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1974 Roadrunner Re-Paint and Some Upgrades

Passenger fender is out 1/4". That's one area that will need to cut fender and remove a section and weld fender back together to shrink that area. Taking measurements before removing doors again to do back side welding at the bottom with round bar.

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Just think how much fun it would be with aftermarket parts. Dialing in uniform gaps is very time consuming. Are you going to paint it all together or are you going to pull the doors and front end to paint? I’ve done it both ways and both have there drawbacks.
 
Just think how much fun it would be with aftermarket parts. Dialing in uniform gaps is very time consuming. Are you going to paint it all together or are you going to pull the doors and front end to paint? I’ve done it both ways and both have there drawbacks.
Not sure yet.
 
It is coming along nicely! I bet you are looking forward to getting through the end of the welding on it. I can't wait to see the end result, especially with all of the detail work you're doing on gaps and body lines.
 
It is coming along nicely! I bet you are looking forward to getting through the end of the welding on it. I can't wait to see the end result, especially with all of the detail work you're doing on gaps and body lines.
Thanks. Yes I’m looking forward to ending the metal work. The door bottoms were an unexpected surprise. We thought we were done with metal work and ran into the bad spots adding metal for the door gaps. Should be about another month and you will be able to see the end result. We were anticipating the body work to be completed this month, but ran into that rust on the doors. Next month for sure.
 
Do you have any idea of the # of hours you guys have spent so far? Sounds like your guy isn’t sitting in his hands for sure
 
Im starting to become big proponent of either acid dipping or an electrolysis tank stripping. The more I watch your build the more I see it’s worth. Atleast your can of worms are out in the open from the beginning and can be addressed all at once.
 
Im starting to become big proponent of either acid dipping or an electrolysis tank stripping. The more I watch your build the more I see it’s worth. Atleast your can of worms are out in the open from the beginning and can be addressed all at once.
Not sure if acid dipping would have helped in this situation where the rust was in between seams. Plus it needed to be cut out, so even if dipping got it it would have made the metal very thin or nonexistent there.

We cut it all out and added thicker metal.

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