After watching the season closing race for the TARE team this weekend in Holt, FL’s Heads-Up Nationals, I headed down to Orlando with a pick-up truck full of racecar parts on a mission.
Day One:
The biggest undertaking is going to be getting the body work done on the car and getting it ready for paint. So I’ve spent all today stripping the car down to nothing and removing the sheet metal work so that it can get sent out to powder coating. Meanwhile, Josue has gone out to get some fiberglass resin and the rest of the paint prep supplies so we can get the interior painted and prep the body for the exterior paint.
The fiberglass body is thin in some areas, so we reinforced those areas and mated the body to the chassis mounts. The doors will need some fitting work as well as the front end. After disassembling everything from the car, including pulling the mock up block, I moved the car outside and took a bucket of degreaser to all the bars and engine carriage. Once it was dry, I went to work cutting out old tabs that were no longer in use and grinding down spots where things had been moved, cut out or replaced so it was all smooth.
