well the zx has been off road for way too long now and while its been off road some t**t decided it was there right to climb on the back of the car and break the rear spoiler so last weekend i have been a bit busy with repairs.

 

So on with a bit of fibreglassing back together

 

 

 

 

And then some sanding(well quite a lot of sanding)

 

 

 

 

and after a light coat of paint

 

 

 

quite a good bit of weekend time spent on car. also had some rust so now have a huge hole in drivers side sill to repair

 

 

 

so that should keep me busy for a while,lol

Dude very nice work

Good effort mate, like to see folks do their own repairs / maintenance. Looks a fair bit of work. How are you going to sort the sill.

you did a great job on that spoiler good luck with the rest

Thanks. Ave got some sheet steel and am gonna fabricate new sills and inner sill after i finish cutting out the rest of the rust. got a mate who is a machanic and welder and hes gonna help shape it and then weld it up for me. then gonna put my bomex side skirts on. got so much stuff to get to paint shop. Am hopefully gonna get some spraybooth time at a local paintshop( got a friend who works there) and gonna try do the spraying myself.

see you at squires on tues m8

 

and hurry up with the car

im getting bored on my own

have got a bit further but still a lot of work left to do. bit by bit i will get there,lol

also decided to smooth the doors at the bottom, damn it takes some time to get right

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and then do the wheel arch

 

 

 

Some more prep work and then the side skirt can be fitted and smoothed into the side and then will nearly be ready for this side to be prepeped for painting.

Top job mate. Know what you mean about removing the stonechip, I'm at the stage where I wish I'd never started..lol

Jesus.

 

Wouldn't fancy doing that myself, especially all that filler in the swage line.......

 

Good luck though!

Edited August 25, 200916 yr by FunkySi

great stuff mate!!

Nice job there Young Grass-Hopper.

hats off bud keep going

very nice mate, got to do my arches soon, whats the best to use e.g to rub down and fill in etc.

very nice mate, got to do my arches soon, whats the best to use e.g to rub down and fill in etc.

 

Are yours rusty? If so, then a rub down and fill isn't the solution.

oh right, is it best to cut and repair then?

Great work mate, what a cracking job!

I found also that when the rear sills were like that there was what looks like a small rusty bit under the front sill floorpan side roughly where front door edge is that also needs attention. Better to cut it out and do it now before it spreads.

nice work...

 

why do i suck at things like that, could never make a nice job at some body work.

I found also that when the rear sills were like that there was what looks like a small rusty bit under the front sill floorpan side roughly where front door edge is that also needs attention. Better to cut it out and do it now before it spreads.

 

have checked it all and touch wood there is now no rust at all on the drivers side. but once this side is done i will investigate the passenger side. hope thats not too bad.

very nice mate, got to do my arches soon, whats the best to use e.g to rub down and fill in etc.

 

i used a wire wheel that goes on the angle grinder. It removes all the bad metal and just cleans up the good metal. Then i used p38 filler to get the shape sand roughly to shape and refill with a fie paste filler and sand with some 400-800 grit wet n dry paper.

That will come back. Arches rot from the insides, so no matter how much you sand down the side that shows, the gout will come through.

getting there m,8

like the side skirts

That will come back. Arches rot from the insides, so no matter how much you sand down the side that shows, the gout will come through.

 

Hopefully there wont rot again, the wire wheel removes all the bad metal completely whether its bad on the inside or out, it rips apart bad metal leaving only good remaining. so they should last for years to come :rolleyes:

The wire wheel will still only remove material from the visible surface, it will come back I'm afraid.

Rust is like a cancer to metal....the only way to kill it is to cut it out completley!

after a long wait finally got round to doing drivers side, decided sills are a pain :death:.

 

Not managed to upload some of the pics yet but these will do.

Have got some pictures somewhere of just how much had to be cut out( it was a lot).

Both front and rear of sill had to be fabricated from scratch.

Lots of welding and cups of coffees later and we had it looking something like a car again :cool2:

 

 

 

 

After getting most of the shaping done, i give it a few coats of paint to give me a idea of how it was going to look

 

 

 

 

 

And then fit the side skirt: