Resurrecting a 144k FD by Fd3BOOST

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This one is for you buddy...

Is that better? No saturation.  

6-16-2014

Not to much to update on this. I did get the clear on the fender as planned. Other than that I am just chipping out little odds and ends. I did drop all the manifolds off with the powder coating guy last Friday. I also have things coming in the for the engine. I plan on dropping the engine back into the car in a week or two. Last big ticket items are oil coolers and intercooler. 

The DS fender came out pretty well. I won't get around to wet sanding and buffing out all of the paint until I can pull the car out into the sunlight. 

Hey Nick, 

I took these pics for you. I used 3m outdoor adhesive tape in the middle. The front bolts down with two stock bolts that go into the bottom of the fender edge. The rear use the factory self taping screws that hold on the mud guard things. Thats all you need. No drilling of any holes in the car are necessary. 

Add tape like so..

And bolt it up in these holes.

Front first, 

Then the rear.

Thats it, sit back and soak in the view. 

6-23-2014

Nothing significant to update. I rolled the car out of the building to repaint the floors. I can see a few issues with the paint that I didn't notice until in the sunlight. Annoying as it is the drivers fender base coat is thin in on spot on the top edge and the same on the front bumper where it meets the fender. I will probably have to repaint both parts again because it looks like a total eye sore to me. 

I am considering just doing a feed front bumper if I have to repaint the bumper again. I think that would look better with the wheels and the street diffuser. 

Anyway, aside from that it looks pretty good. 

6-23-2014

You can see the blue isn't thick enough here on the fender.

 

6-26-2014

Well I have been pretty busy with work so I haven't gotten much accomplished. I started block sanding the paint out. I need to go over it again but it started looking better. My better half snapped off a few...

The paint is getting there, I will repaint the drivers fender and the front bumper. I am still undecided on the bumper as far as sticking with PFS or swapping. 

So then these little guys came in the mail today. Knightsports mirrors. This was an ebay score from about a month ago. It took that long to get them from Thailand. The parts came as described but they didn't have any way to mount them. So I devised a plan to fiberglass in some studs on the bottom and I will use 20 pound mounting tape on the other side. I should have these in paint by the end of the weekend. 

My wife hates them.. ROFL!!!! Tough **** woman!