After stripping to bare shell, all tags and excess brackets are removed and unnecessary holes welded up. The customer chose early in the project to go for one of our 2011 generation 215BHP twinspark engines, so we pre-drilled the hole in the firewall for the HT leads to run through.

Shell fine media blasted to remove paint, filler, underseal and sound deadening, then blasted with a heavier media in the corroded chassis areas to remove all rust. Immediately after blasting, the shell is fully epoxy primed to seal and prevent moisture ingress. At this stage the body corrosion can be seen in full for the first time as well as the poor ‘repairs’ it had previously been subjected to.