Ivan's coupe: bodywork is done

[Ivan141]

Okay, short update.

Was at the lockup yesterday, slapping together a turbo engine for my volvo for a change, when I decided a day in the garage is not complete without some welding and grinding.

As always, the 86 delivers.

If you look carefully at the top door hinge location in this old picture, you'll see a pinhole where the metal is rusted through:


That was enough to annoy me, so I decided to grind that little bit out, and I did. As so many times before, the state of the metal on the inside shocked me, the whole back side was thoroughly pitted by rust, and the little bit I'd taken off wasnt the end of it. So I cut out some more untill I got the worst of it:



Going further than this was near impossible without removing other bits, but the rust wasn't bad enough beyond this point to warrant such a setback.

Cleaned up and zinc sprayed:



All patched up. The ugly holes are an eyesore, but It really is difficult to drill neat holes this big in thin sheet metal (here's me remembering I have a step drill (christmas tree) for just that purpose... doh..).
There's going to be a door hinge over those holes anyway, so I don't care to much.