NC Panda's 20v GTSR5 years in the making by NC Panda

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Thanks man, just got back home to put a few more days of work into it before i have to head back to Greensboro. Looking to at least have the engine bay metal work done and get started on filler/paint prep by Thursday. Shouldn't be too hard but stuff always happens. I'll make sure to start grabbing more pics from here on out and get some good pics of the parts that I didn't mention earlier.

2-25-2013

Had a short day today but still got some decent prep done and the battery tray. Sadly, I should have gotten thicker steel and found out the hard way that the welder would just eat through it (hence the thicker welds.) Plans for the next 3 days are moving smoothly though and I might finally get some filler on it by this weekend/ early next week. 

Battery Tray hole got filled in

Finally found all the holes that I will be filling in. Will probably stay away from the radiator forward since I will be replacing the whole section anyway, but the blue tape marks the holes left to be filled (minus the area reserved for a brake master cylinder stopper.)

Driver Side:

Passenger Side:

Will have more pics tomorrow when the holes are filled and the shaving/sanding starts

2-26-2013

Well, I found out the hard way today that my welding gloves had a hole in them when I wasn't paying attention. It was getting a little late when that happened so I went ahead a started doing the shaving. Thanks to the flux-core and some filling work from the welder it's going to be a slow process shaving and cleaning the welds. For the sake of not being redundant I will save the pics of the grinding process for when there is more done but in the mean time here is a pic of the little surprise I got that reminded me I might need new welding gloves.

(yes, that piece of silver in my knuckle is the metal)