My 325IX winter Restoration (pic heavy)

[nomansland92]

a few more updates and another step done :D

just a little icing, should really make this thing straight


My helper, she bugs me to trow that ball all day haha


now that everything is straight and sanded it was time to built the paint booth.
That silver and green thing be hinde the front of the car is a foldable paint both we desinged a few years ago for painting fenders, doors, or whatever. Theres just a big fan on top that sucks all the fumes right out side. So we just made a big containment area and set up some filters for air to come in.



Let there be white!













This is just primer
Ill start wet sanding in a few days then it will be time for paint if i deiced its straight enough but i think ill find a few spot ill want to redo.

[nomansland92]

I planing on painting it alpine lll. I think it comes on the new m3's. I thought about doing a gun metal gray but I decided to keep it white.

[XW70]

Every time i see an IX on here i get a little more jealous that we didn't get them here. Nice to see your doing it justice!

[audiquattrot]

awesome progress! no more rust! keeping it AW? I regret not going custom....i really wanted it resprayed Nimbus Grey (audi color) when i had the chance

[nomansland92]

Haven't got up any photos lately because my camera on my phone had got so bad, so i finally got my self and IPhone and i got some some pictures to share :)











Just a little teaser

Good day to clean the garage so thought it would be a great time to through the wheels on and fire it up and pull it out


just about all the filler is done, next is glaze then primer.

[audiquattrot]

nice work! keep it up!

[88SuperETABD]

Man, do work! So happy my car has 0 rust. :) looks like such a pain, but keep up the good work, save that cancerous e30

[nomansland92]

Got almost everything removed and set the doors on just so i can get them straight.

Sprayed the whole car down with guide coat and started blocking

[nomansland92]

here's an update on progress





Everything cut out


best attempt to copy the seam, Not bad for a rookie














This has turned into more than a winter project but whatever as long as it gets done right I'm happy.
Rust is finally completely done and I'm ready to start sanding and straightening

Its starting to come all together

[litu]

Nice project

[nomansland92]

Got some more work done this weekend.


Passenger rocker



Stripped all the sound proofing out


Wow that stuff is so heavy!


Cleaned up the exhaust a little :D


all sealed and primed, ready for paint and undercoating




mounts for expansion tank in the wheel well



above exhaust on the valance


Still trying to get the battery tray section so i moved to the driver side valance

[nomansland92]

now here's were it starts going a little bad. And a good demonstration to male sure your battery doesn't leak acid.




this is what i found after a little time with a hammer

So after searching for awhile i haven't had much luck finding a used rear valence that someone is wiling to cut up for me cause as you can see i could really use this whole corner. But i figured ill pick a hole and start patching one by one.










two spots done :p




I'm not sure what i want to do with this one yet. I looking into taking the hoses out and it doesn't seam like that's going to be an option because they look very difficult to put in with the tank installed.

I've thought of making a nice fiber glass patch inside and out and just sealing it up very good but i really don't want to have to do that.
If you got any suggestions let me know what you thinking.

[ScHpAnKy]

I'm afraid to look under my ix's skirts (insert pun) lol.

that makes two of us, my driver side skirt is starting to lift off, I'm hoping it's just the mount but if not... ehh..

[FunfGan]

Looks like its going well so far!

[nomansland92]

been awhile since I've posted some updates. I've mostly only had time to work on it during the weekends so its been a going pretty slow so far.






still needs a lot more work done here^