Old cars, DIY and other stuff…
Removing the old built-in trashcan compartment in the garage free’d up some usefull space so I could finally get a small mediablasting cabinet and clean up smaller parts myself. The white plastic piping and the watercontainer underneath will together with my shopvac create a simple water filter to keep the dust to a minimum. I’m...
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Had a rainy trip to pick up some freshly powdercoated parts today.
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A nice big box was waiting for me when I got home this thursday. In it was two overhauled front hubs for my fivebolt conversion, new bolts and new bearing races.
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Sometimes things show up for sale that I think “Nah, I wont buy that now, focus on getting the bodywork done and then you can buy nice things….” then there’s times when you click “Buy” before your brain even registers what you are doing. So when a guy called Zack put out a post on...
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Last weekend I was busy creating fine white dust….first layers of bodyfiller went on and hours of blocksanding followed.
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Nothing much to say about it, car will be white again and I found that the white that I originally had decided on (Porsche Glacier white, 3AU) way much to blueish so now I’m back to looking for another shade of white, might go for Porsche Pure white, C9A instead.
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Yes, yes I know I suck at updating this regularly… so here’s a big old catchup post on what’s been going on since the last post. New bronze bushings for the pedal assembly. All reassembled and ready to go into the car….some day… Cleaning up the wheelwells wasnt a fun job. But it feels kinda...
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The front trunk area and fuel tank compartment was all wire brushed and in places where it was hard to to with the brushes I rolled the chassis out on the driveway and mediablasted the nooks and crannies. Yes…outside, spring is finally arriving in Sweden!
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I got some new wirebrushes for my anglegrinder and got to work on the front panel, its a little dusty in the picture but it was taken back to bare metal. And on went a coat of primer…
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Since I will be converting the car to Porsche 5 bolt pattern I needed new wheels. Ideally I’d want a nice set of 16×7″ Fuchs but with prices for a used set in need of some overhaul starting around €1000 I went for the second choice of ATS Cookiecutters in 15×7″ size.
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