These were taken in March of 2017. Perfection comes in stages. That and I'm using a very basic MIG welder to do all this. You know the kind with two switches and not dials which means you blow thru a lot. The warmer the metal gets the worse it happens. So, I try to work when the metal is cold and don't linger too long in one area. This is the 2nd pass of corrections. The last picture is the start of the 3rd pass of corrections. Since then all those areas marked and many more, have been filled and are now awaiting refinement. I could have filled these in with plastic but it would bother me. I'll be using enough of that as it is.





The gaps you see should close after I use a shrinking disc on the panels. A combination of plug welds and mechanical fasteners should keep them that way.

See the last pic for comparison.


Notice how the bottom edge around the cross-member space has been rolled.

 

Here's a non-digital photograph of our '85 Camaro taken in late '87 or early '88. I tried to digitally enhance it but probably made it worse. It was the wife's commuter car and we sold it with over 100k miles on it in '94. I missed the thing and bought the one I'm working on here as a "cheap" project in 2002.

1985 Z28 Camaro with IROC-Z package

 

Made a little progress on recovering from the Hawks hinge disaster. Along the way I found at least a partial solution to the hatch alignment issues on this car.

Right corner over bite

The glass has sat too high in this corner since I've owned the car. Though it looks like 3/4" in this pic., in reality it sticks up less than 1/8th of an inch. I can get it down to 1/16th, but the hatch must be skewed to do so. The important thing to note is how the glass begins to rise at the middle of the roof.


Glass rise
Here it is from the other side. Note the gradual rise starting at the piece of tape on the left and continuing to the corner.
The weatherstrip flange in that area was quite a bit taller than the flange on the left side and had to be sanded down.


Once I got it fairly even, the glass sits better than what's on a lot of these cars.

 

Small update; Finally got around to ordering Dyno Don Headers and Y-pipe Sunday evening. Estimated ship date is mid March.

 

See rear window post...

 

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good call. Excellent parts from an excellent guy

 

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Hey aliceempire, thanks for the verification. I am buying these [Dyno Don Headers & Y-Pipe], because of comments like yours. We all want quality and I am hoping these will hold their own on the polished engine they are going on.

 

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