I was looking around at my leftover paint and actually have a decent amount of single stage black and white, probably not quite enough for two coats though of each, although Nardo Grey is super popular right now lol. We don't really do any other body/paint work other than our restorations so we don't end up with much leftovers as far as basecoat or SS colors go.
With the amount of work I've sunk into it so far I'll call Monday and get an order of SPI white epoxy and SS sent this way. I've been using three coats of epoxy as a one step "high build" which I'll need over the spots where dents were fixed and the rear quarters, I've got the filler dialed in close enough that three coats of epoxy should be good for blocking with 280 to flatten the peel then wetsand smooth with 500. I'm off all week so I should have time to finish fixing the dents and get prepped/painted.
It's become a mini-widebody since my last post. I bought wheels with the right offset to clear the struts and 9" wide to get the right amount of sidewall stretch that I had pictured in my head with 205/50 tires. 8" with 195 wide tires would've had the same stretch and been easier to fit but I found a killer deal on Hoosier radial 205's locally, so 9" was set in stone at that point. The front fender lips rolled flat easily since they're single layer, and pulls out over the tire by hand pretty easily. The rear wheel opening is really stout since the folded lip is welded directly to the inner wheel house, so there was no room to be gained for wheel/tire clearance without cutting.
Front clearance after rolling/pulling the fenders and slotting the struts to allow a few degrees of negative camber.
Cutting the rear for more clearance, then pushing it out with a portapower. Gained right at an inch before the outer quarter didn't like flexing in ways it wasn't meant to and buckled vertically directly over the wheel, so I stuck a long 3/8" extension in the new opening and practiced my non-existent paintless dent repair skills.
Which I patched with a 2" strip and plug welds. Ugly and semi-functional.
Before/after, both with the stock slight positive camber.
Stock profile.
New profile:
The camber wont' be anything crazy, no more than -5. I run -4/-3.5 on my daily and with the toe set to zero tires last long enough. Handles better and cuts through standing rain better than zero camber, and also makes it look like a real race car, right?