Lovely stuff, keep it coming!

Hi Moosey, good to talk to you at Stanford Hall glad you like the thread hope it gives you some inspiration with your coupe, have you took it of the road yet.

Not done alot with the coupe this week,last weekend my son Leigh was in the drive/garage playing with his moon 20vt6 so i was his apprentice/goffer!! i don't mind, i like it when he comes round and we start tinkering and talking coupes,having a fag and a cupa tea over the engine bay.

But on Friday it was my birthday (57) "getting called the old man alot from the boys now" i suppose it's all the grunting and groaning i do when i'm getting up off my knees to go and get a pice of kit out the tool box and all the efing and blinding i do when can't see what i want with my glasses on the end of my nose "but i still think i'm 20", but anyway my wife and two boys had chipped in together and bought me a lovely present for me and my coupe.


just what i wanted

Only just seen this thread John, looks fantastic. Hope it's better close up than Zimparas lol. I'm sure it is.

You bet it is Joe lol, i can assure you.
Pop over any time when you have bit of spare time if you want for cup of tea and a natter, if your passing this way at all and check my project out

I'll call in too and smoke all your fags

Ok, but i don't smoke tayler made, you will have to roll your own

I do and have done for years Although, I've never been able to make them without a machine, so will either bring loads of my own or you'll have to make them for me

If you've still got my number text me john, I'll nip over one day after work.

Just another little update from 'Coupe de ville', Leigh my son took his moonie in for a full re spray last week should get it back next week,
i've got my new disc's on only the front at the moment i've decided i'm going to refurb the wheels the same colour as they are black/silver.

All last week been fitting my fiber glass Zender front bumper on, wich i bought second hand and what a bloody night mare it was to fit, but i got there in the end with alot of head scratching and plenty rolling backie "Thersea where were you"

i did'nt cut these holes they were
already cut when i got the bumper.


getting there





My next job is to fit this fmic inside,been having a go at it today i'll should have some pics tomorrow.

I was here, as usual

Glad you got it sorted and the Zender front is the best

As promised a few photos of the turborevs FMIC i've fitted today and i must say this is not a bolt on kit as Turborevs say on the group buys it's universal,any things bloody universal if you want to modify/hack your car to bits to make things fit,to make a good job of fitting there's alot of work involved in these kits for a DIY and there (turborevs) saving grace is it's cheep. ( RANT OVER )

Any way after looking at how other forum members have fitted these FMIC and studying the photos, i thought i did'nt want to alter or week'en the structure of the slam panel, so i decided to make the bumper fit around every thing yea right!!!! But as always i got there in the end, just got to pipe it all up, fit lights,grill and mesh make sure every things ok and fits then take them all off again to get bumper sprayed.

Made a bracket to hold FMIC

'Yes i know' got the bottom
hole location wrong


Fitting bracket and FMIC to car





Modifying bumper to fit

Took the opportunity to have a good nose around johns project car today, and what he's achieved is truly remarkable. The engine bay has a better than factory finish, done tastefully and to the highest standard. Keep it up john and thanks for the tea.

Cheers Joe for all your encouraging comments much appreciated mate

Started doing some more to the coupe last week not having touching it for a few weeks, with holidays, helping the wife with some decorating and repairing part of the house slate roof which had a bloody leak in the lead gully .

Finally finished of the pipe work to the FMIC.


oops two rusty screws i've forgot
to sort out on the maf

Got to sort out bonnet and grill.


Now i've turned the coupe round in the drive so i can start and refurb the back end





not to much welding to do
jacking points shot it,
but at least the sills are solid.

Awesome work! Total dedication to the Coupe! You earn every respect from all coupers!

Well two months has gone bye while waiting for a rear subframe but it did'nt materialize, ( mine was rotten ) i phoned Joe78 just before Xmas to see if he had one, he had one on a car he was breaking so over the holliday i went over Joe's for a couple hours one afternoon and we took the subframe off, thanks Joe for your help mate my thumb knuckle is ok it's got a big scab on it now.

The subframe is ready to be shot blasted and p/coated now after i took the mount bushes out, and these will be replaced with new ones, every thing els is refurbished ready and waiting to be put back on the subframe.

Refurbished and new parts

subframe
new subframe mount bushes
swing arms and new bearings
new 22mm white line ARB
new rear hubs
new disc's/pads and backing plates
new 35mm lowering springs FCSS
new break pipes
rear drop legs FCSS
all nuts/bolts cleaned/replated
body rust sandblasted/ treated/welded/underseal









mount bushes shot it!!!


MOD'S
I think this thread is in the wrong place now, any chance of putting it in the coupes projects part of the forum please with a discussion thread

Great work, I'm well impressed!

Also inspirational as I've got a new rear end, with the exception of the subframe, waiting to go on. Wasn't going to replace that but now might......!

I'm jealous!

One of the most enjoyable restoration threads I've seen on here. Very clear pictures and great dedication. Can see why people want to refurb the coop's standard equipment rather than just slap mods on now.

I totally agree with you.
I've never seen so much rust on the Coupe

Having seen this car in the flesh I can say what john has accomplished so far is to a superb and genuinely better than factory finish. It's done tastefully and very thoroughly, well done.

If I can help with anything else let me know.

Duffy,
if your subframe mount bushes are or look as if they are degrading then yes do it, but if every thing looks ok you could save yourself alot of money. bushes from FCSS £166+delivery if you do your self then the cost of refurbishing paint or p/c subframe.

I had to do mine because as you can see in the photos the frame and bushes were past there sell by date, come to think about it i think the whole car was but i'm that far into it now i can't stop spending

Some thing came in the post today that i'd forgot i'd sent of to have done before xmas,this my not be every body taste but it hopefully goes with the theme of my engine bay, (a bit of bling,chav,boy racer!!!!! )

My bushes are fine, they are intact and look perfectly serviceable, however I would like to strip and powder coat the rear subframe, maybe that's a job for another year however!

As to being in too deep, I know exactly what you mean!!!!

That looks awesome! How much did it cost if you don't mind me asking? I took my omp brace to a local chroming place and they wanted £130 to do it!!!

It cost me £55 but he said he would have a problem doing the ends inside where the bolts goes to the strut mount, (i don't know why but hey i don't do his job ) it's not very good there so i'm going to paint the inside's black.

The plating is put on electrostatically, unless you can put an anode inside something, it's very difficult to plate

Just another little update on what's been going on at 'Coupe de ville' in Leicester, "NOT A LOT" it's to bloody cold my heaters packed up in the garage and the log burner in the tv room seems to be more of an attractive place to be!! but still managed to got a little more work done on the coupe.

Decided not to get the rear subframe shot blasted and powder coated as the guy wanted to much for doing the job "must have caught him on a bad day"so derusted the frame myself and painted with black hammerite,now thats saved me £100, and a harder finnish i think?



Got the new subframe bushes from Joe FCSS and pressed them in at my mates garage,
Joe's had a run on these so had to wait three weeks to come from Italy


So this weekend i braved the cold in the garage on saturday and rebuilt the frame with all the goodie's i had bought and refurb'd before.
Just got to make one more brake pipe,
plastic cap ends for frame,
new spring for Rear Compensating Valve
and then it's ready to put back on the car,still got a little work to do on the under neath the back end of the coupe but waiting for better weather. by the time i've done this back end refurb will have cost me near on £800!!!




JG

Epic.

Looking very nice.

Im actually having exactly the same done on my car at the moment, looking forward to getting it back.