Alot of time and effort, but my garage paint job turned out very well I think. Project black AE is complete!

to all the Nay-Sayers

To the rest of you; Thanks for all the help and advice along the way ... I am VERY happy with the way it came out.

Two pic's linked;



Side Pic

Front Pic


-Robert

 

Wow...looks very nice Did you do the paint/bodywork all yourself? Any pics of the doorjambs, underhood, etc?

 

Nice clean car, good job on the paint

Who cares if its not white, atleast its not in a junk yard or something. ( Often I see 10th AE beat up or in junk yards )

 

Looks great Rpeck. Cant go wrong with black and an AE at that. Great job.

 

The body was very clean, it needed no "body work" per say. I sanded the whole thing down to metal in most places cause the paint was peeling so bad. Sparyed 2 good coats of self etching primer, then sprayed Dupont VOC 3.5 with a Finishline III HVLP gun, lots of sanding, buffing and polishing after that. This is the result. Took a couple of months to get it all done.

Not quite done with the door jams, and under the hood stuff, but I will post pics later when thats all complete.

Thanks for the compliments.

here is a pic of it during the work


ouch


-Robert

 

Yo,


Man, that's not the same car that was at the Sac Meet, was it?!

Talk about the ugly duckling turning into a swan!!! *grin*

Good job!! We need some dancing bananas!

Kevin
1989 GTUs "All exclamations, all the time!"

 

Yup, same car Kevin .. I told you all to bare with me I had faith!! LOL.

 

Yo,



Niiice. You can roll with me now. *wink*

Kevin
1989 GTUs "FC Snob."

 

I didn't think I was going to like a black AE, but it looks great. Good job

 

Looks nice! I like black and white AEs now

 

LIKE SEX

 

looks alot better than it did in the garage.

 

you said it man, Wow.

I'm jealous.

 

Looks awesome. Few things in life look better than a nicely painted Black TII. Whites ugly....

 

*tear to eye* It Looks like an angel.... :P

Nice.

 

I love the contrast that the 10AE edition emblem has.

 

Way nice. BACK IN BLACK!

 

what happend to the windows they don't look bronz now?

 

Must be the lighting. Unless it just wears off over time, I did not do anything to the windows.. they are all original. Cleaned them with glass cleaner is all. I am not even really sure what that "bronze" is soposed to be .. I will have to pay more attention to a normal TII next time i see one, comapre the windows.


-Robert

 

That is amazing. How many hours do you think you put into it total, and how much did you spend on supplies.

I am going to paint mine black in my auto-body shop class this year, we have all professional tools and painting booths, really looking forward to it, especially after seeing yours.

 

Did you get your other wheel? I remember you saying you were missing a wheel or a tire right?

 

Ohh man, I can't count the Hr's .. insane amounts of time. And It's not perfect ... but I am happy with it. I had never painted anything in my life (besides rattlecan crap) so I am sure someone that knows what they are doing, with the right equipments could do it in 1/5th the time. I read a couple books, and educated myself online on what to do...

I had the Air compressor so i didnt need to buy that, i had to buy the spary gun, primer, paint, sand paper, buffing compound, strainers, drop cloths, thinners Etc.. etc. Prolly cost with the paint also ~$1000 in supplies.

-Robert

 

Sure did, Tirerack came through on their promise and had my 4th tire & wheel Fed-Ex'ed red Saturday delivery for me. As they should have .. how the hell can you send out 3 tires and not think "hmm, no 4th tire?" moron's, but it's all okay now.


P.S. I will try to post a pic of the rear tommorow. Looks really sweet with the big *** Dual N1's polished up and thumping

 

Nice job!

Much better than stock.

 

Damn Robert that turned out badass as hell. What a difference from the meet in Elk Grove.

Guess whose helping me when my black car is ready to be painted.

I hope you're bringing it to the autocross today to show it off.