Hey all

Thought I'd start a dedicated thread for my ATR as it's undergoing a pretty major overhaul.

Back story here:

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/t...117&mid=377537

Very early 1998 ATR, one of only a handful left on the road on an S plate. Big overhaul caused mainly by a rusting bulkhead, one thing led to another and I ended up with the engine, interior and front end off. I'll be spraying the engine bay, replacing anything that needed replacing, possibly rebuilding the engine and box.





This is the offending part of bulkhead:











The following is the latest update from another forum...:

So to get your ATR back on the road, first buy a new ATR.....



The red EG6 is mine too :D


Went halves on a cheap Accord in a local auction with my mate Alex with the intention of him having the H22A7 for his DC2 H2B project and me having everything else to use on mine or sell. Both ended up driving it for a week at a time when carless (DC2 was in the bodyshop and the clutch went on my EG6) and it was a complete and utter shed. Was still quick but drove like a bag of ****. It did good handbrake turns though. Although only when turning left.... Headgasket was gone when we got it and it used loads of water and oil. Almost boiled it on the M60 but managed to cool it down again



Donor meets patient:






The last pic of it in a complete-ish state:



Both our engines, I wrote our names on the cam covers so I didn't end up with the silver one's engine



Now I knew this car was a ******* but the true extent of its shonkiness only became apparent after we stripped it. Bear in mind this is a 2001 car on 152k so not particularly old or huge mileage.



This is on the bulkhead where the chassis leg meets the inner arch and bulkhead, so a very structural part:



Common rot point on Accords as discussed above but this is by far the worst I've seen.



The whole passenger side rear corner had been repaired/replaced ******* woefully, the arch was full of filler and the inner and outer weren't welded together.



Filler on ma pillar:



Front leg after picking palm sized chunks of filler and rust off.... by hand:



Weld around the rear door aperture:



The seam under the passenger side tail light had been closed back up with seam sealer FFS. Not a single weld along the whole join. 2 hits with a sledgehammer completely split it, compared to the same treatment on the other side which as you can see just dented the panel a bit:



Definitely should have been scrapped a long time ago tbh, was a deathtrap.








So that leaves me with this:



Gonna strip the subframes and get them shotblasted. Paint them (probably metallic grey) and paint the arms, ARBs etc some bright colour not sure what yet. Then polybush everything, build the subframes back up with MeisterR coilovers, camber arms etc and swap them on as complete units, just as they came off the silver one.



Still a hell of a lot to do once that's out of the way!

 

That silver one looks like it would come from the shoddy body re-work the guys on Wheeler Dealer would do. Good thing you didn't need much from it.

 

It was worse than that man, haha. Actually managed to salvage quite a lot, it was a fairly bare shell when scrapped

 

Glad you got what you needed off of it.

 

Always used to wish that these cars were available in Canada. Seeing them in that condition makes me =(....Good luck with build!

 

in for progress.