Well, here is the shell I a working on,it spent 3 years at the body shop and slowly like a huge leggo project, I am putting all the bits back on. Time consuming due to the fact that I am cleaning /painting/replacing and restoring everything to as new condition, or better.
File finished then filed again, polyester undercoat, 3 coats of colour and 5 of clear. The colour from the WRX Club Spec 555. Code is 74F. Metallic blue mica.
I dismantled the car to the point where the only thing left on it was the rear suspension, every nut bolt and screw was taken off and every panel/shell was bead blasted to metal.
The front end was hand picked off and a new one welded on. The the LHS rear quater panel was also picked off as a dodgy repair was previously done, and a new one welded on.
All extra holes in the interior and engine bay were welded as were the blinker holes on the guards. The original ones are to big. As a result the car is now rust free and straight as a level. I beleive if you do the job right the first time you dont have to do it again. Guards lips have been cut off to accomodate larger rims and even the interior and engine bay was flow coated.

Things to do:
- Get the whole thing cut back and buffed, no point in doing it yet, I will unforseeably scratch it somewhere whilst re-assembling it.
- Find a nice pair of small blinkers to fit to guards, if I have to.
- Look for a fiberglass bonnet to cut heat vents in it, a la Integrale.

I will be posting updated photos as I locate a home for the parts that are missing on the car. Hopefully this part of the restoration wont take long.

14/04/00
I need to buy some firwall protection, seeing as the interior wont have any insulating then I have to stop the heat where it is created. I went a lookin....Found it.
Got screwed around by my local American Auto parts trying to get this Thermo Tec cool it-heat barrier in, then, a week and a half later I go in and they ordered in the wrong thing, they show me some sin susi brand ( read el-cheapo) and then I receive a phone call saying that the right stuff that I ordered that same day doesnt exist in the country, shops these days just dont give a shit. Dont take anyones word for anything, see it yourself or dont buy it. Eventually I got a 4x2ft sheet of the correct stuff. The quality was completly different. The sin susi bran was like a house carpet insulator with some alfoil stuck on, shit product. The Thermo Tec stuff was foiled on both sides and in between was a fiberglass type of material. The real deal.

I have had to get this aftermarket door rubber surround as the OEM parts are hard to come by in new condition, the TOP RHS corner originally has a 90degree angle but I couldnt reproduce it, anyhow it looks clean and works .... so be it. Cost me $50 for 8m from American Auto parts.

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