Fiberglass flinging continues.....

Still working to correct the damage around the bumper (grill) opening on nose.







Checking out the door jambs after fiberglassing...





Working on closing up the rivit holes on the muffler cover. Grinding the old "skin" off of the fiberglass so that the new fiberglass has something to bond to....





The exhaust pipe areas (black areas) of the muffler cover are full of black carbon from years of running rich.





There's even an area where the exhaust tip burned thru from touching the fiberglass....



Holes are glassed up...





Here we are putting more fiberglass inside the 3 ribs of the muffler cover to stiffen them up.





Glassing uver the rivit holes in the rear facia where the muffler cover mounted to it.





Finishing up the mounting areas of the rear facia where we had previously glassed them ......





Here we have bolted many of the panels back on the car with the all new bolting methods (no rivits here)......checking out the gaps & fit of the panels.... We still have to do bodywork & filling, this is just to determine if we are done with fiberglassing in these areas.

























The door jambs after some sanding.....all the holes are gone......





Fitting the muffler cover so we can locate & fit the bolts that will bolt it together.



Finally for today, here we are glassing an extension to the inside edge of the rocker panel. this edge will go up under the rubber seal, so that we can hide the fasteners ...





Archie

dam nice jod on the repairs Archie and crew your doing a fantastic job on the rebuild of a relick from the past

I'm not feeling the old style door handles. You could use the same type of set-up that JScott used on #014. You can then tweak the already side vent inward near the edge in order to use the GM style electric door poppers.

This what I would do if the car was mine, because it not only modernizes the area with the new Camero side mirrors but also tweaks the side vents too. This tweak IMHO doesn't take away from the original design, but enhances and brings it up to date.

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"Friends don't let their friends drive stock."

Just found a nice set of shop rollers for the Enterra. ! The rims that came with the car were only 14" so the enterra was sitting on the ground. It's hard to see in the pics but the Enterra is wider in the front and rear than the IMSA
I hope they fit:
JDM DE RACING WHEELS 17X8.5 +20 OFFSET, 17X11 +24 OFFSET. WITH 5X100 BOLTPATTERN. 3PC WHEELS.

Sweeeet!

quote Originally posted by madcurl: I'm not feeling the old style door handles. You could use the same type of set-up that JScott used on #014. You can then tweak the already side vent inward near the edge in order to use the GM style electric door poppers. This what I would do if the car was mine, because it not only modernizes the area with the new Camero side mirrors but also tweaks the side vents too. This tweak IMHO doesn't take away from the original design, but enhances and brings it up to date.

I agree, that'd look very sharp and smooth the profile of the door too.

quote Originally posted by troyboy: JDM DE RACING WHEELS 17X8.5 +20 OFFSET, 17X11 +24 OFFSET. WITH 5X100 BOLTPATTERN. 3PC WHEELS.

since the fiero has "front wheel drive" type wheels, i thought the offset had to be 35mm to 40mm (?)

quote Originally posted by PaulJK: since the fiero has "front wheel drive" type wheels, i thought the offset had to be 35mm to 40mm (?)

That changes with the Body of the car, wide-body cars can use lower offsets. On my IMSA I'm using 20x12 with a 7mm offset in the rear.
Charlie64 is using this setup on his wide-body:
19x9 up front with an offset of 22.86...19x11.5 on the rear with an offset of 6.35

Archie's notes to me on the new wheels:
On the front wheel the outside edge of the WHEEL will be about .115" inside of the edge of the wheel well at the top center. If the front tire is a 245/40 17, then the outside bulge of the tire will stick out .155"

On the rear wheel the outside edge of the WHEEL will be about .430" inside the lip of the wheel well opening. If the rear tire is a 315/40 17, then the outside bulge of the tire will be inside the lip of the wheel opening by .187".

note: I'm having a hard time finding a 315/40 17 tire
Edit to correct my offset on my IMSA

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How deep is that rear lip?

quote Originally posted by 1988holleyformula: How deep is that rear lip?

I'm not sure but we will know in a few days

give yall sum thing to complain about. LOL

quote Originally posted by madcurl: I'm not feeling the old style door handles. You could use the same type of set-up that JScott used on #014. You can then tweak the already side vent inward near the edge in order to use the GM style electric door poppers. This what I would do if the car was mine, because it not only modernizes the area with the new Camero side mirrors but also tweaks the side vents too. This tweak IMHO doesn't take away from the original design, but enhances and brings it up to date.

looking to go in this direction using the middle rectangular one and paint it white to match the car

quote Originally posted by 1988holleyformula: How deep is that rear lip?

[This message has been edited by troyboy (edited 02-05-2013).]

quote Originally posted by troyboy: [IMG]measurement[IMG]

Looking good! I think the chrome lip will look nice:

Thanks for the photo shop!

It's only been 8 days but there is lots here to update.

Next up, it was time to redo the mounting studs for the rear sail panels. We are welding SS bolts into some steel flat stock...





And digging out a recess in the filler they had in there....



After a test fitting we will be fiberglassing the stud plates into the sail panels...





Using a little filler to hold them in place while we do the test fitting....





After grinding down the excess filler flush, we test fitted the sail panels. Then we fiberglassed the stud plate in....







While that cures, we are revising the mounting for the rear spoiler.

When we removed the spoiler, we found that you had to have a long armed skinny guy to remove the 2 bolts farthest from the only opening we had for access. We called in Abe Lincoln for the job.....



Abe, said he was good with removing the fasteners but even he wouldn't be able to reinstall the front fasteners. So he didn't want us to call him back.

So we came up with a plan & made 4 new mounting tabs at the back end of the spoiler.....





In the meatime as that fiberglass cures, we're back to the sail panels. We did some sanding then fitted the sail panels again....





We also removed the previously glassed rockers & fiberglassed the extensions from the underside.



As you can tell, Kris works on several area at the same time.

Back to the new spoiler, the mounting tabs get sanded & cleaned up for a fitting.





We also re-did the key lock cylinder mounting for the decklid. Before it was pop-rivited on & the cylinder stuck out 3/8" to 1/2" from the panel. Now it's stud mounted & flush.





In the meantime the Shop roller wheels come in....





More to come......

Fantastic!!

quote Originally posted by troyboy: Fantastic!!

OK, just so you don't get too worked up.

That looks pretty damn good.
I like the wheel choice are those just "temp" shop rollers?
Any details about the interior choice?

I'm sorry I have not replied in a while. Archie, the work is superb! Nosrac, while they are shop rollers, I will be holding on to them for a while...Ladies and their shoes..... They do look nice though..... I am also feeling the door handle mod.

Simply beautiful!