HM-2037 Build Thread

[Redstang69]

Superformance sill

[Redstang69]

Superformance sill

[Bass And Hot Rods]

That looks awesome!

[Bass And Hot Rods]

Do you have a link to this?  I think I'd like to do this.

[Redstang69]

Here is what Paul recommended to me.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B000N8EO3I?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title

I'm not sure what Superformance uses. I don't believe it had the lip like the above product does.

[Redstang69]

I finally decided to start tackling the body work. Not a lot to show with pictures but I've racked up a good bit of hours on it already. I started with hitting the whole car with a DeWalt RA to rough things up.
Then I started honing in the fitment of the panels. Messed with the trunk a lot because it wasn't fitting well at all. Turned out, the bottom edge was hitting on the weather strip too early and causing the lid to not settle down where it needed to.

[Redstang69]

Door needed filled at the top rear corner and front inner corner.

[Redstang69]

Filled

[Redstang69]

Filled

[Redstang69]

Got the body seam in front of the door worked out to. Had to build it up some to get it to meet with the door. Don't have a before picture.

[Redstang69]

Using rage gold for filler. Working pretty well and sands pretty well as others have reported. Using a DeWalt adjustable speed RA with adapters to hook up to the shop vac and a 3M sanding block that hooks to the shop vac. Both are working very well to mitigate a lot of dust. Also using dura blocks a good bit for the blocking, they do not hook to the shop vac so there's a decent amount of dust from using those. It's a very slow process for me at least.
Also, been using a mix of wet black guide coat and dry white guide coat. The black works nice on the filler. The white works decent on the black gel coat. Anyone who's done this before have any comments on what they've used for guide coat?
Comparing with Greg my panels were glued together horribly so it's leading to some extra work I think.

[Redstang69]

I finally got all the way around with the body work and started getting some primer on. I primed the back side of the panels and plan to mount them back up and shoot the entire body.

[Redstang69]

I ended up redrilling the seat mounting holes to move the seats inboard 7/16". This fixed the issue of the seats hitting the body behind the door opening.

[Redstang69]

Finally got the body primed with high build.

[Redstang69]

My car has been with the painter all summer. Was hoping I'd have it back to put a few miles on this year but that's not going to happen now.
He's sanding the last coat of build primer and will put a sealer coat on them color. Hopefully it'll be wrapped up soon.