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Project Forums => Past Projects => Speed-e Delivery => Topic started by: Geoff on October 27, 2003, 09:26:30 AM
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I took a few days off to hit the Pomona swap in search of some much needed parts for the bus. My main goal was a set of 40IDA triple webers and as luck would have it i found a set and at a great price! As well on that trip i picked up the droped spindles from Franklins and have since installed the 944 front brakes(that on a later post).
This updat has a little more rust repair as i keep finding more of the previous owners\"Body work\" Anytime i find a small patch pannel i know underneath will be a rust hole that has not been cut out!!! So once again here are some shots of the pass side rear wheel area.
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In the above pic you can see the two areas that i removed the bad patch job, and behind that i found more rust!
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Here you can see what i found! Nice, just what i wanted to see. All the rust seems to have come from the outer skin as the inner is still in very good shape.
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Here you can see after a sandblast and rust treatment thta the inners are all fine.
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Here is the new pannel welded into place, with a skim of filler it will be good as new.
Behind the rear wheel was a small pin hole and as i started to plug weld, it became a festering mess as you can see here . Matt came by and said \"replace it\" So we set to making a new pannel.
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Here the pannel is cut out,time to start making a new one. As i cut a new section to fit Matt bent the flanges.....and this is what we came up with
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Here is the new section in place, body seem lines up perfect!
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On another note i have been trying to decide what wheels to run and have mocked up a few, the phone dials 16x7 seem to fit with no problems (front&rear) as shown on the front.
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The C2 wheels are another thing all together, the fronts 16x7 will work but the rears are 8.5 and there will be some major mods to make these fit.(https://airspeedparts.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fftp%3A%2F%2Fftp_geoffp%3Aairgeek69%40airspeedparts.com%2Fimages%2Foct27-c2wheel.jpg&hash=5ae910dd1b075230ec0bbf7db97fce84ca467741)
The third choice and favorite is a set of Milla miglia Cup-3 or \"twist spokes\" the 17x7.5 should work front and rear but i have yet to test one.
Thats it for this update, more coming soon.