Its not really a secret its actually in a different thread. Ill tell ya it isnt Brickyard. And yes it is a lot nicer than my roll on job. Yes ill have alot of wet sanding to do but i think it will go alot better and the end results will be MUCH better. Its not perfect and my body work isnt perfect but ehh ill have to live with it for now.
Yeah I know i have alot of work ahead of me but still glad i got it done. It wont be a show car its just my DD. Yes the flares and fender mirrors are going to be painted body color.
Yes Calgary280zt that is the same car that was painted in rustoleum. But i took the car down to metal so im not sure how much help i would be to ya unless you did the same.
Yes that was an exhaust fan that honestly worked to well. When i completely closed up the booth it would suck the whole thing in. and that was with 4 huge filters on the back wall. So i had to keep the back wall open a bit so it would work and thats why i got so much debree on my paint. Wish i could of made it better but since a hurricane is going to come today i had to get it done. If your going to make one.
A) only buy the really thick plastic thats 6mil i think.
Make sure you put all your plastic on the outside of your frame. I tried to put some of it on the inside and then staple it and that didnt work.
Oh well live and learn and then learn to never do your own body work lol.
Also i used the Nason Base clear system. Its made by Dupont. Its just there lower paint and I could not have been happier spraying it. It went on very well I didnt get any runs in the paint or the clear and im not that experienced. I even got it on pretty thick once and i thought for sure it was going to run but it didnt.
Well I got her painted today. Im decently pleased with how it came out considering its the first time ive shot a whole car.
Well Is got a big of debree in it. So it needs a wetsand and buff really bad. But ill have to do that later after i move. Well let me know what you think.
Ok first of all SSAC has asked for NO down payment from anyone. They offered to pay half of the manifold that is being bought to copy. I did not ask them to pay for it. The plan is for them to copy the manifold and then they will send me the manifold they made for me to test fit everything. Then we will talk about deposits. They understand that this could fall through at any time and i think its very big of them to not want any deposits. Especially when they have put out money. ie. shipping costs and paying for half the manifold.
They want to see the manifold before the quote us a price. Which i think is very reasonable. I am going to send them the file for the flange this week so they can model that up.
I dont think that it creates more down force but it puts the down force on the corner of the car that needs it. As you go around a corner your weight shifts to the outside corner. If your going around a left hand corner, your weight shifts to the right side of the car so it flattens out the right spoiler and lifts up the left one to help put the down force on the inside of the car to help keep the car flat.
I heard that they had problems with them originally because they wherent braced properly. I mean they where hanging huge turbos of these things of course they are going to crack with out any bracing but i think that can be expected of all manifolds. They have since started bracing them and i know of alot of honda guys around town that run them and they haven't had any issues with them.
take 2 nuts put it on the stud and tighten them on to eachother. Then just get on the nut closest to the manifold and turn it out. Might have to heat it up. Also be soaking it in pb blaster before hand. Then run down to napa and get some studs that are 1/2inch longer than stock ones on the part that goes through the spacer.
Mine isnt that fancy but i change it between Z cars and some of my favorite anime like trigun, cowboy bepop, full metal alchemist, Eureka Seven, Bleach, stuff like that
I actually left the paint on my door jambs when i did mine i did go in and scuff them up with some 80 grit sandpaper and then primmed them though. Guess it just depends on how picky your gonna be if you wanna go that far
Looks in pretty good shape. Change the premix, and i would also clean out the carb. It will be alot easier than the last one you did. There is probably alot of varnish in the bowl and on the jets. if you need some advice give me a call
I saw it. Spectacular is all i can say. When i saw those moving blocks and how precise they where moving i thought they had to be on some sort of actuators. I mean they would all come down to the same height at the same time it was amazing. I was SHOCKED at the end when all the people popped out. That takes so much practice. I was in a national level marching band in HS and are formations wherent nearly as precise as those guys and we where considered to be really tight on ours.
Truelly amazing ceremonies
Hey justin its looking good but a word of advice. Its worth your time to make sure you get ALL of it off on the first pass because it will take longer to do it twice to go back and get all the little spots that you missed. Just be consistent