Outlaw Anglia - took it racing & lifted the wheels!

[kee]

should have just bought the neighbour a gas mask of some sort
at least he's apologising and not whining about you installing filtration stuff.

now hurry up and get this glorious machine finished

[blackpopracing]

Spent most of last week building this for the paint fumes;




The filters work great...........except they radically cut down the fans efficiency ~ about 80% !!! so it does not extract the paint fumes now, though it does catch the paint fantastically well.
I took g/f to her first scrapyard trip last weekend for another 16" fan (Volvo's have great slim fans) but we were too late as it had shut for the day. I feel a MKII design coming on.........

Anyway, back to the plot

Fitted the ignition parts to the panel and drilled and added grommets for the cables, still have to tidy the cables on show later on though.



Started on the floor panels last night, and finished them tonight





Shame about the two suicidal blackflies that tried doing breaststroke all around the clearcoat so that made up my mind about laying on a third coat for me

[blackpopracing]

More paint goes on (..and on, and on, and on.........)

Tunnel is now in silver gloss on the side that everyone will see,



firewall is now in silver gloss also,

[blackpopracing]

Jeez, I can't believe it's nearly 2 months since I did an update
Buying into business at work, a bad back and a holiday have firmly put the skids under any forward progress for ages.

Mojo is well & truly lost at present

Anyway......... a couple of photos of progress from a few of weeks ago,

Before my back decided to cause me some serious grief I had got as far as masking up the rear end prior to painting the chassis black,



But as usual I went from that to deciding to stonechip the arches first (with added benefit of clearing shelfspace of stonechip ;D ) so seamsealed the arches and masked them as well;



I found a little mojo in the corner under some rags today so the first coat of stonechip is now on, hurray!!



Hopefully progress might speed up again now?

[Oldbus]

Glad to see you "back" up and running mate. ;D

You were missed

[tonybmw]

Great masking skills, you will be great to have around at Xmas ;D ;D

[blackpopracing]

Cheers Oldbus, back is still very fragile, so have to work carefully to avoid any relapse.

[blackpopracing]

got the last coat of stonechip on this afternoon, but it has reacted with the coat that went on last night

I don't know if it is because the previous coat did not dry enough or because it was a different brand of stonechip.

I used 3M 08861 last night, and Tetrosyl stonechip today (which I normally use).

3M is more tar(?) based and the tetrosyl is more rubber based (I think) Tetrosyl certainly dries very fast and seems to have a nicer overpaintable finish.

Not sure whether to let it dry for a few days or strip it all off again? Any thoughts anyone?



Close up;

[Oldbus]

I´d be tempted to wipe it all off with thinners before it drys...pain in the arsch though...

[poproddernot]

people pay a lot for that effect!!! lol
i'd get it off asap mark.
chris.

[blackpopracing]

Been advised to leave it to dry for a few days and try a recoat.
I don't care about the looks as long as it has bonded with the previous coat properly.
I think the grey has re dissolved the black as it was probably not dried enough.
I'll try picking at a bit on Sunday to see how solid it is. It's got to be primed and glossed yet anyway.

[PhilA]

Reminds me of this: www.popsci.com/diy/article/2008-02/trap-lightning-block

But yeah, get it off asap and try again. Top work as always, enjoy reading this thread

--Phil

[blackpopracing]

Had a poke at it today, it all seems to have dried ok and is stuck together and does not seem to want to seperate when I try to lift it.
Think the advice from a painter friend is going to be ok,....leave it a few days to completely cure and just put another coat over it to smooth it out again.
Luckily its only underbody protection and not topcoat!!

[blackpopracing]

As I could not do anything on the Pop today I finally got around to a job that I've put off for ages (a year!) which is rebuilding the rear wheel arch of the Camaro.

A bad repair in a previous owners life had left the inner arch not fixed to the new rear wing and so it had rotted away behind the outer skin until it finally rotted the wing as well.

I got a new skin and cut out the rot on the old wing to reveal the extent of the tin worm, and ended up chopping off the entire inner arch.

Lots of work today saw fresh steel replacing the entire arch.



and with some epoxy primer on it to seal it, all the grey is where new steel went in.

[poproddernot]

thought you'd sold it mark.
notice its in a pic of your company!

[blackpopracing]

Not sold yet Chris, cant really sell it till I fix the wheel arch And touch up the paintwork.
Will be advertising it on here when its done though.

Sharp eyes on the company website photos though though I'd slip that one in

[Potter]

Sorry to hear about your back! Mine plays up sometimes and God knows it's a living hell,so I hope it's all A ok now.

Pop's coming along as well.
Cant wait to hear that engine roar into life!

[groblar]

wow, just read this from start to finish. i wish i had half the patience you have!!! love the car and quality of fabrication and finish.
keep it up!

[blackpopracing]

Cheers Groblar,
Not done much of late been poorly for a bit. Had to strip off all the underseal after all, what a total mess!!
Still got to remove the last traces then I can re do the lot again

[groblar]

bummer, nothing worse than having to re do things is there.
hope you get inspired again soon.