My name is Earl, and I have a Stainless Steel bolt fetish =)
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looking great earl hurry and get "r" done
No rush=) I would rather get it done right the first time
On a side note, welder couldn't make it Saturday and Lil Joe still hasn't gotten his roller back to do my fenders. Nothing got done this weekend at all
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Been a while since the last update.
Zero progress on the welding and rear fender work. Trying to get all that sorted out.
I am hopefully placing my order with Downstar this week for the hardware kit for my engine. I've just been sorting out what bolts will be able to use their beauty washers. Unfortunately there are three m7 bolts that they can't source because m7 is hard to come by=( I will try and figure that out.
Yesterday I reorganized and cleaned my shop spot up. I also took pictures of things with my new phone because the camera is much better=)
Enough talking, on to pics.
Here is how far the bay got the other day before running out of gas.
Hopefully this next week I quit dragging my ass and get this back in gear.
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This is looking awesome man, just went through your whole build. Keep up the hard work!
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My rear fenders finally got worked over yesterday=)
Saturday was spent moving my stuff around yet again at the shop. I am thinking about relocating to a different shop that a friend of mine is moving into. I would have more space, running water, a toilet, and a small office.
Yesterday I smoothed out the welds for the holes in the bay.
A friend of mine was going over my welded seems and advised me to go a little different direction. Everything he said made total sense to me now and made me feel like a total idiot. According to him, all of these cold tacks have the opportunity to pop when force is applied. This would cause the filler to crack in that location. He also said that once I get it all cleaned back up, I should use a ball peen hammer to tighten the seems up. I don't know how that skipped my mind but now I know=)
Onto the fenders.
The drivers side went really smooth and just needs minimal bodywork. The passenger side is the one that had surface rust and that caused issues. The metal cracked at each end of the arch and once in the middle. This broke up the smoothness, but it will be an easy fix with a little massaging with a hammer and some sanding.
I am very surprised that the arches pulled this far. They are on the verge of as far as they can be pulled without cutting the inner fender. I need to do some slight trimming, heating, and bending of the rear bumper to get it to fit up just right, but that shouldn't be too big of an issue.
Alright, onto pictures.
The hard thing to try and fade out with the roller was the body line and it is still pretty visible. When the car goes for paint that will be smoothed out and transitioned cleanly. This is just a crude pull/roll to get the fender where it needs to be and to give it the general shape=)
I am still working on the engine hardware and am really shooting to get that wrapped up later this week, early next week. Now that the fenders are roughed out I should be able to get the fronts sitting right to match. I also need to solidify my air line routing and get my trunk setup mocked up.
Motivation is at an all time high finally.
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Needs more toe-in.... I see about an inch of space between your side skirts and the ground so im going to have to say that it also needs more low
The toe in when you lower e30 rear suspension gets insane. I may be biting the bullet on having a set of adjustable trailing arms made by Dominant Engineering. That will calm things down a bit=P
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damn.
nice work.
do a burnout?
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i like the after picture earl. very good job. i must come out there to see what you've done so far.
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I attempted to be a little productive on Saturday=)
The first thing I did was work on my intake manifold.
There are three bolts that hold the upper half of the manifold to the lower manifold. Two of them are M7x55 and the other is M7x100. When I placed my order with Downstar, Frank notified me that M7 hardware is very uncommon and that he could not source any. I could have just opted to order OEM replacement bolts, but they would just be zinc coated steel head head bolt. That was unacceptable since they wouldn't match the rest of my hardware. I then had the thought to ask if M8 hardware was easier to get. Frank told me that he could easily get me M8 hardware in the sizes I need. Saturday I ended up drilling out the holes in the upper manifold to fit M8 bolts through. I then drilled and tapped the lower manifold to accept the new hardware. I forgot to get pictures, but it looks exactly how it sounds. All for the sake of looking good=DAfter that ordeal I decided to fit up the front end so I could adjust the front fenders properly before pulling them a bit more.
It is nice to see a face on her after being apart since December. You can see how the front fenders sit way too high compared to the rears. You can also see that I have a little bit more plastidip to peel......fun
John and I tried to do the old magazine fender pull trick but we couldn't get it to pull as far as I would like. Time to borrow a roller again.
I also snagged another shot of the rear fenders that need to be tweaked a bit more for my liking.
I am hoping my hardware shows up early in the week so that I can start getting the motor back together again=)
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