Ponyman's Project: Tangelo 5oh

Im beat.

I got a looooot done in the past two days. I havent filled that many holes since that one time on spring break! lol.

Engine compartment is almost done. Here the pics.

I was gonna buy some pre cut and bended inner fender panels and just weld them in, but I decided to do it myself. It took a little more time, but the gratification of doing it all yourself is worth it! I started by using poster board as templets so I could get the panels just right.

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Cut out my panels and pre fit...

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And welded them in...

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Im no Rob Lewis, but Im happy with the welds. They should hold just fine.

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drivers side inner fender panel welded in...

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Being a GT, the car came with power windows, locks, and mirrors. Im removing all of that and putting in manual window regulators. So I decided to fill in the holes in the body that the harness travels through to get to the doors...

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More door jamb holes filled

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We also filled in the fresh air vent from the cowl since this car will be without a heater box. Heres Schaber doing a little Overhead MIG work...

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Since I wont be running winshield wipers Ive decided to fill in the hole in the cowl where the wiper motor arm sticks through.

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I also had a small rust hole on the drivers side floor board, right about where the heel of your foot would be when on the gas pedal.

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I just cut it out and bent up a new piece and welded it in...

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There were also a shit load of round holes with rubber plugs in them in the floor. I guess Ford didnt want Mustangs to float. I also filled them in...I want this bitch to float by God!

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Every time I take a step back and look at this thing I get worried that I may be in over my head...

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Its just parts...It may take forever, but I'll get it back together eventually.

If I put in a few more hours under the welding helmet tomorrow I may be ready to paint my cage this week sometime. I cant wait to play with my new paint gun!

lookin good,thats a ton of work

Keep at it dude, it will eventully get there.:bigthumb

Just make sure to open the welding curtin so I can see in...:lol:

Good Job Matt, and keep up the good work buddy. :bigthumb

Kyle

Looking good Bro!!!!:bigthumb

Today I vacuumed out the interior, blew it out with a blow gun, and vacuumed it again and wiped everything down with Lacquer Thinner soaked rags. Nick Middleton came over and helped out too. We started painting my patch panels with a coat of Chassis Saver to keep the surface rust off them. Nick had the great Idea to just cover all the floor boards and inner firewall. We put a heavy coat on and went to dinner. I came back and put on another coat for good measure.
Hopefully It will be good and dry tomorrow so I can scuff and put my first coat of epoxy primer on the roll cage.

I cant wait to break out my new paint gun and pop its cherry!:bounce:

I'll have some pics tomorrow evening. Stay tuned!:popcorn:

Post up those pics.

I changed the Tstat, still runs hot while going down the road. Come to a stop sign, it goes back to the middle of the gauge.:confused:
I dunno, hopefully it gets me threw a few rounds tomorrow.:)

After a good 12 hour day I got the roll cage in primer. Most of the way...


The HoK KD2000 Epoxy primer is a two part primer that is mixed 4 to 1. I mixed 12 oz. primer and 3 oz. activator to give me 15 oz. I used both my Devillbis Finishline guns (the full size gun with th 1.8 fluid tip and the smaller 1.0 touch up gun). 15 oz. wasnt enough to cover the entire cage with one good coat but I stopped there because I was getting pretty frustrated. I cant seem to get my gun set up right. The shit is pretty thick and it wouldnt come out of the gun unless I had the fluid knob all the way open, then the shit would just run out of the tip. I was getting pretty mad, but I ended up getting it to spray a little bit and did what I could. The shit was coming outa the gun like undercoating or rhino liner stuff...nasty.

Heres everything masked up and wiped off ready to go...

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Heres where I tried forever to get the gun set right.

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This is as far as I got...

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Ive read up and it looks like Im doing everything correctly to get the spray pattern set right, but I just cant get it right. The tech manual did say you can reduce it up to 10 percent. Maybe I need to try adding reducer to improve flow out. I dunno. :confused:

Hopefully I can get some help and finish it tomorrow.

Looking good Matt

So this is why I didn't see you two tonight??? Looks good though.

Sorry Carl,
We really did plan on coming. I started with this just after noon yesterday and once I got going I pretty much was committed to it. I couldnt just walk off with a gun full of primer. I didnt get finished till allmost 11pm. Jen wasnt going to go without me because she didnt even know where it was. Sorry again bro.


I talked to a buddy last night and found out that I need to reduce that stuff to get it to spray right. HoK says up to 10 percent, my buddy said I can reduce it farther if need be to get it to spray right.

Im gonna give it another shot today. ;)

Looking good man and yeah on all that primer you can reduce pretty much as much as you want! Me and dad normaly reduce it out till it just starts to get thinner then it sprays pretty good!

Well, I gave it another shot today and it turned out beautiful!
I sanded down what I had done yesterday and cleaned everything off very well. I mixed up 20 oz. of Primer with 5 oz. of Activator and 1.5 oz. of Medium Reducer. It had a nice thiner consistency to it compared to yesterday. I got the gun set up pretty easily and laid out 3 coats in no time.


Heres my little paint table with my gun stand and some of my stuff.
I dont have a funnel or anything to get the primer out of that gallon jug without making a mess, so I just put some masking tape around the rim to make a spout. worked pretty well...

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It was a major PITA getting into all those tight spots around all those bars. The interior of that thing is like a jungle gym!

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Looks damn good!!!:bigthumb

Looks good Matt.

But I'll stick to my rattle can primer and paint for rollbars that get abused....Even after you put clear on them. :(

B

Looking great man! You will painting the car in now time.

great going math wiz.

keep up the hard work!!!