It is hot out and I keep getting rained on. Even so I made some progress removing the QP and fixing up the other taillight surround.
The one I repaired previously was in better shape than this one, but now that I know the epoxy adheres well I can take some shortcuts
Obviously this one is in worse shape
To fill in that gap as best I can I'm making a quick thing out of fiberglass and cardboard. Cut and bend the cardboard to shape, apply fiberglass to either side
As you can see, not a perfect fit yet, but I'll cut it down to size before I set it in
Now for the cracks, it was broken where the previous one was, as well as 3 other cracks. This time I just dremeled out a channel along the crack, but not all the way through, and filled the channel. For the uneven surfaces, regular clear tape works as a great release form, jut fill the channel and put tape over to prevent gravity from interfering
Then, where it cracked through, glass the other side for reinforcement
In between wasting epoxy buy not understanding how much it would take and mixing too much, I finally got the parts car QP off.
As you can see, most of the bottom and the wheel well lip are firmly in the Not Good range, but the rest is pretty clean. Most surprisingly of all the rocker panel underneath looks use-able! As well as the bottom wheel well triangle. You can see there was this weird like butyl foam thing around the wheel well. Absolute pain to get to separate, had to use a heat gun, and to boot it seems as though it may have contributed to the rust. Or maybe it prevented it from spreading some. Either way it wasn't on my other car so I'm a bit confused by it.
To wrap this post up, I've made my first real mistake with this project. I forgot the oldest adage, something about measuring and cutting or whatever. I wasn't thinking and wanted to avoid the B pillar reinforcement I got super close to on the frame of the other car. However when I did that I really was not thinking at all, and thus, I must make extra welds. Behold my incompetence!