Aaron Dixon’s DeLorean
This is Aarons DeLorean which he
bought off Ebay, and had shipped home to
This DeLorean has a rusty frame, so Aaron has decided to remove the frame from the car, repair the rusted sections, and galvanise the frame to prevent rust from returning.
Check out the pics below!
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Aaron’s DeLorean restoration!
As you can see in the last 3 pictures above, Aaron had a very rusty chassis in his DeLorean. Notice the plate he is holding up in his hand in the last picture – this is all that remained of the plate at the bottom of the engine cradle!! This will give you an idea of how rusted his frame really was before restoration.
Aaron has done some amazing work
to his car in the past few months, proving that every rusty DeLorean is
repairable. He cut out huge sections of rusty metal, and welded fresh steel in
its place. He then galvanised his frame at Galco
Steel in
The first pictures below show Aaron’s chassis after it was sandblasted. Sandblasting is a great way to find any weak parts of the chassis – the sand will blast through any badly rusted areas, so once it is done, you will know which sections need to be repaired. Sandblasting is a good way of removing the old epoxy also, but it is very time consuming, and expensive.
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As mentioned already, you can see in the pics of the sandblasted frame above that the plate for under the engine cradle is removed. Aaron also had severe rust in the panel above this plate (at the bottom of the rear shock towers), so he cut this metal out also, which conveniently allowing him to sandblast inside the rear shock towers. (FYI, Aarons frame is upside down in this set of pictures).
The 2 pictures below show the repairs Aaron did to the front of his chassis. There was extensive rust damage to this area, which was cut out and replaced. He even completely removed the steering rack mounts along with the bottom plate they were welded to, and fabricated a brand new set of mounts and lower plate. No half measures here!! Approximately 50% of the metal in Aaron’s front frame extension is new. If you know what you are doing, everything is repairable!
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Click below to go to page 2, to see the results of galvanising Aaron's chassis.
