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rmackintosh View Member Profile	Aug 9 2004, 03:56 AM Post #2
Senior Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 5,226 Joined: 24-December 03 From: Danville, CA, USA Member No.: 27	QUOTE (CMC#5 @ Aug 8 2004, 08:45 PM) Damn...and here I thought the old paint looked really good! I think your standards are just too high. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) So I was feeling all inspired by this thread, and went out to wail on the quarter panel again this afternoon. I sort of got inside the trunk area, and my wife held a dolly on the outside (cool wife huh?) So together we got the quarter out pretty good. I can't reach all of it on the inside, so I'll have to use a puller, but it already looks tons better than it did. I worked my way slowly, using a shrinking hammer, and the panel doesn't look very distorted (extra metal from having been stretched. Of course theres a lot of little bumps from where I didn't have the hammer square. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif) ....yo go Al... You wouldn't believe what I have asked my wife to do...in the garage that is.... (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif) .....that is a cool wife you got there.... Sounds like you got it right.....stretching metal is the WORST thing you can do...work slowly... If you don't get around to the "final" repairs till the offseason...give me a call, I work cheap, and for a few beers I can get ya going.... (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

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rmackintosh Starting The Bodywork Today... Aug 8 2004, 01:43 AM

slowTA QUOTE (rmackintosh @ Aug 7 2004, 09:43 PM)Tim... Aug 8 2004, 02:12 PM

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CMC#5 hahaha I was working on my own ride yesterday. Put... Aug 8 2004, 07:39 PM

rmackintosh ....sand, sand, sand.....putty...sand, sand, sand.... Aug 8 2004, 11:07 PM

CMC#5 Damn...and here I thought the old paint looked rea... Aug 9 2004, 02:45 AM

94bird Randy, I don't have a window in my garage but ... Aug 9 2004, 03:43 AM

rmackintosh QUOTE (CMC#5 @ Aug 8 2004, 08:45 PM)Damn...an... Aug 9 2004, 03:56 AM

rmackintosh QUOTE (94bird @ Aug 8 2004, 09:43 PM)Randy, I... Aug 9 2004, 03:58 AM

#07 QUOTE All in 95+ degree heat...and my wife decidin... Aug 10 2004, 02:23 AM

rmackintosh I think you need to etch the aluminum with a chemi... Aug 10 2004, 02:29 AM

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rmackintosh View Member Profile	Aug 8 2004, 01:43 AM Post #1
Senior Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 5,226 Joined: 24-December 03 From: Danville, CA, USA Member No.: 27	Well, I am gonna wait on the whole revamped nose till the offseason to do it right... Got the fuel lines in and done.... Now gotta fix the rear of the car from the RX7 hit and the two fires it went through..... Al, you should have been here buddy, could have shown you the basics of bodywork... (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) ....had some fiberglass repair of LGM rear ground effects...done...had some bubbled paint from the fires....done...had a lot of little cracks and dings in the rear bumper in general... Got it bondo'd with the "Vette" repair bondo with fiberglass in it for strenght....got the bumper filled with the flexible bondo....got the flexible primer on the bumper, and regular primer on the fiberglass...got the thing sanded down real nice.....and got it spot puttied....drying now... WHAT A MESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Time to go into the pool again...... (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) more body work tomorrow... I HATE BODY WORK! (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/rant.gif)