Been attacking the rust all weekend. Although I feel like Ive not achieved much of the time I was just sat there staring at it all in despair! The more I took out the more I found!
Finding some inspiration Ive decided the only way to go for it is to do it properly. So I dropped all the suspension and am now part way through stripping off the underseal and everything back to bare metal. That way I can see what's what and start cutting out the bad metal and welding in new stuff. Gonna be a while...
I bought a pair of rear quarter panels so Ive traced out one side and cut it out. Needs a little tweaking to fit but the lines are pretty good. Ive chopped down the new panel some, no point replacing a load of metal that doesn't need it!
Then started the glorious job of taking out the underseal using a heat gun, wasn't too bad really;
This is half of it, guess it's all saving weight
This is where I'm up to so far, about half way through going back to bare metal. There's a lot of surface rust and some holes that will be tricky to shape metal to replace but over not the worst
Here's an idea of what I'm dealing with. After grinding out that area around the fuel filler a lot of large holes have appeared!
So feeling down with it all I decided to cheer myself up with some good old 'feel good jobs'. Catching some inspiration from a picture I saw of a Kanjo EK in Japan on facebook I decided to attack even more of my car with the grinder
The parachute rear bumper has been cut, I think it looks pretty purposeful and will hopefully help the air exit out the rear a little. May need to put some extra holes in whats left of the bumper;
And then went for the half wing job, a little more involving, I trimmed back the seam lip inside the arch as the 225's were rubbing a touch;
Had to make a custom bracket to hold what was left of the wing;
2 coats of primer and 3 coats of satin black;
And jobs a fish!