First I'm going to start with the story of how I got the car. I was lurking on craigslist and came across this car minutes after it had been posted. The guy had it posted for $2000 but I got it for 1600 after he agreed to hold it for me. The car was 9 hours away so I had to wait until the weekend to go get it.
As you can see it was nice but it was rough and needed work but I fell In love with the car haha. I made the 9 hour trip from Omaha to Spearfish and brought it home. Once it was home I went straight to work taking parts off and buy parts need to get it running %100.
After taking off the side skirts and the cheap rear bumper I realized that the rust that was supposedly only under the taillight and on the rear right fender spread like the vicious cancer rust is, to the inner fender and the entire Quarter panel and some of the trunk floor.
Pics of rust
After stripping it mostley down I began to really dig in and find the rust.
Found out it had a ACS strut bar. sold it though. you'll see why..
Picked this big ass sheet of metal up I figure it should patch the rust lol
Drivers side cut and tacked in
passenger side cleaned up. It is rusted through so I'm just gonna spray rust encapsulator on it
Passenger side cut out
Driver side deal pedal cleaned up and measured out
refinished the wheels
Driver side welded in just gotta grind them down patch a whole then seal it.
Front passenger floor welded in.
I went to wire wheel the rear passenger floor so I could encapsulate it and the wheel started to go through the metal so I scratched that idea and replaced it all.
I starting to seem like for every patch of rust I fix I uncover a new one. I thought I had the passenger side done except a couple little spots. I soon learned I had this to patch. I cut some out but still have more to do and its spread up the tranny well
Its new heart only 130k on it.
Here a quick pic of the floor its rust encapsulated on top and then encapsulated and rubberized undercoated on the under side I cant decide if I should do 2 coats or one
^^^ lol theres my dad hitting some of the tail panel welds we layed down
Motor pulled:
M30 POWERRRRRR
Car looks empty lol
Now Before I could put the motor in I had What i thought was 1 last patch of rust to repair boy was I was wrong.
MOTOR IS IN!!!!
after much cussing kicking and screaming the motor is now in....
strut tubes
just a pic haha
off The stands finally
Pushed into drive got coils in front bav springs in back lol that rake..
Flipped around cleaned out sanded and whipped down with solvents. cleaned the garage while it was out.
distributor pulled and shes sitting in her resting place for now..
dat fitment.. can drop the coils 4 more threads on the adjusters
Began body work and finishing up the motor swap
While working on the car i stripped the rock guard off the driver side rocker panel and I'm glad I did I found two patches of rust that hadn't made it to the surface yet glad I found them so I can fix it before paint
I also now have to replace the rear bumper mount on the rear quarter panel cause it was rotted more then I thought. So now that I got more welding to do I'll shave my antenna the proper way
delete in
1 patch made
how I'm dealing with the rotted bumper mount on driver side
And that' pretty much how it sits after the last year of work. Once I finish the wheel arch repair the car is getting the final once over and prep and then its off to the paint booth. I plan on going back with the original color of Zobelbruan metallic. I plan to have it finish by may 2015. I'm waiting on a few parts like my zender wing to get back and alpina valance. Also picked up a set of hella smileys.
thanks for looking guys. dont hate to much haha
