1987 3.2 Carrera Backdate project - Sladeys hotrod

sladey · Post by **sladey** » Fri Aug 02, 2019 9:55 pm

Not an easy piece

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sladey · Post by **sladey** » Fri Aug 02, 2019 9:56 pm

Did it in two pieces in the end

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sladey · Post by **sladey** » Fri Aug 02, 2019 9:57 pm

While cleaning up the arch I found another sodding hole

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sladey · Post by **sladey** » Fri Aug 02, 2019 9:59 pm

Now with protective epoxy mastic applied.

I booked it into the body shop today - for October.

By then I’ve got to replace the front slam panel and check out some corrosion near the windscreen which I’m hoping is surface stuff - we’ll see!

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sladey · Post by **sladey** » Fri Aug 02, 2019 9:59 pm

Nice to get an undamaged bonnet back on again

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hot66 · Post by **hot66** » Sat Aug 03, 2019 12:14 am

Looking good Sladey

sladey · Post by **sladey** » Sat Aug 03, 2019 7:14 am

Thanks James

Boydyrs · Post by **Boydyrs** » Sat Aug 03, 2019 9:14 am

Love this....brilliant work.

jtparr · Post by **jtparr** » Sat Aug 03, 2019 10:46 pm

Good to see the momentum’s still there Mark...

Post by **Bootsy** » Sun Aug 04, 2019 10:00 am

That’s not what Mrs Sladey says

sladey · Post by **sladey** » Sun Aug 04, 2019 1:24 pm

Thanks guys. And you Thomas.

Re momentum, I think having a date for the respray helps planning the remaining jobs

Re mrs Sladey, I get no momentum complaints

sladey · Post by **sladey** » Tue Aug 27, 2019 9:16 pm

OK a bit more of an update, and a new deadline!

Before I left the rear of the car it was niggling me that I could see what looked like some corrosion on the wing near the oil tank.

I thought I could get a wire brush in there on a stick and then paint it, but I soon realise I’d have to do it properly, so took the oil tank out

This is what it looked like inside

Yep - not nice.Ironically the bit I had been worried about was just surface rust. - the problem bit was around the rear light. - I hadn’t even spotted that.

And yes you can see daylight through that crack

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sladey · Post by **sladey** » Tue Aug 27, 2019 9:19 pm

OK so welding up a hole onto thin metal isn’t the easiest thing to do so I used the old copper trick

Clamped onto the outside and then welded from the back (after taking off the flakey stuff inside. After a while that left me with a solid base on the inside and I was able to finish off from the outside and clean it up

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sladey · Post by **sladey** » Tue Aug 27, 2019 9:20 pm

Came out quite well in the end

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sladey · Post by **sladey** » Tue Aug 27, 2019 9:22 pm

Now inevitably while there oil tank was out of the car I decided to strip it and repaint it.

While stripping it down I found this

Not too clever I think you’ll agree - It wouldn’t be long before this snapped off

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