darrenjlobb's Adaptronic Managed Compound Blown Derv Bus Build

[darrenjlobb]

I decided I would have a go at smoothing out the rub strips on the side of the car, although wanted to keep the contour line, so just smooth out the holes which hold the clips on.

Again didn't fancy welding the holes given my level of experience with bodywork / was worried about warping the whole thing / making it worse, although don't get me wrong I'm sure this would be by far the better way to do this!!...

However, I ended up fiber glassing across the back of all the holes to make it rigid / the filler have something to attach to, and then just small amounts of filler in the holes...time will tell I guess...

To start with I was having a problem with trapping "air" behind the filler, as you can see in this photo:



Resolved this by changing the application technique, and proceeded to fill all the holes in...



Then smoothed it all back flush with the doors / rear quarters:



Then some filler primer to help build:







Seems to have ended up flat / cant tell where the holes were, I guess time will tell if it will last / work in the long run, but so far the re painted owes me very little, so I guess if it fails its lesson learnt / find a better way of doing it! 

A video showing a few bits:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EhyE6pi8HI#t=118