My insane car project

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What I've done the past month

  • Removed rusten nuts and bolts in the rear suspension lately.
  • Taken off the rusten exhaust manifold
  • Sand-sprayed a bit on the body, rust going away
  • Discovered more rust *sigh*
 
Holy ****, i'm 16 and have a dihatsu charade 92 :)

Shame i know next to nothing about cars, but i'm learning. I think i'll wait a few years before i do anything like this.
 
I just want to say it makes me really happy to see a young person tearing apart his own car and doing his own work. It's much too easy for teens these days to have it done for them. My hats off to you!
 
Cool project, good luck. I want to turn my car into a sort of street legal track car when I get it, but my said dad if I rip out my interior, hes going to take my car and sell it.
 
Sigh, I really don't want to say this, but the car is gone. On Monday, it was collected by a huge flatbed truck, sent to the scrapyard. I had no feelings right then, but I'll tell you, I had tears in my eyes the previous week when I had to make the decesion about car having to leave. I wouldn't have scrapped it if things hadn't looked as they did:

Holes in the floor.
Both rear fenders needed replacement.
Both front fenders needed replacement.
The hood needed replacement.
One of the (where you can put a sideskirt, between the doors and the floor) needed replacement.
Holes in the rear strut towers.
New brake lines and fuel lines were needed.
Brakes all around had to be replaced.
I needed an altornator to get the car running.
Radiator was pretty ugly, should have needed a new of that, too.
The front lights mounts were broken, so I would have needed new front lights.
I needed two new doors.

In addition I found more old filler as I went through the car, the front plate was bent, four to five screws and bolts were broken and so on and so on. To show how bad the car's condition was, the rear seat belt and seat mounts had almost broken and the rear passengers would have flied through the windshield if I crashed.

The car was a piece of heap, actually I would have probably used $3-4000 to get the parts in perfect condition, and respray would also have been $2000. However, I still have some parts for it, and I have learnt things I would never have learned if I hadn't had the car in the first place.

PB, I understand your father. The interior is neither hard to get out nor hard to get back in, but one thing takes another. You suddenly stand there with a car in 10.000 bits and pieces if you take out one part.
However, it's not a bad idea either, to rip out the interior. If there is some rust there, that has to be covered as soon as possible, my car rusted to pieces in a year.

I said I still have some parts for the Charade, so guess what? A new car comes into the house as soon as I find a car to buy in good condition, and the first-car-on-plates project continues.


Eirik
 
A typical norwegian garage there :lol:👍

Good luck ;)


Håper det blir bra altså :D
 
It may be unfortunate that I've arrived at this thread a little late but you definately know your stuff as a fellow 15yr old.

I respect those who love to give things a try and attempt to make a product better using their own hands. The past few months I've been stripping the interior from my Morris Minor project and sure, it takes a lot of effort in the long run but at the end of it all, you can step back and say,

"Yer, I did that".

Good work, looking forward to your next project.
P.S: Gotta' love the Haynes manuals. 👍
 

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