Building custom cars in my backyard

I now have a painted rolling chassis. It indeed looks a whole lot better with paint. The now slow and steady march to assembly starts with the parking brakes. I have to shorten the cables so I cut them and will fray and soldier the ends to the correct length.

With the priming and filling complete, I can now spray on the Eastwood heavy duty chassis paint. I have given the paint about a week to fully cure so now it's time to start bolting things back on. I have reinstalled the front running gear so that the frame can roll back over the engine and drive-chain. I need to lift and drop the frame slowly back in place. Hopefully nothing will get damaged.

I now have another new slide show on the "MR2 VW Bug pics page 7" page. MR2 VW bug pics page 7

I know I’m late on uploading some new pictures, but I now have a new slide show on the "MR2 VW Bug pics page 7" page. MR2 VW bug pics page 7

Finally paint. I can finally put paint to frame. This has been a long time coming. I hope I didn’t forget anything. The primer is Eastwood’s rust encapsulator to insure that the frame will not rust. The primer has been forced, as best I could, into all the cracks and crevices. I will now need to paint it with Eastwood’s heavy duty chassis paint.

I am basically ready to paint the upper half of the frame. I have filled and sanded down everything that needs it. All I have to do is wipe the frame down and apply the primer.

One step closer to paint. I now have all the holes drilled in the rear fire-wall as well as getting the shifter cables lined up. I need to strip it all down and get ready for paint.

I need to drill out the holes in the rear fire-wall for various tubes. There is a gas tank filler neck tube, two holes for the heater core runs, two holes for the A/C runs, one hole for the hydraulic clutch line and one for the rear brake line. Once all these holes have been drilled I can continue on with the painting.

Before I can paint the top of the frame there is a couple of things I gotta do. The e-brake cable run partially inside the frame and partially outside. So I am creating a couple of brackets to hold the nylon cable guides to route the cables to the lever assembly.

Now that the botom of the frame has been painted, I can turn it back over, upright. There are a couple of things left to do before paint.