Came across this guys work via mig weldign forum, his welding skills are great , aswell as his fabraction of the floor pans etc, i imagine this is a skill that once developed you can name a price.
Anyway heres his work on an r5.
http://www.pbcm.co.uk/html/5_turbo.html
That is some top work there, good find!
thats a Turbo 1.....well worth saving. it wouldn't matter what per hour he charged. - its would be small change to the overall cost of the car.
glad you like it, the work around the window i find amazing.
why not arc weld it?
top weldin on there, wish i could do that
You dont arc weld thin gauge material like car bodys, etc...Arcs more for heavy duty plant stuff, Gates, etc etc
A Renault with that sort of rot needs all the strength it can getOriginally Posted by Kris M
You dont arc weld thin gauge material like car bodys, etc...Arcs more for heavy duty plant stuff, Gates, etc etc
Easy to get the mig to weld nice. Try tig
Icant my self but it is poss to arc weld thin materials, looks a lot neater and is stronger, not that it needs to be. Tig sounds fun
Mind blowing really. I don't understand how they know how to form the metal for areas under the car (around chassis, strut, subframe areas), that were a complex shape and that have totally rotten away.
I wonder what the cost of the refurb was in total.
The wheels absolutely ruin the look of the car though. After all that work! Get em changed.
Last edited by Trevhib; 03-02-2011 at 09:56.
They are also doing a job on a GTT. It's a Pearl White Ph1. What a complete mess it was when it went in!
http://www.pbcm.co.uk/html/current_car.html
grumbs and i thought the gtt i broke was badthey have done a spanking job tho
anybody no of a good company in the kent area like this onegrumbs and i thought the gtt i broke was bad
what was the cost of this being done then in the end
my mum is currently having a stag restored, similar kind of job, lots of fabrication etc, so far thats up to 7k with plenty more to come..
have you looked in your local yellow pages or maybe google
look for restoration shops rather than bodyshop, big diffrence, and a big diffrence in price also.
What, their current car, the one they haven't finished yet? That's impossible to answer.
i know,i know, loads of wonga
Last edited by modfather; 03-02-2011 at 15:12.
Very nice! Both the Turbo and the GT Turbo!
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