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]

Lets get back on the track )

Days 4-5 of work:

Finally, reasembled the front, and fixed all the gaps. Now they are all practicly equal. Wasnt really too hard cuz i almost got all the shapes right then i hammered fenders. Atleast now the front of the car look not out of shape This was the end of the work on the front...













Second custom thing for Edosmobile - Strut bar... This sucker got my nerves totaly, cuz making it was like a hell.... first - what ever i did - i did wrong making it... Either it hitted hood, or was hitting engine... so i had to make the front bar bend in the both ends.. and etc... well Lets start with the pics:

This is the beggining of the side mounts. Cutting them with disc cutter, and them sanding them till the equal shape... Takes time, but in the end - worth it.





This is the end link of the front bar, i sanded it down (sanded all the welds) and got pretty nice shape Needed to make them both equal on the both ends so this took time still...







Fitted the strud bar to see is there any issues with it or not... Thanks god - no problems now Anything that is left - 2 center bars...




Working today took me whole day to make these 2 bars.... Cuz my welding machine was going crazy... shiz i need new one.. either it was over powered but it burned metal compleatly in few places... so i had to start all over again and again... Welll in the end it my welder setle down and i almost finished - 90% done.. Still need to weld small triangles on the end mounts, and get the bar to get sandblasted and then Edo will chrome it







Third custom thing - Side skirts, and then i will move to interior

keep an eye guys