Mark's (914Rubber) Project Car Options

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I've been asked by Mark to do some sheet metal/body work on his 75 2.0 Liter project car. The car arrived last Monday. But I needed to finish up a couple things on my project car and in my shop first. But I dove in this afternoon.

First task is to tidy things up after the paint stripping. Which included dropping the engine in order remove any residual media in the nooks and crannies. I was concerned with the rust prevention product that Dustless Blaster mixes with the glass media being left on and in the electrical connections. I'm a firm believer of an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. I dribbled some OSPHO on a couple connectors in my white car. Not good. It ate the crap out the plating.

Here's Super In Law working on loosening up the media in order to blow it off. It will need to be steam cleaned.






Project List : So Far

Replace rear panel
Replace rear trunk floor pan
Replace back half of floor pan ............... Mark I'll send you pictures
Misc. hammer and dolly work
A few misc. patch panels
R&R both jack points and posts
This is like a new car compared to my project ...............

Observations :

Suspension Consoles look great and seem to be virgin.
Same with the motor mounts
Battery tray was changed at some time in its life
Back engine tray is bent to hell .............pushed up
Hell hole is filled with caked in blast media. Stopping at Sears on the way home for a new filter for my vacuum. I'll look closely for prior repairs.
Both the lower longs look great at first glance

Needing more research :

A few rust pits on the upper right outer wheelhouse long


But we also a have fairly good sized rust spot a little further up the upper long. Right next to the suspension console.


These are both in the double walled section of the upper long.

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Battery tray and its support hit the floor first. Because it was seam welded it came out in pieces. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sawzall-smiley.gif)
Next came the engine shelf. Needs to come out to open up the top rail. It's reusable.


Once again a hillbilly double layered patch comes to light. That's the vertical firewall above the hell hole.


Now I peel off the top layer only on the top rail. Basically delicately cut a slot with the cut off wheel. Then peel it back with screwdriver and or small wood chisel.
As I hit spot welds I cut them down from the top side with the mandrel mounted cutting wheel.


Arsenal of cutting wheels ................


Here's a top side view of what remains of the mouse nest.


Inside shot of the original large hole I created with the screwdriver.


Mission Complete ................