Fill'er up!

...with body filler! but before we get to that...

Last Wednesday we were back at it. It was only 3 of us, John, Jimmy and I.
John quickly finished the new intercooler pipes. they dont look like scrap but they came off a stock Hyundai exhaust that was given to me. (thanks Eric)






The car sits ready for the bodywork to begin!


Jimmy and I began by taking the panels down to the bare metal.


With all the sanding and grinding, our first paintjob(the warbird) was coming through)


This fender is ready for bodyfiller.








I began laying the body filler & sanding with the file...


... while john finishes up tacking up a small corner near the door jamb.


Once the night was over, I had layed about 2 coats on specific areas. It still needs more block sanding and more filler, but I think that with another work day, we can be ready for primer!


Today, Jimmy had the day off and spent all day working on the car.
He installed our dashboard that we scavenged from the Parts car we had a while back. Its still cracked and not perfect, but its better than the one we had.



He began prepping the entire car for paint, which includes dissasembly, and scruffing the bodypanels with a scotch pad...



...and taping up the windows.


Its looking scruffy!


Jimmy has also spent some time sendig emails to some of the larger manufacturers asking for free stickers. I dont know where we are going to fit all of these!

The past week's work

We got some more work done this past Wednesday. Not as much as we has planned for, maybe it was because we had so many visitors.... more than the weekly Tuesday night e30 meet! You can see everyone here:

Some of you have already seen this video, but i'll post it for those that haven't.



I spent most of the night trimming the rear bumper some more...

 
.... and cutting, bending, and welding....

 ...these brackets to the rear of the car.

Jay was on caulk duty for the first half of the night,

 ...while Brian supervised... that is, in- between his trips to the toolbox. Brian had bad starter motor in his 325, and had to swap it while we did our thing on the race car. (You can see him and Bartley, in the video, working on the right side of the screen.)

John and Jimmy spent some time pressure testing our intercooler pipes, and found some leaks which required re welding some areas.

Today I spent a few hours finishing up the rear bumper installation...

And chopping up & test fitting the new front bumper covers

I think its coming together rather nicely.

I was so happy with the progress, I thought I'd share how it all has come together in a quick video.

Finishing the front fenders

This past Wednesday Jay and I were back at it.

While I was working on mounting the rear bumper (more on that next week), he took care of the lower rusty portions of the front fenders. The first step was to cut the rusty bottoms out.

After making some templates out of cardboard, we traced them on a scrap body panel, Jay grabbed the cutting wheel and went at them.

Once the cutting was done, he sanded the paint off and prepped the fenders for welding. I threw them on my welding table and spot welded everything together.

I threw the finished driver's side fender on the car.

It still needs to be bolted in, but this is the general idea of how it will look.

Using the second piece Jay made, I was able to reproduce the same look on the passenger's side.