> Car Scene : CHATSWORTH MOTOR SHOW 2010

So you guys have voted and now you shall recieve what you asked for. This weekend i took some time away from the capri to attend a car show i listed under my upcoming events section around Durban, the 1st of many in future.

The chatsworth motor show was organised by Max motorsport and the guys behind the Durban Car Shows group on facebook, and was held at Chatsworth Center. Given the current weather we been having, this Sundays weather turned out to be ideal carshow conditions, few clouds, slight breeze and sunny; which resulted in healthy crowds of people who took a break from month end shopping.

There were a few tents, including an SPL tent and lots of interesting show and shine cars, which of course drew my attention. Crusing around i found that the range of cars attending the show was rather broad, and not limited to just modified cars.

50s Ford Prefect in Pristine Condidion

This 54 Riley was extensively restored the level of detail was exceptional

Lotus 7 Kit with a Black top 20v engine and screaming set of throttle bodies

CLK 500 with a sublime Rockford Fosgate sound setup.

65 Cortina GT, mulitple show winnner

66 Cortina GT with a V6 conversion and Weber Triple carb setup

MK3 Zodiac with a 351 V8!!

A very origonal 74 Valiant

Good to see some Euro Style MK1 golfs entering the scene, and move the bar finally!

Surfboard on the Roof, this is durban anyway.

30S Cortinas are still very popular at Durban Shows

XR6 TT????

Closer inspection showed an Alpine intake and twin turbos running off the 3L v6.

This custom mix paintjob in fact inspired my color choice on my Capri project.

An extremely large early 70s Ford Montego, the size of this car is not practical on our roads.

A very well exacuted twincam engine swop into a pristine Ford Anglia

Another common sight at durban shows has been this mazda RX2 capella, with a 13B brigdeport.

A sole AC cobra with an Edelbrock V8, built by G&S engineering.

One of my friends Escort RS2000, very rare and hard to come by.

Ford Power Grid: Escort RS2000, G&S engineering Capri V8 and Cobra

After milling around for a few hours i decided to call it a day and on my way out i caught site of this very neat upcountry escort 1600 sport. I never stay for prize giving, so i do not know which cars won the prizes, but im sure from the pics you can have an idea.

i hope you guys enjoyed this durban car scene article, there will be more in the near future....

> Project : The undercarriage

So now that the car is back and the body has been done, my attention was turned to the undercarriage.

There was no rust underneath, but it needed a good painting.

Sitting at the panelbeaters the diff and springs picked up alot of surface rust.


I started off by rubbing the flatter surfaces with a medium sand paper and used wire brush on the hard to reach places. the diff was sprayed in matt black high heat paint after all the rust was removed.



After the rear setup was cleaned and sprayed, i used bakkie bin liner (BTC3) on the undercarriage, it bonds welland stays hard. (see pics below to see how it turned out)
moving from back to front the next thing that had to be pulled off was the complete front supsension for a clean and refurb. the easiest way was to unbolt the stabliser bar at the front mounting pionts and then remove the rack ends and remove the steering rack.then the crossmember was removed after the tie-rod ends where unbolted from the strut.

The steering rack before and after.


Crossmember with stabliser bar still attached.

Once everthing was removed i masked off the engine bay to neaten it up as the panelbeater did not do a great job on the lower areas.

The steering rack was refitted to the crossmember and the whole unit was then refitted to the body, was abit of a mission as you have to get the steering shaft in first before you can start tightening the crossmember in place

Pic from below, you can see the undercarriage painted in bakkie liner at the back

Reattached the tie-rod ends and rack ends to the struts

Door tops cleaned an masked to be sprayed in black

I tested fitted some rims to check shock clearance - 13" RS ronal 6.5J


And the rims the car came with - 13" Ensures 8J


The brakepads where also changed and then we refitted the front lights and took it out the garage after a long time.