RCR's body mods... (Page 39/67)
RCR JUL 02, 08:58 AM

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Originally posted by Lunatic:

Hey Bob.

I really need to go for a drive to your place and see you lay fiberglass. You make this look way to easy.

PS-You're giving me inspiration to make a heat extractor for my hood. Stop it. I still have lots of other things to do to my project.

Just kidding. Keep up the good work.




That's what I'm here for Lunatic. To continue the fallacy that makes it look easy, like Archie's crew, CarLo, Bozzie, Amida, Wayne and all the rest.

I'm taking a bit of time off over the holiday weekend to destress, but I do have a couple pics from last Sunday.

New struts, everything finish welded.


Coat of primer on the bracing. I'll finish paint it later as I'll probably make some more mounting points to help triangulate everything.


Good clearance.


later...

Bob
Bozzie JUL 02, 03:38 PM
Looking good there Bob ! Nice to get to the bottom of the 1 of 10000 projects on the ride. Love getting to the "primer" stage as that's "almost" done !! Have a GREAT 4 th !!

Boz
fierocarparts JUL 10, 02:49 AM
Boxing this thing was a pain, but glad to see it went to good use.
RCR JUL 10, 09:45 AM

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Originally posted by fierocarparts:

Boxing this thing was a pain, but glad to see it went to good use.



Hey Steve... I don't know about the good use, but it is keeping me busy.

Bob
RCR JUL 24, 05:46 PM
Hi friends. Kind of a boring update, but things have been moving forward slowly. No pics...

I've made two more mounting flanges for the rear quarters, the driver-side rear for the valence, and along the decklid opening to hold down the top of the rear facia.

I've also played with the headlights again, (lost count on the version). I picked up some stock headlight motor mounts since I cut mine all up. (Thanks Dad) and started playing with that. I was playing with the original buckets and decided to see what it looked like flipped upside down. .The motion of that thing was darned near perfect, so I measured three times and cut once a new set of arms and welded them onto my buckets. I still need to add the stops and make boxes, but it might just work.

Lastly, I cleaned up the frame for the rear deck and shot the top with primer. (Just ran out). I also started smoothing out the bottom of the decklid skin in preparation for final mounting to the frame. Lots of thick resin to cut out.

Not moving as fast as I need, but making progress none the less.

Bob
RCR JUL 31, 04:04 PM
It's been a busy weekend. It's not over, but I'm pooped.

How about some pics...

One thing I forgot to mention was work on the roof-C pillar panel. The issue was that the panel was flatter than the roof, leaving nearly a 1/4' gap in the middle. The fix was rather easy. I took the existing Fiero panel, and popped out the inner support panel. Heating the glue with a torch and using a putty knife was sufficient to get it out. Then I sat it back on the car with a bead of glue and placed the new panel on top. Once the glue was set, I pulled it off. Everything lines up great.


As mentioned, the deck frame was primed and painted. I only painted the top surface that would be against the decklid.


Then, after some screwing around, making sure everything was square and where it needed to be, a bead of glue was laid down and everything was clamped together.


The glue wasn't quite set (24hrs), but I needed to keep going, so I made some cardboard dams and started blocking off the areas where the frame didn't contact the decklid. The key to preventing the foam (or resin) from sticking is a layer of packaging tape. Nothing sticks to it. Anyway, I applied the foam and let it set the rest of the night.


This morning, I used a knife to rough cut the big pieces and a wire brush in my Dewalt to shape everything. Shopvac comes in handy.




I'll end up going back and cleaning it up before adding a layer of glass. But that's going to be another tale.
So the decklid was remounted to make sure everything was still cool.







Then, time for the next step. With a lot of sweat and a little time, I dropped the car on it's wheels in prep for turning it around. I need to button up the passenger side.


I took it for a ride up the street a couple times. Holy Cow, this thing moves and sounds great when I get on it. I was afraid to really get on it due to the dry rotted rollers on it, but it has potential
Here's a few more pics after hosing it down a bit.








And back to bed...



Til next time...
Bob
Neils88 JUL 31, 06:04 PM

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Originally posted by RCR:
I took it for a ride up the street a couple times.



Ok Bob....now I'm Jealous...I'm still just trying to get the wheels onto mine....
RCR JUL 31, 06:47 PM

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Originally posted by Neils88:


Ok Bob....now I'm Jealous...I'm still just trying to get the wheels onto mine....



Neil, I've had this car for almost ten years. It's been driveable for about two weeks of that. It's been two years since i last drove it. I'm just enjoying my little victory

Bob
RCR AUG 20, 04:36 PM
Dream Cruise weekend. Another in which I'm working on the car.

Ready for more work.

The first thing to do is fix the location and make the mods to the rocker panel. What I found when placing the passenger side was that the angle was different than the driver's side. leaving a different gap under the door front to back. The ony way to fix was to section the bottom, removing about 3/8" from the front and adding 1/2" to the back.








With that out of the way, onto the vent. I've had these Cadillac oil coolers that I've wanted to use, but haven't been able to figure out where to put them. Now I know...



So, on to some brackets. I've fabricated up a frame and mounted it to the chassis. Here I'm positioning the cooler and designing the mount.



To get a feel for the look and ensure the fit, I mocked up some cardboard templates.




I think it's going to work great. On to the fiberglassing.

Bob

[This message has been edited by RCR (edited 08-20-2016).]

E.Furgal AUG 20, 05:03 PM
very nice...