This is MY 67 Camaro

[Leadfoot1]

WoW!!! Thats a lot of work!!

Im just thinking...did you ever tought about an acid bath or something? Followed by electrodeposit primer or the like? I saw that done a few times and to take care of all the rust like you seem to be wanting to do it might have been the ticket!! Not sure it would have come that expensive, and it would have covered every spec of rust!! I consider myself a little asking on quality work but when it comes to getting to EVERY little spot...Man, it just never can be done. You really seem to want to get every inch done so i wonder if that system crossed your mind or not.

Great job so far! Keep it up! You are one patient dude!

Lead.

[Sonar Chief]

Originally Posted by Steve68

Time for the handheld sand blaster,and clean that up,

Sand blasting won't get underneath where the rust started , so the roof has got to come off .... to do it right

Originally Posted by Leadfoot1

WoW!!! Thats a lot of work!!

Im just thinking...did you ever tought about an acid bath or something? Followed by electrodeposit primer or the like? I saw that done a few times and to take care of all the rust like you seem to be wanting to do it might have been the ticket!! Not sure it would have come that expensive, and it would have covered every spec of rust!! I consider myself a little asking on quality work but when it comes to getting to EVERY little spot...Man, it just never can be done. You really seem to want to get every inch done so i wonder if that system crossed your mind or not.

Great job so far! Keep it up! You are one patient dude!

Lead.

Thanks ... have your read Stielow's book? The neutralizer after the acid dip didn't get into the same spots as the acid and the doors rusted out requiring redo on the doors.

I may be getting all the rust off the car the hard way, but .... I didn't introduce any chemicals, sand or any media that didn't come from the factory and I know it's done right.

Thanks for asking thou ...

[Black93GT]

when i was pulling my quarters out I found rust in the drip rails the same as yours. it was rusted inside the seam. the spot welds didn't exist anymore. I ended up grabbing my plasma and cutting the roof off.... only to find the drip rail panel itself was rusted nearly the entire lenght. oh well... what's one more panel at this point.

[Sonar Chief]

primer on the door jambs, sills and the rocker panels Had to get up at o dark thirty, actually around 0630 and get the car wiped off and get going before the garage got too hot.

Came out alright ... had a couple runs no biggy thou, now I can hang the doors and get the other parts set in place and outa my boys bedroom.

I didn't mask off anything off .... a grey scotch brite will take care of the over spray (the floor will get epoxy and then Lizard skin anyway). There will be more high fill primer coming later so no biggy.


Door jamb done.

Check.

Time to hang the doors

Jambs came out nice!

Got the inner and outer rocker to the pinch weld

So a good day so far, everything is drying and I'm outa epoxy, I knew I didn't have enough for the quarters .... nice timing. Time for some inside stuff during the heat of the day.

Thanks for looking ...

[Sonar Chief]

Originally Posted by Black93GT

when i was pulling my quarters out I found rust in the drip rails the same as yours. it was rusted inside the seam. the spot welds didn't exist anymore. I ended up grabbing my plasma and cutting the roof off.... only to find the drip rail panel itself was rusted nearly the entire lenght. oh well... what's one more panel at this point.

That is why you gotta take the panel off and see what's under the rust .... I am getting everything else done first and then I'll tackle the roof .... it's holding the car together now and I don't wanna cut too much off the car at once.

Thanks for sharing ...

[Sonar Chief]

It's a good day when parts come in, been gone all week and my AMD side cowls are here ... so now I can finish the cowl and the firewall!

Man do they fit 110% better than those other (China made) ones, so I had to fit them and see what the car looks like with side cowls ( I forgot) I am glad the AMD parts fit, should have ordered them from the beginning ... I now know there is an AMD dealer here in town that will get all my business fer sure.

The driver's side cowl doesn't quite have the same curvature as the upper cowl piece, but that is not a deal breaker just means I have to work with it .... BFH

I was working with the stripping gel today on my inner fender wells and let's just say when it's 100 out there is NO SUCH THING AS GEL It turned to liquid so I let it dry and scrapped it with the wire brush and most of the paint came off, I'll work on them early before it gets too hot again !!!!!!


Gel turned to liquid with the heat


Driver's side cowl fitment ... it's better than the other ones.


Passenger side fit was almost perfect

I'll get going before the sun heats up the garage and I have to come inside and take a nap

Thanks for looking ....

[waynieZ]

Its looking good!

[Sonar Chief]

Got some time in the garage before it got really hot. Since I have the side cowls now I patched the OEM blower hole and worked on the inner fenders.

Found some rust between the panel on the inners .... guess I'll have to do surgery and fix that before I epoxy.


Patching the blower hole


Quick test fit.


GRRRRRRRRR rust between the metal.


I'll have to fix this pretty soon!

I really would like to get ANVIL inner fenders but ... that's alot of coin, so I'll fix what I have and keep plugging away.

Maybe I'll get back out in the garage after it cools off ... now it's NAP TIME

[Sonar Chief]

Originally Posted by waynieZ

Its looking good!

Thanks .... it's getting there

[Sonar Chief]

sandblasting doesn't get ALL the rust! This is my inner fender that was sandblasted in 2002 and painted with epoxy primer and replaced on the car.

As you can see the areas that were sandblasted and epoxied are fine but .... the rust continued from between the panels

So I drilled out the spot welds and cleaned everything and I will put some POR15 on the areas tomorrow when I can get the time for two coats and the final black. Then I'll weld her up and all is good with this one, the other one needs a patch fabricated and the same steps to stop the rust.





Lesson learned ... do it right the first time.