Rusty bucket into Solo toy, Some highlights of my budget autocross build from rust to rocket |
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Rusty bucket into Solo toy, Some highlights of my budget autocross build from rust to rocket |
Han Solo |
Sep 30 2013, 10:40 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 288 Joined: 30-September 13 From: Middle Tennessee Member No.: 16,456 Region Association: South East States |
New to this forum but I've been around 944s, 924Ss, Boxster and Cayman forums for years.
This one is going to take some time. Purchased for $900, non-running but otherwise complete '73 914 2.0. Certainly just beyond a viable restoration car but probably okay for what I plan to do with it. Here's some highlights of the tear down... On the trailer going to the house. Attached thumbnail(s) |
Han Solo |
Jan 18 2014, 09:57 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 288 Joined: 30-September 13 From: Middle Tennessee Member No.: 16,456 Region Association: South East States |
So today I did the small patch under the long. This area is over-laid by the suspension console and has two layers of sheet metal. You'll see in the fourth photo where I laid the console over the finished patch. After making the patch I was preparing to treat the area and dug out all the seam sealer in the corner by the firewall. Probably my least favorite procedure but a heat gun definitely helps root that mess out. I then treated the wheel house side, the long and got treatment up inside the long. I also metal prep'ed the replacement suspension console from RD. That's a really nice stamped and welded part. After rinsing and drying everything I sprayed weld through primer on the surfaces covered by the console and the inside of console. I looked very carefully at how that new part will fit and made some measurements. I thought that I would be able to align that by using the original position (drilled out spot welds and paint). But there's too much room for mis-alignment. I'm going to make a jig of some kind using the drivers side. So I moved to the underside of the long. The last photo shows the carnage there. That's going to be my largest patch yet. I'm planing on one long piece of sheet metal for max strength.
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