new two tone s14.3!

02/22/2008: Houston

Long story short, I drove it out of a gas station and next thing I know, I was picking up the pieces of the bumper. I glued it all back together with fiberglass repair kit. It's amazing what a $15.00 fiberglass repair kit from Hi Lo can do for a FRP bumper. When I was done, it was almost as good as new.

broken aero...

it also crinkled both of the fenders. I straighten them with some bondo and two weekends later, it's back together.

Now, only if the paint shop can match up what was used on this car before. I have used a lot of single stage paint and this and the duPont Nason have to be the best I like. The material lays very flat on the pieces and they do not run like water. This is the BASF LIMCO single stage system. The mixture is 8 parts paint, 1 part hardnener, and 4 parts reducer. I would use this single stage to paint the entire car. I might get to do that with my neighbor's 240 project. There will definitely be a write up on the entire bodywork and painting process. I did this repair in such a hurry that I didn't get to snap a lot of photos.

I also got some hardware from home depot to make two fender props for the front fender. They were constructed with screw rod joints, nuts, and two pair of eye loops.

The prop ties the bottom part of the fender together to the chassis of the car. The fenders also got some rivets to tie the fender to the chassis. I have found great use with rivets over the years. I don't think there is anything impossible if you have a rivet gun and a some rivets. 4 rivets can easily hold a FRP rear bumper to the car.

This is the finished product. Although it looks great and has a very gloss finish, the paint is a few shades off from the original. This sux as I will have to scrub this down again and shoot it over with better matching paint.

Yep, you can really tell from far away. The new two tones look for the win..!

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