Willsy's 309 GTi - Latest update 04/09/2018 - Page 22 - Saxperience

willsy · 30th September 2015, 12:15

Been cracking on with some more painting on the underside, drivers front suspension turret is now completed. A bit that I needed to finish surface rust removal/treatment of before refitting the strut (didn't want to mount the new top mounts against a rusty surface).

Flashback reminder of 'before'

After

I'll paint the rest of the wheel arch eventually, probably next year when I whip the engine out to paint the bay etc. For now I know that the most important bits are sorted.

Finished painting the rear part of the turret in the engine bay and fitted some A4 stainless rivet nuts to remount the chassis plate (don't like standard rivets)

Chassis plate remounted. I'm not sure if I can polish the plate up much more than I've already done, the metal is very thin & soft, certainly struggling to do any more with the pit marks

willsy · 2nd October 2015, 11:53

This morning I got the metal polish out, morning well spent I'd say

lincolndanny · 2nd October 2015, 19:02

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Originally Posted by willsy

This morning I got the metal polish out, morning well spent I'd say

Didn't realise that these were alloy blocked Matt! Good work as always!

willsy · 29th October 2015, 10:40

I'm still having a decision crisis over what finish to go with for the brake caliper refurb with Bigg Red.

I had worked out from the last remaining traces of their original finish that they should be Electroplated Gold

Bigg Red's sample picture for that finish

Looks great and my aim still remains that I want to maintain or return as much as possible to an original finish.

However, they've just released their new and extended range of premium coatings which now includes gold.
There's not much extra cost involved so that isn't influencing my decision. So do I go strictly original, or favour the more durable and longer lasting premium coat

Sample pic

willsy · 29th October 2015, 11:54

Well the above post has been quickly resolved.

Electroplated it is!

First two comments I had for the premium gold was 'look too blingy' and 'a bit like standard paint'

chinkostu · 29th October 2015, 16:11

I wouldn't have the gold colour either. Although i'm unsure about the electroplated ones too! Maybe black?

lincolndanny · 29th October 2015, 16:30

Electroplated if it were me....

-kane- · 29th October 2015, 16:45

looking good!!!

blupower16v · 4th November 2015, 12:02

Chapeau! Very nice job... I will have been the same for a lovely car... The incredible thing is that this car has no rust...

blackie_2k5 · 6th November 2015, 17:57

youve done loads on this since i last looked mate

Brettles1986 · 6th November 2015, 20:36

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Originally Posted by blackie_2k5

youve done loads on this since i last looked mate

Setting the bar for the manta dude

blackie_2k5 · 6th November 2015, 21:48

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Originally Posted by Brettles1986

Setting the bar for the manta dude

id like it to be this anal

only time will tell mate

EDIT- problem with me is.. i usually do all the anal shit.. forget to take pics and am like.. "yeah so i washed it the other day lmao"

willsy · 10th November 2015, 20:09

I have been busy, being this anal with it though can be a real pain in the ass. Could have put this back together in no time but I just keep finding bits that I'd like to sort between fitting each piece

Anyway, I've finally pulled my finger out.

Passenger side underside front suspension turret is finished.

Taken right back to bare metal again after several coats of Bilt Hamber Deox Gel to carefully only take back to good metal without grinding any away. Quite impressed with the stuff but it is time consuming

Anyway all is done

Which now means that all chassis parts where the subframe and suspension mount to are tip top.

Expect to see some decent updates coming now as I put the front end back together. There's more bits that I want to paint but it's getting beyond ideal conditions so further paint can wait til Spring when I'll probably whip the engine out and paint the bay.

For now, back together and try to get an MOT on it. List of things that I've done so far this week;

I've sourced the last few NOS coolant pipes so I'll refit the remainder of those this week.
Steering system has been overhauled
NOS gear linkages sourced
Brake caliper are at Bigg Red being refurbed.
Old bushes have been removed from the wishbones so new ones will go in after cleaning up & repairing them.
Engine mounts have been replaced. NOS genuine uppers and Baker BM group N lower.

ertypedan · 11th November 2015, 10:48

Very nice keep up the good work, cant beat a good restoration thread!

willsy · 4th December 2015, 23:26

Small update for now but I am in the progess of refitting a lot of bits to the car so there will be more to come shortly.

Finally got around to finishing the manifold.

Here's the upper side before

After many hours cleaning it up

And after applying POR15 High Temp 'Manifold Grey' paint

Same for the underside before

After cleaning

Also sourced a new set of genuine Peugeot gear linkages

And pressed the new Baker BM lower engine mount bush into the bracket which id lovingly cleaned earlier

Plenty more to come

lincolndanny · 5th December 2015, 09:30

Keep it coming mate, bored at work and could do with something to read....

willsy · 5th December 2015, 09:47

I've got 6 weeks off work at the moment so I've got all the time in the world at the moment.

Stockpiled on a load of boring but easy jobs to do whilst my ankles recovering so a lot of cleaning and painting such as manifold, hub assembly, wishbones etc are being done.

When I'm a bit more able I should be able to reassemble most of the front end in a good days work

willsy · 7th December 2015, 12:21

Wishbones next up.

The last pic makes for a good before & after pic comparison.
Fortunately the ball joints on the wishbones were still perfect, as on 205/309's they are not replaceable! (What the heck Peugeot?!) so avoided the cost of two new arms there.

Anyway the bushes were a pig to remove but got there in the end. Allowing myself a deviation from OE/OE replacement spec here and have gone for the Powerflex purple bushes.

Spent a while cleaning up the wishbones then, most of the appearance in the before wishbone was just muck.

Still did a proper job of rubbing them down as above, followed by a coat of etch primer and 3 coats of satin black

iSlayeR · 8th December 2015, 20:22

glad to see your still cracking on with this, your work is outstanding

willsy · 17th December 2015, 22:55

I've been keeping busy again with this, havnt got much to show in the way of pictures yet but I've been spending many hours this week on the hub assembly.

Here's the before pics.

Now, I am replacing the bearings as they were a little noisy, couldn't detect any obvious play but they were old and do need replacing for piece of mind.

This is where you'll all think I'm mad again. Sure I could have just got the hub assembly sand blasted but with so many threads etc I really wanted to clean it up myself and not remove any good material. So the painstaking process of applying Bilt Hambers rust removal gel along with regular passes with a Dremmel size wire wheel and wire cup I am just about at the stage whereby I'm happy it's clean enough to paint.
The hub 'knuckle' piece will be going Satin black as it originally was.
The hub piece that the disc/wheel fits into was originally just bare metal as I've managed to get it back to. Thinking I might just clear coat it or do it silver.

Anyway almost clean enough