clockworked
Like an orange
no updates for a month now? anything happening on the projects?
Project Car / Motorbike thread. Let's see 'em.
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binner
Hath shat hymself
going slow
had real dramas on the front skin fitting. It comes as two pieces so you have to be spot on with marrying them up together. You can see the lower pink horizontal. This is where the join is and you have to get the total drop length right plus get the lower indicator housing correct and generally measure 5 times and cut once. Lots of reference points as well to make sure its all square.
Started to add some FAT MAT (dynomat basically, but a bit cheaper) sound deadener to some panels, esp in the front skin where you normally get bad road noise. you proll cant tell unless you are a keen VW kombi freak but I also shaved the 10mm panel join kinda where the tray meets the rear cab. Its a vertical lip that they wrap the lower tray panel to the cab panel. I have always hated the look of the lip so I finally did it. Took alot of rewelding and reinforcing on the inside of the panels but now it looks super smooth. There was also a seam that ran from the roof line down to the lower sill on the rear end of the cab, so I filled that to make it a lot smoother.
Hopefully she will be painted by the weekend and I can move onto interior.
had real dramas on the front skin fitting. It comes as two pieces so you have to be spot on with marrying them up together. You can see the lower pink horizontal. This is where the join is and you have to get the total drop length right plus get the lower indicator housing correct and generally measure 5 times and cut once. Lots of reference points as well to make sure its all square.
Started to add some FAT MAT (dynomat basically, but a bit cheaper) sound deadener to some panels, esp in the front skin where you normally get bad road noise. you proll cant tell unless you are a keen VW kombi freak but I also shaved the 10mm panel join kinda where the tray meets the rear cab. Its a vertical lip that they wrap the lower tray panel to the cab panel. I have always hated the look of the lip so I finally did it. Took alot of rewelding and reinforcing on the inside of the panels but now it looks super smooth. There was also a seam that ran from the roof line down to the lower sill on the rear end of the cab, so I filled that to make it a lot smoother.
Hopefully she will be painted by the weekend and I can move onto interior.
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wespelarno
Likes Dirt
I'm about to start grinding the interior metalwork of my brothers challenger. Stripping the chassis back to bare metal, seeing how far the cancer has made it and depending on how complex the steel is, welding up to holes or installing new sheetmetal. I'm fairly confident I can do all the needed metalwork, although there is one section I'll possibly need help with, depending on the extent of the damage. Should be fun.
binner
Hath shat hymself
color of money.
shazzam!!
Thanks bloke, I'm happy I went with 2 colors. I was going to go all green but now the break with white looks hot.
shazzam!!
binner
Hath shat hymself
good teachers
The hard stuff is done, now it's on to the fun stuff of fitting all the parts...........
thanks mate, I owe it all to my Dad,Grandad,Uncle and older brother, they all taught me from a real early age about mechanics,electrics,hands on skills that I use every day.
The hard stuff is done, now it's on to the fun stuff of fitting all the parts...........
brisneyland
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mate that is sick!
binner
Hath shat hymself
pin her up
once its finished get your pinup gal,slip her in the DC and find a tight local for some sweet shots.............. :thumb:
thanks fella.....
once its finished get your pinup gal,slip her in the DC and find a tight local for some sweet shots.............. :thumb:
EMF
Eats Squid
name in lights
not to mention the neons that use to work until someone attacked the wiring
binner
Hath shat hymself
CSI miami
no triton fella, buying a sweet corona CSI though for the run around car while I pilfer parts off the SC ute.
udi
swiss cheese
Playing that peaches song.