Just a little minor trimming at rocker and the quarter skin goes on first thing sunday. Then it's onto finishing up trunk/wheelhouse on this side.
Just a little minor trimming at rocker and the quarter skin goes on first thing sunday. Then it's onto finishing up trunk/wheelhouse on this side.
Ed...
2012 Ram 2500 4x4, 5.7 Hemi, leveled, 35" tires
2004 Mustang GT - Comp Orange/5speed Best 1/4 11.94@113.64, 1/8 7.59@89.48, 1.57 60' - Best 60' 1.51, just a NA 2v
Looks good so far. Dont slow down now
The quarter is on! Man, that's a good feeling. 6th day of working on it, I'm really happy with how we're doing.
The cut over the wheelwell is a relief cut. The panel would not cooperate from front to back or back to front til then.
I really like the trunk floors from Lutty's Chevy Warehouse. It's nice having that extension over to the quarter.
From the back/beneath
Had to relief cut here too, that little triangle at the bottom, where the trunk extension piece is.
Hey it's a spot weld. Look another spot weld. Well again another spot weld.....
Ed...
2012 Ram 2500 4x4, 5.7 Hemi, leveled, 35" tires
2004 Mustang GT - Comp Orange/5speed Best 1/4 11.94@113.64, 1/8 7.59@89.48, 1.57 60' - Best 60' 1.51, just a NA 2v
99% done with passenger side metal work. Just 5 tiny minor spots that need cut out and fresh metal placed. Then onto driver side. Now if that slacker Chuck updates his pics.
Ed...
2012 Ram 2500 4x4, 5.7 Hemi, leveled, 35" tires
2004 Mustang GT - Comp Orange/5speed Best 1/4 11.94@113.64, 1/8 7.59@89.48, 1.57 60' - Best 60' 1.51, just a NA 2v
Passenger side metal done
Chuck started hitting up driver wheel well cleaning out rust/bondo/undercoating. Looks like I have my work cut out for me on driver side.
Ed...
2012 Ram 2500 4x4, 5.7 Hemi, leveled, 35" tires
2004 Mustang GT - Comp Orange/5speed Best 1/4 11.94@113.64, 1/8 7.59@89.48, 1.57 60' - Best 60' 1.51, just a NA 2v
Been waiting on updates on this .... If the drivers side is worse than the passenger side ... oh my ... 20 days to go ... tick tock, tick tock ;)
C'mon Chuck, we need pics :D
Found that a 36grit 4" flapper wheel does wonder for cleaning up welds and blending. These pics nothing was hit up using the flapper wheel. I was amazed at difference from normal stone type grinding wheel.
Finished passenger trunk side.
Inner housing had few spots replaced
Inner housing along trunk floor that was replaced
Inner housing at rear done along with wheel lip spot welded
Driver side front wheel housing after quarter was cut off. Spot where wireloom is has already been replaced with fresh metal. Still have spot on floor in interior to replace in same location.
Quarter at rear. Was more of original metal left than I thought would be.
Trunk floor driver side
Last edited by Ares; 03-14-2010 at 11:03 PM.
Ed...
2012 Ram 2500 4x4, 5.7 Hemi, leveled, 35" tires
2004 Mustang GT - Comp Orange/5speed Best 1/4 11.94@113.64, 1/8 7.59@89.48, 1.57 60' - Best 60' 1.51, just a NA 2v
Looks like its coming along pretty well guyz. Lookin good!
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I can't thank Ed enough for all the work he's doing. I have minimal welding experience, so there's no way I would be able to tackle this job. I'm learning a lot just by watching. I'd do ok in some of the fabrication pieces, but this one he made for the innner wheelwell after the outer wheelwell was cut off on the driver's side, is just T IT S!!
Notice the wiring is going through it. Rather than risk a possibly brittle 41 year old connection by unplugging it and feeding it through, Ed cut the top above the hole, bent it open, got the wire through, then tacked it closed.
If you ever saw the Beavis & Butthead episode where they go on a field trip to the police station, get fingerprinted, and then start slapping handprints on each other, that was me with the seam sealer. I filled seams underneath where panels came together, and the wheel housing. The flapper wheel was awesome, and gives more control on what you're grinding, compared to some of the roughness and angle the regular grinding disk could leave.
I used the seam sealer to cover up some of the welds, and kinda wished I had used finishing putty, so I could sand it smooth. I'm not too worried about it, it's a wheelwell, and a drag car, not a show car. I used Rustoluem hammertone black, I'd like to see it in natural light to really get a true opinion of it.
I finished up the underneath stuff on the passenger side by priming and painting the new panels.
Ed's already shown some of the rot on the driver's side. The inner wheelwell is worse along the flange with the outer, and needs patched at the front and back, but is better in the middle. The trunk floor is actually better in front of the roll bar than the other side. There were buckets of mud poured in the quarter and trunk, along with pieces of galvanized steel.
You see the hole, it's mud beneath it and to the right:
The Summit sticker not only paid contingency, but was intergral to the body work the last couple of years. :D
From the inside:
The quarter came off in one piece because the wheelwell had disintegrated.
Trunk floor and extension
Looks good guys. You're making good progress. Ed I didn't realize you were that handy.
The plan was for me to do the body filler on the passenger side, while Ed did the fab work on the driver's side. My first coat of All Metal was good, set up nicely. Coat #2, not so much. Didn't use enough hardener, and had to scrape it and wire brush it off. I swear I used enough hardener on the third attempt, but while I did use more, came out the Sunday morning and it was still too soft.
So Ed had to take care of my mess while I did some prep work on the driver's side. It's coming out sweet. The wide section of filler is where the metal sunk in a little. We're hoping we know what to do to help avoid that on the driver's side. It just needs one more skim coat of filler in that section, and some work in front of the wheelwell.
Charles Im not a body man but I believe to much heat when welding causes the metal distortion. What kind of welding is he doing?
It's not from welding.Upper part of original panel above tire needed to come out 1/32"-1/16" more. Now if I had tried to weld in long beads on sheetmetal then that mofo would have been warped to hell and back.
Ed...
2012 Ram 2500 4x4, 5.7 Hemi, leveled, 35" tires
2004 Mustang GT - Comp Orange/5speed Best 1/4 11.94@113.64, 1/8 7.59@89.48, 1.57 60' - Best 60' 1.51, just a NA 2v
We're hoping we can avoid the low spot on the other side. I actually was shoveling my parents driveway when Ed was welding the quarter on. So I wasn't able to help push out the panel to minimize the low spot. Ed was able to do it himself reaching into the trunk on the back half of it.
Mikey, like Ed said, it's all spot welds, because going longer would warp the bejeezus out of the metal. This is the panel before grinding the welds down, and the body filler. So it's come a long way, in each step. I still can't thank Ed enough for all his help and how nice it's coming out.
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