MR2 Senor Dos PROJECT

[Drew]

fantastic thread!

[da_force]

Thank you fella's!

I think it's time to update this... yes

so grab a cup of coofe, this will be long, sit back, relax, enjoy the read and now let's see what has been done in past months..

the front reinforcement has ben cleaned, painted with rust prevention paint, and curently in black (don't have those pics yet )





then the new e-brake cables were made for me



now on the serious stuff

after waiting two months on my man for bodywork, to hear that he just has no time to that kind of work... my dad & I got our sleeves up and diged on it

when the original front interface plate was removed I cleaned a bit, because there were marks of acid eating my metal so that had to go





then came the time to decide how to connect the profiles themself ...

here you can see that carrier plate for the tow plate, on the new front that's going on



and the same thing one the car



so the only logical solution was to remove that tow plate from the new part, and just slide the metal sheets over the tow plate that is on the car





just one comparison where it needed to be cut



first a hard test to see how that theory would work



as you can notice the botom hole for the screw that holds the tow plate has been used as a refernce where everything must go... and very accurate it is, but also measures from repair manual have been used to fit everything factory proper

on the inner side the new profile was slipped over the profile on the car



then it was time to adopt that tow plate to fit nicely into the new place of living





and this is how it fitted together





you can see it's right on hole 100% accurate

so like that it was just fixed tight with zip ties



Zip ties FTW!



looking more like a car again!



then I was doing some moar polishing... this is just the first hand




in the meanwhile everything was spot welded, painted with rust prevention paint and for the finish painted againd with hammerite paint for metal, so it was time to test fit the bumper



off cource the bumper itself needs to be worked on, and that bonet is just crap so I had also changed it with the bonner from the blue donor 2

after all that it was time to handle the roof bussines... you ask yourself's why? well the problem with original roof is that something happened and there was some bodywork done on the roof... people that don't do their job good have done a misserable work... so there was used a lot of that I don't know what's it called in english substance, that you use to fill up iregularities on the body of the car... and there is a lot of that, what is a problem because that stuff has a tendency to crack and all in all the roof is rusty under all of that crap... so the best solution was to find a complete car with t-top and use the roof... luck turned on me again... (keep in mind that an mr2 is a rare thing in my country, you can count them on the fingers of your two hands).... well I found one with t-top roof ... that was in untouched condition... choped the complete roof, and some more and took as much as I could parts....



some of those parts



the complete what's and why's will be described when the work on the roof starts, then you will see better everything...

there you can also see I mounted the lights, and "new" bonet, so what has been done on the front is just getting those in place with everything

basicly what is left to do is... finish that roof replacement, also there is some difference in rear arches... one side is more out....also adjust the driver side door to fit nicely (also a problem because of that roof incident), fit everything nicely together and after all that the painting can begin

all that body work could be done in one week... but I don't have time, dad has to run the service... so it takes time, but then again at least it's been done properly

until the next update, my tasty little lemon drops, take care and train your driving skills safe

[mr2v63vz]

wow your car looks like my car...oxidized red hod similair front end damage great work wish i had a lift!