Hi folks!
In the last time I constantly read about all your projects and it was so interesting for me, that I decided to write something about my current Projekt. Besides you can now see, what I'm asking all my questions for...
As some of you might remember, I joined this forum with the plan to replace the old 2,8i V6 of my 1983 Capri by a Cosworth 2,9l 24V from a Scorpio Cosworth in combination with a modified T-5 gearbox from a Sierra Cosworth RWD. I assumed to need about two to three month, a bit too optimistic as I very soon recogniced...
This was my car before I started working on it:
I wanted to swap the engine and by that occasion paint the engine bay as the blue color was partly loose and the original red color was shining through. When I started work in July 2005 I removed the engine and all the other things from the engine bay:
As I scratched over the paint infront of the spring strut support bearing I found lots of filler an a rusty sheet of metal welded over the it.
After I had removed this sheet, I could look right through to the floor. That was the point when I realized, that just a new engine and a bit of paint won't do it here...
So this is what I found after the first stocktaking:
Doesn't look too bad on the pictures now, but the metal remaining had become very thin so that I could easily make bumps in it with a screwdriver. So just removing the rust, closing the holes and painting it wouldn't have been a good idea.
And once you start to search for rust, you definately gonna find some more:
And some more here:
And so on
Daniel
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