810 180B SSS (Read 2,130 times)

[Ricky180B]

Hi All

Thought I should share my new purchase. As most of you know I have a serious passion for 810's. I had a very rare opportunity of bidding on a 810 SSS on ebay. Most will be aware that this car sold previously for silly money to a trader. When she came back on sale this was a opportunity that I could not miss. An offer was made and the seller accepted.



The car was in storage for many years until recently and is now an on going project in my ownership. I'm currently fighting a very big battle tackling 2 projects at the same time. With this in mind I have had a massive helping hand and without them this would no way of been possible. So to start with a thanks to Preet, Damien, Will.

Enough talk ill let the pictures do the talking.







Let's strip



Let's make holes









Lets cut




































Parts




Last rear panel and I got.












Stripping engine bay complete for spraying




After hours of scrubbing







2 projects on the go together




Inner wings very good






Rebuilding




As she sits now. Work in progress





So plans. Complete welding, under seal car, rebuild engine and bay, put all together and leave for a few years

[Al Ramone]

nice one Ricky and all those involved in getting this sorted.

oh and Ricky, much respect for putting the time money and effort into fixing these old cars

[Eric]

wow, nice work, i like this. Keep us posted.

[spottedlaurel]

Excellent that this has ended up with 'one of us', particularly someone so passionate about the 810! Is this one going to stay more-or-less standard and the original colour?

[Ricky180B]

Thanks guys for the comments. It has been a serious struggle loads of stress and pain not to think about money and time. I just had to get it as it was a very very big dream for me to own a 810 SSS. I'm over the moon. So the end result. Will be standard engine, gearbox and interior. Exterior will be slightly lowered with the lotus looking wheels like the ones Al is selling I hate the colour it's the same as what YPK was so it will be re sprayed sky blue like DJT. The car I'm looking at was a SSS reg AUP that's exactly what I would like as the look.

[Talking Hoarse]

Well done again Ricky and thanks for sharing all the pics. May I suggest cavity wax as well as underseal as a preservative - to help stop /slow the rot from inside the box sections (that has caused a lot of damage so far)?
Ed

[Damien4884]

It will have far more rust prevention applied than the factory did, plans are to paint the inside of sills and box section then apply weld through primer to flanges (as per all other repairs) then give it a good dose of dynax (or similar) everywhere we can get it. On these they have an unusual sill arrangement from the door back, theres an additional section of sill that comes from the b pillar back, which then has the rear quarter wrapped around it. So the worst of the rust has actually eaten its way from the inside out through 3 layers of steel, which is protected with nothing more than primer I'll be adding in some form of drainage holes so that any water can escape and the inside of the box section can breathe, however got quite a lot to do before then!!!

Todays job was to finish off the boot and get the engine bay done, i managed to not take any of the boot so i'll skip to the engine bay. Found a couple of bits of rust in the turrets that needed attention but overall really solid and its now ready for ricky to finish off.





the rust here went right through so had to chop out and replace a couple of sections off inner arch as well


other side wasn't as bad, most of it cleaned up with grinder and 2 small repairs

[datsian]

Good to see a thread on the 810 SSS

[datsian]

Very nice restoration work, keep up the good work Ricky

[Ricky180B]

Loads and loads of hard grafting this weekend and I've just managed to finish of.









New sealer

[datman]

WOW!

[Ricky180B]

Ok so worked hard on this after work. Will got me the paint code for DJT so I ordered the paint. It was hard painting the engine bay as the primer was eating the paint. Used a total of 1ltr. Leaving her to dry over night and then tomorrow finish of with lacquer for he final shine. This colour is fantastic and can't wait for the whole car to be this colour which is gonna be a long time.













So now I have to clean and paint all the other bits as I put the engine bay back together. When will it ever end. I need to get her welded up and back together before YPK comes back from paint shop which I will be starting very soon. 2 projects at the same time not a clever idea

[datsian]

Ricky this definitely has the WOW factor, what colour shade is this

[Deleted]

Looks brilliant, what an effort!!

[mize23]

Good job