GT Special posted:

Update time! So with the entire front end out of the car, I had no excuse to not clean up the wheel wells. The factory undercoating was peeling off and the seam seal was coming off in chunks. So armed with a grinder, and a pack of wire wheels, I went to work. They started off looking like this





After at least a few hours they cleaned up to this





Wire wheel on a grinder worked really well I found. For the tough to reach spots I used a grinder with a small wire wheel. Worked great. I brought the seams down to bare metal, everywhere else I stripped down to factory paint. A heads up to anyone thinking of doing this, it is not a fun job, nor a clean one



And that was only 20 minutes in. Face shield/dust mask/safety glasses a definite must doing a job like this. At the end I was covered in black dust and had pieces of wire wheel stuck all over my body. After giving everything a thorough cleaning and a final wipe with acetone, I applied fresh seam sealer on all the seams. Let it cure for a couple days then hit it all with undercoat.





I'm really happy with how it turned out. I didn't bother stripping/cleaning/painting the parts covered by the wheel well liner cause it was all still intact and in good shape, and well, I'll never see it. It always bugged me how lovely the wheel wells looked on the car whenever it was all cleaned up. This will really make a difference I think.

COMING UP NEXT

Parts will start going back on the car! Rusty brake components will be replaced with shiny new pieces! And I'll fix my completely botched, lovely, surprised-it-hasn't-made-the-car-burn-to-the-ground-yet fuel system!