Engine Bay Smoothed Out

Posted On: July 20, 2008 Posted by: admin

It has been a long long time between updates on Mercules and she’s still moving along. Paint and panel is one of those things that just drives you insane, sand paint, sand paint, sand paint tie noose……. We have been concentrating on the engine bay as it is the final part of the shell to be finished before the colour goes on. As you can see it was a complete mess, ze germans seem to like having 400 holes in the engine bay.

All the redundant holes in the engine bay were welded up, almost used an entire roll of wire too! This was probably one of the most time consuming parts of the job but definitely worth it as the bay now looks a million times better.

All the rough bits were bogged up - looks a mess here but in reality the bog is very very thing. Just enough to cover up imperfections from the grinding back of welds and the likes.

Finally we’ve added 2 coats of primer filler on 80% of the bay. A bit of spot putty was used inbetween layers and we’re just about ready to rub it back for the final coat(s) of primer.

We’ve also found a panel beater to apply the colour, so as soon as the bay is done we’re ready to get some colour (finally).

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