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3-25-2009
3-25-2009
change of plans: we are moving up the schedule. he is coming to pick it up this afternoon 
Dad just left with the rocco. I snapped a couple pics 
I cranked up the coils and slapped my rally gravels on it to keep my RM's out of harms way.
Jesus built my hot rod...
3-28-2009
so yesterday we started in on the engine bay with lots of grinding, and welding to fill holes and stuff. I worked on it till 9:45 pm before calling it a say.
for some reason, VW puts a LOT of ugly holes in places where you cant fit a grinder to smooth out the plug welds... 
we used a rasp in those tight spots with adequate success.
here is the two pics from yesterday with my moms camera before it died. lol
in the second pic you can see my father welding a bracket to hold the canton water bottle I will be using. it is a bit much, but it should look OK when its all done.
Page ownage!
Todays progress included about 40 applications of bondo and 9 hours of sanding. my hands ache and I am completely exhausted. My ears are STILL ringing from all the grinding I did yesterday. imy sinuses are all plugged up from all the dust. I dont know how my father does it.
we got the frame notched today too. that went amazingly well.
here are some pics.
here are some pics of the frame nothcing process.
Ill post more pics of that when it is all done and painted.
Oh, I forgot a couple shots.
heres the engine all masked up. you can see which firewall holes I covered up, and which ones I left open.
I left my fuel lines and brake lines installed and just masked them over Ill have to do some careful bending to get them right when we are through.
now that we have the primer layed down we have to wait till tomorrow to sand it down. *groan*
I hate waiting, but I AM totally wiped.
It will be painted tomorrow, put back together monday and loaded onto a truck to get it home where I will commence the rebuild.
