Cut. Weld. Sleep. Part #2

Published: Friday, 08 May 2015

Quite a long period of time is behind since last topic posted. Previously I did show some of initial progress on shell restoration where I cut out sideskirts and welded in new ones. Removed interior sound deadening, unnecessary brackets, started shell stitiching to improve it's stiffness.

As the shell required to bring it to at least good enough condition I did continue to work on.

The passengers side skirt been cut out and removed completely to weld a new one.

In this pic you may see passenger side skirt sitting in place it belongs to.

After it engine bay was the next. As said and shown in previous topics everything was clean under bonnet except one minor place under battery.

So it was just covered with new layer of epoxy primer:

Front chassis legs and front wing supports stitched to give addtional stiffness and later epoxy primed. Those blue/black places have been rust treated after stitch welding before using epoxy primer.

Upper A pillar had some of rust under windscreen sills. The corner of roof had damage obviously. Everything fixed and isolated.

Plenum chamber will be shaved too

That's it for front chassis part which remained quite well. I can't say so about rear part which I moved later to. First of all I cut lower part of trunk panel. Lowest spots of that panel were rusted.

I had no reason to restore it because of:

a) Having no lower part makes you able to fit diffuser easier

b) I have a body kit, which anyway will completely cover it.

c) Even uncovered these short ass mk2's looks better.