Engine Bay Tidy

'Tother day I decided to have a look how hard it might be to clean up my engine bay. Not easy with the engine still there, but I am going to have a go. 

I started off with a rag and some water and found the original Persian Aqua colour! It looks much better clean.

But, I spy a hole in the inner fitch panel. Yikes!

Rust on a fitch panel on a TR7?

Rust Cure & Repainting ii

Here is what we did a few weeks ago. Bit of over spray but no more rust. I can't get it to polish out but no more rust. The paint that Halfords mixed does not match but no more rust.

The paint tin I had with the car suggested that the paint used on the respray was HFF. It is the right colour but HFF isn't a metallic paint. 

I'll try a metallic green some time ...

Rust Cure & Repainting

Time to get rid of some rust. I have been concerned about where the sills meet the floor for some time, rust everywhere.  Brought tears to my eyes this did. Time to start chiselling ...

Add a bit of tape

Hole on the arch

Rust and hole on the sill

Cure rust applied

Rusty Beast bits

Another arch

More rust!

Hole

Agh! There is a hole in the floor! Right where the jacking point is. Bugger!

Post Winter Update 2014

The Winter To Do List was vast. But I didn't get round to doing very many of them. I did do some under-sealing the other day though. I need to have a go at the rusty sills and there is some sponge coming out of the N/S front suspension ...

What's The Spongey Stuff ?

Rusty Sill 

Another rusty sill

Lipstick on a Pig ii

This winter's main job is to sort out the sill rust. The bottom of the car, sill, wings etc, should be black rather than green. I prefer the green but will never be able to match the original colour, so black it will be. I am sure that the original factory colour was black, rather like this ...

Lipstick on a pig?

Anybody out there know anything about rust? Or welding? Or respraying?

A very rusty sill. Am I spending lots of money for nothing?