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Posted by: 749142 Nov 24 2008, 10:13 PM

Just this last saturday i rear ended a ford in my teener. so ive decided to do a thread on the rebuild process. so heres the goal, i want to rebuild the front, but not to stock appereance. i want to get rid of the pop up headlights, since the car is not original, this is at least the 2nd time its been hit on the front right fender, you may have seen my bad news thread, so i want to build the front up to be a cross between something 356ish and the new 911 oval style lights. i'll see how it goes. i dont want to install GT flares but i want to widen the fenders still. ok after that i want to do a subie conversion, possibly. ive been working on the suspension, i just installed a sway bar on the front. i need to replace the stock springs in the rear and then put in a sway bar in the back. after that interior and paint.
until i can afford the subie conversion, a 2056 will do.
ok so its gonna be slow but its still progress
so enjoy the resurection!

Posted by: 749142 Nov 24 2008, 10:21 PM

ok so heres the damage and progress so far.
so here i removed the 916 bumper


i mentioned on the bad news thread that the fender was screwed on, well the prev owner brazed it in about every 5 inches as well

Posted by: 749142 Nov 24 2008, 10:24 PM

ok so got the fender off


this is where the fender was brazed in at the front before.

Posted by: 749142 Nov 24 2008, 10:28 PM

so this is where im at right now. i mentioned that i may want to do a subie conversion, i want to ask those who have done a subie conversion what the upsides and the down sides are? and was it worth it?

Posted by: 914helo Nov 25 2008, 08:23 AM

Steven, I'm just finishing up my Subie conversion so I'm not the most qualified person to answer yet. However, I love it and would do it again. When I finish sorting out all the details (like my starter just died) we can go for a ride. I'm not too far away. The engine maintanance is almost nothing, with great longevity. If I blow the engine I'll buy another for under a grand easy. I'll be back in the area in another week to finish mine off. I say go for it. Best of luck and keep posting pictures.

Posted by: Root_Werks Nov 25 2008, 10:30 AM

Good progress! Keep the work going.

Posted by: 749142 Nov 26 2008, 09:09 PM

Ok so i welded up a little bracket to bolt to the bumper mounts, i was able to take the chain and wrap it around the tree stump at the side of my house and pull ou the front where it was hit. i may have to pull it out some more, i also have to straighten out the top of the front wall of the trunk.
heres the bracket


heres where it was before i pulled it out

Posted by: 749142 Nov 26 2008, 09:14 PM

heres where it is after i pulled it out


now here is where im removing the pop up light bucket. i know i may get grilled for this but im getting rid of the pop up lights, ill be widening out the tops of the ovals where the turns signals are stock and ill be putting headlights in there, i may not be stating that as clear as i could so you may just have to wait and see to know what im trying to say.

Posted by: 749142 Nov 26 2008, 09:17 PM

you cant really see what the gap was like in the before pic becuz the wheel was turned, but there was only about an inche of clearance, but now its about where it should be

Posted by: 749142 Nov 26 2008, 09:24 PM

here you can see i still have some rebuilding to do up underneather where the pop-up bucket should be on the passenger's side. next is to rebuild that and then to take out the other bucket.

Posted by: 749142 Dec 2 2008, 01:09 PM

Progress!!!
Ok ive straightened out the front right corner and welded it all back to where it should be, ill post pictures tommorow. i plan on cutting off the fender of the parts car and to start on that tommorow afternoon.
anyone got any good suggestions on how to cut the fender of a car without damaging the fender or the part of the car its welded to or is that impossible?

Posted by: 749142 Feb 10 2009, 11:45 AM

ok i havent posted in a while but i have been busy. so i have made some progress.
enjoy the pics to come

Posted by: 749142 Feb 21 2009, 09:45 PM

ok now im going to post some pics. ive just been too busy with school and working on the car to be snooping around the site.

Posted by: 749142 Feb 21 2009, 09:51 PM

here we go
so this is where i cut that whole section out that was mangled from the accident.

Posted by: 749142 Feb 22 2009, 12:17 AM

these pics here were taken at night because im too busy working on it during the day time.

Posted by: 749142 Feb 22 2009, 12:21 AM

its still a rough project right now but it will look good when me and my dad are finished with



so this is the right front. where the car was hit before.

Posted by: JRust Feb 22 2009, 12:22 AM

Looking good. Keep up the good work

Posted by: 749142 Feb 22 2009, 12:22 AM

and this is the car in its current state now

Posted by: mein_tag Feb 22 2009, 12:30 AM

Did you get that whole section from a donor car?

Posted by: zambezi Feb 22 2009, 12:30 AM

lookin' good. Are you going back with the same fiberglass front bumper?
JIM

Posted by: 749142 Feb 22 2009, 12:32 AM

yea. the whole car was complete, didnt run and we had nowhere to store, unless we chopped it up into quarters and put it in the back yard. small backyard and narrow gates

Posted by: 749142 Feb 25 2009, 06:21 PM

yea the bumper actually fared well in the accident, so im going to repair it and us it again. but this time its going to be the same color as the car. actually the whole car is going to be one color. metallic midnight blue

Posted by: 9146986 Feb 25 2009, 08:43 PM

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the whole car is going to be one color. metallic midnight blue
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Good choice! Especially with a tan interior.

Posted by: 749142 Feb 25 2009, 08:59 PM

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the whole car is going to be one color. metallic midnight blue
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Good choice! Especially with a tan interior.
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hmm... now you have me torn. i was thinking of a white and blue interior, but tan does sound good. ok time to do a poll.

Posted by: 749142 Mar 2 2009, 04:49 PM

ok heres some more progress.
i have over half the car primered now.


i took out the seats and masked off the dashe and stuff so i didnt mess up the interior anymore than it was.


i need to do quite a bit of bondo work between the tailights and a little more on the trunk. aparrently the car was hit in the back to, not very hard but someting happened back there.
pic wont fit. next post

Posted by: 749142 Mar 2 2009, 04:50 PM

ill show pics of the drivers side later. when i take some.

Posted by: 749142 Sep 12 2009, 05:40 PM

Ok finally made some progress. I've Ben working on the 916 bumpers both are on. The front is blended with the body and the rear is getting there. I haven't worked on it since march? Been a while. Can't post pix cuz I'm posting from my phone. Haven't used a real pc snce I got this phone. But I will.