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Let me throw a little gas on the fire. You can do this, trust me. I've turned every wrench on this build. There is no feeling like building the car you want and building it your way. I am no where near complete, but jaws hit the ground when people walk into my garage. They don't even notice the white C6. I say go for it!!!!!!!!
I for one know the struggles of an in dept out of the box project, so many times I would see the light at the tunnels end was a train, all my flip flopping on direction and being rear ended by pseudo techs and wanna be buddies just added to the struggle,
But I know you will get to your tunnels end and it wont be a train, you know those dream builds, like rajins, DG's, richards and many others here built from the heart and soul, well that is what I see in yours and before you know it you will have that stunner you want.
Sincerely...All I can 'say' is this....DO NOT allow yourself...when your car is DONE.....and you stand back and look at it and say..."WOULDA-COULDA-SHOULDA".
Make your car what you want...do not settle for anything less...because if you do...you might end up regretting it...and saying "WOULDA-COULDA-SHOULDA".
Sincerely...All I can 'say' is this....DO NOT allow yourself...when your car is DONE.....and you stand back and look at it and say..."WOULDA-COULDA-SHOULDA".
Make your car what you want...do not settle for anything less...because if you do...you might end up regretting it...and saying "WOULDA-COULDA-SHOULDA".
Thanks...these words are what I tell my customers from time to time when needed. And.. a long time ago...I did not do this...and that is when the regrets showed up towards the end of a project and the customer actually paid me to go back into something that was perfect.... and re-do it some what custom which was the way they wanted it.
It was ME getting sick to my stomach in grinding and cutting into perfect work and re-working it. I just could not take it any longer so I had an epiphany and began stating this to my customers.
It is a mish-mash of parts. Looks like an 80-82 front bumper, 79-82 gas cap, pre 78 dash, probably wrong seats, etc.etc. Any idea where the engine and tranny are? Only 2 aluminum wheels.
Stay the course and fix yours the way you want it.
It took me ten years to finally get my RHD on the road, but the looks and questions make it all worth it
I know it is probably too late now, but when you were buying that new rear clip, the simplest thing would have been to split the two rear quarters off the car and then use the clip quarters and taillight panel to go on the car.
It is very hard to get over the idea of ripping off sections of the car that seem fine, instead of doing smaller amounts (just trimming and adding the tail) but in the hours it takes to match body lines and get things even, sometimes you are just so far ahead to rip it all off instead.
Of course, that is assuming that white clip had the entire quarter panels.
I'm with Dub, I think that cracking you see along the mold line (about 1-1/2 inches below the spoiler tip) are part of the molding process and not something you did. The gelcoat can chip and crack and not be a structural issue.
Good luck. Walk away when it gets to be too much, do some other activities, and then when you head is clear, come back. Getting disillusioned and trying to keep working is often counter productive. Your frustration will often cause you to make more mistakes.
It will be worth it when it is done and you take that first ride.
Before I got this clip I had a complete 69 rear clip and I had intended to remove the 79 quarter panels at the bonding seam and put the entire tail light and quarter panels from the 69 clip on my car. I decided against that when found the 69 quarter panels had several breaks and previous repairs as I felt I'd have a harder time getting the 69 quarter panels to look right than I would have doing just the new partial 70 ACI rear clip. The ACI rear clip I got was originally complete but the owner didn't want to ship the entire thing and was only willing to ship from Texas based on me asking him to cut the clip just behind the wheel wells.
I started fiberglassing the exhaust filler panel to the 70 rear clip today. For starters I roughed up both mating surfaces and put a layer of fiberglass mat and resin between them. I held it in place and hubby turned in the screws to hold it together while it hardened. I put too much hardener in the resin and the thing set up before I had a chance to fully clean up the drips. I had hoped to wipe the resin off the tips of the screws on the underside before it hardened to make it easier to remove them later. The license plate bezel is supposed to be here Monday so I can do the finish work but the post office may go on strike at any time so I might have to wait who knows how long before I can finish off this bit of glass work.
I hope you ground off the white gelcoat before doing this in the area where the resin and mat were applied. I am not a fan of applying resin on top of gelcoat.
And I am a bit concerned that the resin mix set up so quickly.
Well I guess I would have to check and see the areas of the mat and resin that are out on the white gelcoat...if you can get under it with a thin sharp tool and get the resin to 'pop' off. That would be my first test.
I use VPA in this scenario to bond the panels together and then laminate over it.
