Das $build thread$ by dasbeast3.0

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I cant find a local clean hood so i am fixing the og one. I previously was going to scrap it, and cut a chunk out to patch rust on a buddies car..sooo I decided to do something a little different and keep the hood. Im sure some will hate it, but it is very necessary being that my bay gets stupid hot. It will look clean and simple when done.

chunk cut:











Little skim and thats as far as I got b4 rain:

8/9/11

Few more. Stripped to hood to metal finally, its pretty hammered so it def needs some love. theres a pretty ugly gash in it that was previously fixed kinda ****ty, gotta hammer it out a little. other than that I got it sanded to 220, gonna do my bodywork then epoxy prime, surfacer and block.

8/16/11

epoxy primed hood and fender. Moving along.

9/3/11

Finally got a day to myself, so I shut the phone off and got **** done. I skipped out on a weekend trip to work on the C, my girl is angry but she'll get over it.

I had all the glass pulled out on friday, theres a good amount of rust under the front windshield, the hatch has some rot holes and the side glass had a bit of rust too. gotta cut/weld metal in the hatch but the rest i was able to grind away. Gonna treat the window channels with Por15 then prime and paint so they cannot rust out again. Im hoping i can get this thing in the booth by next weekend, then i can have the glass put back in and actually make it to h20 with the car.















cant see it in my ****ty pics but I smoothed the rockers, looks soooo much better. Its a real pain in the ass getting all the chip guard off.

9/4/11

Got the rest of the car stripped down. Also blocked out the drivers side. I need to get more epoxy primer, there is a lot of bare metal n I ran out, so I couldnt finish priming it today. Def moving along. damn good chance that I can paint it by the weekend. I put a solid 24hours in and intend to put every spare second into the car this week.

A buddy also gave me some hood hinges today, so a huge thanks to him. now i can paint the hood on the car.

9/8/11

Picked these up:



No, not resizing the rods (not really nec. imo). Just changing bolts.

Continuing on with the bodywork. Gonna sand/ prime the rest of car tomorrow, block out/paint prep on Sat, and hoping to get it in the booth on Sunday.

Also found more damage on the pass side rocker, I pulled it out since it was just filler stuck in it. Got that done and all bodywork done. No more hail damage and the car is dead straight.