I want to see the vids of how you form those custom patch panels.
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I want to see the vids of how you form those custom patch panels.
Let me guess, no one is actually sick, right? I'm in the same boat till New Year's.
While I'm locked inside I might aswell write about the things I want to get done this winter.
First of! The rust.. When I first got the car it looked to be in really good condition. A little bubbling on the hatch, a tiny hole in the front right fender and the rear arched being rusted and fixed with bondo. I'm amazed I was so naive... :uh:
The tiny hole in the fender tuned into like 150mm being cut. I found the massive holes in the front right wheel well. I have the same gigantic hole behind the washer fluid tank as on the right side. There is a hole right under the drivers feet. The brackets for the rear bumper are gone aswell.
Non of the rust i found should be any real issue. I have repaired alot worse on my old Volvo Amazon. It's just a major inconvenience before I can start doing all the fun things.
Nr 2! The interior.. It's in very good shape still and will stay mostly stock. The only thing I'm thinking I would change is the steering wheel. Maybe put in a MOMO leather wheel or a nice Nard, but thats later down the road. I'm taking out the carpet and seats to clean all of it and to put in some new sound deadening. The old stuff is hard and brittle so it's getting replaced with Silent Coat.
I have a box of stereo stuff that is going in. I already replaced the front speakers to some old Alpine speakers. In the rear a new set of Alpines 6,5 are going in. And it all is powered with a Hertz HCP4 amp. I also have some random subwoffer I might put in if i can be bothered.
Nr 3. Wheels, suspension and whatnot. I traded a buch of junk to some dude and got 4 Ronal R8. I think they will suit the car nicely wrapped in 185/60 tires. I would like 15" but for the time being these will do the trick. The tires that are on needs to be repaced anyway (being dry rotted and 20 YEARS OLD :flash: ) . I really want some Work Equip 01 or 03 or Ronal R10.
I'm getting coilovers from Yellow Speed when the time is right. The calipers are getting rebuilt. I'll have to check all the bushings but they feel alright. The swaybar links are getting replaced.
Nr 4. The exterior. As mentioned....rust, you know all about that. The rest of the car is just getting a lot of little things done to it. A few dings are getting straightened. The left tail light is cracked and getting replaced. A complete polish and waxing and maybe repainting some bits. Maybe taking of the trailer hitch. Replace the plates. I really want some rear mud guards (shoot me a dm if anyone has a pair). And a new layer of undercoating.
Thats pretty much it. OH One more thing i want. I have this led light bar on now just so I could see something, but it's not very pretty. So I want to replace them with 4 big Cibie (well...knock offs) . I think that would look really fuckin' cool.
Evening update: I Placed an order from cheddas auto for some shifter bushings! EXCITED
Just now catching up on this thread. This is going to be a great car. Especially since you are taking care of the rust, everything else is pretty pointless if the rust isn't taken care of first.
I am really curious to see some testimonials of the ysr coilovers, do keep us updated on that when you decide to pull the trigger
I had the most productive day ever this weekend. There is not a lot left to do in the front now. The right side is finished, short of a layer of undercoating. The left side is ALL WELDED UP YAAAAAAAAS (almost). One m8 nut needs to be spot welded on, because I forgot that one, then it's finished.
Picture time. Sorry for the shitty pics but i keep forgetting my good camera at home.
Rust. Not as bad as the right side.
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All cut out
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All welded up and primered. WERI NIIICE
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The new metal
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There we are. As you see I had to make another bit aswell. The metal was too thin and I kept burning through so I had to cut a bit more. I ordered a band grinder just to make grinding inside the engine bay a bit easier (any excuse to buy new tools)
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All that is left to do in the front is make the patch in the enginebay look nice, paint the front end, paint the inside of the frame (if you take of the brackets for the bumper you see straight in, perfect for paint and wax), some undercoating and then put it all back together again. EPIC
you make it look so easy.
Thank you for the pictures!
I know its a pain but it gives other people places to look for rust. I am going have to look my front parts over now looking at your pictures. I never thought of rust up there.
Thanks man. I guess I have at least 150h of just fixing rust so I ought to get decent soon
Yeah everyone who wants to keep their 3g in good shape should at least take of the inner fenders and give it a good clean and some sort of coating. And in the frame aswell.
I hope this is usefull and other owners can prevent all this missery I'm puting myself in :lol:
I've been super productive these last few days. The front end is finsihed, just need to put the inner fenders back in place.
Ground the welds on the patch nice and flat
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A little bit of filler
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And some paint! Looks pretty decent if I may say so myself. I'll try to polish the original paint a little to see if they match better, you can see the joint pretty well even tho the paint is supposed to be matched.
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The front end was looking a bit sad, so it to got a lick of paint aswell
Before
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And after!
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Regarding the videos I have filmed. I'm trying to edit the first one, introducing the car and just rambling on about it, but my computer is a bit too weak so it takes it sweet time. But it's coming! Eventually...
Finally got the first video uploaded. It's just me talking a bit about the car and showing it off
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6BiiFGMbEw
Great job its gonna turn out great!
The front end is done! Now we are tearing in to the ass end of the car.
I have removed the bumper, it's not too bad but there is alot of surface rust and one of the brackets for the bumper is totaly rusted away.
I had to take off the tow hitch to take of the bumper and yeah, it's staying of. The car looks alot alot nicer without it.
My girlfriend calls the car "Coi", can you see why? :D
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I had to take it for a little spin while it was all put together.
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And a bonus pic of my other red rusty car! :rockon:
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I uploaded a video showing s bit of the rust repairing for anyone intrested.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YdmoCNq5_Y
Cool! Thanks. I want to see you forming one of those curvy, intricate pieces on your forming tools.
(Your camera is the tool of the devil, BTW).
Rust upate!
I have taken of the rear bumper. At first glance it looks like just surface rust, but it has gone through in alot of places. Alot of teeny tiny holes with thin metal around them. I know what I'll be doing for the next couple of weeks :flash:.
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And the interior is getting thrown out! Well, for now. It's all going back in eventually. The whole inside is getting the rust-eze treatment, paint, cleaning and sound deadening with silent coat. And I found 2 swedish crowns in the carpet! Money!!
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Hoowhee! Somebody has a PROJECT!
I bought a box with things in it. Lots of boxes with lots of things acctually, but this is the most fun one
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Hello, it's me again. I have been super unproductive this week. I have just wanted to stay in bed when I don't work. But today I hauled my skinny butt down to the garage while the girlfriend was at work.
I started on this little hole last week. "Hell, I'll have this finished in 1h", i thought.... WRONG
Because this...
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Turned into this...
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Turned into thissssssss
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And I finished it of today. All welded up and primed with epoxy aaaaaand I see that I forgot the weld on nut for the seatbelt :banghead:
For those who wonder why I did this. When i tried welding in the smaller patches I kept burning through because the surrounding metal had rusted. While it hadn't rusted so bad it had turned into a hole, it had made the metal so thin that it just melted as soon as I stared welding. The undercoating in the wheel well hid all the rust, and I could not see it until I took of the coating.
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Then i cut this off
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And started to make a patch.
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And that's all I could take in just one day. I am pretty happy with the progress (except for just now when i saw i forgot that dang nut).
Progress! Lots of work is getting done but we are still a long way from done.
I found new sheet metal for the rear arches from some random website in like Estonia. I was a bit skeptical when i bought them but they look great! At least the left side that i have messed around with the most so far. They are made by Klokkerholm for anyone wondering.
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My dad had a really neat trick on how to make the new arches fit perfectly.
First you clamp down the new panel on top of the old sheet metal. Mark where you want to cut.
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Use a thin cutting disc (I use 1.25mm thick ones for sheet metal) and cut through both of the panels. What will happen is, when you clamp the new panel on top of the old one it will sit about a millimeter or so lower than intended. When you then make your cut you remove that millimeter (the thickness of your disc) and the new panel will sit exactly were the old one was.
I put a few spot welds just to hold it in place.
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All gone. Hey look! More rot. Yay!
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And this is how it fits! Very nice if a may say so myself. It was easier than I expected.
This will later on be butt welded to the quarter panel (slowly to not warp it too much) and plug welded to the inner lip of the wheel arch.
I had to make a new lip myself aswell. I didn't take any pictures but I'll take some during the week and maybe film some of it.
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Ooh, very, very nice. I need something like that for my accord.
New body panels??? Were they selling unicorns too? Dodo birds? $1400 COVID stimulus checks? OMG!