Loo-z-anna thermometers dont go below +50°F.....but they make up the difference on the top-end

 

No doubt. Hubby was telling me yesterday that he's always thought the cold in winter is easier to take than the heat in summer because you can always put on more clothes. He said he's starting to rethink that, lol!

 

I've got a doctor's appointment tomorrow so I'm going out now to sweep the snow off the car. It's -37 C right now. At least there's very little wind which makes it a lot better. I don't even want to go see the doctor, but she called me and asked me to come in. Thankfully the forecasted high for tomorrow is only -16 C.




Come January a big icicle builds up in front of the garage door from condensation dripping from the chimney for the garage furnace. I tried to tell the guys when they were installing the furnace to put the pipe over another foot away from the door but they didn't speak English very well and couldn't understand me and put it in this stupid place. Sometimes I come out of the garage after working on the car and trip on that icicle because I forget it's there:

 

my mom is 97 next month and she's blown up 3 surround sound system in the past year. But bullet the Wonder Dog my German shepherd loves watching Hallmark with her..

 

That sounds like a plan, lol!

 

Cool

 

"They could not understand English very well", You mean that you have Mexicans up in Canada? LOL. You are so brave living in that freezer! I had five operations on my one flat foot and the biggest thing that the doctor did to me was to cut my heal bone in two just below my outer ankle and he put in a wedge of cadaver bone! My foot was drifting outward and rolling under when I walked at work. This was to make my foot point straight ahead again. When I get cold around 40 degrees F, that two inch long cut area starts to hurt from the cold.
My foot doctor never smiled, he was all business, but right after the operation, I wake up and he tells me with a straight face that the cadaver bone came from a biker!!! This was one of the main reasons that I moved from Cleveland, Ohio to much warmer Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Lou.

 

look on the bright side. if he was a biker in the 80's the doc wouldn't have have brought it up. so he died young in a biker blaze of glory. so the replacement part youi got has less miles on it. hard miles. but less of them.

 

I was freaking out at this until I realized the high at -32 C is actually like -18 F!! Still not good as a high but better than it sounded to this Yankee.....LOL! We've had lows here in Ohio at -26 F before and our low tonight will be 10 F, and that's too freakin cold to me. We get to 20 F during the day and even though I have heat in my garage, I just want to sit inside with a thick blanket. I said the "F" word to my wife last year......FLORIDA!! LOL

You Canadians are amazing for dealing with those conditions! So, you're Corvette work is very, very commendable Priya!

 

No Mexicans, I think they were Asian or Phillipino or something.

Good for you moving to a warmer place

-32 C is -26 F

Thanks for the encouragement

 

I was born & raised in southern Michigan..... but living in Florida for 45 years has thinned out my blood.
When it gets below 75, we kick on the heat & throw blankets on the bed!

 

Thankfully we all come together at -40. That's mighty damn cold. Made me glad I had my Eddie Bauer parka!

 

Two days ago we removed the gas tank. There was lots of grunting and swearing, even my husband had trouble getting the rubber lines off the tank this time so we could remove it. I added some mat and resin to the inside of the passenger side quarter panel so I could shave the outside of the panel down without going through. I also added some mat and resin on the inside of the deck panel just between the gas tank opening and duck tail where you can see the oval of fiberglass showing through on the top side:



I was thinking I had the upper deck done, but hubby insists I cover the fiberglass with Vette Panel Adhesive/Filler so I covered a few different spots where it was showing through (blue arrows In picture below. Picture is facing the passenger side quarter panel):




The blue arrows in the picture below show the other two areas where I've sanded down to the fiberglass and will be covering with filler. I sanded all the areas where the fiberglass was showing through with 80 grit to lower them a bit so that when I sand the new filler I won't go back down to the fiberglass again:







I started shaving down the dip on the passenger side quarter panel roughly in the area of the blue circle in the picture below:




I didn't get very far when I decided I couldn't remove much more material. At the upper part of the quarter panel between the green lines it's fairly flat. To the right of the orange line the 79 upper quarter panel is more rounded and you have to blend the two together. By the time I got about 1/32 of an inch removed from the outside of the passenger quarter panel I realized if I went much further I'd have to flatten out more of the curved area on the upper quarter panel to the right of the orange line. I didn't want to do that as I would be sanding down to the SMC in that area and I don't want to thin the factory SMC there any more.

I sprayed water on both quarter panels and compared and just that little bit of shaving on the passenger side changed a slight bulge on the quarter panel there to a slight dip which really changed the appearance. The passenger side quarter panel now looks much more like the driver's side. Because the lights on each side of the car are in different locations and from different angles I couldn't tell for sure if they are exactly the same but they're close enough that I can't tell if they're not. I told hubby I may not have needed to add the mat and resin on the inside of the passenger quarter panel and he said "If you figure that out don't tell me because I don't want to know we removed the gas tank for nothing" - oops

Tomorrow I'm going to spend some more time comparing the two quarter panels and decide if I'm happy with them for sure. If so then I'm finally done the quarter panels. I'll also shave off most of the mat and resin I added to the inside of the passenger side quarter panel as it's thicker than it needs to be and hubby says a big variation in thickness of the panel can eventually result in cracking where the thick part of the panel meets the thin part

 

Hey Priya,
I saw this picture in another thread and though of you.

Tell Hubby not to be jealous!

 

Love the headers through the fenders...

 

this is where 2 different colors of primer may help. when you start to hit diff color, you know to stop there...

 

Sounds like a good idea. What I've been doing is when I sand through the filler to the fiberglass I go over the area where the fiberglass is showing through with 80 grit and make it a little lower so when I add and sand back down more filler the fiberglass hopefully doesn't show through any more. There's been many cycles of that.

I think I'm going to make a contour gauge like doorgunner did and get a more accurate comparison between the dip on driver's and passenger's side quarter panels. Even with a straight edge I find it pretty hard to see well enough to get a really good comparison between the two sides.

 

It's getting closer!

"I think I'm going to make a contour gauge".....

I didnt do a good job of making my gages but they STILL made the job easier. I know you will make accurate gages. You may have to make several about 6" apart .

 

you both need to keep in mind. it will never pass bloomington or NCRS. that eighth of an inch is only gonna be noticed by you. there is a point when you are chasing TOO perfect...

 

But Derek...the reason I aim for 100 is.....

Im pretty much guaranteed to reach 45