Saturdays Work....Man I hate RUST!

quaz · quaz's Garage

So today I finally made some good progress on my car. I repaired the rust on both front fenders and welded up the holes from the rocker moldings. It is amazing how much work that little bit of progress is. Now I just have to fill all the holes in the front bumber (gonna be smooth like the 911R) and I can get on with prepping for paint.

The corners on both of the fenders were gone. Cut it out and put in new sheet metal.

Here is the side of the fender that was all full of holes. I cut it out put metal in and welded it up. I just have to grind it down now. I put Por-15 on it to prevent rust so it looks black now.

All 911s look the same without front fenders.....

I painted the engine tins to match the car. I have seen this before and it looks quite nice.

Rockers welded up.

FenderGuy · 07-23-2005, 07:07 PM

Kevin great job, good luck on the rest of the project

Evans, Marv · 07-23-2005, 07:10 PM

Kevin:
You are lucky you have the skills to do that. Looks good.

Jays72T · 07-23-2005, 09:06 PM

Impressive work, nice.

quaz · quaz's Garage

You know a very wise man once told me. "if you can use a squirt gun you can weld". There is a little more to it than that, but if you don't mind grinding then it isn't very difficult. I haven't done much welding in years so it is taking a little practice to get back in a grove. However, I am fortunate to have a friend who is very good at this stuff. Between the two of us it is coming along.

I just wish it could go faster!

asphaltgambler · 07-24-2005, 07:10 AM

Funny thing that this reminds me of...................Yesterday My GF and I were driving back from the machine shop. I dropped all my engine pieces off to "have sum work dun" and of course left with a much lighter wallet.

I was b*tchin a little about the $$ and time we have so far in the engine and how much farther we need to go. Just then she pointed to a turbo coupe shell and I DO MEAN SHELL on a trailer going the other direction. Someone had obviously spent a lot of time as the shell was mostly bare metal (fresh) with some primer. As if the owner had picked it up from the sheet metal guy.

She said: "Honey we're not that bad off.........look at THAT guy......... now there's a PROJECT!! We only have a engine to fix!!" Smile!!

quaz · quaz's Garage

You know when you get to this point in a project you kind of wonder what the heck you got yourself into. The 928 I got rid of was mint, but I was bitten by the old 911 bug. Not only was I bitten by the old 911 but, I was bitten by the I want to build my own old 911 bug.

Evans, Marv · 07-24-2005, 10:14 AM

Kevin:
I'm in the same boat. I have disassembled my '69 and am essentially rebuilding the whole thing. What a project !!! It's coming along very slowly but nicely, and I will have a car I will really love when I'm through. However, I think I will just enjoy this car after it's finished and not do it again (well, maybe a Beck 550 kit).

quaz · quaz's Garage

Oh when this is done I am going to enjoy it for at least a year.....before putting a cammed up 3.2 in it