Engineman, Sage,,,Thanx for dropping by and the kind words. Stay healthy guys.

A couple days to play. Working on the door gaps and fender flange some more.
The first two pics show what I'm working with. Fixing both the gaps and the difference in z-height between the door and fender.





To deal with the z-difference, I cut a slot in the flange and clamped it down.




After some taping and rough sanding, it was time for the glass. I made a template of the shape and cut 3 layers from the matt.
(continue the post after a crash...)




One of the many challenges with this body kit is thahe paint that's on it. It took me an hour to get this crap off and back to gel coat.


Back to glassing.


And onto the rocker portion.


Not perfect yet, but here's where I'm at now.




I should be able to keep banging out these little projects as long as the gloves hold out. Only have a few pairs. The current pair I've used 4 times now. Not bad for HF 5mil latex.

Happy Easter and stay safe.

Bob

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quote Originally posted by dobie1: I hadn’t noticed you had changed the shape of the upper intake! I like it.

Thanx. I did that to match the bottom.

Fun part of removing paint is finding out what's underneath. The pink area at the edge is all bondo. More to replace.



Bob

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Well, concluding week 4 of stay at home (I think it's week 4 anyway)...

This weekend I worked to undo a mistake I made. Originally, I was going to have the rear decklid open like the 308, but changed it up to open like a 288. In doing so, that left me with the flying buttresses that I had cut off to integrate with the decklid. Lots of words to say I cut too much off, so I put it all back together (well almost).

First thing to do was to take off all of that red paint. Then I had to fill the gap created by lowering the hood. Here is the end result.




Once that was glassed back together, It was time to attach it back on the buttress. I had a bit of a gap to take up, so i screwed a board to the back and wedged it so everything lined up.




Apparently I didn't take a pic of it together On either side...
First off, I ground the joint down about 1/2 to 2/3 through, tapering it back about an inch. Then I applied 3 to 4 layers of glass. Then I repeated everything on the driver side.

Once everything cooled down, I pulled it off the car to glass up the back sides.


This requires grinding the joint back down the the fresh glass on the outside.


The verticle cuts above were made to releave some of the stress on the glass when I pulled the gap together. Im ground these out and applied a couple layers on it to restrengthen the part.
Rinse and repeat.

Lastly, in these trying times, when latex gloves are in short supply. Sometimes you have to do what you have to do to keep moving forward.


Right now I'm recycling gloves. Got 6 uses out of one...

Stay healthy friends...

Bob

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