hill had started a fire and it looked very nice. Then I seen someone else carrying some wood past us that they had bought down at the farm..... I couldnt resist an longer I built out own stone circle making sure it was safe (ish) I did build it little too close to the edge and the stones kept rolling towards the car park ha ha. As I said at beggining what could go wrong (well letting me build a fire surround is a good start for going wrong) once I had the fire surround safe, Went and bought some wood for £5.50 got a 5kg back of kindling and 15kg of large quarter cut logs. I carried these back up the hill and sat down. It is a very steep hill to walk up and requires a wee breather each time you get to the top. Well got the fire going and Julia took a few pics. (I may look grumpy but its only cause I did not want my photo taken I was more than happy chilling out blowing on and playing with the fire (It was more an obsession really I couldn't leave i alone).

When Julia put her book down (only because it was dark) we chilled out a bit more had a beer or two or three for me I think. We pulled out the blanket and laid together in the peace and quite with the fire blazing was a lovely evening and set us up perfect for the rest of the holiday

The page started with a good view should finish with one >>>

So the days off came and work got under way > >
Below is taken from the best scottish car forum that I joined in back in may.

http://www.clanjapan.co.uk/

WRITTEN JUNE 14TH

Wednesday started by stripping everything off engine again First the Intercooler and then all the hoses and then the manifold (which eventually came off the still attached invisible hoses we could not see) Luckily they didn't snap they came off intact. And all off in about an hour!!!
I sat on the grass and chilled in the sun whilst Jamie started sanding down the manifold

I realize this was not much help or productive so got off my arse and took over the sanding and sat on the floor (again) and started scrubbing/sanding.
(Whilst i did this Jamie cracked on with the intercooler)
I first used Sandpaper 60grit for about an hour then I used 80grit also for an hour then I had to have a break cos my old hands were fecked lol.
Then I tried to use a wire brush (on a drill) on the hard to get to bits, but it was pointless.
Started again with the sand paper went over with 80 again to get rid of where the wire brush had just polished on the dirt lol.
Then up to 250grit then 400 then got the thing on the polish wheel (handed over to jamie at this point as I just dont have the skill haha) This took about 5 hours in total of hard work and lots of sanding.
Got everything back together with addition of a few blue hoses and a proper filter and bracket so now i am nearly 100% happy

managed to turn the engine from this

to this





Thursday didn't really go too well i took my front left caliper off and after many hours of messing around and breaking two G clamps (to bits from the pressure) and getting yet more cuts on my fingers,
I decided it was meant to be seized so put it back on and ignoreing from now till i get a new one......




Friday started really well after sanding down the arches and applying rust eater last night all i needed to do today was sand down the ectoplasm green goo (which was a strange yellow now) and then prep for painting.
I got really stuck into the sanding down the sun was really hot and making it a dream to work in, no wind made me have a few sneezing fits as the dust seemed attracted to my nose.
I then masked off just a single strip around each arch and started to paint hmmmmmmm it would appear there was a slight breeze my car become covered (with light spray).
I didn't notice it too much till i had finished and driven over to see Jamie (JSP) and he had a good chuckle at me. Apparently when you spray a car you should cover up the the bits you not painting ie the rest of the car lol.


Any way i came home thinking never mind i have given my self more work to get car cleaned up but at least the arches are looking far better than they did.
These pics dont really show how much rust there was as these were taking about 7 weeks ago. Since then the arches became pretty much just rust and were an eye sore any way moving on.

From this > >

I may have made a few mistakes like painting the alloys painting the inside plastic trim painting the window so i have just been informed by my worst critic and also got on her really clean roof............................oh and the slabs ooops.

But hey ho never mind we can but learn from these things

(I've learnt to just save up and let a garage do it in future)

I also bought more paint to do the cream boot .........

I sanded it down and got my fingers cracked and ready to spray again all was going well, a really nice even coat. I was really giddy that i had done a good job then a great big sheeping bee landed on the top left corner its was stuck fast i tried to ease it off but it struggled and made more mess so i just grabbed the fecker and squashed him put him in the bin, I quickly re sprayed where he'd messed up...... fine looking good still apart from a wee run mark as too much paint ...

Then two flys landed in the lip of the boot one almost dead centre the other on the right hand side arrrrrrggggggghhhhhhhhh i quickly got the fly off the middle making minamal of mess then went to get bigger fly on the right that had crawled around as much as he could have i should have just kicked the boot it would be tidyer..........

I gave up and thought fair enough can sand it wit 1500 grit and all will be ok tomorrow hmmmm why i thought that i don't know it then preceeded to f 'ing rain so heres were i am at, stuck.

And i'm inside sulking am not playing this game any more

Saturday came !!!!!!!!!!!
One day till the show oh no> I have no boot on car is covered in oily finger prints the rain has destroyed the paint work on nearly all panels aarrrrrrggggggghhhhhhhh panic stations Robs gunna blow>>>>>>>>>>

I did get up at 8 the 4th day on trot of early starts so much for holidays.

Sanded down all areas that had become aired up with the rain this took about 2 hours. Julia got up and came to give me a hand we went to get everything we needed for the show and more paint for the car. Whilst out cheated and went to hand wash place to cut down on time of us having to wash the car. Came home and Painted the sills again and the boot. Julia gutted inside and i polished the outside. time had gone it was 21:30 time to tidy up and pack the car.

We went to bed and got up for 6am to set off for the show at Errol.

And here is the pics of the car finished and at the show where it got lots and lots of comments (nice ones) and I was getting asked lots of questions about the car Brilliant day and almost felt it was all worth it (was probably too tired and stressed to enjoy at the time though)

Julia (My good lady) got the roof looking like new>>>>>>>>>>>

Before

After

AND AT THE SHOW SOME POEPLE MADE A BEE LINE TO MY CAR IN THE MIDDLE OF SOME AMAZING JAP CARS

I seen a polished Manifold on ebay and thought yeah that would tidy the engine up and put a bid in for a tenner on the off chance I would win (I did win) and got it for £1 yep thats right ONE POUND :) it arrived two days later!

The weekend came and I took to fitting this myself I stripped the Intercooler off and the hoses attached I drained all the fluids and kept a good mental note of where it all needed to go back on. As I was checking the old Manifold and New I noticed a few difference's which got me thinking so i stopped stripping the engine and studied the Manifold.........

Damn it was from a N/A not a Turbo ............... I put the car back together and that was the day gone 4 hours and nothing had changed apart from my hands were a mixture of blood and oil.


Called Jamie (Japspecperformance.co.uk) with my bad news and he said when i have my days off before the show we could probably do just as good a job our selfs with a shed load of hard work.

I could not get used to the Spoiler at all, so I took it off! Along with the badges.
Here is a few before pictures. Hopefully you will agree the spoiler does not suit the car.

It took allot of work to get this completed,
Hopefully the next few pics will show how much I had to do.



Had to work very hard to get the spoiler off and then there was all this silicon to take off.









The rust and the holes were rather big compared to what pics make it look like.


I sanded down the boot after 2 hours of scraping away at the silicon. and then filled with filler.

Fiberglass is messy stuff but did this to every hole then sanded down again took about another 4 hours to get the boot to this stage.>>



This was the stage i got it to then lightly painted it to stop it rusting.
Went to Jamies (www.japspecperformance.com) to paint it properly two days later.




Jamie said I had done it all wrong. Well a good enough job but wrong!

I hadn't taken enough surrounding paint off and the fiberglass would break and fall into the boot leaving me with holes again.





So we popped the fiberglass out sanded a good few inch around the holes and back to bare metal.
We then hammered down the areas so we could fill them in with a good amount of filler.
Then the whole process again, of sanding, filling, smoothing,
It took all day about 7 hours of hard work.
I then got the paint from Halfords (I spent an hour there trying to colour match).
Painted the boot with a close'ish" match about 2 hours more and the job was done (ish).




The paint used on boot was not perfect white but it was ok.

First Thoughts

Hello folks my name is Rob Glasby aka Glazza


This Blog is all about my Cars and what work i have carried out on!
Currently I am driving an Rx7 turbo II 2.6.

This is the car at the previous owners on March 17th

Car looks tidy there and it was but it did have rust coming in a few places!

First thing I did was go for a good drive on some the best roads around to test any car out.

It was really hot and sunny so the roof came down and we set off to the Lakes took a few snaps i aint very good at taking pictures I could do with some lessons from my Dad.

We went to Crail and my love for modding and restoring cars was awoken.

And so the project started !