Subaru_kid Posted March 6, 2012 Report Posted March 6, 2012 Judging by all this smoothening of everything, can i assume that you are going kinda for a VW clean and shaven look? Would be absolutely epic!! The car is going to be one of the cleanest 82's around... eventually :P Example: http://www.stancenation.com/2012/02/29/one-flawless-euro/ Quote
carbonboy Posted March 6, 2012 Author Report Posted March 6, 2012 Can you come smooth my lumps and bumps out? Way too detailed! You DO mean on your car right? :lol: No such thing! :no2: This is getting a little worrying... what am I saying, it's been down right disturbing ever since the wheel well repair! :lolcry: Good work as always :D Getting.....? :blinks: Cheers mate! Judging by all this smoothening of everything, can i assume that you are going kinda for a VW clean and shaven look? Would be absolutely epic!! The car is going to be one of the cleanest 82's around... eventually :P Example: http://www.stancenation.com/2012/02/29/one-flawless-euro/ I'd give an organ for those BBS wheels, as long as I get to pick which organ..... :wub: Clean & simple sounds good, minus the VW of course. Quote
Subaru_kid Posted March 6, 2012 Report Posted March 6, 2012 (edited) I like your plans, now hurry up and finish this! :P BTW, I saw someone on another forum had bought some BBS meshies new for about $800 which isnt bad at all (not inc postage though) ill try and find the website for you Edited March 6, 2012 by Subaru_kid Quote
B.L.Z.BUB Posted March 6, 2012 Report Posted March 6, 2012 After reading this entire thread.. Awesome work. Dedication. Quote
carbonboy Posted March 7, 2012 Author Report Posted March 7, 2012 I like your plans, now hurry up and finish this! :P BTW, I saw someone on another forum had bought some BBS meshies new for about $800 which isnt bad at all (not inc postage though) ill try and find the website for you BBS's for $800 new...? Bastard! :laff: ImportMonster by any chance? I've seen some good deals (not inc postage) there & the shipping etc charges are quite reasonable. I do have a second set of 15" wheels now, so there's a spare wheel to put in the wheel well (can't use 14", front brake upgrade). :P After reading this entire thread.. Awesome work. Dedication. Cheers man! :thumbsup: I'm glad you didn't say you wanted those hours of your life back. :laff: Quote
Kid-Ae Posted March 7, 2012 Report Posted March 7, 2012 LOL yes, my new ride, not my body (no amount of filler or sanding will fix my odd lumps). You think you'll have this on the road by christmas? Quote
carbonboy Posted March 7, 2012 Author Report Posted March 7, 2012 You think you'll have this on the road by christmas? Hopefully at least painted & re-assembled by then, if not wearing rego plates. Didn't like the first round of filler while sanding it, gave it another hit. Quote
carbonboy Posted March 16, 2012 Author Report Posted March 16, 2012 *Removed finger* Going for dinner to let the primer dry before I start sanding some areas that need moar attention! :wink: The more you look, the more you find, I should stop looking! :laff: Quote
carbonboy Posted March 18, 2012 Author Report Posted March 18, 2012 (edited) You know that feeling you get when you've forgotten something? I forgot to do the rear drivers wheel arch. :blush: Fortunately, an absolute minimum of surface rust had formed (the metal had only really gone dull rather than shiny) so it was a simple matter of shaping the filler, giving it all a good sand, wash & it now has a lick of primer. Gotta stick my head back in there, there's a few spots that need filling. :laff: Anywho, pics! Edit: I'm going to be thrashing Blue Thing down the quarter mile next weekend, anyone care to put a guess in as to the fastest time she'll run? :wink: Or what breaks? :lolcry: Edited March 18, 2012 by carbonboy Quote
Kid-Ae Posted March 24, 2012 Report Posted March 24, 2012 IF you make it down without anything breaking (so long as you're driving BT hard) then i'd be willing to put a small donation to your primer and filler fund Quote
carbonboy Posted March 25, 2012 Author Report Posted March 25, 2012 IF you make it down without anything breaking (so long as you're driving BT hard) then i'd be willing to put a small donation to your primer and filler fund Define driving hard...as in, get pissed off after two runs & proceed to remove: passenger seat, floor mats, rear seats, parcel shelf, spare tyre, jack & rear muffler? Yes, yes I was! The slowest car there? Yes, yes I was! :laff: First run was a 19.736 @ 69.36 MPH, with a 0.855 reaction time & 2.932 60 foot. Gradually knocked that down to a best time of 18.658 seconds @ 71.49 MPH, with a 0.825 reaction time & a 2.635 second 60 foot. On the last run for the day I had a 0.701 reaction time but missed second gear & saw the tachometer spin to about 7400rpm. Whoops! :blush: However the drive home was uneventful, no nasty noises or things not operating as they should so am quite happy to not have broken anything. :D I was concerned about the marshalls who kept directing me to have my rear wheels in the water for a burnout... :hmm: A) It's a FWD & B) I'm on street tyres, a little skid to remove the rocks/dirt, that's all I do. :P Quote
Ben-89 Posted March 25, 2012 Report Posted March 25, 2012 (edited) Nice work Luke, I didnt even realise that was the rh wheel arch until you said. I admire your patience and determination as it required a lot of it! :y: Thats pretty good going 18sec time for a 2a, the 4a's back in the day were capable of around 18.5 or a tad less. Edited March 25, 2012 by Ben-89 Quote
carbonboy Posted March 25, 2012 Author Report Posted March 25, 2012 Nice work Luke, I didnt even realise that was the rh wheel arch until you said. I admire your patience and determination as it required a lot of it! :y: Thats pretty good going 18sec time for a 2a, the 4a's back in the day were capable of around 18.5 or a tad less. Thankyou Ben, on both counts. :y: I'm not sure if it's patience or knowing if I find something I'm not happy with come paint time, it'll really pi$$ me off! :lol: I have never flogged Blue Thing as hard as I did today, I do feel a little bad so I might just give her a service very soon as a way of saying 'thankyou for not breaking on me'. Also have new tyres sitting here ready to go onto some new (read: different) rims for her. :yes: Quote
carbonboy Posted March 27, 2012 Author Report Posted March 27, 2012 Have hit a bit of a snag with the Gokai project, the f**king roof! I don't know what to do with it! :( If I bog it, I'll have to find a way to limit the amount of flex the roof panel has, as it has enough at the moment to just pop any bog off. Would prefer not to have a roof lining in the interior, but it looks like I might have to as I I'm not sure if I'll be able to get it good enough to be happy with it. Plan B is to cut out the filler piece I welded in & weld in a new piece to fill the hole completely & have no sunroof. Then bog & sand back. Plan C is drilling out all the spot welds, cutting the panel at the top of the A & C pillars, repeating process on Sudi, swapping them over & weld roof panel into Gokai. A metric f**kton of work but if it gets me the results I'm after, I'll do it. Thoughts & ideas people? :yes: Quote
towe001 Posted March 27, 2012 Report Posted March 27, 2012 I think plan B would have to be the easiest, but you'll have no sunroof - must have sunroof And from what i know of roof conversions and such (plan C), the cuts have to be right on the money and not a somewhere close cut is good enough. And your talking about swapping one roof, above the pillars, from one car to another car. Thats going to be a shut load of measuring, re-measuring and re-re-measuring between both cars. Plan D you could visit the wreckers for another roof, cut that one on the pillars and it'll be one less step that you'll have to worry about. Plus you have a sunroof..... Quote
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