I decided to fiberglass the front areas behind the headlight buckets. It was pretty wavy and this would allow me to avoid having really thick filler in those areas.
All of the welds are ground down, body filled, sanded and then etch primed on the bare metal left over.
I have kind of been doing an area at a time then etch priming it so it wouldn’t start to get surface rust. Since I don’t get much time to work on it, the bare metal was barely getting surface rust after sitting untouched for a week. So this method was a decent solution. The only thing left is to block the filler in the areas in front of the wheel tubs, then skim coat that… block it down to 320 grit, then etch primer the bare metal in that area. Then it will be primer time.
Continuing on the bay, I blocked down the body filler in front of the tubs on each side:
I then skim coated that area with some Evercoat Metal Glaze to fill in any remaining imperfections, pinholes and the like. Blocked that down then sprayed the area with etch primer to properly seal all of the bare metal. It’s nice to finally be able to get an idea of what the bay is going to look like. Keep in mind, my goal was never to make this a completely smoothed/shaved bay. I simply wanted to fill all of the holes and remove any brackets etc. I absolutely want it to still look like an engine bay with all of the weird metal undulations etc. I just didn’t want it to look like a motor sitting in a perfectly smoothed bathtub… it’s not a show car.
Now I’m at the point of going back and addressing little areas… making sure everything is up to standards before I primer it. I will be using 4 coats of white primer on this. I also need to reapply seam sealer to all of the OEM locations that originally had it before I primer it.
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