Ivan's coupe: roof stuccowork

[Ivan141]

Thanks Mux, I did weld half the car together , a year has passed since I put it in the rotisserie, and everytime I think I'm close to finished I find something new.
BTW, you warned me back in the day about Bert's work, as you may have read, I now understand what you meant perfectly

Here's something I posted last week, but got lost when the server crashed:

Last weeks holes have been patched up as best as I could.



Cleaned up a bit, could have done a better job if my powerfile hadn't worn out.



Welded a gusset back in, ended up slightly chunky. Hope it wont get in the way of original parts too much (time will tell).



Dab of paint:



Almost done then? Yes, but I keep thinking up new crap to put off the next step in this resto. These spots are not pretty from close up, so I will do something about them.



Anyhoo, what remains for me to do is to make the best of the last few rusty spots, which probably includes redoing the other chassis to firewall gusset Bert made, just to make sure there is no shit underneath, and make it look like the one I did above.
After that I will attempt to hang the entire back end by the new shock mounts on our engine hoist A-frame (you'll see what I mean later) and remove the rear rotisserie stand so I can chop off the end of the chassis beam there for rust repairs.

With that behind me I'm proclaiming her cancer-free, and will proceed to add further chassis strenghtening while I have the chance, including some seam welding. I've been doing some left and right and it is very easy. Only big shit job left before I can seam weld the whole car is to clean the rest of the undercoating off.

About acid dipping -> I'd love too, and can afford to have it done, but without a subsequent E-coating (KTL) bath it is probably not wise to get everything to bare metal (nothing is put back in place). An E-coat is something I can't afford at this point in my life. The full process costs +-3000 euro's, a lot of money to sink into a corolla when your just about to get a house.