Monthly Archive: January 2014
Last weekends work: Rear reinforcement and paint.
Reinforcment plate welded to lower firewall. Reinforcement plate welded to rear suspension console. Rear underfloor and engine bay in primer. Left hand side suspension console reinforcement from Tangerine Racing. and the right hand side suspension console reinforcment.
New rear jack plates
Todays work was alot about prepping for welding and finally doing some welding. The areas where the new jack plates connects to the body was media blasted and painted with a weldthru primer (the blue stuff) The same paint was…
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The curse of previous owners…
I’ve mentioned before that the cars has been crashed in the right front at some time, today it was time to tackle some of the remains of that. This is what the left strut tower looks like. …and here’s the…
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Rear floor cleanup
Today I spent some time cleaning up the rear floor and engine bay from old greasy dirt and built up crud, found a rustspot in the trunk floor that had been overlooked so that took some time to fix. I…
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New parts arrived!
Always fun getting car related packages in the mail and even better when the content looks this good! Got the parts from http://www.restoration-design.com/
First primer
The last week has been spent repairing rust, mainly in the front end, the floors pieces under the headlight buckets was kinda nasty so I’ve mediablasted the insides and then repaired the sections that was so thin they were blasted…
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