Cheers pal. Cage is ordered, should be here in about a week and a half, so im up there tomorrow prepping the seams and de gunking the floorpan.
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Cheers pal. Cage is ordered, should be here in about a week and a half, so im up there tomorrow prepping the seams and de gunking the floorpan.
its girly blue lol
I was up the barn again on wednesday, just to finish off some little bits, when i decided to get my screwdriver out and have a little prod at some bubbly bits of rust on the front panel and inner wing. Im kind of wishing i didnt, because i opened up 3 enormous holes and one small one! Just goes to show what you can miss when your concentrating on making sure the structural metal isnt rotten! So I went off on one and luckily, these were the only bad bits I found on the whole car, so Today, I went back up there armed with a pot of P40, some filler, and a tin of Waxoyl :biggrin:
Heres the offending holes after I had opened them up to bare good metal!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...P/DSC00007.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...P/DSC00008.jpg
Out comes the fiberglass, and with the help of some wire mesh, plugged the gaps!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...P/DSC00009.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...P/DSC00010.jpg
A bit of the good ole filler, a bit of sanding, and I had a pretty good result.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...P/DSC00011.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...P/DSC00012.jpg
Slapped on some Waxoyl behind the repairs, and thats another job out the way. Ill finish the repair behind the headlight when the weldings finished and Im ready to paint the bay up.
An I did consider a a new front panel, but the rest of it looks like new on the back, which is odd, and also, its a track car, and you have to draw the line somewhere at how much effort goes into something that you could stack into the tyres at any given loss of talent :biggrin:
Cage should arrive at the end of the week, so the welding can begin!
Good stuff Mr Lee. Im sorry I couldn't make it up today for a chat. Not alot to do now other than wait for the cage to turn up and get it all welded uphttp://www.racecar.net/castlecombefo...smile_cool.gif
if your welding anyway why are you glassing the holes, theres 20 mins welding to do those properly
Geoff
Was going to but ive got nothing to do on it till the cage arrives, so i thought id glass them instead to keep me busy. Im not sure what you mean by 'properly' as theres nothing wrong with a glass repair in those locations.Quote:
Originally Posted by geoff H
Plus, Fiberglass is lighter :thumb: lol
nice bit of work there:thumb:
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sorry gaskellQuote:
Originally Posted by Bottlethroddy
Plus, Fiberglass is lighter :thumb: lol[/quote]
Depends on how much you put in bt!!!!!!
Gotta agree with geoff though, i'd would've welded some plates over too whilst you're doing the rest of it. But hey thats only my opinion!
(p.s; plus it'll all fall out when you bend it!!!!!!!!!)
(pp.s; you had best not have removed the stickers Lol!)