I’ve finally managed to get some time off work so I can continue to work on my car. Over the last few days I’ve cleaned up the exhaust that I made and painted it in temperature resistant paint. The only thing left to fabricate are the two tail pipes but until I fit the fibre glass body on the car I m not sure how the pipes have to be bent. Another reason I’ve left this section is that I will probably have it made out of stainless steel as it is about the only bit of the exhaust that will be seen.
As the car is just about mechanically finished I’ve finally made a start on the fibre glass body. Due to the lack of space and time available I decided to start on the doors and bonnet. After trying several different devices for removing the old paint the best solution I’ve found so far is a hot air gun and paint scrapper. This seems to work on most of the paint. The only times this doesn’t work so well is where there is body filler under the paint or where the paint is very thin. However this is not really an issue as the majority of the car is covered in several layers of paint. Once the majority of the paint has been stripped of and orbital sander is used to removing any remaining paint. As you can see in the picture below a thin layer of grey primer is left after scraping off the paint. I have then started to remove this with the air sander.
