Ivan's coupe: roof stuccowork
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06-12-2015, 09:45 PM
Post: #449
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RE: Ivan141's coupe [project rebooted]
And I'm back for another round of the never-ending project. Landed in the Netherlands yesterday and I had the day off, so off to the barn it was.
Today's tasklist consisted of multiple small-fry jobs: -Grinding back some earlier welding -Placing a captive nut for the steering column gaiter. -Install bumper mount points (rivnuts) -See how far I get with fitting sideskirts. Here's some crappy pictures to hurt your eyes with: -M6 rivnut for the bumper to fender mount should do (used stainless here). -Same as viewed from bottom.. this pic also betrays the car's rear end frankenstein patchwork nature. -Hard to see, but I spot welded the nuts in 2 places to avoid them ever coming loose. -A Haslbeck sideskirt was offered up.. Thing of interest: store these plastic parts without weighty items stacked on them... everything was deformed :S -After looking at everyones pretty pictures of these skirts, I am quite dissapointed with the fit of mine... and the added hole in the side, which frankly is necessary for this to fit right. Needs pressing in here. -Here's where welding your own non-oem fenders comes to haunt you. This side is maybe 1,5-2 mm's too wide, so the end tab that sits in the door jamb needs to be bent to accommodate for this. -They look cool though: -Had to do some heating and bending to get the bottom lip to line up neatly. -Made rivnut fittings for one side along the bottom lip. There was not much space for rivnuts (and I refuse to use self-tappers), so I had to add some material first. -Had to weld them from the back because I broke the cheap chinese tool I had for them . The layers of that bottom lip where too thick for the rivnuts I had.... this will work equally well though: Sadly my phone battery was dead after that last picture so there will be no more eyesores for now. FABRICA MI DIEM, PVNC! |
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