back in march of last year Jlee and i went and picked up a 2002 MR2 spyder the he had found on craigslist it was a salvaged titled car and it was only had 3 wheels when we bought it so after 4 hours of loading it up on the trailer we got this
Sadly this is the only pitcure from that night as you can see we used jlee's old tundra to pick it up. not much work got done to it after that between working way to much and spending 2-3 months restoring and painting Jlee's car it just got pushed back well finally last weekend we Jlee and i put the car up in my body shop and started in on it and got a fair amount done not as much as we both would have liked with a local car show comming up in 2 weeks but alot of the serious work got done which is nice
painted the underside of the new hood and fender thursday night
Here how we started our friday
While josh cleaned up and greased my brakes i welded up the captured nut for the lower controll arm so i could weld a nut to what was left of the broken bolt 2 passes with a mig looks big but i got good penitration
Welded a nut to the end thankfully it didnt take the threads with it!
teaser pics with new wheels after josh finshed rear brakes
while josh was doing audio he came across this inside of my passenger door LED droplight FTW!
finished welding on my firewall on sat after spending the morning doing parts run not super pretty gonna grind it down a bit before i primer and seam seal and reundercoat the firewall but im happy plenty strong!
and of course what would a build thread be without a huge list of shit you still have to do to the car before it see's the road again and in my shop there is always more metal then paper. so i found it more fitting to write the list in sharpe on a piece of sheet metal
Im gonna order more parts to hopefully finish the car next weekend ill keep it updated! been a long time but after working on everyone elses cars mabye it my turn to finish one for once!
Sadly this is the only pitcure from that night as you can see we used jlee's old tundra to pick it up. not much work got done to it after that between working way to much and spending 2-3 months restoring and painting Jlee's car it just got pushed back well finally last weekend we Jlee and i put the car up in my body shop and started in on it and got a fair amount done not as much as we both would have liked with a local car show comming up in 2 weeks but alot of the serious work got done which is nice
painted the underside of the new hood and fender thursday night
Here how we started our friday
While josh cleaned up and greased my brakes i welded up the captured nut for the lower controll arm so i could weld a nut to what was left of the broken bolt 2 passes with a mig looks big but i got good penitration
Welded a nut to the end thankfully it didnt take the threads with it!
teaser pics with new wheels after josh finshed rear brakes
while josh was doing audio he came across this inside of my passenger door LED droplight FTW!
finished welding on my firewall on sat after spending the morning doing parts run not super pretty gonna grind it down a bit before i primer and seam seal and reundercoat the firewall but im happy plenty strong!
and of course what would a build thread be without a huge list of shit you still have to do to the car before it see's the road again and in my shop there is always more metal then paper. so i found it more fitting to write the list in sharpe on a piece of sheet metal
Im gonna order more parts to hopefully finish the car next weekend ill keep it updated! been a long time but after working on everyone elses cars mabye it my turn to finish one for once!
