BUILD THREAD “The Juggernaut”

[08Malibu]

Stupid question. I see you body worked the fillers to the quarters. Are you not changing the one anymore?

 

[clean8485]

Its an amazing process Donovan. The results speak for themselves. Looks really good. It will make your work much easier now.
I had some rusty parts that I needed to get cleaned up last year, so I decided to try the laser process. I took them to a guy just east of Toronto. I asked him how the process worked, and he offered to demonstrate it for me. I had a couple of rusty exhaust manifolds to clean up. He took one of the manifolds, and had the straight beam set at about 1" wide. He waved the beam over about a 4-5 square inch area, and in the matter of a few seconds, it was completely clean, and looked like new.
As you pointed out, its not exactly cheap, but it does an amazing job.

 

[Rktpwrd]

Stupid question. I see you body worked the fillers to the quarters. Are you not changing the one anymore?

Not a stupid question, but I did address it in the previous to last update post:

In the meantime, I decided to tackle the bodywork on the outside of the passenger side quarter extension I built and welded on. This might seem unnecessary at this point, but there actually is method to my madness. That being that I have to make sure that the metal work on the outside is good before I (eventually) paint the inside. If I found that I needed to do any hammer and dolly work to the extension (and I did), it would ruin the painted surface on the inside.

Both quarters will still eventually be replaced. But because the insides of the extensions need to be addressed (primed and painted) at the same time as the rest of the tail panel, I had to make sure the bodywork on the outside faces was able to be good first.

Plus it’ll look nicer and be protected long term until I get to replacing the quarter panels.