FIN-Petri Aalto
New Member
Hi,
bought 73 Charged few years ago and use magnet to test the panels but was not able to lift it and go under the car and mostly all side panels ok but the floor and firewall was rusted inside while the firewall rainwater removal is blocked and rusted it.
Started to weld the floor and trunk but notified quite fast that the firewall is so rust and cannot be welded without taking the engine off and then it moves to the next radar. I sold the engine 383, remove and bolt off everything from the body and send to sandblasting, floor both side but not whole car that was the first wrong choice. Second wrong choice was to add epox with sink, polyurethane layer and final painting after sandblasting and now i have places where there is wet sand between metal and plastic and even with the Epox with sink it has started to rust the metal while only direction. Polyurethane does not rust. Secondly still get huge number of sand from the frames and body. So after sandblast first the base color and then back, fix all rust, re sandblast those part, spray base color and then polyurethane and final color and before any polyurethane clean it, clean it and clean it from the sand while its everywhere. And bodygrill must
So all metal part has been bolted off, sand blasted, wet painted, powder coated or black-passivated zinc-iron coated.
Polyurethane bushing used when available (frame, suspension etc) and rear suspension fully based on Calvert racing's Caltrack, leaf springs and two way adjustable shocks. Front built using Borgeson steering gear and 1.12 inch torque bars and Ridetech adjustable shocks and boxed lower arm but more in the future posts.
Project book can be also found from here https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10158152732019379&type=3
bought 73 Charged few years ago and use magnet to test the panels but was not able to lift it and go under the car and mostly all side panels ok but the floor and firewall was rusted inside while the firewall rainwater removal is blocked and rusted it.
Started to weld the floor and trunk but notified quite fast that the firewall is so rust and cannot be welded without taking the engine off and then it moves to the next radar. I sold the engine 383, remove and bolt off everything from the body and send to sandblasting, floor both side but not whole car that was the first wrong choice. Second wrong choice was to add epox with sink, polyurethane layer and final painting after sandblasting and now i have places where there is wet sand between metal and plastic and even with the Epox with sink it has started to rust the metal while only direction. Polyurethane does not rust. Secondly still get huge number of sand from the frames and body. So after sandblast first the base color and then back, fix all rust, re sandblast those part, spray base color and then polyurethane and final color and before any polyurethane clean it, clean it and clean it from the sand while its everywhere. And bodygrill must
So all metal part has been bolted off, sand blasted, wet painted, powder coated or black-passivated zinc-iron coated.
Polyurethane bushing used when available (frame, suspension etc) and rear suspension fully based on Calvert racing's Caltrack, leaf springs and two way adjustable shocks. Front built using Borgeson steering gear and 1.12 inch torque bars and Ridetech adjustable shocks and boxed lower arm but more in the future posts.
Project book can be also found from here https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10158152732019379&type=3
