Now that I had most of the stuff out of my way in the engine bay, I began scraping off the coating used during the previous repair.
It was the similar to the undercoating, a tar like substance that I tried heating then scraping to remove, but that just created a big mess. So I stuck to using a sharp paint scraper and went at it.
After I got down to the original paint, I decided to try using a paint remover then follow that up with a wire wheel. While the paint remover worked fairly well, I could have just skipped that step and went directly to the wire wheel. Which I later ended up doing.
Speaking of the paint, I think the car looks good in white, but I really like the original lime green. I’ve went back and forth over the course of this project and still have a ways to go before that’s even a decision I have to make, but I’m seriously considering taking it back to its original color.
It may not look it, but this took an eternity, over two weeks if I remember correctly. Wire wheeling is not for the impatient.
With the majority of the engine bay cleaned up, I decided to move on to the floor pan and foot well so I can eventually start to work on the frame rail.
At the time I thought it made more sense to buy a set of pre-made floor pans and frame rails because I figured that they would be more precise than if I made them. So I ordered some replacements from Zedd Findings.
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