ST162-7254182 "Dirty Deeds" Edited

now I need to re enforce the pieces I have made so far so I'm going to apply
additional layers of fiberglass to the back side. I just cut out little chunks
of cloth and overlap them to build up some strength. I could cut out exact
shapes but its much easier to just use a bunch of chunks


I've added some more layers along the bottom


and along the sides


and a big strip along the top


and I cut up the angle piece I had made to frame along the bottom of the
license plate

 

Now I just need to make a couple of flat pieces to go along the sides of the license plate
and fill in those 2 holes. Then I can do some final shaping and start with the bondo.

 

Geeze you allways want me to go the hard route don't you !
I was thinking some night shades sprayed on the new lens would be alot easier than removing
taillights and sealing in new ones.

I got the 2 side pieces attached and now I'm putting in a couple strips that I can bolt the
license plate to. I overlapped the side pieces so that I can glue them from both sides making
a much stronger joint.


I used some plasticine to make some molds around the nuts I need to attach


and now its pretty much complete, I'll strengthen and thicken a few areas and then bondo time


I managed to keep the original 5th gen license plate lighting, just have to solder the 4th
gen conector onto it


and now the nuts are pretty solidly mounted

 

You would be amazed at how strong those nuts are. When I was filling in around the nuts I got 1 drop of
resin that went over the top of the nut and down into the thread so I removed the bolt so it wouldn't get
stuck and when it dried I was going to use a tap to clean out the thread but when it was dry I was to
lazy to search for my set of taps & dies so I decided I would just use a wrench and force the bolt on. I was
actually amazed that the nut held up to the amount of force I was able to use so trust me those nut are on
there real good


that was the bottom right nut in this picture


If you want to prevent the problem of getting resin in the threads a good trick is to take a wax candle and
fill the treaded hole with wax. Once the resin is hard you can use a heat gun to melt the wax out. Once
again I'm to lazy to bother......

 

I'm going to stick a back up camera in the hole

 

I got tired of never having any space on my workbench so I did a little clean up


I have a stand for my bench grinder but it got stolen by my drill press so I had the grinder
mounted on my workbench so I'm going to make a little shelf for it instead. A piece of 2x10
amd some 3/4 plywood


and some 1/4 plywood to tie it all together and give it some strength and I added another
shelf on the bottom. I can allways use more shelves......


so now I have some work space


found my backup camera and used a piece of masking tape to measure it's circumfrance
and make a bracket out of aluminum for it


so that should work well enough


I'll probably have to do a bit more tweeking wth some needle nose pliers to get the holder
shaped/angled just right


I cut a couple strips of cardboard so I could leave a bit of space on each side of the red lens




and then wraped that in wax paper so bondo wouldn't stick to it


and now with the first coat of bondo

 

Well summer didn't last to long so it's a bit cold for bondo and fiberglass but I have been making
some slow progress. I have re made the camera holder out of fiberglass




So while I'm waiting for some nicer weather I'm going to make better use of my non existant
back seats. Theirs never more than 2 people in my Celica's so I'm going to make some additional
storage space.


I'll start with the shelf at window level although I think its a bit high I need to start somewhere


I decided to lower the shelf 5" and have now split it into 2 halfs. In addition to being a shelf
it will also be the top cover for a set of 15" subs I have. I will be adding a 7" x 18" x 24" box
to the bottom of each side of the shelf with the 15" speaker pointed down.


The drivers side speaker will be designed to be permanently mounted but the passenger side
speaker will be designed so it can be removed and flipped over and placed on top of the drivers
side speaker so I can remove the passenger side seat and still be able to fit 10' - 12' long cargo
inside


and once the speakers are installed I'll still have about 7" of space remaining

 

Got more E-Bay goodies, their supposed to be golf ball markers but I'm going to use them in my center caps


I'm going to make a hole in the center of the cap so the markers can sit flush


1 down..........


I'm useing GTS center caps with All Trac rims, their are slight differences so in order to get
them to sit flush with the rims I have to shave off a bit on the bottom of each center cap
I'm useing GTS center caps because they say Toyota on them and I have lots of them, All Trac
center caps say Celica on them


I just used a drill with a sanding disc clamped in a vise to remove the bottoms of the center cap


I placed a piece of fiberglass inside each cap to glue the markers to


I filled in the letters, sanded and now their ready for some paint


Now I'm looking for a little cannon to use as a hood ornament :hehe

 

getting some paint


All Trac center cap on the left modified GTS center cap on the right

 

Maybe a couple tweeters to get the high end out there a little better, other than that I think
you can hear the tunes pretty well allready from a fair distance

I've got a few ideas for subtle touches that will tie the overall Dirty Deeds / AC DC theme together

A flame thrower would be nice, may encourage those slow cars in front of me to get the F*** out of the way

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I'm finally getting around to finishing my wheels by getting some paint on the part I didn't polish.
I just used a paintbrush freehand so the edges were a bit rough (red arrow) so I used a piece of
cloth wrapped around my finger and dipped it in varsol and then rubbed along the edge of each
opening after the paint had dried a bit but not totally so i could disolve the paint I didn't want
and get a smoother edge, it pretty much looked like crap before with just the paintbrush but after
a bit of work the edges are looking pretty good. For the outside edge of each spoke (black arrow) I
will mask each one to get a nice straight line when I put on a second coat


Still wet but I did use a gloss paint same as the hub caps

 

Well I don't think you can go wrong with black, the only question is gloss, semi gloss or flat.
The first coat on my second rim I'm going to do semi gloss then I'll compare the 2 rims and
decide what the second coat should be

 

First rim after its dry with 1 coat of gloss paint with natural light and center cap, aluminum part still needs to be polished but I need to finish painting first
thats what it looks like after wet sand with 1000 grit