mk1 storm (update, hydraulics)

[RoccoGuy]

i did a deal with alex off here with my mk2 16v and in return he gave me a mk1 storm, it couldn't be much further away from mint but its is a solid base and i love it.


when i got it yesterday it was an engineless rolling shell...







today i fitted the coilovers, trail fitted my cults and sacrificed a GTI cabby lol



doomed golf


with engine






picking up the last few bits to get it driving tomorrow then its on to sorting out the body work lol


plans so far are to get it mot'ed soon as, and make a side exit and paint it some matt colour, so far i'm thinking yellow. what these photos don't show you is how much filler has been used on this car, mostly the roof!

[RoccoGuy]

picked up the new wheels yesterday and did a little more on the roof, which is just about done now, don't look like i'll get much done today thanks to the good old British weather, global warming my arse lol

[RoccoGuy]

i've started making it a little less ratty, i've finished tidying the roof up and i've painted it matt black for now


i've also bought a welder this week end and started learning how to use it lol, i started off by knocking up a side exit



and then today i had a go at some of the body work, i started with the hole in the wing where the aerial used to go, it had been filled with filler which had cracked all the way around, when i knocked the filler it and cleaned it up it looked like this


i cut all the crap out and welded another peace in and blended it in with the grinder



then gave it a skim of filler, smoothed it off then gave it some rust proofing and a lick of paint


i can't believe how much fun i had doing this, can't wait to get on it again next weekend really get stuck into the body work

[81GTi]

nice work.

[SCIROCCOSILBERFEDER]

Evening!

Ah havent been on here for a few nights!

Yes 'twas a good deal guy, thats looking a little different!

Dodgy "smart reapir" on the wing though

Yellow? Ive only ever seen one yellow mk 1 storm with a black interior!

Filler wise, yes whoever put that peugeot 205 GTi electric glass sunroof in the top of the rocco should be shot, and the person that put a brock through it and the perosn who tried to bolt a capri bonnet on it! weird or what?!

A good shell, solid in all the right places.

Time for all the mk 1's in my life just wasnt possible, he says, getting rid of a rocco for a rocco, hmm go figure

Kind regards

SSF

[RoccoGuy]

they tried to put a capri bonnet on it? lol .the roof has turned out really well considering the story it has to tell, although i can't take the glory for that as you had done all the hard work on it

also do you have any use for the chrome trim from the sill and door bump stops (possibly from around the windows to as i'm not sure i'm going to be putting this back on after the respray, if i decide its not going on you can have it if you like mate?

[SCIROCCOSILBERFEDER]

they tried to put a capri bonnet on it? lol .the roof has turned out really well considering the story it has to tell, although i can't take the glory for that as you had done all the hard work on it

also do you have any use for the chrome trim from the sill and door bump stops (possibly from around the windows to as i'm not sure i'm going to be putting this back on after the respray, if i decide its not going on you can have it if you like mate?

Eves!

Yeah whatever you dont want chuck it back to me and i will do somehting with it

16v is close, exhaust is half completed, wiring and fuel plumbing sorted under the bonnet, sorted accy cable, speedo cable, vaccum barke servo pipe thingy etc etc

Speak soon!

Kind regards

SSF

[RoccoGuy]

this week i have been mostly working on the drivers door, which turned out to be a lot worse than it looked, and it looked pretty bad lol

i've only got photo's of the work i've done at the bottom of it but that was the worst part any way, i'd already sorted the bit along where the window goes...

after knocking all the old filler out i was left with this


cut out the shit and took it back to the metal and slapped some kurust on

after a lot of welding

bit of filler

then primer baby




only took 3 days to get to this stage, this car could take a lot longer to get sorted than i thought lol

[mark1man]

mama mia excellent work!!!

[RoccoGuy]

thanks mate

not been able to do much with the recent weather and early dark nights, only really been able to sort the bonnet and delete the rear wiper and washer from the boot and sort out the few bits of rust ect on it. no photos of this yet as my laptop is being gay lol.

[RoccoGuy]

now xmass is out the way and the weathers starting to get slightly better i've been able to get one with his ago, and over the break i've had from it the plans have changed dramatically lol

i've started by ripping the gti lump out ready for it's new engine, i'll be picking that up on the 20th..




i've had a little play with painting the boot lid, gonna give it a buff up and see how it comes up, if it comes up well then the rest of the car will be done like it..



i've also got one of the wings off so i can sort out some rust on that, i'll also have to sort this out too..



things should be moving very quickly over the next month and i should have a pretty big update next weekend

[mark1gls]

Theres not much metal left on the front of that inner wing

Looking good so far,I 'm enjoying reading this thread.

[RoccoGuy]

thanks mate, i knew the inner wing wasn't going to be pretty but i didn't realize how bad it was till i got the wing off. still it should give me some practice with the welder

[RoccoGuy]

not been much to report on this recently but that should all change from now one. over the last couple of months i've been finding bits and bobs for this including a top fill rad and a refurbed rear axle with all poly bushes amongst other parts, but i collected the main piece of the jigsaw today...

a set of hydraulics


couldn't resist seeing how low it was going to go so i trial fitted a couple of the rams, i'll let the photo's do the talking







well chuffed with them so far, gonna get it all fitted properly next weekend so should have some up and down video's then

[Brunty]

Looks cool, the bodywork is coming along well :)

But, please don't say that you jack the car up by the wishbones