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]

Here we go again, another day - another update

REAR END REWORK:

First of all - say BYE BYE to Quatro exhaust LOL This needed to go sooner or later, so it was the day i finally cutted it down



He he LOVE this tool so much, i could cut with it all the day long and wount be tired - LOVE destroing



After cutting the exhaust, i desided instead of simply glassing the rear - change the design of the rear lip a bit. Soooo some cutting sanding drilling was requered to make my idea work.







NOTE TO EVERYONE: Before any glassing on the dry fiberglass of other types of plastics drill lots of small holes around the area you will be using fiberglass, it improves the sticking of fiberglass and it will reinforce the places there you lay the fiberglass. This is important then connecting FG with normal plastics or poliuretanium.



After holes are drilled im using the special foam used in building gliders, to fill the empty spaces, and to make the needed shape of the places i will be fiberglassing. THis foam is resistible to fiberglass, head, or any other materials, really easy to work with and Very very expensive (1 sq meter of 2 cm thicknes foam costs about 30$). It is easy to glue it to anything using hot glue gun or just simple Bondo (or filler like we in Europe call it )

Here are the empty spaces filed with the foat and the shape is sanded down.







Well after the shape is finished - fibergalssing takes place. Im using normal FB fabrics (not the random cutted one - like we call it Mat here). It lays really smoth i lay about 4-6 layers of it.

NOTE: If your laying FG on the places what are not easy to reach or they are in vertical position, brush the epoxyd resin on the places you will lay FG and dry it a bit with Heatgun, let it dry for about 5-10 min, it will get sticky and will holw the FG better, wount let it slide down.

here are the pics of the shapes fully fiberglassed, this was the End of this day, cuz i had to fiberglass the sides skirts a bit too in few places, and as long as it is COLD here again (+4 - 6 C only ) so Fb dryes longer.. Tomorow i will resand the places there i layed FG, and bondo them to get a smoth surface and will take better pics for you guys to judge








Well Thank yu guys again for your kind words As for more write up - sorry but somtime i just can have power to write more - cuz im working on This car like 8-10 hours a day and still need to arange lots of other projects that are in process... so it takes everything from me....