1986 Porsche 911 - with added E46 M3

old tennis balls with a slit cut in them are ideal for placing over such protrusions.

Blimey Tea I didn't think it was possible, but I believe that you smack your noggin more often than I do.

Lots of bits of metal going into this M3 - even more into the scrap bin. No more progress or a recent sighting of a 911 oil tank.

Anyone see a possible connection?

I've used that big boy stuff, perhaps  not quite  as easy to sand as some of the more expensive stuff but seems to stay stuck and not crack/Sink. The flexi version works well on bumpers too.

Wednesday was quiz night, we finished third from the bottom...

We were a team member down so it is clearly his fault.

Yesterday was one of those English type days, frost on the windscreen first thing, warm and in the morning, cold in the afternoon and when I got home (late) from work it was bucketing down.

I didn't fancy getting soaked walking between the shed and the tent so I stayed in the house.

Today has been nice and bright but a cool wind, I sound like Michael Fish don't I?

I got home at a reasonable time so I went into the shed to do another two hours of hammering on that tiny little piece of tin which has had three hours of abuse previously.

When I do a repair piece I like to make it so that it is a perfect fit then I can just weld it straight in.

The problem I had with this was that I could get it so it was nearly right when I tried it in place on the car but it needed just one tiny little tweak to make it perfect.

When I made that tiny little tweak it would alter another area and make it a worse fit overall.

You end up chasing your tail for hours on end.

What I decided to do, and what I really should have done a while ago, was to make it so that it was a 'good enough' fit.

By That I mean get it so that it has several good points of contact, ideally three corners, then tack the places where it fits.

That will hold those places in the correct position whilst you do the final little tweaks with it in situ to get the rest of it lined up.

With it now 'good enough', I gave it some weld through primer.




The area on the car too.




I had a nice cup of tea then got the welding gear out whilst the paint dried.

I got carried away with myself welding it in and sanding it down and didn't take any pictures, mainly because once I got myself propped up in position I didn't want to get back up again.

Because of that I completed the job without banging my head once.






I was glad to get this bit done I can tell you.

I gave it a quick brush over with my original spooge.






It wasn't worth painting it properly because I still have this lower section to do, like the one on the other side.





Cheers.

Thanks, Norman, that's very nice of you to say.

That looks spot on Mr T

I got up early this morning, well early for me on a Sunday, to watch the F1.

About half way through the race I thought, 'Well, this is boring, I'll bet it is more exciting watching paint dry'.

In order to test this hypothesis I got dressed into my work clobber and went outside.

Remember that I said the inner sill wasn't rusted but I didn't take a picture?




Well there you are, it is beautiful.

I painted it with weld through primer then watched it for a while.




It was probably on a par with watching the Chinese Grand Prix but not significantly better so I decided not to watch that either.

Instead I did a bit more work on the repair piece.




I reached the point where it was 'good enough' so I painted the back of that too.




At this point I had to pack up because the Doc and I were going out for Sunday dinner so that piece would, sadly, have to dry unwatched.

Sunday dinner was very nice so, unfortunately, I over indulged to the point that it took me two hours to recover from it before I felt able to go back outside.

Luckily, during the hiatus, the unwatched paint had managed to dry by itself so I got to fixing the piece in place.






After a lovely cup of tea I cleaned the welds off.




I then remembered to put a plug weld in the back corner.




This also needed cleaning off and the excess metal around the edges needed trimming back.




I was hoping to get some epoxy on it but it isn't worth mixing any up until I have finished sanding the spare wheel well, so I did a bit of that.




Now that really is boring, watching paint dry is far more exciting.

I did as much as I could be bothered with but it still isn't finished so I decided to stick a drop of spooge on the new bit for now.






I will try to motivate myself to finish the sanding next time...



Cheers.

Thanks, Peter.

I'm not planning on doing lots of filler work because it's 'orrible!

If I do have a relapse I will get some of that Upol stuff.





It has been raining all day so I was thinking that maybe I wouldn't bother going out to sand that filler down tonight.

As soon as I got home it stopped raining and just like that, my excuse was gone.

I got a piece of wood that I shaped a little bit with the power file to use as a sanding block




I was trying to do the sanding whilst leaning in through the boot but it was a really unnatural position and action and I wasn't getting very far at all.

I swapped to working from inside the cab, kneeling on the back seat area with my head through under the parcel shelf.

This was a far more comfortable way to work, as long as you don't kneel on one of the brackets on the seat or bang your head on the underside of the parcel shelf.

I did two hours of sanding but had a small tea break half way through.

My god it's a boring job, I have no idea how people can do this kind of thing for a living.

Anyway, my arms fell off after two hours so that was that.

It does need another small filler application in this low spot here.




I half thought about putting some on tonight but didn't.

I produced a mountain of white powder in the process.




I don't know if I look like a Homepride flour grader or a Columbian coke dealer.


Cheers.