Nice man! You've got your work cut out for you but its going to be so worth it
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'82 Volvo: An Exercise in Stance
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Originally posted by philohleanI guarantee my dad will say the exact same thing to me when I go to order tires soon..... I probably won't listen though. I would second what 244brick said and maybe try bondo, it sticks like hell to just about anything, then sands pretty easy. You are definitely forging your own path with this car man, those wheels redefine the word aggressive, especially when applied to volvos....
As expensive as they are, would a kaplhenke rear trailing arm/ coilover conversion give you a little more camber to work with?
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Stretched tires are only usually unsafe when low on air pressure... Oh wait thats all types of tires...Hit me up for all your quality used bmw parts needs! http://properperformance.com/ IG: Lowlygent
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I'm watching this build since the very beginning, your car is awesome! GL with the wheels, I'd really love to see them fitted!
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Sanding, sanding, sanding..
I spent today sanding the wheels. The welding from getting them redrilled left little deposits on the lip.
I knocked those out with 80 grit, then went on to 120
then 220
then 330
then 400
first round of 600 wet sand
second round of 600 wet sand
small update, just thought I'd share. That will probably be the last one for a few months unless I get around to radiusing the fenders tomorrow. I leave for college sunday morning.
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Originally posted by corolllin View Postwaaaaaaaaaay too much fiber glass to hold that together btw... and you should have left a small gap in between what you wanted to hold together so the epoxy would get in there and really solidify it
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Mas sanding
More sanding, you guys know the drill
Started off with 1000 grit wet sand which had me worried because it still left visible scratches
Began coming out nicely though
second round of 1000
couple rounds of 1500
Aaaaand a few rounds of 2000; they're starting to look pretty good actually
There are still scratches left from the 2000 so will these come out if I use an aluminum polish? I've never refinished wheels either so I'm pretty happy they look like that coming from this:
any advice on getting a mirror finish on the lips is much appreciated, thanks
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Originally posted by StanceDatSucka View Postdamn those lips will look so good when you're done sanding & polishing, if you would have shown me the second to last picture first and told me that the last picture is how they started out i wouldn't have believed you.
Here are some pictures my friend took of Olga before I left
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Learning to TIG
Hey guys, so at my school there is a formula SAE team which builds a go kart-like race car and competes against other schools.
here's last years car:
A friend of mine got a grant to build an electric version of this car to replace the gas one. We are building it from scratch and using CAD software to develop the parts to be fabricated.
My task in the project is once we are past the design stage will be to weld everything.
I've never welded before so I've spent 7 hours in the shop over the past 2 days trying to get better.
these are the scrap tabs and metal i've been practicing on:
I started just trying to lay down a good bead on some scrap steel
The next day I tried actually fusing 2 pieces together which proved much harder. I just got little beads of filler and wasn't getting penetration
It started to come along though
Not much of an update but I think this has made me lean more towards making flares out of sheet metal rather than fiberglass
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