Project: DAT AAZ

[Luxurious]

Update? What!

Had some fun today down by the bay... started polishing the strut towers, I'm up to 1000 grit wet:

JK! Actually I made very good progress in removing that damn damn sealer with a wire cup brush


Drilled hella spot welds and destroyed all needless bracketry (battery tray, washer fluid res, coolant res, hood prop, other things I can't remember right now)


carnage


Oh yeah... got most of the rain tray out! Looks so much better already! Please note handy drill holster.

Great day. Thanks for coming out Rob!

[dr. locktopus]

Please note handy drill holster.

Wouldn't have happened without me. :p

[Dreamstate]

So far so good!

[Luxurious]

So I went to the garage to wait for somebody from the poortex to come and patronize the gift shop and removed the rest of the rain tray by drilling the spot welds from the inside... that went well, no pictures.

Then I moved on to removing the seam sealer I couldn't reach with the rain tray in the way and.........
(top)
(bottom)

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The rot free mkI is a lie. This shit is between where the tower meets the unibody too from what I can tell. Should be fun to fix

[Luxurious]

Hey I remember this car/thread!

[Dreamstate]

git'r'done

[mushroom_curry]

Love the thread title, don't love the rot

Work on eet.

[Luxurious]

[mushroom_curry]

[Luxurious]

Odds are I'll be going with the raceland caddy kit mit airbag set up like that... except with raised towers instead of those fugly strut mount things. That is of course if I don't chop it up like minitruck and put in upper control arms or something

[mushroom_curry]

Yeah those strut mount things are weird.

[Luxurious]

Who knew!!!




Will do... except I'll try my best to salvage my grip and reinstall it as it's in pretty good shape IIRC.

[mushroom_curry]

Reference pics...

Skinny:






Less skinny, but skinny:

Should have gotten more of Rick into this pic hahaha


Holy skinny poke




Still waiting for a reply from our friend. He has Facebook sending alerts to his phone, so I know he's getting my msgs! Must be deep in thought.

And so the Final Jeopardy music continues to play.

[dr. locktopus]

oh man, skinny poke is exactly what rick hates. lol.

if only they sit like when in the air.

Rick, you need a hover car.

[mushroom_curry]

Not to worry, these were merely in the back of my pickup truck mainly as conversation pieces!

There's a bigger plan brewing that I'm hoping the "car gods" will align

[Mandeep D]

You put those on the wrong car! Schmidt needs Schmidts......

( and a Schmidt's beer tap pull for a gearshift knob)

[Luxurious]

oh man, skinny poke is exactly what rick hates. lol.

[boniver]Come on skinny poke, what happened here?[/boniver]

They definitely clashed with the coop but it was interesting to see them on there... the tires sure are intriguing to see in person/context though- nice size.
Dave: Technically these are Revolutions (pre-Schmidt copies), so you wouldn't be interested