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Means you're tougher than I am ;). Good luck with it!

Looks amazing Simon, good work!

That looks superb Malcolm! Great. I know what a pain in the ass spraying can be ;). Great job! I'm following your R5 restoration as well, always a joy and very useful to follow your proceedings! Keep up the good work! Rutger

Hey! Fitting the backwindows was easy. I did it with a piece of thread. I first laid the windows inside their rubbers, then put the piece of thread in the ridge of the rubber (so on the outside). Next I put that whole to the windowsill and made sure that both ends of the piece of thread were...

Yesterday I put the enging back in, fitted the steeringstuff, as well as the radiator, batterystand and some more enginebay-parts. Also fit the airinlet beneath the frontwindow, and some more things. Also fitted the brakeline that runs behind the engine first, that would have been a pain in the...

Done things like that as well, but then on my Zundapp motorbike, only travelling 50 km/h, for instance transporting a dashboard haha... great.

Most work on your R4 is pretty straightforward. What you see is what you get. The gearboxmount is nothing more complicated than what it looks like. Just support the gearbox with a few wooden blocks, unbolt the mount, get a new mount, put it in the same way you got the old one out. You may want...

Haha, they must have had something like that, otherwise you'd never come to something like that ;). Actually, it's got everything to do with cheap production ofcourse. But anyway, 4Latas, this is a very common R4-problem and there's lots of examples of this on this forums! Good point though.

Thanks very much!

Just a short update. I installed the heater, the dashboard, aswell as some other interiorparts. A few pictures.

Hey Angel and Conish4, thanks for the compliments! I plan to take care of those runs after I put the car together totally. A friend of mine's got a polishingmachine which I'm allowed to borrow, as well as some polishing fluid, so that should do the trick. I like the colour too. I was also...

Okay, since the last post a lot of things have changed. The last picture I posted shows the car with the taken care of-parts already in the epoxyprimer and a coat of filler. In the end I decided I wanted the whole car to be sprayed with filler to avoid colour-differences between the parts...

A few pictures for those of you who have been wondering what the hell I've been doing and the ones who might have worried I gave up ;). We've built a sprayingcabin made of see-through plastic draped over wooden planks suspended from the ceiling. I had a few fans blowing the air out through a...

Thanks Azazello for the compliments. Malcolm thanks for the advice. We did use some pins etcetera (a tip of yours) to make sure it went in the right place but some of the holes I had to re-drill because I put new patches of metal in, so one of those isn't in the right place. The two...

Hi all, a friend op mine has been helping me out the last 6 days so we made quite a lot of progress. In the meantime everything has been plastered (is that correct english for applying polyester putty?) and I sprayed all the bare parts with 2k Epoxyprimer. We cleaned the wheelarches, as well as...

I guess a lot of R4 drivers are also using their R4 as a regular means of transport, that group of people's already got an R4 plus they probably don't feel like driving a military R4. This is really a collectors item I guess. That puts the regular R4-driver off. Maybe that's kind of an...

Nice project, I'll stay tuned in! Good luck!

You'd need to weld in some of those metal strips you see on new cars. They are bent with a "hump" that slides over some other piece of metal (the strip itself is pushed to that piece of metal). Those strips tend to stick from the body into the door and they rotate along with the door when you...

Lately I haven't done much updating but here I am again. I finished all the welding on the body and started with applying the polyester putty (filler). I also bought me some 2k epoxyprimer and some 2k surfacer. I plan to only spray the spots where the bare metal is exposed with epoxy and then...

Look like a decent repair! But you DID know there are replacementparts (weld-in pieces of metal with the right shape) for this kind of repairs don't you? Before you do more elaborate work, it might be worth checking out what's available. Just like the edges where the rear wings are attached to...