Holy $hit it's update time! After finally getting my honey-do list a little smaller in the new house, I've been working on getting this ride ready for paint. I had to do a little more rust repair behind the rear fender and cleaning the engine bay for paint is still going on, there's so much crap in the way in this engine bay I haven't decided how much I want to remove for painting, since this isn't going to be a show car I may take the shortcut and spray bomb the rails near the headers semigloss black.
Anyways, here's the pics of parts, parts and more parts getting prepped for paint.
This area still needs work.
These parts are sanded and ready for some primer.
These parts are not, and the front nose cone needs some plastic repair, time to look up that GRM article on how to do it right.
The hood and decklid are ready for primer, I'll have to scuff that new chin spoiler up good.
It's hard to see in this picture but this door edge will need to be flattened a little, to make it mesh right with the quarter panel.
Plastic repair is relevant to my interests. My bumper is chewed up from some jackhole scraping against my car with his or her presumed heap while I was in a parking lot.
That car is the twin to the one I was just waxing nostalgic for in the other "dignity" thread on these (except I had T-tops, 5sp and 305 w/ 230HP).
You have done a metric E36 M3 ton of work on that thing... it looks good... but when I see a gutted car I always hate to put anything back in that isn't a roll cage. These were a dominant race car in their day. I imagine a few pipes in the right places get rid of the flibber. Not that I'd influence you in any way but ... google NASA American Iron. Before you paint.
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:
That car is the twin to the one I was just waxing nostalgic for in the other "dignity" thread on these (except I had T-tops, 5sp and 305 w/ 230HP).
You have done a metric E36 M3 ton of work on that thing... it looks good... but when I see a gutted car I always hate to put anything back in that isn't a roll cage. These were a dominant race car in their day. I imagine a few pipes in the right places get rid of the flibber. Not that I'd influence you in any way but ... google NASA American Iron. Before you paint.
Well this was the plan to begin with but then I got to calculating things and even though it's a cheap car, it doesn't look like it would be a cheap series to run in, and I just don't have the finances for it. But even if I did race it I would still paint it because, "It's not how fast we are, it's how we look. And we look marvelous!"
Now that I'm in Florida and can ride a motorcycle to work pretty much everyday, my plan is to get this done, by a bike to replace the Insight with and keep this for weekends and truly horrible rainy days when I don't feel like riding.
Ya know..you could just put in a half cage with a roll hoop and some attachment points to the front and rear. I know that goes against your 'keep it cheap' plan here.
I dig the car. Great way to go with this one. Maybe build it for 90% road work and 10% HPDE's? Could be fun...
Great to see you back at it with this project!
Gearheadotaku wrote:
Great to see you back at it with this project!
Thanks, it's been hard getting the motivation back to get this one done. Too many other projects since I moved in to the new house. I need to post about the project boat that's really been the reason I haven't been working on this car much. But I finally got the boat out of the garage so this could come back to center stage.
Great work with the rust repair! Keep it up.
