Light at the end of the tunnel

I can finally see an end to the seemingly endless body filling and sanding. 2/3 of the car has been faired in and smoothed and most of the remaining body filler has been applied. Next we will start saving for paint in earnest. Our plan is to paint it Ford Deep Impact Blue with white stripes

Deep Impact Blue Mustang

Sand and Fill

Nothing too exciting just sanding and filling the body

Entire body scuffed and the first coat of Rage Gold body filler is applied

Fun Size Comparison

In your head you know the coupe is a small car but it never really sinks in until you park it between a Ford Explorer and Nissan Leaf

Vacation Build Part 2

Not a lot exciting to see. All the seams where the body molds were bolted together have now been sanded flat reveling the high and low spots between the panels that need to be filled.

My New Favorite Tool

vacation build 2013

Family life has been pretty busy lately so not much has happened with the coupe until now. I still have quite a bit of vacation time left this year so I took a week with the intention of grinding out a bunch of work on the car. Day one involved completing the body mount points, opening up the rest of the body cutouts and installing the headlight buckets and turn signals.

Day 2 we assembled the side windows in their frames and trimmed the doors so the frames fit. Now bodywork begins in earnest.

We discovered the depth of the bonnet on the drivers side was about 1/4 too deep so we cut the lower section off cut a wedge out of it and fiber glassed it back in place.

Tomorrow will be a family day so the plan for Thursday is to begin grinding the seams and applying Rage Gold body filler.

Exhaust Complete

A few weeks back I traded my coupe side pipes for FFR Roadster pipes since mating them to the modular J pipes was much easier. The sound quality is a lot better than I was expecting. Now to work on quieting down the accesory drive

Mounting the hood

The hood is now attached to the hinges and the next step is to trim the back edge and align it with the cowling.