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I plan to put it back stock. I collected a new to me carpet which I'll need as mine was kinda nasty and ripped coming out. The SA high back seats have a purple velour (sp?) insert and the drivers side is ripped so I'll have to get that fixed. I had planned to just put them back in as is but if getting the drivers seat fixed means I have to replace the covering, then I'll probably just go all black. Nice and toasty in the summer... Ugghhh.
Originally Posted by JerryLH3
Wow. Over the past 24 hours, I have read all 21 pages of this thread. Impressive work and extreme dedication to get rid of all that rust. Subscribed!
I'd say reading all this in 24 hours is dedication! Thanks for the compliment!
Originally Posted by captainbizzaro
Looking good - one thing I've never been blessed with is patience to do bodywork.
Me either! I find that if taken in stages I can be patient. If I had to do this with a deadline however, I'd prolly not be as patient.
Check out the RB interior stuff. They make OEM looking covers for the seats that ROCK (at least on pictures) That's the route I'm going with the SA after I finish the CB550 restoration I'm undergoing right now.
Thanks siberianchilli! Hope you and everyone is enjoying keeping up with it.
So, I went to the paint supplier that I've been dealing with to get bondo to go over this PPG Epoxy primer, thinking they had something special for it. He says just about anything will go over it, but try this:
Looks innocent enough, right? Then I turn it over and read the label and I see this:
I think I just bought cancer in a can! In case you can't really read it, the label says "suspected of causing genetic defects", "May cause cancer", "Causes damage to organs".
That is putty coat, you use that to go over the bondo or body filler, it is used to fill the rough sand scratches from the coarse sand paper. You can use it to fill minor dents. That kind works pretty good and sands fairly easy, I get it on my hands all the time, it don't give me any kind of irritation.If you need body filler, ask them if they have evercoat z- grip, that works really well, and is fairly cheap
That is putty coat, you use that to go over the bondo or body filler, it is used to fill the rough sand scratches from the coarse sand paper. You can use it to fill minor dents. That kind works pretty good and sands fairly easy, I get it on my hands all the time, it don't give me any kind of irritation.If you need body filler, ask them if they have evercoat z- grip, that works really well, and is fairly cheap
I told the guy I have a bunch of shallow dents and he said this would work well. The roof has more than a few, so I may try heat to pop them out. Should I rough up the epoxy primer with a 150 grit before I use it?
Check out the RB interior stuff. They make OEM looking covers for the seats that ROCK (at least on pictures) That's the route I'm going with the SA after I finish the CB550 restoration I'm undergoing right now.
Hot? Hook that A/C up man!!
Can't go wrong with the RB upholstery kits (not just seat covers). The kits are full
blown new skins designed for the RX seat shapes. I did a write up on when I did
mine: https://www.rx7club.com/1st-generati...y-kit-1071159/
If your using that yes, if your using body filler, I would use 80 or 36 grit
Ahhhh, ok. I'm not sure if I'll use body filler. I mean, the deepest and widest dents are in the roof, kinda where the sunroof would be, starting where the inner roof structure ends, if that makes sense. I think at some point when it was in storage probably, someone stored stuff on top of it. It's hard to see in the pics, but there are some dents that are rather broad. When I take the headliner out, which is about the only thing left in the car, I may be able to pop them back out. Other than those, there's a few areas where there are shallow dents and some ground down weld seams to fill. My welding skills still leave lots to be desired. I'm not nearly as good as others on this forum, like 82Transam. He's got mad skills.
Originally Posted by t_g_farrell
Can't go wrong with the RB upholstery kits (not just seat covers). The kits are full
blown new skins designed for the RX seat shapes. I did a write up on when I did
mine: https://www.rx7club.com/1st-generati...y-kit-1071159/
I remember reading that! Good stuff. I'm not real certain I'll have to do much to the seats. Dad had rather recently before he stopped driving it had the seats redone. But I do like the sound of the RB stuff.
I had to take some days off from work and devoted as much time as I could to getting this thing moving closer down the line to completion. It seems that I was constantly busy, but I think all I got done since last Thursday was finish sanding some of the white lacquer off, built the tent, masked off the car, sprayed on the epoxy primer, took down the tent, chipped up the rest of the tar underlayment/factory sound deadener from the rear of the car, spare wheel area and transmission tunnel near the firewall, discovered another rusted out section in the spare wheel area, cut it out and welded in a new patch (poorly I might add), sealed it and another couple small holes, cleaned the remnants of the factory sound deadener with 5 cans of brake cleaner, cleaned the entire interior up to get ready for POR-15, sealed up some other small holes with POR Patch, attacked a couple of surface rust areas I uncovered, finished electrolyzing two pair of door hinges so I can rehang them ... and finished prepping the bottom of one of the doors for primer (only sprayed the one completely a couple weeks ago). Seems like I did a lot more than that, but I don't think I did. I'm running out of things to tear out or refurbish. I'll post up some pics when I get the interior painted. At that point it will be ready for Dynamat or Damplifier Pro, or whatever I decide to use...
Today I finished cleaning up and sanding out some surface rust inside, treated it with the metal ready, and painted the entire inside floor with POR-15. I have to tell you, rust never sleeps. After cleaning out the residue of the sound deadener with brake cleaner, I found lots of areas of surface rust that had to be sanded and wire wheeled. Crazy how much these rust belt cars rust when driven in winter. Never again@!@!!
These few shots are of the area of rust I found between the spare wheel well and the bumper frame. The structural piece was just about totally destroyed by rust so I removed most all of it.
This is what was lurking beneath the tar in the wheel well. I should have known it would be there from my work under the car...
After the wire wheel... LOTS of holes.
What remains of the small structural piece between the bumper frame and the spare wheel well.
Welded in and covered with POR patch. That stuff dried and looked bulletproof. It says that it cannot be sanded so if using on a visible exterior surface to smooth it out.
Here's some pics of the interior before cleaning, after cleaning, and with the POR-15 gloss black I just got done painting.
Is that por patch like some kind of panel bond. Great job painting the interior, it looks damn good. Did you spray it on, that stuff is nasty when you spray it
Is that por patch like some kind of panel bond. Great job painting the interior, it looks damn good. Did you spray it on, that stuff is nasty when you spray it
I'm not sure what panel bond is, but this stuff is like POR paint with the consistency of toothpaste and comes in a tube like toothpaste actually. It dried to a flat sheen, hard as a rock.
I couldn't stop staring at it when I was done! I brushed in on from a can. Used a sacrificial cheapo brush.
First frost of the season this morning, so I think I finished it just in time!
Thanks Tim! I'm pretty happy with the way it's turned out so far and to be at the point of putting it back together.
Originally Posted by Qingdao
I got a quart of the "gloss black" por 15 for my next project. How hard is it? Would a HVLP gun be able to spray it?
Your interior looks Fabulous. I've got a buyer for my gold car so I'll be following your footsteps here soon for my white car build. Can't wait
How hard is it? It' a self leveling paint and it's a bit thicker than other paint. It's thicker than my epoxy primer was. I think you can spray it, but I've always brushed it on. There's a special thinner for it to clean up with - normal mineral spirits or gasoline doesn't touch it.
I continued collecting parts today when I got the green light from the boss this morning and got these from Cookboy! 14 inch panasports!! I'm so stoked to have them and can't wait to get this car on the road, it's gonna look great!
I see you're using flux wire, try a little bit more amps on the same speed. I'm welding with argon mix and on my machine I usually are between power 2 and 3 and wire speed 4 that on 0.8mm plate thickness.
Ow yeah nex time if you need to weld on the chassis tubes, but a tube in it so it's stronger and can be used to pick the car up
I see you're using flux wire, try a little bit more amps on the same speed. I'm welding with argon mix and on my machine I usually are between power 2 and 3 and wire speed 4 that on 0.8mm plate thickness.
Ow yeah nex time if you need to weld on the chassis tubes, but a tube in it so it's stronger and can be used to pick the car up
THANKS damic! It's been quite an adventure. Now that I'm about done welding, I wonder why I didn't spend the extra few hundred dollars on a good used Miller or Lincoln welder. That flux core is hard to not blow holes through thin metal with... But, a good mechanic doesn't blame his tools, right?
Originally Posted by andernamen
Can we see some pictures of this?
I think what he means is kinda like what I did in post #350 on the bottom of page 14. I welded in a new section of frame over the rotten section on the passenger side.
Thanks for that idea damic! I wish I had thought of that when I had the floor boards removed. I did take a queue from 82Transam though, and beefed up the bottom of the frame where the jack points are on the front of the frame so that hopefully they don't get bent up anymore...
Haven't had a chance do much with ole Rusty lately, but I did do THIS to my garage door!
Installed the vinyl backed insulation on my garage door and replaced the seal at the bottom so that it will be warmer in the garage this winter. We went to a Christmas party and they had this installed in their garage and had converted the space to a den with a big screen TV and refrigerator, etc. Just a small space heater kept it nice and warm. I was sold at that moment. Only took me a couple hours, a couple beers. Still have lots to do before spring temps allow me to paint the car so this should make the garage a bit more livable.
11-08-15, 08:00 AM
That flux core is hard to not blow holes through thin metal with... But, a good mechanic doesn't blame his tools, right?
