I will do Eagle , It all seems pretty decent stuff , I think it may take a couple of goes to fully remove the rust , I'll have to see ? I also sprayed some Dynax S50 into the sills today through the skirt locating holes so that should offer some additional protection too .

Thanks , Mark

I got the flap disc in the drill today and removed some of the loose rust in preparation for the deox gel .













Thanks for looking , Mark

Some more progress on the 16v now the weather is better .

The deox gel applied and starting to work



And now rinsed off , certainly looking better.



Now with some hydrate 80 rust killer applied .



Front jacking point after treatment .



More pics to come soon .


Mark

good work sir take it your trying to get the car back to perfect standard form with everything all nicey nice if you get what im meaning.im going to do that one day with my car just not yet

I'm trying to keep the dreaded tin worm at bay Dugy , it's very solid underneath and there's no welding at all required . It's just some of the factory applied underbody protection is delaminating slightly so that is the next job . I know the jacking points are quite a bad area on the Zx but fortunatly mine is in very good condition and only required minor work .





The inside of the side skirt full of 17 yrs of muck



Now all nice and clean



Front wing arch lip



Spare wheel before



And after a tidy up and repaint in satin black




The next jobs will be to remove the spare wheel carrier and de rust it and repaint it , then remedy the delaminating factory sealant issues when weather permits .

Mark

yeah mine hasint bine bad for rust really one back jacking point back in the day cant complain.

take it the car will he 100%standard allways

Yes it will be staying standard dugy , the only thing I have changed is the orange side repeaters to xantia clear ones and a k&n filter element in the original airbox .

Mark

clear looks better than the orange i have the same.zx16 look great standard i will return to standardish soon mark2 wheels in my mind are rubbish looking look like crapy starfish mark 1 slighly better.they sit slighly to high at the back compared with the lowered form so i think it best to keep the same for looks.

i allways have my ax for my crazy modifed side/show car

Hi Mark,
This is great work, keep the car original. Its a coming classic you know. In a few year theese cars will be very rear and fun to own. They are in my mind fun already of course.

Thanks eagle , over here in the Uk there are now 19 Zx16v's left on the road and around 36 on sorn ( declared off the road ) . The only other one I have seen is James ( cromptons Zx16v ) who is about 20 miles from me , other than that I can't remember the last one I saw .

Mark

Here's a few pics after a wash and polish , not the best weather but a nice drive though .













Thanks for looking , Mark

We've had a drop of snow here in Sheffield and the Zx is now buried with a flat battery ( will be sorted on my day off ) .



Mark

Well the replacement battery is on and the car fired up first time , I thought I had better wash some of the winter muck off and apply some wax I've been wanting to try for a while .










And after a coat of dodo juice orange crush which left a lovely oily shimmer to the paint .






I love the dodo juice waxes I have tried and will be sampling some more of their product range soon so I'll report the results .

Mark

you love your car cleaning products .looking very clean and shiney.whats the miles on it

Wish mine would have half the shine of yours