Well its Wednesday and not a Monday like I promised, But things have been craze lately.
Since the last update, I have gotten a fair bit more done on the car.
I mostly finished up the speaker box by mounting the woofers in the center section and gluing it in place. All that's left is some additional mounting flanges for the lid to screw into.
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The fiberglass rear tub is ready to be put in the car now and will replace the smashed up one that's in there now.
On the actual car, I was able to get some more holes filled in on the rear deck. These were used to mount the luggage rack which will not be going back on, and the antenna, which is being replaced with a windshield mount style.
Here are the 6 holes and the antenna hole all filled in before being sanded down.
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When we got through the paint and all the body on the back cornor of the car, we found this wonderful crack.
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That has gotten 5 layers of fiberglass to start building it back up, as well as the spoiler lip that was worn down.
I finished up the major holes in the firewall and got them all sanded smooth.
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And started filling in all the smaller holes that weren't needed, and fixing the last 2 cracks.
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You can see toward the right side where in the angles where the panels are broken apart.
Here is the back side of the same area.
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Last Sunday, we were able to finally make the decision that the quarter panel needed to come off in order to raise the drivers side corner of the rear deck to the height it needed to be so it doesn't look like the car is leaning to the left. This sadly, didn't even take 15 minutes to get off. They did such a horrible job putting it on, that almost half of it wasn't attached!! After grinding through 1/4" of body filler in the seam, we found the bonding strip. The some heat and the glue just popped apart.
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Its kinda tough to compare, but its visible. Here is the before and after of the position of the rear deck.
Before:
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After:
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And, like the rest of the car, you find 2 more problems for 1 that you fix.
Once the quarter panel was off, I found out that it was cracked in half and held together with bondo, and that the inner fender was horribly put back together. Well I will have to fix both of these things....
You can see the crack towards the left of the picture.
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This weekend I hope to get all the fiberglass work done and on to bondo and smoothing everything out. Well see how it goes...
-Adam