This past week I spent prepping for epoxy primer over most of the bare metal areas. Not sure what I am going to to with the bottom of the car yet. I don't have a lift so using a spray gun underneath the car won't be a good option, so I will have to try something I can apply with a brush. I may try my epoxy primer (Tamco DTA) without any reducer and see how it works applying it with a brush.
The first thing I worked on was putting some fiberglass reinforced bondo on a few areas that I didn't get the metal smoothed out real well. This lower section that I had patched the trunk was one of them.
Also did some around the trunk area where I welded in the new gutter to fill in a few weld voids, and the top edge of the tail pan where I had made some adjustments getting it to fit the trunk shape better. At this point everything was sanded and ready for epoxy. The biggest pain was getting all the weld spatter removed. I should try to cover things up to keep the spatter off things as much as possible as it wasn't fun to get it all off.
And a coupe of spots on the trunk inner structure where new metal had been welded in.
A couple of coats of epoxy on the inside of the trunk, just doing one side at a time on the trunk lid as I don't have a good place to hang it up to do both sides at once right now.
And on the new trunk floor and trunk opening as well as the tail pan and lower quarter panels. Also got a couple coats on the inner fenders inside the trunk so it all looks nicer than it did before. The primer looks more gray in some of the pictures but it is just the lighting at the time, as it is all black.
Another view from directly behind the car.
With that done I prepped the cowl and firewall to get all of that covered in epoxy primer as well.
Looking much better with no more bare metal showing.
And finally primer on the outside of the trunk lid. This ended up with 3 coats as I mixed a bit too much primer, so no sense letting it go to waste. Also got the outside of the cowl vent door sprayed but didn't get a picture of that.
Next will be getting the doors and trunk back on so it will will look like a whole car again other than the front clip. That will be the next project to tackle!!
Brian![]()
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