Ivan's coupe: bodywork is done

[banpei]

Ivan141 Wrote:I never knew that song was linked with meatswinging.. But I'm sure we can all agree we'd rather watch the car spinning.

Totally agree that hachiwinging is much better!
Yeah I know: I work with a bunch of manics that open such sites when you leave your pc unlocked.

[The Doctor]

is it bad that i had to google that and now i wished i didn't

but good work on your Corosie! If you keep up your 'fix 2 holes a day' rule you'll get there. I talked about this with my dad, who saw your welding on your roof and he said you'll be fine with the quality work you allready did so far!

[robokill]

way to go Ivan!

[Ivan141]

A story in pictures:

Thought I found 2 holes last week, it turned out to be one whopper:



Drilled off the outrigger, the white stuff is phosphorous acid doing it's job.


Now we get a clear view of the inner sill.


Luckily, all was well inside on this end.


Thomas (the Doctor) was kind enough to lend a hand with the cleaning process. Found another hole, and a bunch of things that were fucked up by the guy I was paying to do my welding work before...oh well. F.U. Bert.


Fabbed me up a plate for the sill.


Clamp weld, rinse, repeat.



Then it's on to making a bit for the floor.. using a dutch seasonal favorite as template material.


Bish bash bosh, & presto:



Then fill in the wheelwell plating to finish things off.



Zink-sprayed it in preparation for next week when the outrigger is going back on.



It needed some derusting and some minor welding, but it was too late to continue working.


Inside was sprayed with rust converter to keep rust away untill I'm finished with welding.


There you go.. another 10 hours of hard work.. Glad I'm not in the restoration business... I cant imagine having to do this much faster.

[BOOMEX]

Nice

[slowboy2]

very nice work

[Aram]

Lol @ fijne feestdagen.

[banpei]

The Doctor Wrote:is it bad that i had to google that and now i wished i didn't

Nice job on that Feestdagen hole!

[Ivan141]

Another hole patched up

First I had to finish off last weeks work:



Then tackled another spot that has been an eyesore for a while...
It was just a tiny hole with a lot of surface rust, but that's usually a
bad sign. It certainly proved to be:



Exploratory incision in place, bathed it in acid to remove any leftover
surface rust.


Officially bodged:


I kinda strayed from my fix it factory style approach here because the multilayer stuff was a bit complicated, and the 4cm's of overlap where
probably the reason things got so ugly under there in the first place.
Will need to compensate for the slight loss in rigidity with some added strengthening though.

Didnt have time to tidy up the welding and think of reinforcement since I had to pick the missus up from the airport.

[Ivan141]

Another day in the garage passed.. I took up the challenge of the rear inner wheeltubs. What I feared for turned out to be very true: previous welding made working on this neatly damn near impossible.
It was worth doing though since I found tons of rust between the welded sections, and I needed to get the spring perch out anyway to be able to fix the hole in the framerail. Just getting it cleaned up took me a whole day and Im not done yet...

Here's how it began:



Panhard support opened:


The offending springperch:



Tools of the trade:




Peepwhole:


Bathed it in acid:





I'm afraid it's never going back to stock ae86 rear suspension.. too much work to get things back in shape and probably too much cost since I will need the spring perches new (if they are at all available).
Will be on the lookout for some escort weld in turrets or just build some myself.