Those who ask shall receive. I promise I'll get some better pics taken once painted. No Samsung Note 2 camera or me shooting. The camera and I don't get along to well. Lol.
Took care of some of the dings, dents and rust on the hatch. Due to the rust being in such an awkward spot, I ended up sand blasting the areas with rust to knock most of the rust off.
Then filled holes and pin holes with Duraglass.
On the hatch jam there was rust also. Did the same procedure but after the sand blasting, we put some acid on the rusted areas to eat some of the rust we couldn't reach with the sand blaster.
After acid and sand blasting treatment.
Body work.
Ready for primer.
After this body buiz, I want to eventually convert my wagon to manual. So I picked up a wagon pedal asembely and shifter. I'm going to clean them up and paint them soon. I had a tough time trying to figure out how to take the shift linkage out so I just left it there. Since the part number for then shift linkage starts with SH5, it's wagon specific? After I did some research I read it's a pain to take out the linkage because of a pin. What tools should take to release the pin? Also, I read that if will be needing the passenger mount bracket welded to frame, is that the only bracket I will be needing to remove? Sorry for all the questions. The junkyard is about 40 minutes away and I wouldn't like to make more trips then necessary.
All I need left now is: tranny, clutch, flywheel with hardware, ECU (PM5), cluster, shift linkage, passenger side bracket (possibly the other ones), and clutch cable.
Ground control coil overs came in today.
I've heard nothing but good things about GC coil overs and Koni yellow shocks. Gotta save up for the Koni's now.
Love my ground control/koni yellow combo on my eg. 3 years layer and still holding up well! You cant go wrong for the $
Nice. Durability is what I'm after.
Clutch pedal was cracked in all sorts of places. Fixed that and reinforced the clutch pedal. Not pretty but oh well. It works.
I don't know what wheels I'm going to get or how low I'm going to go but just incase, I trimmed metal off of the quarter panel and fender wheels wells. Did not roll them because I did not want to harm the bodywork that was done.
This is some hardcore Motherfawkin work going on here....NICE JOB!!!
Thanks for the kind words. This week was kind of a slow one. Not to much going on. I've finished up sanding all 4 doors using 400 with a paint stick and some soft blocking in the tough to get to areas. Quarters are going to have to be primed again. Going to do some further bodywork and 220 it. No progress next week thanksgiving break.
It's better to rework the panels now, than get it painted and be upset because it's wavy, did you say what the final color will be?
Ohh yea definitely. That waviness will kill me after all the work put into it. As far as color, I chose an OEM color just to be safe. Didn't want to end up choosing a color and not liking it. So I think I'm going with B37-M.
Thanks man. Also, thanks for the headlights that came in. I had to modify the rubber gasket in order for the pigtail to go through. Cleaned them up and they look great.
The hood needed some more work and gave it a second round of primer.
Right when you think your getting close to paint this happens..... :miserable:
3/4 of my doors, fenders, and quarters are like this. I really do not feel like sanding the whole car again.
Well there was no other option other than strip and restart. Finished stripping and priming 2 doors. The cheap paint underneath May have caused the primer to split.
It's a nightmare. Hatch is cracking and hood. Only panels in good shape are passenger fender, roof, and metal around the doors. There is no clear evidence of what the culprit is. But I am using a different primer Limco 800K. No cracking so far. Well I'm basically priming and sanding the entire wagon again. Time to play catch up.
Ohh yea definitely. That waviness will kill me after all the work put into it. As far as color, I chose an OEM color just to be safe. Didn't want to end up choosing a color and not liking it. So I think I'm going with B37-M.
Thanks man. Also, thanks for the headlights that came in. I had to modify the rubber gasket in order for the pigtail to go through. Cleaned them up and they look great.
No problem man! I havent been able to activly browse the forums lately (new job) so thats why I mssgd you last week, need to start prioritizing the CivicWagon forums before Facebook and gf time again lol!
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Kaven approves of the wagon. Lol.
Self etching primer on the bare metal before anything.
2nd coat.
Cool time lapse my friend in the photo shot.
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Then filled holes and pin holes with Duraglass.
On the hatch jam there was rust also. Did the same procedure but after the sand blasting, we put some acid on the rusted areas to eat some of the rust we couldn't reach with the sand blaster.
After acid and sand blasting treatment.
Body work.
Ready for primer.
Had to get a set of corners. One was lost in an accident a bit ago and one was lost in the tear down.
All I need left now is: tranny, clutch, flywheel with hardware, ECU (PM5), cluster, shift linkage, passenger side bracket (possibly the other ones), and clutch cable.
I've heard nothing but good things about GC coil overs and Koni yellow shocks. Gotta save up for the Koni's now.
Clutch pedal was cracked in all sorts of places. Fixed that and reinforced the clutch pedal. Not pretty but oh well. It works.
I don't know what wheels I'm going to get or how low I'm going to go but just incase, I trimmed metal off of the quarter panel and fender wheels wells. Did not roll them because I did not want to harm the bodywork that was done.
Rear
Front
Also seam sealed where I patched my holes in the quarter.
Cleaned up and painted my rust exhaust manifold cover. Little bit to glossy but no biggy.
Doing an awesome job!
The hood needed some more work and gave it a second round of primer.
Right when you think your getting close to paint this happens..... :miserable:
3/4 of my doors, fenders, and quarters are like this. I really do not feel like sanding the whole car again.
Will it be painted before Xmas?
No problem man! I havent been able to activly browse the forums lately (new job) so thats why I mssgd you last week, need to start prioritizing the CivicWagon forums before Facebook and gf time again lol!