1982 Frame Off Restoration

[Helirich]

You?re gonna be able to do a nice job on eye brows. I glued some aluminum in mine and they still look good, but I?m afraid I didn?t do it good enough. What?s your plan for the cowl?

[SupercoolBill]

You?re gonna be able to do a nice job on eye brows. I glued some aluminum in mine and they still look good, but I?m afraid I didn?t do it good enough. What?s your plan for the cowl?

Yeah we still haven't decided if we will fix up the stock facia or replace it with a fiberglass one.
I'm thinking I may just take some heavy guage sheetmetal and attach it to the fiberglass piece (not the facia) with glue or rivets.


The cowl could be fixed. I could file down where the pieces broke out, find a similar material to cut bars out of, shape them, epoxy them in, file and sand to blend in, then paint the whole thing. But we may just buy a new one from DMCH. I wonder if it would qualify for their free shipping.

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[Timeless]

I like the original as the black section can be sanded/polished. Fiberglass fascia is nice but that painted center section will get beat up by road debris/rocks.
I have an original fascia with aluminum strips glued in and they're holding up well - zero eyebrows. When the original paint gets to end of life and I get front and rear resprayed, my PPF installer says he has a ceramic product that will get that deep black color back and add some protection to the urethane.

[Rich]

The cowl could be fixed. I could file down where the pieces broke out, find a similar material to cut bars out of, shape them, epoxy them in, file and sand to blend in, then paint the whole thing. But we may just buy a new one from DMCH. I wonder if it would qualify for their free shipping.

No, as you might have noticed by now, their listing for the cowl screen specifies at the end of the description - oversize part, not eligible for free shipping

https://store.delorean.com/105047-cowl-screen.html