The boot area is now pretty much finished. 🙂 I spent a couple of evenings over the last week prepping and painting the wheel well area, as per instructions. It came out pretty well: After cleaning and applying Metal Ready: (Greyish surface is from zinc treatment, part of the Metal Ready) And after painting: Ooh, […]
I’ve been continuing with the boot area over the last couple of days, it’s good to see something coming on well. 🙂 As mentioned before, I’ve had an attack of perfection about this, so I’ve been really going to town getting all the old paint and sealer off in order to get an even surface.
The rear wing is continuing, but it’s going to be slow work. I ground off the excess from Saturday’s work, tidied it up a bit and added in some more filler: That took me all of about 15 minutes. :-s So while I’m working on that and waiting for filler to dry, I’ve started prepping
I know I said before that the wheelarches were done, well I lied, it seems. Due to a couple of little bubbles in the paintwork I decided it would be a good idea to strip the paint from the outer lips of the arches and see if anything needed work there, before I could declare
As mentioned in an earlier post, I had plans to build a bench power supply out of an old computer PSU. After a bit of faffing about, I got it done today: As you can see, the case is a little bit ‘ghetto’, but it gets the job done. I won’t go into how it’s
Are now done. There’s just a bit of filling and finishing to be done, all the welding was done over the last couple of days. The N/S arch wasn’t too bad, just one little patch at the bottom front, the rest is all rock solid. I’m happy with that. 🙂 The O/S was a bit
The sills are now more or less finished at last. 🙂 Just a couple of little bits to finish filling, no more than an hour or so to do. Next up is the wheelarches, that’s certainly not one of my favourite jobs! It’s impossible to do any grinding work in there without getting a faceful
A quick round up of everything that needs doing before the back end is done: Finish up filling and shaping the rear sills Weld a couple of patches to the wheelarch lips (they’re good enough to not need replacing outright) Finish up the boot area and paint (at least in primer for now) Go over
So with the inner sill all fixed and shaped the previous day, the Sunday was all about fitting the panel. First test fit: And after welding in place: Note the neat, professional quality spot welds. 🙂 In spite of the mess, they’re strong as anything, that panel isn’t going anywhere. A bit of grinding and
After a bit of a longer wait than I’d hoped, the sill panel finally arrived last week. 🙂 So, with some good weather to play with, I headed down to get started on rebuilding the sill. I’d forgotten what a mess it was, I’d been waiting for the sill so I had a template before