906-001
September 25, 2003
We want
to keep this car as light as it was when it was raced by Porsche,
but we still need to take off the paint one layer at a time
to see what the paint will tell us.
I have
sanded the primer and the top coat with 120 grit. At the same
time, block sanding is happening.
To keep
the weight down, we are going to prime one coat and paint
one coat.
The two
dots are more evidence about the front hood straps that were
installed on the car at LeMans. When the car was painted yellow,
these were covered over.
You can
see both sides here.
I finally
got my new toy, the Stinger III steam cleaner. Our old one
was a Stinger I
and made about 1100 psi. This one makes 1600 and boy does
it make a difference.
Rather than sanding the paint off, I am using hydro power
with a lot of heat.
It will
take about a day to strip all the crap off the car, inside
and out.
If I stay
here long enough, I could probably blow off the primer too,
but it actually stuck pretty good.
I will
try to blow off all the areas that have paint, inside and
out.
High pressure
water and steam cleaned the serial tag like new.
S I will not remove the serial tag. All the work will be done
around it.
Sanding
all these areas is a great way to get the paint off, but it
takes longer than steam cleaning.
You could
imagine trying to sand door jams and battery boxes.
These were both de-painted and cleaned in a matter of minutes.
The wheels
are holding the car up so it will drain in the back.
The front
trunk area was only hand painted (silver gel coat) on the
sides of the cooler opening.
The "number two" was grease penciled under the trunk.
This number represents identification only.
It has no bearing on the chassis being 001. Let's just call
it a production number.
You can
see the bottom is quite oil stained. This will all be steamed
off to original gel coat silver.
It's tedious
work, but you really accomplish a lot and you clean at the
same time.
It's coming
onto about 3pm and still more to go.
In the
picture on the right, I am scrapping some tar balls that were
stuck inside the
front and rear wheel wells. It appears the car was driven
over some fresh tarmac.
This left residue that was actually painted over when the
car was painted yellow.
Every
ounce of paint will be removed. This car needs to race at
its original weight.
I am finished
with the bottom and will turn it on its side to get the last
paint stuck in corners and joints.
After
it's finished, into the body shop it goes for repair work
before paint.
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