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> Laguna Blue 75 build thread, Freshly painted
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post Mar 5 2024, 05:02 PM
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Made a milestone today. We’ve been doing part and rust removal from this car since we got it. Today I got to actually weld a new piece on. It was a small but therapeutic milestone.

Welded in the floor patch I had fabricated.




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This is badass, Tim. I wish I had your skills to fab up the wood to press out sheet metal parts.
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post Mar 5 2024, 05:32 PM
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The previous owner told us the hell hole and longs had been done and he seemed like an honest car guy. So that was dumb and naive of me. It was clear that a bunch of work had been done around the hell hole, which looked good from the engine bay. When we got it home and on the lift we were faced with a rusted out lower firewall.
Ordered a firewall repair panel.
We pulled the engine today and cut out the lower firewall and it’s pretty ugly.



looks like you are cutting into virgin territory!
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post Mar 5 2024, 06:31 PM
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QUOTE(friethmiller @ Mar 5 2024, 06:02 PM) *

QUOTE(Tim17 @ Jan 30 2024, 06:53 PM) *

Made a milestone today. We’ve been doing part and rust removal from this car since we got it. Today I got to actually weld a new piece on. It was a small but therapeutic milestone.

Welded in the floor patch I had fabricated.




Tim

This is badass, Tim. I wish I had your skills to fab up the wood to press out sheet metal parts.

@friethmiller
From what I’ve seen of your restoration effort, you’re just one HF hydraulic press away from forming your own parts. I’ve been going to school on your posts.

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post Mar 5 2024, 06:36 PM
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QUOTE(dr914@autoatlanta.com @ Mar 5 2024, 06:32 PM) *

QUOTE(Tim17 @ Jan 5 2024, 02:30 PM) *

The previous owner told us the hell hole and longs had been done and he seemed like an honest car guy. So that was dumb and naive of me. It was clear that a bunch of work had been done around the hell hole, which looked good from the engine bay. When we got it home and on the lift we were faced with a rusted out lower firewall.
Ordered a firewall repair panel.
We pulled the engine today and cut out the lower firewall and it’s pretty ugly.



looks like you are cutting into virgin territory!


@dr914 I didn’t understand what you meant by that. Surely nothing you haven’t seen before.

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post Mar 16 2024, 04:54 PM
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Making good headway on the repairs on the right side. Got the inner long repaired, and rebuilt the front corner of the long by the A pillar. Fabricated the inner and outer skin of the outer long ahead of the suspension console. Reinstalled the heater piping and welded in the outer skin of the long.
Next up is finishing welding in the newly fabricated parts and a whole bunch of grinding.

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post Mar 17 2024, 08:27 AM
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Nice work Tim!
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post Mar 23 2024, 11:51 AM
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Nice work Tim!

Thanks Duane
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Got the rear long panels all welded up and installed the jack pad and seam sealed it.
Addressed rusty portion of the fender panel before tack welding it into place. Door gap was tight when we started, but really tightened up more after all the welding on the long even with the door braces. Had some good input earlier from @Superhawk996 to wait to address this.

With the fender tacked in solidly, went to work on the door gap and got that looking pretty good, by slitting the fender and repositioning the door frame edge and tacking it.

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It feels good to have the major structural repairs done and to have the door closing ok and restoring the door gap.
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post Mar 23 2024, 02:38 PM
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If I wasn’t so attached to doing things the hard way, I would have cut my rear quarter in order to better control the gap. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

Looking really nice!
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post Dec 12 2024, 03:02 PM
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After taking to summer off on this car, we spend the past month prepping the body for paint and shot the paint on it today. The PO had painted it something similar to Laguna Blue, but we returned it to its original color. This is single stage 2K urethane. Looks like with a little wet sanding and buffing we’ll have a pretty decent paint job.
I really like this color.

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post Dec 12 2024, 05:33 PM
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That’s nice. I like the color!

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post Dec 12 2024, 07:12 PM
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Picked up this 30" HF sheet metal brake on sale yesterday and mounted it on the wall.
Bent up a short length of 18g sheet into a U as a test. It did fine but I could see the movable jaw deflecting which will only deflect more with wider stock. Thinking about adding more rigidity to this.
Anybody else modified one of these? I still think its a great value at $63.



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Yes. I welded in angle iron from a bed frame found at the curb. You need to do something to strengthen them.
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Wow that looks great! Gotta love a freshly painted 914.

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post Dec 15 2024, 11:47 AM
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Woohoo! Looks amazing.
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Progress is great, keep it going.

Is the power plant in good condition?
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Progress is great, keep it going.

Is the power plant in good condition?


Thanks, we were in rust repair purgatory for a lot of hours. Pretty psyched about how it looks painted. This is my second paint job and first experience spraying single stage. My first was 2 stage when I painted my GT6+.

The PO had the 1.8 rebuilt to a 1.9 with a Web cam and Webers. We ran it long enough to break in the cam. Looking forward to getting it drivable so we can see how it does.

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That is a phenomenal color! Great work.
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