Wutang_415

Looks fantastic! Where are you in Scotland? My sister moved to Edinburgh so I've been up there a bunch!

Little update: not a whole lot has changed since summer but I also realized I never updated this thread so here's a couple pictures. Winter is here now, so that means a lot of garage time for the 510. Hoping to finish sealing everything, grind the seams smooth and paint match the yellow in the next couple months! stoked!

Thanks man, much appreciated !

Made a little video for the quarter panel replacement: It's not much but it was pretty fun to make. Cheers!

I raised it about 1" in the rear in preparation and it did fine, no rubbing. Tires are 185's so pretty narrow.

Her longest trip yet to the river (with four people) she did just fine!

Thanks everyone for your comments and insight! Here she was at Canby: By blue lake time she should be "done" B)

hello rear end - The plug welds are tough on the paper thin sides of the panel so just tacking those up for now until i build a little thickness to actually plug em. Now I need to do the same with the valence but underneath the car . . . This will suck, any tips for plug welding upside down? :geek:

Right side of the trunk floor got little (lotta) bit of love: Left side ground down: aaaaand seam sealer + 2x POR-15: Trunk floor is finally done. And on to the tail light panel...

Thanks! Progress it is... Also issue #5,542,654,453: For some reason the left quarter panel does not line up with the rear valance when it's bolted to the bumper rail... not sure how this happened since the quarters are both the same size and the rails are too. Maybe the valence is bent. Either way this is a pain.

Some progress, decided to just do the rear quarter skin for the right side, and repair the good ol' trunk drop: POR-15-ed: A trunk floor almost complete- Some mock-up action: The sun came out so this picture sucks, but at least its starting to look like a real car... almost there :angel:

So I need some advice... Working on the right quarter now: Here's the replacement panel: (it's actually not in great shape and was cut a little sloppy) It looks pretty hacked DIY: Now, should I replace just the skin? Or do what I did on the other side and replace the trunk floor drops too? This is where I wish I had a futofab floor drop but I don't. Moar oics: I would have to cut out and replace the lower section and maybe a couple other spots: I'm leaning towards keeping the original floor drops since they can be salvaged and the other panel just looks janky. What do you guys think? Thanks!

Thanks Xnke, I'll make sure to seal this one. More progress... slowly but surely... And to think I have to do this all again on the other side... :sleep: At Least I'm feeling better with the welder settings, seems like more voltage has been doing the trick. Also revisited some old paper work I saved on the car: The odometer now reads 12k. I got the car from a friend of the original owner who bought it just to flip it. The tags were dated 2005 when I got it. This along with other mileage paperwork leads me to believe the car indeed only has 112k original miles. Pretty rad. It's a reminder -- she's worth it!

Man that thing is beautiful... Well done. Don't ever paint it!

That being said, I've gotten a little bit more work done before your advice: This patch was a pain, hence the hammer marks. Good thing no one will actually have to look at this. Its for sure cold. I will attempt to bring up the voltage to 3 on the miller, and just run quicker tacks. Also, the shoot-to-fill smaller rust holes on the right was not the best method. I should have just cut out that section too, but oh well, thats how I learn. I grinded it all down and it looks a little more decent. This was a little more exciting: I decided to do a lap weld here. From what I read online it would be the easiest/best method. Here I went up to 3 on the voltage, but I'm still not totally satisfied with these tacks... I still have to do the other side so I'll see if I can get that 20G wire and try a butt weld the second time. It took too many hours to line up but it turned out fine. I sprayed the overlapping section with weld through copper primer hoping to protect that 1/2" of bare sandwiched metal. I think I'll cut out the rest of that trunk floor up to the tire well. Too many salt holes to plug up, might as well start fresh. More progress to come! Thanks everyone for the tips. B) SaveSave