Sourmug's Decklid Vent Build ** 56K Warning!!** (Page 4/69)
liltobe MAR 13, 11:03 PM
Beautiful work Nolan!!!! I can't wait to see it painted, just beautiful.
Good for you taking the time to take all the pictures, materials etc... its wicked to see the entire process, as it happened, Thanks!! + for you!

and good call moving the wing, you wouldn't think something so subtle would look so cool
Keep up the good work!!!

Phil86SE MAR 14, 10:33 AM
lookin good!

can't wait to see it at the Calgary Fiero Festiva this coming year!

- Phil

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Sourmug MAR 16, 10:24 PM
Just a bump for those who have not seen this. I will probably post some update pictures this weekend.

fieroman_5000:

We specifically moved 3 years ago so that I could build what is almost a 3 car garage for the Fiero. I don't know how houses are where you live but all the new ones here seem to come with tiny attached 2 car garages. I wanted to have a shop to work in.

Phil86SE:

Unfortunately my car wont be ready this year as it is a looong term project. It looks like this now:


Nolan

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Sourmug MAR 17, 04:50 PM
OK. I decided to give the decklid a light coat of black paint just to see how it looks overall. In general I'm pretty happy with how it looks:



I'm glad that I did this as it has now revealed further small imperfections:



Some of these
are really the quality of the decklid and some are finishing issues with my work. I'm going to work at getting most of these out of the finished product but I probably wont be successful in getting them all. This is sure a good learning project and again my hats of to those who do this for a living.

More to follow later.

Nolan

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fierosound MAR 18, 11:27 AM

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Originally posted by Phil86SE:

lookin good!

can't wait to see it at the Calgary Fiero Festiva this coming year!

- Phil


NO PLANS for a show in Calgary this year, but Edmonton may organize something.

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fiero_silva MAR 18, 12:00 PM

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Originally posted by fierosound:


NO PLANS for a show in Calgary this year, but Edmonton may organize something.



I made it to the first one, had to miss last years, but I was hoping to make it to this years

Sourmug MAR 18, 05:14 PM
Here is another little project that I have underway, I am also installing some Trans Am vents into the front fenders. The vents that I am using are the smaller size vents and came from a 1990 Car. I used the method that Zoom88 used in his thread:
http://www.fiero.nl/forum/A...050410-2-057783.html
This is quite easy to do actually but if you have never done anything like this it does take some fortitude to make the initial cut. Zoom was also kind enough to send me a copy of the template that he used.

Here are some pictures of the vents after I installed them and did the initial filing and sanding:



Here a shot from the backside:


The instructions in Zooms thread are really easy to follow. I have converted the relevant bits of Zoom's thread to both word and PDF formats if anyone would like a copy.

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Sourmug MAR 18, 05:20 PM
I also have sprayed the vents with a rattle can sand-able primer. Since this was just to see how the sanding and filing looks and I have a couple of cans laying around I figured it would be no big deal. I will be sanding this layer of primer off and using the proper automotive primer prior to final finishing.



In the mean time I have sanded the underside of the decklid and filled in the divot's, holes, hollows, pits etc. etc. that became evident under the light coat of black paint. And i have started sanding it....again.

Nolan

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Fiero1Fan MAR 18, 05:42 PM
Sourmug, this is beautiful. I would like to have a copy of the pdf you made. Are the T/A vent templates reuseable?

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Sourmug MAR 18, 06:33 PM
Fiero1Fan:

I will send you a copy of the PDF. Yes the template is reusable. What I was thinking of doing is scanning the template (once I dig it up) and marking a few key dimensions on it. If you have access to a photo copier that will scale the copy up and down you could easily reproduce it by scaling it so that the marked dimensions are correct. I'll have to dig it up and do this.

Thanks for the compliments, I hope you give it a try.

Nolan