I posted up a few pics of it painted. It isn't completely put back together so don't comment on the front bumper fit yet.

http://community.webshots.com/album/132281433kiUBKO

 

keep the good work up

 

Kind of off topic but what do you do for a living Jeff? Are you a body shop technician or something along those lines?

 

Mechanical engineer.

 

do you have the other 2 red FDs as backup ?

 

Jeff,

Have any good neighbor stories?

I just got into a huge argument with mine a couple of hours ago while trying to diagnose a surging issue.

 

LoL, I wish I had your garage, two FDs in the garage and one out on the street. Jeez. :-P

 

I don't have any good neighbor stories. About 50% of my neighbors are retired, but they don't complain at all. Instead they come over and BS while I'm working. I strongly discourage any loud cars and flybye drives with small pieces of lead travelling at high velocity, j/k. Seriously though I try to keep the crap in the garage (and it is FULL right now) and the noise down for them.

One of the other red FDs is my 93 R1 I've had since 1998. The other is a parts car, the front is wiped out, not fixable. It will donate parts to my CYM project that will get under way in a week or two.

http://community.webshots.com/album/89560034SgoVwL

I'm going to sell my VR R1 and keep the CYM.

 

Jeff,

On the CYM, that looks like the typical nasty fluxcore weld gone bad. When you work on body panels like that, I'm assuming that you either MIG or braze that stuff back together?

The red car is looking good!

Sonny

 

wow that seemed to be a lot of work

 

u are FD God

 

Hey looks nice Jeff.

 

You are doing great work. Keep it up. One day I will comission you to come live here for a few months and help me with my project

Man, since I havent been driving my FD the last few months, I have forgotten how thick/fat the doors are . Wierd.