85 Notchie Build (Page 23/23) 82-T/A [At Work] MAY 18, 10:56 AM I am very amused at the fact that you've completely disassembled the entire rear-end, and yet there's the rear brake calipers suspended with a coat hanger... all by themselves. Hahah... The frame looks pretty decent... you really lucked out there. We don't get a lot of rust down here in Florida, but some of the cars that we would see from say, New York or somewhere like that, the frames are totally rotted out. You can always tell because there's a Buffalo Bills or Jets sticker on the back of the Fiero. My Fiero (my 87) came from Chicago... but it only spent a year there, and then the guy took an overseas job for over 6 years. He took it out of storage, had a shop take care of everything (change all the fluids), then my uncle bought it... so it only had 43k miles by the time I got it in 1996 in Northern Virginia. It spent the rest of it's life in Florida, so absolutely no rust. But I did see some pitting on the suspension components, specifically, the bracket that the upper control arm attaches to... but it was still very solid. My daughter's car (an 85 4 cyl) seems to have come from North Dakota. It's pretty decent, surprisingly... but does have some rust in the trunk, which I'll have to address. zkhennings MAY 18, 07:58 PM This car was from MA and it had been barely driven since 1990 when I bought it in 2010, and it was stored indoors. There was almost no rust when I took the body off on page 1 of this thread, but then I did lots of snow drifting in Worcester MA when I was in college and that definitely took a toll. The paint on these things is super easy to take off with the wire wheel, I’m not surprised that many of them rust badly. I have a can of POR15 to treat metal areas that were rusty but don’t need to be replaced, then I have an interior frame painting can from Eastwood, has a long flexible tube with a 360* spray nozzle at the end to paint inside frame rails and rockers. Going to use it on the upper and lower frame rails. I also have a quart of 2 part epoxy primer I will shoot everything with, and then some 2K gloss black spray paint to shoot the engine bay with over the epoxy primer. All Eastwood products. Should be pretty bulletproof, they make really good stuff. I will get some rubberized undercoating product to shoot in the wheel wells and frame areas over the epoxy, I used it on the cradle over POR15 in the past and it held up for many years. Should be a huge improvement over the factory paint. 82-T/A [At Work] MAY 20, 09:31 AM quote Originally posted by zkhennings: ... I have an interior frame painting can from Eastwood, has a long flexible tube with a 360* spray nozzle at the end to paint inside frame rails and rockers. Going to use it on the upper and lower frame rails. Hah... was just going to ask about this...