Bringing a Ohio E30 back to life**now on bay shave

[neighborhood]

Yeah, I don't really get it. I think I've seen less than 5 out and about over the past few years. Guess they all rotted out? The ones that do come up people seem to think they are worth their weight in gold.

Us old folk are still around btw. We just don't post much anymore. My car has been in the garage on stands for the last 5 years.

[potatomash]

Fair enough, if you weld the seems it's much less likely to crack. Removable frontend will make life easy

[gart]

heh another bay shave....fuse box....go on :)

Just checked yours out. Came out really nice! I am by no means going as far as you did with it. Battery and fuse box are staying put. I'm also leaving the tops of the frame rails as is. Mine will have some slight differences from others, not sure how much movement happens but I'm a little concerned about cracking issues down the road. So mine may not be as pretty or show as others out there. Guess we will see how it turns out.

[potatomash]

heh another bay shave....fuse box....go on :)

[gart]

Bringing a Ohio E30 back to life**now on bay shave

Still need to finish the battery tray, but I did get a couple evenings to put some work in. It was nice enough out to push the car out of the garage and work in the sun. Started cleaning up the bay some more and prepping for paint. Also got the core support 99.5% wrapped up. It doesn't look like much but I feel like I'm a good weekends work away from being ready for paint.

First order was to clean up and organize the garage for what feels like the 5th time in a couple months.



Cutting, filling, and smoothing.



Cut these guys to make the mounting points in the frame rails.







And the top.





Called it a day after I plugged up a few holes.

[gart]

Nothing monumental, but I haven't got much time to work on it lately.

I have the core support test fit and pretty much done. I need to drill a couple bolt holes in it and fit the nuts into the frame and body.



My battery tray came is so I got started on taking care of that.



I thought this was going to be a piece of cake but man was I wrong. After many hours of drilling, grinding and prying I got the old one out. I opted to only use the bottom portion of the new tray.




After much fighting I got the new one in and am happy with the fit. Need to get some mixing tubes for the panel bond and drag the welder outside to finish up this one more little step to the end.

[gart]

Bringing a Ohio E30 back to life**now on bay shave

Neat build. That tire looks stuffed under there

I noticed that too. It's an illusion. They only 8's but I keep'em clean.

Today it was to cold to be in the garage so I grabbed the core support and did what I could in the basement. I've read through a couple threads where people have done the removable core support. I like bits and pieces from each one, so here's my take on it.

I started by making the boxed pieces for the ends that meet the inner fenders. Snagged a pretty straight door skin from work for material. I dint tack them in yet because I want to do a test fit first.

Then I started on the mounting point that will be inside the engine bay. Decided to make use of the factory spot weld locations. This is the first piece of a two layered mounting point.


And last part was the piece to fill the space created between the spot weld lip, from the support and the inner fender. Pic should explain better.


I want to do a test fit at this point and see how everything's looking. I may have to do some trimming or adjusting. At that point I'll make the body mounting points for the brackets I just made and figure out the frame rail mounting.

[Redbone]

Neat build. That tire looks stuffed under there

[gart]

That color is amazing, pretty close to what I'm thinking about going with on my project. It's not the newer Ford color is it?

Props on such a simple, but clean build so far.

Thanks and I'm not really sure what or if this color came on any production cars. I just picked a color from our consumables supplier at work. I've asked them and they can't find any cars that it came on.

[brainfood]

That color is amazing, pretty close to what I'm thinking about going with on my project. It's not the newer Ford color is it?

Props on such a simple, but clean build so far.

[gart]

Bringing a Ohio E30 back to life**now on bay shave

So today I decided I was tired of stepping over the core support, that I'm going to try to document this a little better, and be a little more detailed in the updates.

With that said I got out the spot weld bit, grinder with a cut off wheel and eventually the sawzall.

Drilling out the spot welds.



And doing a little measuring, and I do mean a little.

Some action for the cutoff wheel

And I was left with this.

It's too cold out there now and it's Friday so I'm done. Enjoy your weekend everyone.

[gart]

Bringing a Ohio E30 back to life

Love this thread. I can't believe I missed it for so long. Good work and can't wait to see it finished. We live close enough that I believe our cars will meet at some point!

Mr. Wolfe

I hope to have it all over this summer but we shall see. The rabbit hole keeps getting deeper.

Today we started operation bay clean. Easily the most satisfying thing I've done to this car yet.

[Mr. Wolfe]

Love this thread. I can't believe I missed it for so long. Good work and can't wait to see it finished. We live close enough that I believe our cars will meet at some point!

Mr. Wolfe

[gart]

Beautiful color choice! Hope to see it on the streets soon, we need more e30s in The Land.

My goal is to be up and running by the time I switch the insurance back for summer.

I got to put a few more hours in yesterday and today. Sized up the core support and thinking I'll make it removable, also need to replace the damn battery tray.
And the aftermath pic.

[The Real e30]

Beautiful color choice! Hope to see it on the streets soon, we need more e30s in The Land.