tegwin
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| posted on 11/10/08 at 10:12 PM |
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Bodywork advice?
My classic TVR was recently resprayed by the previous owner before I bought it in pieces....
Since buying it I have decided that I want to fibreglass over the hole in the roof where the sunroof used to be...
I also want to make some other minor alterations to the bodywork and repair some scrapes caused by transporting the car...
First of all... I dont know what colour the car has been sprayed, all I know is that its blue... Will a decent bodyshop be able to to mix paint to
match?
I plan to fit a section of fibreglass into the hole in the roof and then fill the join around the edges and smooth it...
But what filler is best to use, and how should the surrounding paint be prepaired/sanded....
Basically I want to do as much of the prep work myself and just get the bodyshop to do the painting..... Otherwise this could get expensive...
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nitram38
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| posted on 12/10/08 at 07:57 AM |
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The trouble with patching such a large hole is heat distortion. It will never be flat without loads of filler.
I built a countach replica and the roof always had to have lots of "pudding" to get it right on all the replicas.
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tegwin
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| posted on 12/10/08 at 09:20 AM |
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If I can get a section moulded from the origional molds I would then have a large fibreglass chunk to insert with the right curves....the its jhust a
case of filling around the edges.....That might be slightly more succesful
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nitram38
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| posted on 12/10/08 at 01:03 PM |
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It will be better if there is a curve to the roof as fibreglass does not distort as much. It is large flat areas that distort
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