Thread: Project $ 3 K Is Underway

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You guys are just wrong. Besides, I gave up wearing pantyhose after that one little "incident."


Thanks for all the tips ( I think). I took Brians suggestion to take a cold shower. I got used to them.........I was married 28 years.

Anyway, I did get some glassing done today. Before I can start putting the floor in I had to finish up some work on the interior of the firewall. One thing I had to correct was the hole where the steering shaft goes through it. Originally I was using a Corvair steering box, but when I replaced it with a Flaming River "Corvair" box, it is slightly different. The steering input shaft goes in at a lower angle, so I had to cut a new/ second hole a little lower. This left the first hole that needed filled.

What I did was slip a piece of pvc into the new hole to retain the shape, built a temporary plastic dam on the inside, and filled the old hole with Bondo. It will adhere to the wood and fiberglass pretty well, and I am going to put fiberglass mat over the outside of the hole to seal it up. The Bondo is simply a filler to take up the space between the two layers of glass.

After it cured I removed the dam and pvc tube and proceeded to glass up the inside of the firewall. I laid up two layers of mat to bond the wooden firewall piece to the fiberglass body, then I laid up one more piece of mat over the entire firewall interior to waterproof it an make it stronger.

My camera batteries went dead after the first few pictures, so I can't show you the final result until tomorrow, but these will show how I filled the unwanted hole. That white stuff you see around the edges of the plywood in the last picture is more Bondo. I filled up the entire seam and leveled it before I glassed mat over it, so that I would have a clean strong edge there.

Tomorrow I get into serious grinding of the entire surface of the body to remove the wax and get some tooth for the rest of the wood to adhere to.

Don