Enterra "Dark Shadow" Restore Thread (Page 15/65)
Archie DEC 27, 11:08 PM
I've got to try to bring this build up to date.

You'll recall the "patch job" we found on the inside of the nose.....



We needed to get up under that patch to see what they were trying to fix when they did it.

We felt that the patch was put on in a hurry without prepping the area where the patch was going & the patch was not rolled out to form it to the inside of the nose. Typically when you're patching older F-Glass, you should rough up the old surface to take dirt off & remove the "skin" off of the surface of the F-Glass in the area being repaired. Otherwise the patch just doesn't have a good surface to bond to.

This wasn't the only patch like this inside the nose, 2 other smaller patches were put on at the same time with the same material & methods.

We grabbed ahold of the patch & pulled it right off.





We found that the patches were all trying to repair a mishap to the right front corner of the nose. Here is a picture of the cracks that the larger patch was covering. Note: in these pics we have already cleaned & ground the old "skin" to give our new fiberglass repair some good F-Glass to bond to...





Here's what a repair patch should look like.



One of the things that we found on our evaluation of the car was that the nose area between the lights where it meets the hood was loose. You could touch the middle of the nose just forward of the hood & it would move up & down. There wasn't enough of a flange on this area of the nose to attach to the OEM Fiero bracket that attaches the Fiero nose to the chassis. While doing other things to the car, Kris was refiberglassing on a better lip so that the nose could attach properly.





Also as he has been working on the edges & returns on the body parts, he has been building up a F-Glass surface to properly attach the inner wheel well liners.









They aren't all done yet but as we go we are building up these area for the wheel well liners.

Today we got one of the new mirrors installed......









Archie
troyboy DEC 28, 09:19 AM
Lady Lisa DEC 28, 07:31 PM
Thanks so much you guys for the input & Archie for the update pictures. I think with the exception of the side mirror and the door handle, the side profile will remain white. I don't know about the side window. I can't wait to see the pics of the taillights.
Carcenomy DEC 28, 09:58 PM
This is just my humble opinion and shitey abilities with Paint.NET 'cause I can't afford Photoshop, but this is about as much black as I would go for your car:

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PaulJK DEC 29, 12:55 AM
nice mirrors - are they from a late model camaro ?
madcurl DEC 29, 12:08 PM
Nice tweak using the newer Camero side mirrors.




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troyboy DEC 29, 01:33 PM

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Originally posted by PaulJK:

nice mirrors - are they from a late model camaro ?



Yep, Lisa didn't like the way the stock mirrors looked on the car. She felt the mirrors needed to have hard lines like the car so she sent me on a replacement mirror hunt. She is really happy with the way they look on the car I just hope she paints them white as they shouldn't be the first thing you see on the car.
troyboy JAN 03, 05:11 PM
Carcenomy JAN 03, 09:28 PM

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Originally posted by troyboy:




Darnit Troyboy, I get an email saying there's an update on this thread, come racing in here and it's you eating popcorn! Gaahhhh talk about getting people's hopes up!
Archie JAN 03, 10:31 PM
It's been a very busy week, I'll get you all an update in the morning.

Archie