It’s still pretty crazy here at the Scuderia Obsoleto. I’ve passed Microsoft System Centre Configuration Manager 2012 certification this week and now have a couple of weeks to learn everything I need to know to pass Cisco CCNA certification. So I’ve not got a lot done on any of the fleet!
Last time I posted I was trying to free hand a front valance corner because my FSP was not particularly great. The original panel was all lumps and bumps and pretty ugly looking. I got my replacement piece to somewhere near the right shape and decided I needed to really see the original before going any further.
Shifting old paint, underseal and filler is a particular bugbear of mine right now. I don’t have the space to media blast large parts and I seem to spend longer stripping the crap off my old panels than I do making the new ones. So I recently bought one of these:
It’s not a quiet thing by any means but with the scraper blade on it’s pretty effective at removing underseal and sound deadening. Which is where the element of surprise comes in.
Once the snow melted I went and grovelled on the floor with my new jiggity thingy and started scraping. It turns out the valance is actually in better shape than I thought. It has a few dents from insensitive parking but it isn’t stuffed with filler at all. All the gnarly lumps and bumps were underseal, presumably applied with a trowel. So I’ve put the brakes on with the new valance until I can get underneath and evaluate the situation a little more thoroughly. I might just get away with making a new flange….
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