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right, i thought i might aswell put up a project thread for my project thats seemed to have over taken my corsa. hope you enjoy the photos. i only got this on the 7th febuary, and started taking it apart on the 8th.

when i got it,


started taking it apart a day later,


then did some more another day later, and found some rot, that iv had to cut out and re-weld,




drivers side with bump stop off which was held in with newspaper which had the rear 2002, and bodyfiller, and rot half cut out, and you can see the exhaust hanger mount cut off due to more Rot both sides, and a wasp nest.


another view of the rear exhaust mount hanger on drivers side, with rot cut off, but i also need to cut the bottom off, but i need to suport the rear cross member first otherwise the axle will drop off lol


then did some more welding a day later, 12th febuary,


then on the 17th febuary iv done alot more, removed the seats, and the gearbox covers, and finally got around to removing the engine, and i did some more welding at the rear end, and i have chipped alot more of that black tar stuff of aswell.




the amount of stuff thats been cut out and chipped off and fell of my land rover,


and a photo with the engine out finally


then on the 18th iv done this,
got it stripped,


its on its side so i can get around it easier


more rot cut out and welding done,


some more i found after poking around,

and finally what iv managed to get done today,

turned the chassis upside down for a bit more welding,


found some more rott so more to cut out and weld AGAIN



photo of some of the rear chassis that iv had to weld up, not bad means as im only 21 years old,


took a photo of my donor vehicles
vehicle 1


vehicle 2


and the pulling sledge we'v built, that this land rover is going to be used on when iv finished building it.

looks awesome mate. would love to do a project like this. was gonna do a 4x4 one but no where to keep it to do the work on it the now. other choice was a old mini but there not cheap lol. how long do you think itll take you? colour is it going?

well, iv got two weeks off now, so i can get alot of work done to the chassis so that should all be welded up and braced, then just got to do new seals in the axles, and a bit of tinworm in places on the body work, sooo give it two months i should have it back together i hope! with the engine change in place, but dont count on it

cool. what made you do a landy though? you gonna build it sell it or build it and keep it?

build it and keep it i guess, iv already got a 1956 series 1 land rover just doing this up means i can put the 200TDI engine out of a discovery in it, so it'l have 111bhp before i turn up the boost on the turbo and turn the fuel up so it should be about say 125bhp ish thats alot more than what the 2.25 petrol was giving out before around 50 or something stupid and it'l be faster on the road and just nicer to drive.

awsome project mate. be good when its done

take it you like your land rovers?
engine will be a beast haha.

well, the Series 1 i inherited from my dad, and thats quite rare and worth a fair amount so im keeping it as standard, this series three theirs a loads of and not worth as much so im just messing around with it

awryt cool. the series 1 will be worth alot more in 10 or more years lol. you keeping colour standard?

on this series 3 i think because it was part of the MOD, i think its been sprayed nato green, or what ever colour its called, but yea i'd like to keep it the same as it is now to be honest. but i dunno, i want to paint the chassis orange so it stands out

:L should do like a grathite grey or something?

hmm i might, hamerite dont do an orange so it'l probably end up black again

bright pink would stand out :L

haha yerr it would, but i bet it'd be a bastard to paint think i'l stick to what colours hamerite have in they're range