Teen Assault On A Gsl
 

CRIMES AGAINST A ROTARY

Victim: 1985 RX-7 GSL

Assailant: 16 yr old boy with a warped idea of what cool is!!!

Beneficiary: Me

Cost of purchase: $300

A couple of days ago my wife's parents were driving around on some of the back roads where we live and spotted a car just like mine(but better a GSL :) ). They told my wife about it, and her and I went to see it. I quickly told her to take me to the emergency room due to a overwhelming feeling of nausea comming over me.

I had to fight back the tears as I lifted the hood and saw this terrible 12A abuse:Wconfused




This kid must of been a big fan of the Silver Surfer or something.
Well needless to say my wife made an offer on the car and the owner even delivered it to our door. The previous owner said it just needs a fuel pump and should start right up. We will see about that.

Any suggestions on the quickest way to remove this spray on cool would be appreciated.

Jesus did he ever think to mask off the hoses and shit befroe spraying that stuff? Reminds me of my 83 GS, it had red all over the interior....
You can try using a rag soaked with laquer thinner or some other similar chemical and go at it. It's gonna take a while, some of the parts it might just be easier to get a replacement and toss teh one you have (air box, fan shroud, any other easily found and cheap parts) Good luck, and glad to see your saving it ;)

If the alternator is painted too that means.... oh for christ's sake, I hate this kid now. He just went at it willy-nilly didn't he? You might have to replace a couple more parts than just the fuel pump if any paint got into vital components and damaged them (especially if he got paint into electrical connections). I guess I must be weird or something, my idea of a good looking engine bay is having the 12A washed and scrubbed while it's being rebuilt, then going at the vacuum lines with a damp toothbrush and replacing my slightly rusty air assembly cover. I guess I'm just strange like that :P

Even got the belts nice and shinny. WHAT HAVE I GOT MYSELF INTO!

That's why you always check to make sure you've moved your silver spraypaint can before slamming the hood shut. :rlaugh:

It's only skin deep.

Just got at it methodically and you'll get it cleaned up in no time, just a little elbow grease, and a few replacment parts here and there.

oh man i got goosebumps when i saw that... lol i wonder what that kid was thinking, or who told him it would be cool hahah

I see a gallon can of lacquer thinner in your future. :D

Wow... ghetto chrome job???

Sounds like a good opportunity to remove the engine, prep the body, and then get the body repainted while you work on cleaning the engine parts.

Also, I am curious. Did the kid spray paint it from the bottom to?

This is amazing. A friend once had a parts car that someone had done exactly the same thing to.

LOL Richter, maybe I should spray paint the interior silver to keep it uniform with the engine. Autozone here I come!

A good spray from a high pressure car wash will likely remove quite a bit of that nasty looking overspray.......

I am dying laughing just thinking about that kid, spraying the belts while the car is running, "to assure complete coverage". Don't want to look half assed. LOL Then going inside covered in paint from the cooling fan spraying it back on him, and his mom just shaking her head.

Travis

omg thats horrible

While a little funny, it does upset me a little that the kid did that. I have been looking for a GSL in the local area for a good price and yet this kid trying to trash one.

My guess is that if he didn't mask anything off, he didn't do surface prep either.

It should flake or peel off easily.

WHAT? You don't like custom faded paint? LOLz

Believe me when I say that this kid does not represent all new drivers. I'm 17 and I would never do anything like that to a car. Just plain stupid, Especially since chrome look cant be done with spray paint.

ummmm.....rice?





cheap rice!?

Mahatma, not Uncle Ben's. :rlaugh:

Man, I wish my engine bay was that purdy....

How much you want for that beast?...lol!

wow. thats gross

I've seen some pretty stupid stuff, but this may top everything.

Win.

lol the engine is painted but what happened to painting the car...

the heat from the car running will probly take care of most of it for you the rest should flake of with a little help

Something about that silver paint,it doenst ever really dry.
At least not like regular paint.It can be years old, and it will still come off on your finger if you rub it.I think it lacks a clear hardener like most spray paints.Anyway,its very easy to wipe off with laquer thinner.Its a damn messy job and it will get everywhere,but its easy enough to remove.I know cause there are actually legit things I use it for at work.Even the high-end, MRO Silver, high temp paint we sell, behaves this way.

+1 What a dumby painting it like that Im 16 i have a 84 gsl and i love my car had it for awhile and wouldve got pissed after looking under the hood and gone back to his house and brake his windows for fuckin up a seven. and paint thinner or laquer should work or something like mineral spirit works good for spray paint. good luck.

I think I came to the rescue before he worked his way to the rims and and seats.

Holy cow, where do these people come from?? I would think carb rebuild, its probably loaded with paint that it sucked in, from the look of the belts I do think he painted it while it was running.... WOW, that all I can say, its just, omg...

Thats pretty bad. Sadly, I have seen worse.

+1 on the pressure washer. I guess anything that cool would not have had any surface prep, thus no adhesion.

Carb cleaner/ formula 88/ purple stuff/ etc...
Spray it on heavy and without diluting it and it will help soften the paint to be removed with a pressure washer. The paint used looks cheap and probably didn't stick to well to the dirty engine which i'm sure that "inteligent" customizer didn't prep before paint.

L8R

Did he even take anything off or did he spray bomb it wile it was all in there????
Im guessing that beacuse the washer fluid tank looks like it missing a spot.

I have never in my life seen an alt sprayed while still assembled and in the car and all wired up. And wtf who sprays belts. Agree with the Pressure washer. High pressure should pick apart his 3 dollar pep boys chrome job. I would toss alot of the elect shit it just cant be good. Either that or pull the motor and redo the engine and the bay in one clean swoop.

No go back there and make sure this kid never buys another can of spray on chrome.

makes me want to cry =_(

sweet find!!!

I'm thinkin a couple quarts of gasoline and a few matches should clean that paint right off....lol.

Haha... that's sad but funny in a nostalgic way - I did the exact same thing to a bicycle when I was 15... tires, chain, brakes... all krylon silver. Masking is for bank robbers.

It could be much worse. How so? Lemme post some pics of the Cheeto...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...005/Cheeto.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...05/cheeto2.jpg

One of the previous owners had a thing for orange. So without doing any prepwork, they sprayed the entire car, doorjambs and all. Right over the factory Dover White and clearcoat! So naturally the paint was chipping off when I got it. Since there was still good clear under the orange, I started using paint thinner and paper towels to take it off. Uncovered some nice paint, a lot of bondo and a lot of white spraypaint over said bodywork. I simply repainted the orange parts of the interior to match the factory color. The car could use a new paint job but it's better than orange!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4.../Orange026.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...topaint031.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...et/Meet074.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...5/100_2350.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...et/Meet028.jpg

Oh... and to get that paint off - find an empty spray bottle (Windex or whatever) and fill it with paint thinner. Use that to lightly mist the painted areas. Wait about 2-3 minutes for it to soak into the paint and then hit it with a pressure washer. It should peel off quite easily when weakened by thinner. Just be careful not to damage electrical components with the pressure washer. I'd recommend removing everything you can and cleaning away from the car.

Nice transformation. It no longer looks like an orange creamsicle.

damn. wtf was that kid thinking. i am 17 as well and i would NEVER do that to ANY car let alone an rx7 thats just plain sad

hey maybe he had a mental condition its not nice to make fun of handicaped people :( .............. ok maybe just a little ;) nice find

Look at your polished engine bay, yo.

I made a Cheeto-like mistake when I was 16. I had a truck and one of the fenders had been replaced, so I decided I wanted the whole thing to be dark and light blue metallic. Had this elaborate paintjob designed and picked up all the paint I needed and got to work. Didn't realize I had to prep it. The paintjob looked pretty good for a rattlecan job. . . until winter hit. :D We had a good freezing rain that wet the truck down and then froze it. The weight of the ice pulled giant sheets of paint off the clearcoat underneath it. :rlaugh: My poor truck looked like ass. :(

he could have at least made the paint some what consistant... =(

lol thats great, i was 17 when i got my gsl-se, and the only thing i felt compelled to do was put new brakes on it. Now this kid has inspired me to paint my engine...lol.

Good thing you got your hands on it before it got worse.

At least he used crappy silver spray paint and not honest to god engine paint. Suggest pulling the engine and some thinner/lacquer. Careful around the plastic and rubber hoses/electric insulations.

Check your carb, the odds are good given the coverage, that the paint got inside (definitely replace that air filter.) I expect that you may have some fun with the belts or hoses now.

LOL

A few years ago my friend saw an add in the paper for a 1995 Cherokee and he asked me to come check it out with him. This woman was selling it because her son and his friends all around 16 years old, were just being boys. They each had a hatchet and there was nothing salvagable. Every hose was cut, they split the valve cover and destroyed the wiring harness. 3 spokes were left on each wheel undamaged, but they even managed to destroy the cover of the differential, windows were all smashed, c and d pillars were wiped clean off and they smashed the back down so it looked like a HUMVEE. Good lord, those are some stupid ass kids. It was given to him.

We asked what she did after they did that.













She said she went out and bought him the car he wanted... a 1998 V8 Camaro. We shuddered to think he was litterally born to drive that Camaro.

whose blue FB with the IMSA front end? its looking good.