1987 3.2 Carrera Backdate project - Sladeys hotrod

[BILLY BEAN]

More CAD work




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Is that Autocad 2000? Looks familiar.

[sladey]

That’s the one - it’s the weetabix version

[Darren65]

Long overdue catch up with this thread......way to go Mark, great progress and thanks for sharing

[sladey]

Ok fair enough Darren - a few things have happened

[sladey]

OK it looks its been a while then. First I had to repair the other corner of the wing I’d cut off




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Then I stripped the whole wing inside and out before epoxy masticing the inside




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Then it was time to fit it back onto the car...

This is part way through - I spread out my pulse welding to try and avoid heat build-up in any one area




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[sladey]

Fully on





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A bit of satin black to keep the rust away.



Time to move on to the next repair....


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[sladey]

The bottom part of the drip rail




Now this had been a problem for a number of years. I’d tried a bit of a fix at the last restoration work involving some lead. I was never happy with how it turned out and sure enough it started rusting through badly within a year

I was nervous about doing this bit as it’s awkward - you’ve got the roof part coming down which curves up into a flange, and then you’ve got the wing part coming up from below which folds over that roof flange, forming the gutter.

The bit above is after I started to grind off the top of the folded over flange. I wanted to make sure I left as much of the roof flange as possible so I would have something to fold over



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[sladey]

Luckily I found a YouTube video by Trev’s Blog (who is weird but utterly excellent) who had done this exact repair.

I photographed the screen as it was playing - this is the flange he made, which was the exact shape I had to make




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[sladey]

This was the piece I cut out




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And after much fannying about with a bumper and flipper I ended up with this




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[sladey]

Which didnt fit too badly as it happened

(Still had to do some trimming back after this was taken




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[sladey]

Tacked into place




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