operation redo engine bay

[mark4g63t]

Thats when the basement comes into play...Then soon enough you'll get kicked out the house or paying rent + storage fees lol

[dsmDolney]

Ha ha yea no kidding soon its all going to be in the hallway that leads to my room and i still cant beleive i havnt gotten kicked out of the garage yet considering im starting another mess lol

[dsmDolney]

Got some more work done tonight got the motor out and now time to tackle the hard part fixing the tower rust theres some pics of pulling it

[dsmDolney]

Some updated pics got the bay pretty much stripped and almost ready to attack the strut tower

[dsmDolney]

picked up a mostly complete strut tower from mark4g63t last night plan on cutting mine out of what I need to cut then trace it on the good tower cut and weld into place hopefully get this done soon it kills not being able to drive a nice car in this weather but as long as my car gets done before the cruise that's all that matters lol

[dsmreck]

Just make sure you use that black 3m rust encapsulatir or whatever it's called. I will let u know for sure what it's called later when I can look at the can. The worst is hand sanding that bay good enough for paint. Use 400 grit wet/dry paper and that will be plenty good

[bigboostingst]

Yeah the sanding is not fun... Luckly mine didn't have any rust but it definitely was not a one day job. I used POR15 on the seams, it's expensive but has excellent reviews:

http://i925.photobucket.com/albums/ad92/gieri002/IMAG2109_zpsb1999ffe.jpg (http://s925.photobucket.com/user/gieri002/media/IMAG2109_zpsb1999ffe.jpg.html)

[dsmDolney]

will look into that por15 stuff
dsmreck what paint color did you also use on your bay when you repained it it looks great and matches the body color well

[dsmDolney]

Update i got a t it tonight and made some progress got what i needed cut out of the tower. I also picked up some of that por 15 stuff and it seems to work great to get to the little rust i cant get to. Just have to cut out the peice out of the good tower and weld it in.

[dsmreck]

yes por15 is what i used i believe. I will check on that color code again for you but dupont is an excellent brand with great color match