The @Curators are proud to announce that Oppo's own classifieds section, Hyphen's List, is now active!

This can be reached by navigating to the appropriate category from the "Categories" page, or by clicking here. Hyphen's List is intended to be both a location for members to sell their secondhand goods (car parts, etc.) as well as providing a space for members to promote their own personal shops and storefronts as vendors.

How does it work?

Hyphen's List is divided into two sections, explained below. In addition to the section rules pinned in each section, the regular code of conduct for Oppositelock applies - be excellent! If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to the curators as always.

Swappo

Swappo is for member-to-member private transactions. This is where you, an individual, would post parts, cars, and other goods for sale to other members. Think of it like a swap meet - individuals selling their junk goods to other members. In Swappo, you will find a pinned post outlining the guidelines and requirements for ads; both "For Sale" and "Want To Buy" are permitted.

Shoppo

Shoppo is for business-to-member transactions. This is where member-owned shops, vendors, etc. are able to post ads, deals, and so on to sell to members. Think of it like a shopping center - businesses and companies selling their products to members. In Shoppo, you will find a pinned post outlining the requirements to get your shop's post approved as well as general guidelines.

Desalinated (washed) Friday, haven't gone anywhere since (other than in the driveway a few hours to make room to work on the Chevelle, excursion as pictured). Don't let the atypical blue sky and sun fool you, it's 17 degrees. It'll be low single digits in the morning going to the office... makes for good boost, though.

(I tried to take a complementing rear 3/4 picture but the sun is low enough in exactly that direction that I couldn't not have my shadow in the way).

Even if they did change their mind... would you really want to go back?

As we all know, there is some seriously good stuff here on Oppositelock, and the @Curators want to emphasize our appreciation for the best-of-the-best content and allow it to be featured alongside the other top-notch posts that Oppo has been home to.

Starting now (well, a little bit ago), the Best of Oppo is now a special category where, as the name suggests, the Best of Oppo will be stored for all to see, forever*. When a post comes around showcasing noteworthy effort, quality, and/or has an impact on the community in general, it will be relocated to the Best of Oppo after a few days, when it has faded from the Most Recent view.

Check it out! Our backlog of Quality is already under way in transition into the Best of
https://opposite-lock.com/category/17/best-of-oppo

Have we missed something? Probably! You can always give us a ring with a quick tag of @Curators if you think something is the Best of that has been overlooked.

Keep up the good work, Oppo!

*Forever is defined as until the heat death of the universe or until the Best-of content strategy changes, whichever comes first.

Strangely satisfying to make, the 90 degree piece with a 1/4" radius and curves in multiple directions has been tacked in (and the shorter but wider upper on of similar nature). This replaces the rusted away edge-of-the-trunk-floor where the inner wheelhouse attaches. I considered doing it all in once piece, but I needed it wider at the top and it was much easier to do two pieces.

While the wheel-facing side is flush with where it should be, the top is in fact slightly overlapped to make it much easier than trying to butt weld against a wavy wobbly floor (vs tack the high spots, hammer it into the low spots, then tack those). The rust was removed and so on, so it'll be good to go. It's solid, inside the trunk, behind the spare tire, and not by any means a show car.

Progress progresses, next will be finishing welding this bit, then slicing up the nice, shiny new wheelhouse halves to make into patches, probably inner first. This side is moving along quite a bit quicker, carrying the momentum and learnings from the other.

Fresh wax, protectant-stuff on the top, fluid film underneath, PPF up front, Weathertechs inside, snow tires on cheapo wheels - the fiata is now winter-ready.

Sounds like you're taking the safety asbestos you can!

I'm sure it won't be a fun process, but worthwhile when it's complete.

@davesaddiction I thought this was a photoshop from the thumbnail, like the one with the forester where the front is the sides

@chariotoflove I've done it a glass at a time, but not a whole jug. That's not to say I wouldn't try it now that the idea has been planted in my mind.

PS: whole milk or bust

"What? The worst part? How can that be?" you ask - "you only started working on this side today." Well, the worst part of these rust repairs is stripping the 50 years of dirt, two layers of undercoating, and surprise filler from the inside of the wheel well. This is (well, can be) the first step.

After two hours of sitting partially (or entirely) inside the wheel well with the needle scaler, it has been stripped. Overall this side looks a little worse than the other side for rust, but no big surprises and nothing I can't handle.

Having thought about it (I have the benefit of fresh experience from the other side) I opted to do this with full plan to go directly to the shower (see above about 50 years of dirt and undercoating and also being inside the wheel well) since it was a fairly dirty process (and my shoulders are killing me).

Having spent most of the day cleaning the house, I left the dirty clothes in the garage, which was a good call based on the shed dirt. Don't worry, I cropped my reflection in the bumper out of that picture.

Ever have your shampoo turn grey?

So with this (worst) step out of the way, the next will be stripping back paint and filler to be able to fully assess the condition of the quarter panel. There is one patch of absurdly hard filler I need to somehow get out of the wheel well too. Shit's like cement.

Anyways, updates on this side will be lower quality and less frequent than the other side since not only have you all already been bored to death with my progress on this project, but also there's way less space to be able to get decent pictures.

@rallydarkstrike My bet is on plugs. A fresh coil was enough to get the worn one to behave for a little while but in the end they still ought to be changed. Should take about 5 minutes and $20 in parts, worth doing regardless if they've been in there 50k+ km!

@sony1492 I remember wading through the $700-$1500 e30s on craigslist, wonder where they all went.

What's the timeline for this?

I know nothing about these so I went with the one I like the appearance of better, which turns out to be the Ducati.

Last time this came up, my first question was "when were the plugs changed last" and the question still stands.

I ask myself the same thing all the time. I have this weird thing in my head where it'd be cool to do video, but not only do I have the charisma of a wet paper bag, but I also pretty much exclusively work alone and don't have the patience/time/skill/equipment to set up and video what is going on, not to mention narrate to keep anyone's attention.

I usually settle for taking a couple pictures (mainly to post here) and forget to even do that for the most part.

@neil-in-nomi I've had a set for several months now (picked them up in the fall.. was a whole big thing because I bought them direct from bendpak, who couldn't be bothered to ship them for a couple weeks and kept blowing me off when I'd ask about it), honestly I've only used them a couple times, but I've also not been doing work to necessitate them (Chevelle is on stands/ramps to keep weight on the suspension while doing large cut-outs of bodywork... with the wet-noodle frame and all, don't need it moving around on me).

It did make swapping the winter tires on the fiata a breeze (not that it's difficult otherwise) and I suspect they will get some good use this summer/fall with some other projects I have lined up. Ground clearance is more than I'd typically be willing to get out of jack stands, but not comparable to an actual lift.

@krustywantout Most likely air springs, it's parked and they've slowly leaked down, or the system is broken (big leak or bad compressor) and it's just collapsed.

@old-busted-hotness I've always thought dynamat looked suspiciously similar to peel-n-seal rolled roofing!

@boxer_4 So you're saying we should have bought that surplus comically-tiny injection molding machine to open an old-car-interior-bits shop?