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[enderwigginau]

I am also happy to have a slow build as l need to keep being nice to the Minister For Finance on this one!!

You mean develop regular and new lies yeah?
When it is done, is there an opportunity that the BMW club boys up here can have a look before it heads down to you? I know some are salivating from the few pics I have provided.....

Grant..

[dirtbag]

Macka, I think it would be best if I just rego it in Qld and drive it around for a little while for you, to iron out the bugs. Maybe for just a year or ten : )


Well I have done a little bit of work on the car. Nothing exciting though, so these pics are purely so Macka can see what was under the paint.


I wanted to start on the drivers side front guard where all the big blisters were just to see what was causing them.





As usual, it was surface rust. This is the exact reason I rust convert and etch prime everything BEFORE doing any body work.





I use a wire wheel to do the window openings and smaller nooks and crannies. The good thing about that is when the wire flies out and stabs you hahaha!





Little bit of filler in the front right corner.





And also up near the windscreen.





This is just behind the drivers side front side indicator mount.





The roof is looking a bit special too.





As is the rear end.









The bog in the roof is a charming 13mm thick!





Here's the repair that buckled the roof skin. This will be fun to fix : )





So anyway, after a full day I had one side stripped back. Originally I was going to get the whole car sandblasted inside and out but after going over it with a magnet I realised there was a lot of filler in it so stripping it by hand was going to be the best option, as blasting wont remove bog. I will however get all the inner surfaces blasted as stripping them by hand is a nightmare.







My friendly python comes out each day to see what's going on : )

[dirtbag]

The passengers side rear corner was a bit boggy too.








This is the top of the left front guard near the windscreen. Looks like it's had a new guard welded on at some stage.





More of the roof.





The left rear quarter has had a bit of a hit.





Front left corner.







I could get a scraper under the filler here.





This was a fun panel to strip back hahaha!










With all the paint and filler gone and the whole lot covered in rust converter it was finally time to mask it up, sand the converter and prime it.





You can see how much powder comes off when sanding the rust converter.





All sanded and ready to paint.









The lovely roof.





My daughter loves this car

[Mort]

Holy crap Tim, is there a straight panel on it without any bog in it.

You certainaly have your work cut out for you with this one especially the roof.

[dirtbag]

So the next fun job was the hanging panels. I started with the boot lid.

It had a few little rust bubbles but nothing too drastic.







Stripped and rust converted.





Mr snake again : )





One door stripped and converted.





The left door has some little rust bubbles and rust wormies : )





You can see how thick the paint is in this stone chip,





There's also a lot of filler in this door.











You can see the big gouge in the door they bogged up. I thought they'd at least try to pull it out!





The bonnet only had a small amount of filler through the centre so that's good.





Some rust converter





So tomorrow after the converter has dried I'll finish sanding these panels and get them in etch primer.





So that's it so far. I told you it wasn't interesting but it still has to be done. Lucky me : )

[S pack]

Hey Tim, is that Factory bog or aftermarket???
I reckon that BMW must have been in Wally Luck's shop at sometime in it's life. LOL

[dirtbag]

Yes Macka, I'll paint it tomorrow and you can pick it up on tuesday


Well I did get the hanging panels primed so now the outside is all sealed up.









So I guess the next fun job will be to keep chipping away at all the tar sheet inside the car and in the engine bay. It'll get there though : )

[enderwigginau]

Bumpitty Bump
The BMW people are waiting hahahaha

[enderwigginau]

I think the BMW people kidnapped him and are holding his hostage for the LS1-awesome that will be taking place soon

Yeah, cos they only want him working on bimmers from now on!!!

Grant

[dirtbag]

Yes I know I've been slack updating the threads. I'm a bad man : ( hahaha


Well a few weeks ago I felt it was necessary to rip the old Clubsport apart : )





It wasn't the easiest of motors to get out but at least it wasn't the hardest. That honour still lies with getting the quad cam V8 out of the Nissan Infiniti hahaa!





Now we can send the leftover carcass to Bomber so he can stick a big block 186 in here hahaha!





So then I made up a really basic trolley so I could move the motor and box around.





The next fun job do get done, which to be honest I was putting off for as long as I could, was to remove the rest of the tar from the front floor, under the rear seat and in the engine bay. Yes, the engine bay! Damn you BMW hahaha!!!





There's a little bit of rust just behind each strut top where the tar was up against the seam.











So that's it for now. It doesn't look much but it's all a step in the right direction!

Edited by dirtbag, 12 December 2012 - 08:25 AM.

[Toranamat69]

Bloody hell that thing had some bog in it - and I was wrried about a few mm on the roof and drivers door on mine :-)

 

Is that still in Dirtbags workshop waiting?

[dirtbag]

There's been a little bit of progress on this one.

 

Lots of disassembly!
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The floors had some good bits and some bad bits so it was just easier to remake the front floors completely.

 

 

 

 

 

 

That's it for now.