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More progress today. My front valance was bashed up and the areas around the fog light mount holes were both cracked. I scored an NOS front support and valance assembly from Mike Young, still in 50 year old red Nissan primer. I carefully drilled out the spot welds, stripped the valance down to bare metal, measured and test fit many, many times, hit the mating surfaces with weld-through primer, and then MIG "spot" welded the new valance to my original support. Looks a million times better now.

Great score on the NOS piece!

Nicely done!!! Looks amazing.

Happy New Year(s eve)!

Been busy with boring non-Roadster stuff lately, but whenever I've had free time, I've been sanding, sanding, and more sanding. Have I mentioned how much I loathe sanding? Makes me want to gouge my eyes out. With sandpaper.

Anyways, all that sanding, prepping, and taping finally came to fruition when I painted my engine bay and surrounding areas. It turned out pretty nice. There are a few spots in the engine bay that I'm less than happy with, but I'm going to do some wet sanding and maybe a bit of touch-up, and that will have to do. Looks a hell of a lot better than it did before! The good news is I'm done with silver for now. Just need to get black undercoating on the inner fenders and underside, and then I can drop the body back on to the beautiful frame.

Requisite photos:

Before


After

Looking good. Job well done.

Steve

That looks great, and best of all you have done it all yourself!
Job satisfaction on a project well done!

Very nice!

Got a bunch done the last couple of days:

I degreased, sanded, primed, and sprayed rubberized undercoat on the whole bottom of the pan, except for a stripe right above the exhaust, which is coated in Lizard Skin ceramic heat barrier.

I degreased, sanded, and coated the insides of the fenders with rust encapsulator, then epoxy primer. They look a million times better.

And, last, but certainly not least, I got black rubber caps on all the sharp metal tabs that have been slicing my hands open whenever I'm working in the engine bay. I feel so much safer now. The rubber caps I used are from McMaster-Carr. Part numbers 85945K23 and 85945K46. These 2 bags are enough to do the whole frame and body with leftovers for a total of about $27. They are a bit too long (better than too short!) so you just cut each one to match the tab it goes on.

Requisite photos...

Looking good.

S

Smart move to get the plastic caps, better than give up a pint of blood :- 0 The car bottom and fenders look better than new..

After many hours of going down the YOUTUBE rabbit hole doing research, a pair of stock looking fiberglass front fenders are going to be "attempted" ...

Got the inner fenders sprayed with rubberized undercoating, and got some items bolted into the engine bay: refreshed overflow tank, radiator support bars, and front X brace. Trying to keep the momentum up to get this car to Solvang.

Solid progress, keep up the good work - you can make Solvang!

By the way, the front X brace is from H&R in Australia. It is very nicely made and comes with all hardware and mounting instructions. The mounting is a mirror image of the instructions, though, because it was made for RHD cars.

https://www.hrc-dat.com.au/apps/webstor ... cale=en-AU

The price isn't as scary as it seems, since it's in Aussie $, not USD.

That cross brace is neato but I think I could make one for less than roughly $250 US. Might just try but way in the future , got to much on my plates already. You progress is great love the build. Also thanks for the part#’s for the caps. Got mine on order already!