Old cars, DIY and other stuff…
Ok…its not liket the Top Gear christmas special, more like a catchup post with some miscellaneous pictures from the last month and a half. Well first off I collected all the rest of the parts from the painters, such as the hoods, roof, sideskirts, rear valance, headlightscovers etc. Some parts has dropped in from overseas...
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Finally some REAL progress, this took me about 4 days to get done with allowing drying times etc. The paint is two coats of Sikkens waterbased Autowave followed by one layer of clear coat. I’ve painted all the areas that more or less will be covered up later on by interor and such. The paint...
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Already from beginning this build I decided the holes for the stock 914 jack in the sill covers needed to go. So clean up the surrounding area around the holes. Make a patch piece from 1 mm steel. And very carefully tack it into place taking time to cool each spotweld after applying it.
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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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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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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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I got the body back, the good news is that it wasnt very out of alignment but the front right suspension tower was sitting about 8 mm’s too far outwards so it was pulled back to the correct position. First piece of fender going back on, a few small spot welds to keep it in...
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Well after fixing the damage to the front right strut tower I started measuring the front end to see if there was any other damage that I could find. The bottom of the car seemed pretty straight but the front right tower seemed a little off so I’ve hauled the body off to Lars at...
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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 applied to the jackplates where there will be metal to metal contact and subsequently hard...
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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 right one. It seems that someone at some point thought it would be better to...
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