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My Black Bitza
Scott:
Last week, I started removing the interior. I figured it would make installing an extra pedal easier. As it turns out, removing the interiov is extremely easy.
On the weekend, I decided I should pull all the carpets out too, so now I have a very bare interior. The reasoning behind this was 1) to help remove some of the extra wiring in my car and 2) to fix my floor where it's broken.
Whoever installed the 80's front end and dash into my car, also installed the wiring harness fro the donor car. The problem is that they left the original wiring harness in the car as well. :hammer: I was always wondering why I had so many plugs that didn't connect to anything :)
Also at some stage (possibly when the car was shipped over) both the footwells have been pushed up. The joints between the panels have separated, and some of the panels are cracked so there will be some fibreglassing and bonding in the future.
After marking all the wires I need to keep, I have removed a decent amount of spares, but the ones that run over the steering column are a problem. So tonights job will be to remove the steering column. Apparently not a hard task.
While everything is apart, if anyone wants/needs pics of anything behind the dash, let me know. (the wiper thread made me thing of this)
Scott:
It's been a while and I haven't got as much done on the vette as I'd like to have. I was interupted by sickness, marriage, setting up a house and importing and complying a mustang. Finally I have had some quality time with the vette.
A while back I stripped the whole interior. I cleaned the surface rust off what I could see of the birdcage and gave it all aa nice coat of satin black.
I have also been stripping all the body deadening crud out of the interior. Fun job. I usually use a wire brush in the angle grinder, but I thought I'd try one of those strip-it discs that are like a tough scourer. They work well, but wear down really quick and are rather expensive. One disk did about 80% of the metal panel behind the seats. I bought a brass wire brush to finish it up. Not as effective, but lasts much longer.
Once again a nice coat of satin black to keep the corrosion away.
Then set out with the inch wide paint scraper getting all the crud off the floor. Since it's glass, I have to do it by hand. The plan is to get most of it with the scraper, then clean up the remainder with a plastic scourer and some thinners.
That icecream bucket filled up real quick and I'm barely started.
Keeps me off the couch anyway :grin:
Scott:
Long time, no update. I've been busy, but have managed some time to scrape more crud off my car.
After much cleaning time, it became glueing time. I bought a 2 part epoxy glue and set about glueing the seams in the floor back together. They had popped, I assume when the forklift gave it a nudge at some stage during shipping. I'll have to do some glass patches where the fibreglass has been broken, but that will be at a later date.
All snotted up.
My elaborate wood prop arrangement holding everything in place.
I also started cleaning up the floot on the other side.
I had to do this anyway, but it's not a fun job, so it gets put off.
Here you can see a few cracks in teh glass panel as well as a nother popped seam. Once it's all clean (inside and outside) I can glue this side up.
Scott:
I moved house back in April. Ever since then, the vette has still been in my fathers shed and I haven't had a chance to touch the thing. I've been waiting until I got teh garage floor done before I moved it over, as once the car was in there it'd be hard to move the car and leave it outside for a week or so while the floor was done.
Finally over the last week or so, stuff has been happening. I had a mate of mine who does concrete grinding and polishing come around and sort the floor out for me. It's an epoxy floor with a metallic pearlescence additive. It's not finished yet as it needs a final coat of polyurethane stuff over the top to protect the colour coat.
I have to say, I'm pretty impressed with how it came up. The only problem is that now I'll have to put a lot more effort into the rest of the shed now and paint the walls and shelves when they go up.
Plus now I'll finally be able to bring the vette.
I'm really excited about how it came out.
craigh:
Wow thats an amazing floor Scott.
Would almost be worried your cars are going to sink when you drive on it :-)
Craig
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