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General => IHADAV8 Playground => Topic started by: Steve Wood on April 27 2011, 11:28:15 PM

Title: bondo
Post by: Steve Wood on April 27 2011, 11:28:15 PM

got the engine pulled out of the Challenger today.  Got to looking at the crack in one of the inner fenders and realized there was bondo under the paint around the crack...seems the inner fender is paper thin under the bondo....they just troweled it out and painted over it in the past....beginn ing to think the whole car is held together with bondo and undercoating.. ..

Being the inner fender is a structural piece that holds the upper control arm mount, I guess I understand why it feels even more like a flexible flyer after I installed the Hotchkis suspension....

Title: bondo
Post by: daveismissing on April 27 2011, 11:58:32 PM

Is this where you have to decide how much of a restoration it will be? NOS is what... 1k per side?

Title: bondo
Post by: Steve Wood on April 28 2011, 04:52:04 PM

resto, hell!  I am just trying to build a solid street car...but, I ordered a repro inner fender...and two safe-t-cap frame rails, and a torque converter, and a new steering box...I hope the heck someone gets fired at Sonic so I can get a job.

should order a floor pan because the one in there is held together by rivets and undercoating.. .but, I better get a call from Sonic first.

Title: bondo
Post by: SuperSix on April 28 2011, 05:32:23 PM

Floor pans are for pussies

Title: bondo
Post by: daveismissing on April 28 2011, 05:40:34 PM

Quote from: "SuperSix @ Thu Apr 28, 2011 4:32 pm"

Floor pans are for pussies

The way the mow-par market is, won't matter how good/bad the resto job, it'll be worth x times the buick. (x is an integer between 3 and 9?)