That car is very nice.
I wish I had a place, time, and money to do mine.
I would like to see a picture of the whole car in bare metal.( that would be cool)

I'll post some pics of the bare metal car today. Also, I have the car in a tent I built in the shop to sandblast. I'll get pics of that too.

Few more pics. Since the last pics I have finished DA'ing the exterior of the car. I built a sandblasting booth in the shop and started blasting the motor compartment today. Things worked great but after I used the 100lb bag of sand I bought I re-used the stuff on the floor. I must have got some garbage in there because it plugged up instantly. I'll fix that tomorrow.

Here is the fancy blasting booth. Took about 40 minutes to put up.



Here is the exterior of the car.



This is how far I got with 100 lbs. Both inner fenders and part of the firewall.

Sandblasting those little things are a must but its a Pain! I would have no problem paying someone to blast a car for me know how much work is involved to do it yourself. Looks great

Thanks!!

I'm usually too cheap to pay someone else for what I can do. There was a guy in town that would soda blast an entire car for $400-$500 and I considered that but I believe he closed up shop anyway.

GREAT JOB! and keep up the good work.....It will turn out great. I just caught this thread and love the progress you are making on the Demon and the pics are really inspiring. I picked up a one owner B7 '70 Duster 225/904 car from San Francisco, CA last year and had it shipped to Cincinnati, Ohio....I almost regret bringing it to this climate...not really ...but this car is as rust free as your car, but the Lady managed to dent almost every panel...still worth it when you look at the underside of this amazing time capsule. It will be going through a restoration sometime soon with powertrain upgrade! Just wanted to say keep us updated on the progress...It's looking Great ........Nico

Keep up the good work and stay motivated. And keep the pics coming.....

Got a little farther today until I ran out of sand for the blaster. Good thing it's $7.50 for 100 lbs, I already used 300 pounds...

Just need to complete the right headlight bucket area and the motor compartment will be done. It's only taken my about 45 minutes of actual blasting time so it's working pretty well for me.

Next are jambs, doors, bottom of trunk and hood.

Very cool. Keep up the great work!

That sheet metal looks great!!

OK, it's been a while but I am finally back at it. My wife's mother passed away last week from cancer so the last month or so has been kind of hectic. But, of course, family before cars.

Anyway, I finished blasting the engine compartment, door jambs, trunk jams, hood, trunk, doors, etc. The car is 100% stripped of paint now minus the interior floor which I don't plan on doing. I tore down my makeshift blasting tent and now I need to clean up all the sand.

I also have the complete interior kit for the car already so I may start on foaming/recovering the buckets and back seat too.

Today I went out and bought DP primer and K36 filler primer ($465 ) so once I clean the car up from sand I will primer the areas I blasted.

Here are a few boring pics.

I also spend some time working on the two hood scoops I got for the car. I originally wanted to go with a hinged sixpack hood but I just couldn't justify the $800 so I went with the two scoops. When I got the scoops they didn't lay well on the hood (hood is curved, scoops were flat) but this was very easy to remedy. Took an hour or so with a small die grinder and a 1" drum sander. Not too bad...and it saved me $626

Before


And after

You're making progress on your project! Good to see so much attention to detail as in making the scoops fit the hood really good!


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Wow....your doing a fantastic job so far..I am actually looking for a nice demon that is in the same condition as yours...know of any more around for sale??...keep up the great work!

Sand....what a mess! That stuff gets everywhere. I'm glad you have that part behind you.

The scoops came out nice. I honestly don't recall how my factory ones fit. Been too many years ago since I put them on.

I know it's not much but as least it's a move in the right direction. Plus, this is a first for me, never have DP'd and primed before. Just did the jambs, engine compartment, under trunk/hood and inside of doors.

At least I'm learning.

Plan on finishing up filler work now.

UPDATES?!?!

Oh yea! Lets see some more of that Demon!

Well, it's been a few weeks since I've shown any progress. That's because I don't have much to show

I have tried my hand at filler work (first time for me). I covered the areas that I could find/feel and had a fried of mine who is a professional painter come over and check. He said that I did a darn good job for the first time. He showed me some addiational areas (the places with masking tape). I will get these covered this week and then have him come back for one more quick check before I primer.

On a sad note...today is the first day of test and tune at the local track...and this is my race car

Car looks great.
I can't wait for it to warm up so I can
get to work on mine.