Thanks. I'm happy with the work! Next I'll be wire wheeling and removing the factory undercoat in the rear and paint it.




I'm using the mastercoar rust sealer paint. I already started painting a lot of the pieces I've removed, and a top coat will follow.

 

To remove the undercoating, I am using a wire wheel and then scrubbing with a bit of gasoline (making sure not to wire wheel after rubbing any gasoline), it works quicker than paint thinner. Is there a better way?

I still need to do the wheel wells. I am tempted to do the middle of the car but it doesn't need it and this is a very time consuming part. If someone is looking to do a quicker repair, you dont need to remove as many parts as I have, and painting just the chassis legs would have been sufficient.

 

Thanks for updates man. This is really motivating to see.

great work as well. The underbody looks way way cleaner now.

 

Another productive weekend. I put 2 coats of bridge primer on with a paint brush and then sprayed it with raptor liner. I also finished painting the rest of the parts with the black top coat. I still need to finish grinding down the wheel wells and then paint those. Im kind of regretting doing that because it didnt need it at all, this is just overkill to make it look nice. I also need to finish prepping/painting the fuel tank since that will be the first piece to go in. The bedliner was very sticky and goes on thick, I'm feeling more hopeful that this will be a lasting rust free chassis.

 

great work

 

Parts are going back in!

 

Sexy!

 

The Evo is back on the road! I briefly painted and cleaned up all the remaining parts to go back on. I wanted some visible improvement so I had the wheels refinished, sprayed the rotors with high temp matte black, sprayed the rear calipers (front calipers will be done soon), and replaced the old wheel lug nuts to complete the look.

I've driven it almost 100 miles this weekend and so far no issues. I've had this car almost one year now, it's the best it's looked and the best it's driven. This was a lot more time than I anticipated but that's on me for cleaning up every part. I can say now, yes, you can repair your rusty chassis legs at home on a budget. Besides the wheel refinishing, I spent about $1,700 on this restoration work (including paying my friend to weld which he did give me a deal on). I dont plan on driving this car in the winter ever so I feel it has a new lease on a long life ahead.

 

Hell yea brother! Nice work.