quote Originally posted by troyboy: Thanks bro!

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A lot has been going on the last few weeks, I'll try to bring this thread up to date.

The day after Troy left, we got back to work.

We still had to open up the area under the new scoop we made for the decklid. The original Decklid had an inside & outside skin, so we had to go thru 2 different fiberglass surfaces.



At the back end of the scoop cutout, we had to close off the 2 fiberglass (inside & outside) skins. So we made a Fiberglass "U" shaped channel & glassed it between the 2 exposed layers of fiberglass.



We needed to glass in along both sides of the scoop opening.





While that was going on, Rob made the radiator ducting for behind the front grill. He made it out of ABC that was bent & cut for a perfect fit. This is a one pc. item.









It was decided that the 2nd trunk area needed a fiberglass cover over it. So Rob also made a cover for it from some flat fiberglass sheet that he made up.











Here are a couple of pictures of the finishing work on the underside of the decklid scoop opening.





More to come.

Archie

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Right after Troy left here from his last trip, it was decided that we were going to do the final paint on the body. We are not a paint shop & have never painted a Pearl paint job. The only Pearl we've done is Lisa's engine & front compartments. I have to admit that they did come out pretty good.

Originally Troy & Lisa had planned to have the car painted when they got it home. But, they'd have to make an appointment with a paint shop near them. Then, after waiting for the appointed date, they'd have to wait a month or more to get it back from paint. We would have also had to put together some instructions for the paint shop on how to take the car apart & put it back together & Troy would have to pay their labor rate for that too.

So, for a good customer & friend, we agreed to do the best we could here. While it might not be 100% perfect when we get done, we think we can get it to 95%.

So, prep begins for that part of the project.

Since we are going to paint the underside of the hood & decklid, that means that we are working on a lot of different surfaces. Going over all of the surfaces with 220 grit. getting into all pockets, like the hood louvers into all corners & lands & the long slots in the muffler cover etc.. Also in all the vent slots.... we have to sand to make them uniform & straight with good radii in the corners.

Then we inspect the surfaces for pin holes or imperfections & fill those as we find them. Then we sand those areas again with 220 G. Once we have all the pin holes eliminated, we will be priming them & then sanding the primer with 600 Grit. Filling any new pin holes we find & repeating the process as needed. Then we'll be ready to put down the paint.

On Fiberglass parts, you get pin holes that show up as you sand the surfaces. You can't help but get them....... you only hope is that you find & fill all of them.

As we surveyed the project, we find that the body consists of some 29 Fiberglass parts. Some of them will have to be painted inside & outside.

So, that amounts to plenty of work.

Continuing from where we left off, we began by preping the undersides of the decklid & hood.







Working on the outsides of the hood, decklid & muffler cover.











Filling pin holes then sanding again.













Then we did the proper primer on the 1st batch of parts.















More to come...

Archie

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