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[slowrodent]

That is really one beautiful car.... Excellent workmanship!!

[ndfrigi]

wow! congratulations!

[autopro]

Dion, slowrodent and ndfrigi thank you very much for the kind words fellas!

I know this is out of place and it should have been done before painting but I didn't have everything I needed at the time it had to be done. So here we are and now I have to be super careful not to damage the new paint.

I needed to make the flairs to the side skirts and the front and rear bumper valance. Here is a little bit of the process of how I made them.

First I made some general shapes with cardboard.




After I get the general shape that I need i take them off and put some packing tape on the inside. These work as my mold.



Even though the packing tape releases well from the fiberglass I always put a coat or two of mold release.

[autopro]

Piece out of the mold and checking to see how they fit.





And now to splice them onto the existing skirts



Added more fiberglass to the back side to bond them.



Then after some body filler and some shaping we have the finished product

[autopro]

A few more shots of the work and the semi-finished parts. They still need prime and block sanding to get them ready for paint.

Front valance



Side skirts







Parts ready for primer, still need to work on the rear valance, hopefully by next week it will be done also.

[Dion]

The fiberglass work is absolutely brilliant. Can you please redo my front belly pan to match? Very sharp Pedro.

On another note the “Taxi” has piqued my interest.
VW Scirocco, Audi Quattro or Isuzu . The square body shape at front is throwing me off. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

Keep the pics coming!

[autopro]

Hey Dion, that's my friends AE86, he uses it for drifting and he thought it would be funny if we painted it like a taxi frome here in Tijuana LOL

Sure man, I would be glad to help. Let me know what you need done to the belly pan and I'll do it for you.

[autopro]

Headlight buckets all painted up and assembled. I did re-use the bushings and adjusting blocks as they were in good shape. Painted with satin gray Rust-Oleum spray paint.

[Root_Werks]

That blue, wow.

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[autopro]

That blue, wow.

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I know, it really pops.

Not too much progress this week sadly. I didn't have the original horns for the car so I got these Hella's model H31000001 off eBay



Headlights in, but need adjustment. I'll have better pictures of the installation later on.

[autopro]

Upon test fitting the front bumper the fog lights were not quite centered on the holes of the grill. I had to modify the mounting brackets so that they would be centered.

Here is a picture of the back of the fog light and what the mounting ears look like



Here is the modification that was made, excuse the ugly welds I ran out of gas and had to use the flux core wire.

[autopro]

And this is how I mounted them. But I messed up and now I have to fix it. I need the ears of the bracket from the light to be on the outside of the small bracket that gets bolted to the body (IMG:style_emoticons/default/hissyfit.gif)



At least they are centered and look really good for some aftermarket fog lights from ebay.

[autopro]

I've been working on the war but have been slacking on posting up my pictures so here goes.

Headlight covers before and after. Cleaned them up and let them sit in a bucket with chlorine and water for a couple of days. Hit it with some barkeepers friend at the end and the result was pretty good.

[autopro]

Painted and installed the trim with new hardware.





Side skirts and bumper valances primed and ready for paint

[autopro]

Making sure they fit well before I paint them.

[autopro]

I'm going to wait a little while before I paint all those pieces black because I also want to paint my roof while I am at it. For this reason I jumped to the wiring harness. I have been dreading this job for a while but it also has to get done.

Here the installation of the new snorkel.



Then working on the new washer pump switch. Installation is pretty straight forward and simple for this switch thanks to all the great info that is here on the site.



Then it was time to start running the wiring harness. Started at the tunnel and worked my way to both ends.

[autopro]

Harnes ran through the engine compartment.



Then into the trunk





Out the back for the license plate lights with the new grommets.

[autopro]

Mounted the fuse panel under the dash, some of those fuses are probably still original (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)



Installing the steering column to check that all my lights and the washer pump work.



Then it was a matter of running it to the front of the car.

[autopro]

Doing the euro conversion. I was having a grounding issue by just grounding to the bucket so I ran the ground wire all the way to the harness.








New spade connectors and wiring the the harness.



Boot installed

[Dion]

Nicely done as usual Pedro. Coming along so well. How did you get the front turn signal buckets to shine so well? They look new!
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