Recent content by EME_Mack

Is that sparta. Never been only grand bend speedway years ago

It does suck that I wont get to finish the project. I kinda made peace with it before putting it on the local classifieds. I'm probably most disappointed in the fact that there was going to be some first for me like painting a car properly and the final body work leading up to it. As well as...

Well I must say I have been putting off this post. Unfortunately the Cutlass is under new ownership. I fought with myself for about a month on whether or not I should sell it or hold on to it once Im set up in Ontario, Unfortunately it was the largest money pit of the fleet and I needed to come...

Back at it today, and I made some big progress. I first cleaned up all the oozed out panel bond around the wheel well, it looks like it turned out pretty damn good. The only downside is that you won't be able to roll the fenders cause the stuff is hard as a rock. After cleaning up all the...

I've got the glue setting up on the passenger quarter right now. I was trying to get it on as fast as possible so no pics of the application. In 4 hours at midnight Im going back to the shop to do the other side. I used what was left of the tube I had from a couple months ago and 2/3rds of a...

Im half way through glueing the quarter on and need to wait 4 hours to remove the 16 vise grips so I can use them on the other side. So I figured I would make an update. At some point I didn't have enough money to buy the $75 body adhesive, Instead I got some engine paint. First I had to remove...

With my new tool made I was able to "stretch" beat the lip of the wheel well out to fit into the quarter nice. From this To this I moved the flange that will attach to the quarter flange out about an inch. It was sad hearing the bed liner crack when I was pulling the edge out but the...

Been making progress on the quarter. These quarters were only $140 so I knew they wouldn't fit effortlessly, I think the intended purpose of these ones was something like a slip on rocker not an OWM fit. I had already cut the top off them so that I can retain the original body line, the line on...

Well I kinda left things unfinished. Been busy but Im still getting work done. I finished "adjusting" the patch on the door to a point I'm happy with. I did end up making a spot welding attachment for my mig. Here's how it turned out. Some old brake line some pipe a nut and bolt and voila...

Ok, been working this door for the past couple of days and though id share my progress. On monday I finished welding up the patches. I had to adjust the gap since the welds pulled the metal together and pushed up. So I used an air saw to run along the gap and open it up tac welding it back...

I weld a lot but this is the first project where I was actually concerned about fit and finish, usually I just grind the welds down and cover it in some paint. Im going to leave a gap from now on. When I was researching about welding the quarter skin on, I was seeing a lot of people saying...

After getting the back side tacked in I started around to the front. I cut a panel out of the parts door to make a patch for the pitted area near the rear edge of the door Painted the spots that are getting covered up. Then welded my patch in that I forgot to take pictures of. I did take...

So with the passenger door set aside, I started to fix up the driver door. First I stripped the area to be repaired didn't want to be surprised again only found a little filler over some pitted areas but nothin to bad. Same as before cut out the inner bottom and welded in the other piece I had...

Well I called Highway stars today to see what it would cost to get a skin shipped to a depot on the other side of the boarder about an 1hr away. So on monday Ill find out if its in the budget or not. I used Cross Canada for all the other sheet metal and they had no real issue getting them other...

I'll have to give them a call tomorrow, and see what it would cost to get a skin. I just don't want to patch someone elses handy work If I can avoid it.