Monaco 172 Track Car

[massivewangers]

I've found heat guns quite effective in the past, but I guess some work better than others. Petrol ftw when cleaning it up though, works better than anything else.

 

[YorkshireKyle]

Yeah thats what i found best, petrol in the cuts are a bonus touch too

Petrol and iso in cuts, kinda gotten used to it this week

Got home and spilt red hot gravy on my hand, barely felt it

 

[Polynesian]

This morning was a fresh day, a fresh head and a better idea of what not to do

I started by getting the blowtorch on the roof sound deadening. By god this made it so much easier! If you're going to do this yourself, a nice robust scraper and a butane blowtorch is perfect

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With that easily tackled I turned my attention to the rest of the sound deadening that I didn't hit beforehand

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All the sound deadening out

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This is when I started to test petrol Vs isopropyl 99.9%

Petrol wins. It was 50x quicker, that's not an exaggeration. That was one small wipe with petrol on the left

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Absolutely blitzed through the rest of the cleanup. I went through at least 5 rags cleaning all of the glue off. I then took out as much of the bulkhead matting, I wasn't going to at first... But then bad side of brain took over

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Big bag of sound deadening removed

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Guess the weight, this doesn't include all of the chunks Hetty hoovered up. I reckon she got the best part of a kilo out

Spoiler: Weight

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Tomorrow I need to clean up some more stuff, remove a load of unwanted and un-needed brackets, take the side skirts off and then give it a clean ready for 5am Tuesday morning

Itll get the arches welded up, rolled, front jacking points welded, interior painted, roof sorted, roof scoop painted (and fitted), and I've made the last minute decision to remove the aerial so I'm hoping if it's not too much of a pain they can weld up that hole and paint the full roof

Whilst it's away I'll still be buying parts for the engine build in the background. I reckon it was a CV boot at Croft

Either way I reckon I'll get 2 new shafts, or recondition 2 I have in the garage

The next time you and I see the car it will have less orange

You got a lot done, impressive! Whereabouts are you having the welding and paint done? Hope it all goes well.

 

[Touring_Rob]

Good job mate.

You going to have them cut the spare wheel out and flat floor it before painting?

 

[YorkshireKyle]

Good job mate.

You going to have them cut the spare wheel out and flat floor it before painting?

No I asked @Louis to cut the boot floor out of his 182 before he scrapped it and he didn't cos he's a c**t

 

[Touring_Rob]

I've seen a few people cut the floor out and tigerseal a carbon sheet in. Looks racecor smart, prolly 10kg saving too.

 

[YorkshireKyle]

I've seen a few people cut the floor out and tigerseal a carbon sheet in. Looks racecor smart, prolly 10kg saving too.

Aye I could do that afterwards, I need to make some polycarb pieces to cover up the seatbelt holes

I've got the door cards but there will be a big gaping hole where the seatbelts go. I'll see what it's like when it's painted

 

[Louis]

No I asked @Louis to cut the boot floor out of his 182 before he scrapped it and he didn't cos he's a c**t

 

[Djw John]

The flat floor is only a looks thing anyway, weighs the same