Target Engineering - Automotive Engineers

Now for the painting, strip back to metal, etch primed, then stonechip for texture, colour basecoat, clear laquer, and a bit of Matt black. It’s all hidden behind the plastic front bumper but at least we know it’s a proper job done. Final assembly, then call the customer to inspect and collect it. 😀

So, welding now completed. Here’s the new piece grafted into the car ( check the colour difference) so…Can you see the joint …no…good, neither could we after it was ground flat. 👍

We’ve been doing a car park “oops “ bump , for a client. Lots of work to get it fixed right.

Here’s a typical bit of restoration work sorting some very rusted brakes. Front hubs and brake calipers all stripped apart, shotblasted, painted and reassembled with new flexible hoses and new copper brake lines throughout the vehicle, including new handbrake shoes, handbrake cables and brake pads on all four wheels. Front discs not bad, so cleaned and painted with very high temp paint. All slideways lubricated with silicone grease, pistons with red rubber grease, pads fitted with ceramic brake grease. Car should work properly for a good while now. Also when parts assembled they were painted again over the fasteners just to hold back the rust. Good job done !

That's a broken cast iron arm undergoing a stainless Tig weld repair. For those that don't know, cast iron is notorious for cracking when welded, but some special techniques and this job turned out great, and proved to be a very strong weld repair. 👌

She's starting to look like a car at last. Another month I guess. She's gonna be a pretty little car. 😃

We've been keeping the Tig welder busy fabricating the last 12 inches of these exhaust headers for the Mazda engine in the SR2. It involved some fairly dramatic surgery, but now the patient is perfect! 👍

Have been restoring/building this little beauty with friends over at Road Runner Racing for a few weeks now. It's a lot of attention to detailing but we're all proud of the results. What do you think ?

You may not believe it, but I sprayed the black base coat from an aerosol can, the the clear lacquer with a cheap gravity spraygun. Not bad for a gun finish !!👍

Decided my old Snap-on toolbox was entitled to a bit of fresh paint. It's served me well for 35years ! It deserves a bit of TLC !

This is how the engine thermostat works in your car. Inside the centre there is a wax pellet that expands in the hot water. As it does, it opens the hole in the middle to allow the hot water to pass through to your radiator and keep the engine at the correct operating temperature. Usually around 88 degrees centigrade. I'm checking the one in the photo to ensure it opens round 88 degrees. You can see the two temperatures with it closed and open, so this one is all good! 👍 It was fitted back into a BMW K100 Motorbike.

Keeping rust at bay. This car had a load of surface rust on the sill panels. So, we've used a course wire wheel and a paint/rust removal sanding disc to clean the surface. Then a coat of textured stonechip. Final step will be to remask it and spray with red topcoat. It's not a cure for the rust as the rust will likely come through from the inside out, but if we can get any waxoil spray inside, then the outside is much more protected, and pleasing to look at!

This Kia diesel fuel injector developed a leak on the copper sealing washer that seals the joint between injector and cylinder head. It's very common on modern diesels for injector seals to start failing. When they do, the symptoms are a chuffing noise around the injector. Over time black carbon deposits form around the injector and progress like a lava flow along the top of the cylinder head. Mechanics sometimes call it the "Black Death" as withdrawing the stuck injector out... of its hole in the cylinder head can be almost impossible. If you detect the leak early, it usually a simple job to withdraw the injector, recut the seating face in the cylinder head to ensure a flat and even seal against the new copper washer. A good tip in our opinion is to use Mercedes copper sealing washers, as they have a slightly convex face on the copper washer to get a good crush seal with the mating surfaces. Photos show injector seating in head as found pitted and uneven, then refaced prior to a final polish and refitting of the cleaned injector and new copper seal washer. An hours job with the right tools. 😀
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Your car is a complex machine and when it goes wrong we fix them here and we could show you loads of photos of the parts, but you won't be interested, as long as it's fixed right and costs nothing that's what you really would like, and so here's a much more interesting photo of little corgis for your amusement, whilst we fix cars😉

Ok so we work on fixing cars, and photos of broken car parts are dull, so here's a picture of some car owners 😂

After removing outer sill with rust hole this is the true extent of the rust hidden behind in the inner sill and floor!

Rotten door sill on old Ford van. Hides loads of rotted steel structure behind, so it's all gotta be cut away to do a proper job. Not covered over with a patch like most cheap jobs get done !