UPDATE PAGE 2...

Well my body work is in the process. I do it for a living so if you have any question just ask. It might come along kind of slow considering I also have a bunch of other side jobs. Dont ask how much the materials cost (im borrowing them from work haha). Im doing this all in my garage. Everything will be coming off the car to spray (moldings, glass etc.)

11/06 Wheel wells are 80% welded up. (only have one pic from phone cam)



10/24...small update

I bought a plasma cutter. Cut out ALL the rust on the right side. started making inner patch panels from a SAAB door skin. Ran out of batterys and cant find charger for cam.





This is before I cut it with plasma cutter







Here is the door skin i will be using for patches. I have several more i work



I figure I would post this here also, Im sure many of you will respect this.

Well my body work is in the process. I do it for a living so if you have any question just ask. It might come along kind of slow considering I also have a bunch of other side jobs. Dont ask how much the materials cost (im borrowing them from work haha). Im doing this all in my garage. Everything will be coming off the car to spray (moldings, glass etc.)

So far I bought a brand new oem si bumper, lip ALL new body side moldings and rear bumper.

this pic is from moooonths ago like october





























At this point I wont be replacing the entire quarters as it seems it not that bad. But i can still answer any question that you need...

Here is the aftermath after cutting out SOME of the rust. I will be remaking the pinchweld along with innerwheel house and rocker....Other than the previous repair just using filler and screen mesh there doesnt seem to be any more filler on the car which makes me very happy. I wont be putting full 1/4s on anymore now that i know it will be a easy repair.

These are just rough cuts, I just wanted to get a look at the inner panels.



No filler other than covering up rust which is awesome


He is the underside of the rocker/ pinch weld. I obviously will cut out all the rust, fixing the pinchweld will be most difficult, not saying much though






And for those who care...



Modified by mike9571 at 9:45 PM 11/6/2007


Modified by mike9571 at 3:24 AM 12/28/2007

 

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Have fun
What color is it gonna be?

 

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What color is it gonna be?</TD></TR></TABLE>

I thought about doing a color change, but im gonna stick with red, and throw some pearl in.

 

wow, nice progress!

it's always nice to see people restoring older hondas especially ef's.

 

awesome work

 

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Thanks guys. Hopefully I can work on it more. I dont currently have any sidework

 

Good work....keep the updates coming!!!

 

Lots of work

 

looks like you know what your doing, im down to see this job done

 

Here is my old da, i picked up for reallly cheap. Painted it and sold it.

Just so you have an idea of the quality that will come out of it

poopy pic

 

looks really good. what are you gonna do about ur rusted rear jacking points?

 

Looks great, good to see someone actually take the time to fix it right.!

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by msinsky14 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">looks really good. what are you gonna do about ur rusted rear jacking points?</TD></TR></TABLE>

I take it your talking about the pinchwelds.

Basicly what i will do is make 2 L-shaped pieces of metal and plug weld them together. It will somewhat be like stock. Kind of hard to explain.

 

Just worked on it for a few hours and im BEAT. I still cant find my cam charger.

I did a rough patch fit on the inner wheel house and rocker.

 

I remember seeing pics of your teg after you painted it and then you had to paint it again after vandals got to it or something.

I can't wait to see what you do with this one. I just scrapped a hatch just like that but it was rusted to ****. Good luck

 

I'd like to see what u mean if u could take a few pics, mine are the same way, except my rear jack points crunched and noew its just a jumbled mess of rust.
are you gonna be able to use those jack points ever again?

and no, im pretty sure the pinch welds for the rockers are seperate from the lower inner panel which has the jacking reinforcements

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by msinsky14 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I'd like to see what u mean if u could take a few pics, mine are the same way, except my rear jack points crunched and noew its just a jumbled mess of rust.
are you gonna be able to use those jack points ever again?

and no, im pretty sure the pinch welds for the rockers are seperate from the lower inner panel which has the jacking reinforcements</TD></TR></TABLE>

At the moment i cant take pics because my cam charger is mia.

Anyways, im not sure what your talking about with the jack point, i jack it up at the pinch weld. But either way everything will be just as strong/stronger than oem.

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I can't wait to see what you do with this one. I just scrapped a hatch just like that but it was rusted to ****. Good luck </TD></TR></TABLE>

Thanks

Yup thats me. the car was a vandal magnet, before i sold it someone smashed the damn hood in.

 

looks good so far, keep it up!

 

nice...i see u live in lancaster pa...so do I, just happen that i drive a ef hatch also with a LS swap..but mine is blue, anways wanna do my car next?????

 

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Nice, there isnt very many around here. Id be down to do your car.

 

i might want you to do my car. needs the quarters replaced and rockers/wheel wells fixed as well. i live in akron, ohio, how far are u?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by msinsky14 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">i might want you to do my car. needs the quarters replaced and rockers/wheel wells fixed as well. i live in akron, ohio, how far are u?</TD></TR></TABLE>

Probally 6/7 hrs. I have taken several trips to medina oh. which is close to you

 

not too bad if it ensures i get good work done, the guy who tried repairing my quarters fucked them all up, said hes done this stuff before but obviously hasnt.

how much u think to replace both quarters and repair the wheel wells/ pinch wells?

pm me

ps- i work and most my friends live in medina


Modified by msinsky14 at 1:54 PM 10/26/2007