Recent content by I8NEMO

Thanks man, yeah I had never seen it before , my wife blurted it out one day and I was on it!

Sound check, completed exhaust with quieter 40 series Flow Masters

An hour this morning to reassemble. Looking a bit more continuous now.

rear valance finally in color. Left rear quarter is next. Taking this in small bites since body work is such a pain.

Rear valance and left rear quarter welding/ grinding done. Hopefully I get the welds on the right rear ground this weekend then body work. Big changes coming in my life, good ones, so tearing this car apart for real paint is in the future. Again, my short term plan is minimal body work in...

Here's a tip: my eyes are 60 years old so they don't dilate as quickly. Here's a sequence of what is happening with this type of sheet metal spot welding with an auto lens ( highly recommend): 1. Ready to weld, protective lens is automatically off. Work is lit via shop light. ( though too much...

Finished all the welds yesterday and got a bunch of the grinding done. Top weld is right under a reinforcing rib and although it's hidden by the bumper, good chance to practice detail grinding and not gouge the rib. Shout out to everyone: anyone can do this type of fab work. I stayed away from...

Rear valance finally getting welded on

Before all the fun creative stuff began, I made several structural repairs on the back side of the panel. The most significant was probably the wooden truss brace to stiffen the thin area between the temp. Slide control and defrost slide control. Age and use had allowed a lot of deflection so...

Still on crutches, looking forward to working on the car again. Here's another video. This part of the 4 month instrument panel restoration focuses on 3 aesthetic additions. 1. I added a plastic half round at the waist line for a cleaner look and to cover the back to back coping. The half round...

Here's a short on the radio delete part of the instrument panel journey. For the missing coping rail plastic proved to be impossible to shape so I used wood and duplicated the detail by fashioning a quick " router table" for my dremel tool. Ive talked about the E6000 adhesive in other posts, it...

A little stir crazy after foot surgery thought I'd share a " what's possible" . Duplicating the valance curve was easy, used on- line software to print the hole patterns then built a test bunk. Ultimately I was too cavalier about the bunks' actual relationship to parallel/ car so bottom of...

A little stir crazy with this foot surgery so thought I'd show my thru valance exhaust journey. Interior frame ring has 3 centering screws to center and capture the exhaust tip. Duplicating the valance curve for the test bunk was easy and used some on line soft ware to print the elongated hole...

hmmm... Gotta be a Schitsoon or an Australian Casherder

Made my entire family sit down and watch that Doc. Social Dilemma with me