Ivan's coupe: bodywork is done

[Ivan141]

Well it would be hard not to notice the decline of forums all over the place, what baffles me is the complete lack of usable alternatives.
I dump some pics on FB, but mostly no one there gives a f*ck about cars and it will soon be buried in non-relevant nonsense.
Becoming a middle-aged fart means I flat out refuse to add an instagram account since I fail to see the point (FB is bad enough).
Forum build threads remain the gold standard as far as I'm concerned,only it would be handy if we could somehow separate build posts
and banter posts like these to make for friendlier reading later.

Af far as the shrinking with heat goes, I've had a go ad a dented door last friday and it didnt go too badly at all, but that oil-canning effect is
very sneaky. Solve it in one spot and it appears in another.. Which usually indicates that the problem was somewhere else to begin with.

I have 2 trunk lids with some blasting damage that I can use for practice.. one is quite bad so I figure it's hard to ruin it..
Get the dent to pop above the surface (pop it out so it's convex), then start shrinking the domed area back with the shrinking disc.
I figure the roof might respond better to a propane torch since the affected areas are larger. Must be cautious with the amount of heat used.
Contrary to what you often see you dont need red glowing metal to do shrinking..


About the rear strut gusset: It's more eye-candy than it is useful. You might notice I've completely ditched the original shock mounting points and
replaced them with 2mm thick boxes. Mostly because the organic shapes of the original where hard to reproduce so I figured I might as well make
new ones that will accomodate coilovers more easily. The gusset makes the square boxes look a bit less ungainly, ties the lot together and accomodates many
flared holes that look impressive.