New Stylus RT owner! Let the fun begin!

PuppiesBalls · Post by **PuppiesBalls** » Sun Dec 27, 2009 4:03 pm

Antnicuk wrote:I used a sheet of ali for mine as the original fibreglass was full of holes. I just bolted the ali over the top as a bit more heat and fire protection as turbo rotary engines give off lots of heat and the exhaust runs in front of it. Beingn bolted it doesnt seem to have any issues with expansion.

Keep up the good work, what do you have planned next?

I have loads left to do still,
I have brought a replacement engine which im rebuilding at the moment, Need to find somebody who can modify the sump aswell.
I have ground off the old engine mounts as therer crap & in the wrong place, so need 2 mke some new mounts too,

PuppiesBalls · Post by **PuppiesBalls** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 1:51 am

Little update!

: Flip front removed to make engine removal easy

: eek: ground clearance below the sump on flat road!

: Engine out!

: Another shot

: Stylus's new home

: Wheely :D

: Checking gearbox to chassis clearance

: Welders Inc, top bloke who made my engine mounts

: Pic of the new engine mounts being welded in

: Heres the finished article! muchhh better than the original mess!

PuppiesBalls · Post by **PuppiesBalls** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 2:06 am

: Engine mount #2

: Stylus strapped to the rafters! removing rear suspension

: Rear beam coming off

: removing the diff mount aswell

: removing the old paint off the chassis!

: After ALOT of work!

: Clean chassis & new engine mounts

: Nice & clean!

: Engine bay all ready for paint!

: And again

PuppiesBalls · Post by **PuppiesBalls** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 2:28 am

: Just hanging around

: My first bit of welding- welding then smoothing off all the old rivet holes

: upside down stylus! moreee prep work on the chassis!

: Removed all paint from chassis! what a releif that jobs over!!

: Masked up ready for first coat of corrosion protection paint!

: After first coat of paint!

: #2

: Rear end, As you can see I cut the cross member which goes across the back to give me more boot space & triangulated the legs to put all the strength back in :D Once I tacked them into place Peter from 'Welders Inc' poped over & welded them in properly to so there nice & strong :D

: Painted chassis again

: Front end gets its base coat too

PuppiesBalls · Post by **PuppiesBalls** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 2:50 am

: And again

: Decided to remove the reverse & fog lights from the rear, Started by 'thinning' around the holes which were to be filled untill they were around a mil thick then taped over them from the outside

: Nice & thin so i dont get a crack where they have been filled, smeered a touch of grease on the tape to stop it sticking to the fibreglas

: After a few layers of fibreglass

: Another shot

: Remove tape & this is the finished article- simple but very strong, ready for a skim of filler :-)

: Next on the agenda was to make use of this wasted space inside the drivers cill

: Surface keyed up awaiting fibreglass

: Getting the matting ready

: Then cut a peice of 10mm ply to size & bonded it to the cill then glassed over it aswell to seal it. This gives me something nice & strong to screw into for the hatch door :-)

stylussprinter · Post by **stylussprinter** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 10:33 am

What a very thorough job Ross

You may have had a fault filled Stylus to work from but you really are going through every detail and sorting as you go ---- very nice to see

Tim/ssc would be pleased to see how thorough you're being about a car that ' bugged ' him over what it needed but many skated around

Nice to chat with you yesterday at Matt's event at Aldershot and didn't he do well

mikeb · Post by **mikeb** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 12:02 pm

Wow, I'm impressed. I've stripped the powder coating off the chassis in small areas at a time, it takes ages. You've spent masses of time on that. How did you flip the thing on it's back?
Mike

Antnicuk · Post by **Antnicuk** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 10:59 pm

bugger me, with that that much work, wouldnt you have been better off buying a new kit?

stylussprinter · Post by **stylussprinter** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 12:34 am

Where from

PuppiesBalls · Post by **PuppiesBalls** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 1:51 pm

stylussprinter wrote:What a very thorough job Ross You may have had a fault filled Stylus to work from but you really are going through every detail and sorting as you go ---- very nice to see Tim/ssc would be pleased to see how thorough you're being about a car that ' bugged ' him over what it needed but many skated around
Nice to chat with you yesterday at Matt's event at Aldershot and didn't he do well

Its alot of work but will be worth it in the end! I got another couple of coats of paint on the chassis monday evening which came out really well

Yeh was nice to see a Stylus screaming round

Matt dont really well, The Lotus Exige was going round about 10 seconds a lap slower than Matt which is awesome, I got a few pics which I will upload when I get a minute.

PuppiesBalls · Post by **PuppiesBalls** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 1:58 pm

mikeb wrote:Wow, I'm impressed. I've stripped the powder coating off the chassis in small areas at a time, it takes ages. You've spent masses of time on that. How did you flip the thing on it's back?
Mike

Cheers dude, It is major surgery to remove all the powercoat but it had to be done

Just used ratchett straps hooked to the rafters

PuppiesBalls · Post by **PuppiesBalls** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 2:01 pm

Antnicuk wrote:bugger me, with that that much work, wouldnt you have been better off buying a new kit?

Yea I would have!....Its loads more work & agrovation to un-do someones dodgy work than it is to do it from scratch

flipper123 · Post by **flipper123** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 11:14 pm

I remember this stylus on pistonheads it was advertised as the best stylus ever built tidiest build ever or something. its great to see you getting on so well
craig