Anybody watch Muscle Car?

[tarafied1]

did you see the episode where they had to re-skin the roof of the brand new Dynacorn body? Besides it being dented in the first place o, they bonded the new skin on... interesting.
http://www.powerblocktv.com/site3/index.php/musclecar-episodes?ep_num=MC2010-01&ep_sea=1001

 

[ClassicRecreations]

Yes I have been told that Panel bond(3M) works ofr this but I think Ill pass on that for now. Ill use our Tig instead.

I have seen quarters bonded on before with that stuff. Kinda scary :scar

 

[Tony R]

I welded my roof on as well as the body parts. I have heard guys on other forums talk about using the panel bond but I wont trust it. I will stick to the tried and tested welding method. I would hate to be driving down the road and have my quarter panel fall off. It would give mustangs a bad name.

 

[buckeyedemon]

i did see that episode. that damaged roof is probably the reason they were able to do the giveaway car for the show.

i played around with 3M panel bond adhesive as i had some laying around. i put a small bead on two pieces of leftover steel that i scuffed the e-coat on. i let it cure for a day and pulled like hell trying to break the bond. it did break (sliced my hand...) and noticed that the e-coat bond to metal is what had failed. in a real situation i wouldn't apply it over e-coat but i will say it was impressive. i would definitely consider using it on something like a door skin.

 

[cramer]

Hello,

I watched it also, in fact I think I saved it on the DVR for future reference.
At one point I looked into products for this, like Fusor, and basically they are good for use on non structual pieces, door, roof, panel skins etc.

Marc Cramer

 

[PJ Moran]

I believe in the stuff. I used it quite a bit on my car. The folowing has been glued on:

Lower cowl
Uper cowl
Inner-fender-to-cowl transition pieces
Taillight panel
Outer wheelhouse
Quarter panel

On convertibles, the quarters are non-structural.

On most of these panels, I also used some helper screws. A little after-the-fact welding was done on the QP and cowl hat, but not much. I've done a good bit of road testing on most of these repairs and have seen no evidence of anything giving way at all.

In fact, the rear bumper brackets (that are normally welded to the trunk floor) are glued on in my car. The taillight panel is glued on to these (along with the rest of the body). I mounted my shell to the rotisserie via these bumper brackets. So, the glued-on taillight panel and bumper brackets were what supported the shell on the rotisserie. I rotated the car many times (sometimes aggressively to shake out sand, etc.) and rolled it around alot. Everything held up perfectly.

If you adequately prep the surfaces, this stuff is awesome. You just can't use it for stuff like torque boxes or frame rails. It's probably not a good idea on quarters on coupes or fastbacks because they are part of a structural skin.

BTW, I used Norton SpeedGrip that I got from Napa.