In reply to Ian F :
6 months is smoking for a full restoration. I use 1000 hours as the rule of thumb for how long it takes to restore a car, and that equates to 6 months of 8 hour days.
Maybe you should hire the woman to restore your car?
In reply to Ian F :
6 months is smoking for a full restoration. I use 1000 hours as the rule of thumb for how long it takes to restore a car, and that equates to 6 months of 8 hour days.
Maybe you should hire the woman to restore your car?
In reply to NOHOME :
No - just the engine bay and front suspension, including a cosmetic refresh of the B20 (clean/POR15/paint). No metal replacement was involved. Just having parts media blasted for refinishing. I stripped the engine bay down to nothing, the we repainted it. Then put it all back together. I did most of the grunt work. She did most of the cleaning and painting.
Did someone say "scope creep"? I might know something about that. See below for how I change spark plugs.
i mean, the bumper cover didn't fit properly around the headlight, and the spark plugs are pretty close to both the headlight and the front bumper.
If it's any consolation, the car will most likely be crushed, Granolafied, and recycled into soup cans and pillow stuffing in ten years.
The question becomes, do you plan on keeping the car for ten years? Let that be your guide. You might sell it after two or three and the next guy finds out that the paint isn't an exact match or the tape deck is calibrated incorrectly or something and parts it out and scraps the rest.
In reply to MTechnically :
Ask yourself what your long term goals are. Restore, repair, just keep it presentable?
Then how much time is available and how much time do you want to spend?
Just shoot some paint on it, put it back together and rock on.
In reply to AngryCorvair (Forum Supporter) :
Don't forget to projector swap it and change the rear wiper while doing plugs
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