Update on my rusty firebird

[67rstbkt]

Originally Posted by waynieZ

The car looks great, nice work.

Thanks. I'm just glad it's finally starting to look like a car again. It was touch and go there for awhile

[67rstbkt]

Update:
Making a little progress. I decided to cut away the inner edge of the outer wheel houses so that I could cut and tuck the rear quarters in a bit (I did that before I set the quarters on). I'm hoping to stuff some 285's back there.

I started by laying down some thin masking tape to mark a straight line.


Then I cut straight lines with my airsaw every inch or so.


I was able to bend each section by hand and follow up with just a little hammering to get the edge to sit flat.


I then spot welded.


Cleaned up with some sanding discs and sprayed a light coat of Zero Rust.

[67rstbkt]

A little further: Thinking I could fit a 33X12.50X15 tire there







Just kidding

Here's the 67 Camaro section I spliced into my tail panel; Thanks again to ItDoRun for the panel section and Scherp69 for the idea I think I inhaled some paint fumes that day because I kind of messed up the cut. Oh well, it's a learning process, right?









I did add more weld to fill the gaps after this shot, just can't find the picture.



I also started cleaning up the underside and prepping for epoxy primer, then Raptor liner. Pics on that soon.

[ItDoRun]

Looks good. What type of gas cap are you going to be running?

[waynieZ]

It looks good.

[67rstbkt]

Originally Posted by ItDoRun

Looks good. What type of gas cap are you going to be running?

I'm probably going to get the billet cap setup from Ridetech
This one - http://www.ridetech.com/shop/index.p...roduct_id=6376

[67rstbkt]

Originally Posted by waynieZ

It looks good.

Thanks

[tones2SS]

Looking good man!

[67rstbkt]

Some updates. I finished cleaning up the underside. I used Dupont epoxy primer and followed up with Raptor truck bed liner. I also got the sub-frame apart, cleaned up, and all seams welded solid. It's at the powdercoaters right now, I should be getting it back today. Here are the pics.....

[67rstbkt]

Originally Posted by tones2SS

Looking good man!

Thanks