Please doGGy pimp my ride....., Online Diary, fixing Edo's Car.... Options

[doGGy]

Hehe, Well..... Lets start.

First of all, who aint know yet, me and Edo (Link to his profile >>>) where contacting eatch other about 2 years now. He helped me alot, i did the same. We live about 1700 miles away from eatch other (he's italian), but we talked alot on phone and etc. So....

The deal is - Edo, was going to fix his car from the accident hes got, and he wanted full repaint. In italy they charge about 2500 euros (2800$) for full repaint with color change. So i offerend him my help, and aranged everything here for a full repaint with color change a LOOOOOooooot cheaper

I aranged the truck (my friend buys cars from Italy, so he helped me with bringing Edos car here), and after 5 days of waiting i drove his car home




From the first look, there wasnt too much wokr on his car... But... after some further examination.. i found Waaaayyyyyy too much things to do before it goes to paint shop.. Here it is, the damage and things need to be fixed:

Fender..... Out of shape - compleatly, the whole shape is made out of Bondo... What the hell do goys thought then they fix it? The metal is not even straighted, the dents are all letf and instead of hamerring the metal out to the place they fixed it with bondo.....



Bumper, needed a bit of heat gun, and soldering gun And after 30 min it was just like new



Driver side fender... it looked just like not a big dent.... hmmm, till i started to hamer it... It seemed like both fenders had a big damage, but instead of shaping metal to its original pl;ace, the guys who fixed car before, go the fender shape outt of bondo, with offcorse started to crack....



Side skirts - Going Custom Baby I will make my own style of sides for him anyway, so what ever the damage is - i dont care



Interior.... Who ever painted this - deserves to be shoot. Wiring... Oh man Edo, you know what i thought I will rewire everything, and mount the Profec E01 to the shifter trim, so it will be NO wires all around, and everything will be safe and clear




Well, enouth ox examinations...... Lets start works

After about hour, his car looked like this... Hood was open, and works where fully began.



30 min later - both fenders are out of the car, waiting till i remove whole bondo from them, sand them till bare metal, and then hammer them to the original shape.

[doGGy]

Lol..... Guys, thanks for the comments, and i totaly agree with Digndoug - im not a God at all.... there is no line about me in bible LOL....

Well back on subject:

3 DAY OF WORK on Edo's Celica.

Not done much, cuz whole day i spent fixing small things and preparing all the pieces for reasembling.

Lets start with the Rust fixing chemicals:

The smallest bottle is Rust cohesive material, its the best one i ever used from company Hammerite. Then id dryes it is like epoxyd, really good stuff, you can straight paint on it or use bondo or primers. The second bottle on the left is Rust fixing primer, witch contains some rust cohesive characteristic it is really good to use after all the rust or bare mettal is brushed with the first material. And the third, the biggest bottle - really good anti-rust wax, it is really tenacious, and it is really sticky so it is good to use in the places there the water gets - it stops water compleatly before it gets to the mettal.



Here the first material used to fix all the rust and the bare metal, after brushing it - all the places gets dark blue and they are covered in like a thin some sort of skin.





After about 3 hours - the rust fixing primer comes to play, i use it everythere there the first chemical was used, just to make sure better covering from rusting in these places.





And here it is - all mighty Wax, im covering full iner side of the fender - just in case And for better covering





I'v still had to fix one headlight, i did the left mount from piece of plastic, lots of gluing, lots of soldering, but it came pretty not too bad And it is strong, really strong.



Fixed the headlight holdes (bottom bars), they there all bended and out fo the shape, after hammering and bending them back - i needed to repaint them cuz in most parts paint was chiping away.



And the final - the fun part, made some side bars Took about 3 hours on them, but they came pretty not too bad, changed the original design a bit, cuz with the DG performance designt the wiring is a bit in the place there they have to go, so i made the design of them different.... hope they will help you Edo




Tomorow is reasembling and corecting all the gaps on the car day gonna see if i did all the metal works corectly Stay tuuuuuuuunnnnnnned for the updates I already ordered paint, this car is going to be one of the HELL color But this will have to wait