By demand i am posting progress pics of the widebody build i am doing to bearzah's 85 rx7.... Its comming along slowly but getting there! Here are some progress pics of it....

This is when we first got it.....


was REALLY beat up when we got it... The castings were near shot.


We got it in my shop...


started taking it down





mockups

front bumper arrived, was going to be a challenge putting a mode 4 bumper on a mark style kit.

started bringing the fenders to it, prepping the front for new casts.



got them brought down to meet the metal...

there were alot of areas the mold was broke all the way through, was almost not salvagable...

 

thankfully SOME of the larger cracks did not go through all the way.



but most of them did



redoing the fiberglass mesh and epxy on the backside of this was going to be VERY hard to do...

got the bumper fitted and ready to bolt on!

Secured!

nice fit!

And castings done, lightwight micro over the outside, and done... Made tube castings and the mat casting on the inside to prevent it from ever having this happen again...

 

The well's did not match up at all, the concave and the roll were way off, had to redo both of them and fab new wheelwells.



made the castings for both sides then laid some microlight to get the curves a little closer...pic is taken in the middle of sanding it...lots a work...

and still sanding and shaping.......

new fibermats laid behind and they are ready for micro as well...



shaping,shaping,shaping...sigh....

f orgot to get before pics of this crack... went all the way through and had to have a new casting laid behind it.. lite micro, ready for some sanding and glazing...

 

First stage primer laid to show the imperfectsions before the glazing work is done. Helps show high and low spots(i prefer darkbrown or dark reds-they show more easilly)












Chris had a night off and came to help



anyone need som efender flares,lol

cigg break... Most of those pictures are not what they started out to be,lol, as the hours got late our minds got "distracted"....

 

um, yeah....

comfy positions

ready for rivets



tons of money in epoxy later...lol





chris and i both got pics of this same angle... his iphone pics beat the hell out of my base model verison phone,lol....

getting the last of the micro laid

 

Some lowspots the glazing will cover...

had to wrap around the qtr to clean it up and make it look smoother. Will bearly show with the bumper and the lights being there, but why half *** it?

ready for glazing...

i just got done molding the bumper to the fender and making the new inner wheel well lip

turned out great.. They were meant to be togeather,lol





So thats where i am at right now... I will post more pics as the build progresses

 

ALL PRAISE JOE!!!

lol... Joe, you make it seem way to easy! I think you forgot to mention the front air dam and front fenders are braced with fiberglass behind them and will have no seem! Will look great!

Looking great Joe! I hope to spend some time helping this weekend.... need to get some more epoxy for the side skirts and whale tail.... damn $36 a tube

 

oh yeah... That too.lol... I am sure i am forgetting so much... You know we have over 300 pics of this build,lmao... It was hard to see what was what, and when it was,lol... I'll be getting another 6-8 hrs in the shop tonight, i will have the other side done and should be ready for the skirts and fin by saturday!...glaze,block, prime, block and shoot-then colorsand/shoot,colorsand/shoot,ect....lol!

 

ubber!!

 

awesome... now i know where to take my car

 

hope all that work is worth it;;;how many psi and hp??

 

beautiful

 

That is truly some awsome fiberglass work there. Damn fine job guys.

 

I actually have the same kit, Thankfully it was new when I bought it. Unfortunately it definately didn't fit the greatest either. You guys did a great job of molding in the other fron airdam. The original one took me a ton of work to get it bolted in and together properly. Looks good

Bryan

 

10psi... Its fast enough to be really fun!!! Have yet to dyno it.

It's worth it to me.. Thats all that matters. I'm learning a lot about body work
and have fun at it too

 

i hope it looks a good as joes when u done,dont see 30 year old cars. that nice very often.10mm

 

COUGH - 24 3/4 years old - COUGH

 

Hopefully Joe should be back in town tonight or tomorrow... We're a little bit held up until I buy some more POR60 epoxy to hold the side-skirts and wing in place (along with rivets of course)

 

Nice job guys

 

Looks great. I'm impressed by the quality of work.

One observation from an old guy... I noticed is some of the pics that you were grinding underneath the back end with the car just up on a floor jack. Bad things do happen, maybe use a set of jack stands next time?

 

I had them there, whenever i am under a car they are under there with me,lol... Chris was in that pic, i cant get the guy to wear a respirator(CHRIS- cough cough, hint hint,lol :P), but i figure if it crushes him i will call the ambulance and ASSUME he wont sue me. .. But thanks for the compiment, cant wait to get back in there, i'm fighting the flue right now though

 

nice projectis the wide body made of sheet metal? i thought it was fiberglass?

 

its fiberglass. Metal would be too easy to fix(J/K),lol

 

now i think bout it. your widebody was on craigslist i was gonna buy it but it had already been sold..i was pissed..
im glad you got it rather then some punk who would make it worse

 

well after being sick and not getting in there for some days i got some more done....














There are still some low spots here, so i have to go over it again







So i just laid the last filler last night and am waiting for it to be fully cured, should have the last of the mirco work done tomarrow, then i have to go over it with glazing. Should be ready for primer by the end of the week!!! YEAH!