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I have a TON of more work to do and I usually only get free time once or twice a week for a few hours at a time. SO THIS will take some time BUT it will be bad-a$$ once it is done.

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I'm incredibly familiar with that schedule unfortunately

It also means any hiccups in incorrect/missing/broken parts can cause extremely long delays

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Looks good, I have been really considering doing this as well when I yank mine back out. Keep feeding us pics. :)

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Nice! Can't wait to see how she turns out. Please keep us updated!

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which model F1 were you running?. New setup sounds like its going to do work! but your setups always impress haha.

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I ran an f1a with cog set up at 20lbs and 100 shot NX....

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little more progress...so I finished my tack welds on right apron and lower frame rail cover. FOR all the non welders...this is actually a easy project IF you have the time and patience. Easy tack welds are simple quick bursts...then grind the high spots down.
Once everything was ground down I put a SMALL thin layer of fiber-smart filler. (fiberglass) over the spots and filled in voids. I let set up for about 10 minutes and then grabbed 80 grit and started knocking it down. THIS stuff turns HARD as a rock quickly and if you wait on it you will be sanding for days.
I still have 3m filler to go over that and then fine glaze coat before priming entire thing. (long way to go for now)

anyways...couple pics of progress...i will post more pics of the process I am using as i go along too. This may differ from others but I feel this will give the perfect smooth look I am going for.

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little more this morning..left side and filling in holes too....
HINT for novice welders...copper plate with magnets work great for filling larger holes. sit behind hole and weld shut. Mig weld wont stick to copper and makes sealing larger holes a breeze.

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Looking great

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more welding of holes/ grinding flat then first coat of filler. I will need to spend the next hundred hours of my life sanding...lol

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Looks good man! ive always wanted to do this, not quite sure why i havent yet lol. For the turbo guys it really cleans up the bay and completes the look.

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I know a LOT of guys posting pics of this before and after....I wanted to kinda show the process along the way and really what goes into doing this. I enjoy the work actually but it is messy and very time consuming. I plan on coating the entire engine bay...seal everything and plus paint the inner aprons as well. This will IMO look the best and have that show car feel.

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Looks great; I have a copper plate but minus the magnets, now off to a new search... thanks.

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another update...spent about 6 hours this weekend on passenger side smoothing out a lot of high spots and...I used 120 grit but will have to go to 320 the whole area before I use poly spray primer.
Will start on drivers side this week and started pulling dash and harness.

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nothing crazy...over 100 hours into engine bay smoothing already and still LONG way to go.
Finally got my Cloyes Primary timing adjusters (9-3169a)...waiting on accufab chains and tensioners to show...

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wow, I may be just fine with my rough edges and holes.... lol

Congrats, thats a ton of work for sure!

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MORE WORK...dash pulled and complete harness (fast xfi and stock) pulled out...closing up back holes on rear firewall...ran out of 18g metal. did more body work on front inner aprons too....I want to have engine primed and ready for paint before winter...

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Nice! That's gonna be a great looking engine bay when you're done.

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lookin good!

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finally all holes that I wanted to close out are done and body work is moving along. I have to finish a LOT of glaze work...
plan on poly prime entire engine bay this weekend

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sweet!

did you face the HD bucket that way on purpose for some extra motivation? lol

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Looks great; btw, do you have another post that has more info on your cage? Looks good and I like the bars up front. Thanks in advance.

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disregard, I found it. :smokin:

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I have changed a few things...no more swing outs and changed parachute mount . I may be changing a few more things but so far I am going to stick with my current set up

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lol....that is my sitting stool when I welded up holes and all the sanding i had to do