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"Ramblin Rover - The Vivisector of Solihull" (RamblinRover) 01/06/2015 at 13:48 • Filed to: None

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This is from my potato, so wordery will be brief. First, current whole project pic:

Then a pic of the rear, showing rust comedy, and the beam for the Jag rear being altered to fit.

Closeup.

Misc. disassembled Jag stuff.

Aaaannnd, the firewall altered to give room to move the engine.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Ramblin Rover - The Vivisector of Solihull 01/06/2015 at 13:52

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I should note, the Kinja post composition in mobile Chrome (droid) is a total rectum. You have to have the keyboard open or it will dump everything you insert at the top of the post, which then means you have to scroll up to the tools menu, then click right... which drops you back down to where you were writing, and you then have to scroll up again, click right again,(drop), scroll up again, click the image insert button, (drop), scroll up to the top of the post where the dialog box is, then use it. Not. Good.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Ramblin Rover - The Vivisector of Solihull 01/06/2015 at 13:54

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Hard to see, but the Rover V8 is lurking over here.

TheVancen- In Pursuit of a Greater Payday and Car Parts > Ramblin Rover - The Vivisector of Solihull 01/06/2015 at 14:01

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Looks like you have almost as much rust to deal with as i do on the Capri.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > TheVancen- In Pursuit of a Greater Payday and Car Parts 01/06/2015 at 14:06

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At this point I'm thaaaat close to being able to just haul the whole binnacle off to the sandblaster and let them stress the tetchy parts.

TheVancen- In Pursuit of a Greater Payday and Car Parts > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 01/06/2015 at 14:11

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If i sandblast the Capri, I'd get a bucket of metal shavings back. And maybe a couple chunks of bondo.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > TheVancen- In Pursuit of a Greater Payday and Car Parts 01/06/2015 at 14:12

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I've got enough metal left (and added) that sandblasting will only scrape bare the lie that is my car and reduce me to weeping. Not, you know, *completely* destroy it.

TheVancen- In Pursuit of a Greater Payday and Car Parts > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 01/06/2015 at 14:14

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Ive had parts sandblasted, but i just saved myself some money and bougja big DA sander and went to town on the car for a couple days.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > TheVancen- In Pursuit of a Greater Payday and Car Parts 01/06/2015 at 14:17

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Too many recesses and bits of stamped metal on this - I've got a DA, but there's a lot I'd like to get picked out clean up in holes where I can't either DA or needle-gun all that well. The flat surfaces are easy, but I want the firewall blasted, the airbox ends blasted, the wheel wells and underside of the bed, the A-pillars...

TheVancen- In Pursuit of a Greater Payday and Car Parts > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 01/06/2015 at 14:37

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Have you looked at any other kinds of media blasting? Plastic, glass, walnuts that sort of thing.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > TheVancen- In Pursuit of a Greater Payday and Car Parts 01/06/2015 at 14:51

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I don't care too terribly much what media it gets blasted with, as long as it gets blasted. It would be best if something harsh enough to de-bondo things, though - there's still a lot around. That, and I think walnut shell would leave a lot of fine dust that'd be hard to expunge from key areas like frame rails.