Project: Front End Nose Repair

9/14/13 - Today we started working on the nose section, this area was rusted out pretty bad. When we started we found a CRAP load of bondo and some questionable repairs made by the previous owner.

As you can see, there is a ton of bondo we are trying to get through just to find metal.  We have a replacement piece to replace the area that is marked in the photo so we cut that area out first.

David cutting out the rusted area for our repair panel

Kind of looks like Lightning McQueen from Cars :)  The piece we cut out was just welded on over the previous rusted area, so the repair the previous owner made was pretty shoddy, and with all the bondo that they used, this repair just didn't hold up. The area to the right of the cutout was pretty rusted also, so we cut a piece from our donor car and the curve fit perfectly with a little tweaking.

Bill tacking our repair patch in

Repair patch tacked in.

Update: Driver's side kick panel 9/14/13

 9/14/13 - Finally! The drivers side kick panel is pretty much done.  We are pretty happy with the way it turned out considering we were just kind of winging it.  It may not look pretty but its solid!

9/7/13 - We got a lot done on the drivers side kick panel today.  It was our most rusted out area, most of the panel was gone so we did some creative fabrication using metal cut from our orange donor car.  We are repairing our car on a budget so we are not just buying every repair part that is made.  Many of our repairs are self fabricated so it may not look the best but it should be structurally sound and definitely cheap since we have all the body metal from our donor car to use.  Today we cut away the rest of the rusted area and the area where the screw holes were from the previous owners hack metal/fiberglass repair of the area.  We then cut some patch pieces from our donor and went to work trying to piece it all back together.  We also got the pan to body bracket welded into place.  All the pictures are on the drivers side kick panel post.