Frumpy Gets Some Love by benjy_18

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itll be made in fibreglass first then either remade in CF or skinned in CF cloth.

more progress today, hopefully the back end will be finished and in primer in a few weeks

welded the boot floor to the hinge panel from the inside ready for de-bumpering

lip cut back, yet to be ground flush

o/s valance clamped in place to be welded from behind

bit of upside down welding

tomorrow evening i will be fitting the other valance then grinding it all flush. ive ordered a big pot of upol fantastic ready for filler then primer or the rear end

9-10-2012

N/S rear valance fitted tonight, only took 10 minutes but makes a world of difference!

ill be making up a few little patches (bottom of rear quarter, and rear window surround) tomorrow evening to try and get the rear half of the car fnished this weekend

9-12-2012

well as many of you may have guessed im making a diffuser to sit in between my valances,

mainly because i hate seeing diffusers that sit miles past the back of the car (although i know that makes them work better for racing) im going for something more subtle but that will be yet another mod that will make this car more special.

most probably wont be more progress untill this weekend as i have to fix the mk2 over the next few evenings.

keep watching :)

9-15-2012

hey guys,

had a good day with the grinder today, much to the neighbours annoyance.

ive managed to grind down all the welds on the rear end and also put in three patches (lower quarters and a patch to the windscreen surround)
tomorrow i may get everything to baremetal, filled and primed but i wouldnt hold your breathe

o/s rear quarter

n/s rear quarter

windscreen surround

finally a photo of the rear as it stands tonight

10-27-2012

youngson - my boot floor goes straight from the top of the heelboard to the valance seam so it sits at a slight angle, but i have the recess put in for the fuel tank so that the fuel tank sits level. i can take more photos for you and email them if you want.

bit of an update today (long over due i know)
i got a repair panel from minijosh on here so that i can fix the hole in the roof corner.

started off by cutting out the outer panels of the corner

then cleaned everything up insde and coated with zinc rich primer

you can see here that i only took the outher most panels off so that i didnt need to add in any braces

next i took to removing the inner panels from the repair patch

again this was coated in zinc rich primer

next was the long task of trimming the patch to fit

tomorrow will see the panel welded and dressed then i will move onto finishing off the rear valance