Awesome work! You gonna have enough room in there to paint the car correctly? I know my big *** wouldnt fit in there! lol

 

Looking great! cant wait to see completion!

 

That thing is gonna be gorgeous. Can't wait to see pics of it back together out in the sun light.

 

in 15 monthes or so you want to paint my car for me??? j/k

thats awesome so far wish i had time to do stuff like that.

 

Yeah, I should be okay. It'll be tight... but I'll manage. Its the top of the car I'm going to have a bitch of a time getting to.

Might have to wait a while for sunlight.

Hell no. I already have projects lined up.

You and me both. I've shunned most of my friends and stuff... doesn't do good things to a social life. hehe.

 

hehehe yeah...you got that right. i get bitched at ALL the time since ive lived in the garage all summer....

 

nice keep them updates coming man

 

Congrats on the nice build so far man. Don't get rear ended!

 

i got an idea!!
lets take your paint job, my motor and slap them together!!
we will have a bad ***** *****!!
hahahah
since i have to pull my tranny anyways.....

 

Okay, but I get it mondays, wednesdays, and fridays you get it tues, thurs and sunday and we alternate saturday.

 

Can I get it Saturday? =]

I'll contribute something into it (of course just the fact of me being in the car is enough of a contribution, MWAHAHAHAHa,





jk)

 

wow man... that just f*&#ing amazing its nice to see a rex owner putting so much time and effort into this. keep up the good work man

 

Well, here's a little update (without pictures... didn't upload):

*Friday.. prepped the chassis for paint.. masked off.
*Saturday.. Primered the entire thing with a thick layer of primer.
*Sunday.. Sanded all of the primer off.

Yeah.... you read sunday correctly. I must have sprayed the primer too thick, because the solvents didn't evaporate correctly and the paint didn't adhere to the chassis correctly (or something)... Came off with water pressure.... very sucky. So I was forced to sand it ALL off..... about 25 bucks of primer wasted.

Tonight I should be finishing up removing the primer and should be ready to re-spray on wednesday. Its been really cold lately, but I'll manage. As long as I do a bunch of really light coats allowing for flash time..

I have pics of the chassis primered, but I don't think they count since I had to sand them off. I'll take more when it counts. Hoping to have the chassis FINISHED this coming weekend.

On a side note. Does anybody have any ideas for making new holes for the badges? How would I go about lining them up?

 

Take some low tack painters tape and lightly apply it to a piece of FomeCor.
Place emblem on the sandwich and press lightly, enough to dimple the tape.
Remove emblem and mark the dimples then remove tape from FomeCore.
Use tape as template to drill holes.

 

looks pretty sweet...how much has this cost so far besides a lot of time?

 

wow. bad ***. what kept you from using HOK all the way? I'm sooo damn jealous right now. Great work. talk about taking the bull by the horns, in fact you should have a picture painted of you taking a bull by the horns.

 

good to see im not the only one with that idea for a paint booth. theres a tent just like that set up for my dads bmw motorcycle but when he gets his shop built im gonna turn it into a paintbooth just like that.


and 88rxn/a i just spent like 3 minutes blowing on my monitor trying to get what i thought to be a bug to fly away. and finally reached up to smoosh it and realized there was no bug............

EVIL SHENANIGANS!

 

 

hahahha, i been getting alot of people with this bug!!
i did the same thing when i saw it....maybe i will ditch him for a while...

 

Hey Mic, great job on the car so far.. I had a 88 gxl for awhile that had a lot of body rot a few years ago, and i only got to the primer stage before i ended up having to sell it. Yours looks great. Right now My buddy and myself are putting together a rebuild on a 10AE. I need to do some body work on it as well, and i want to keep the car white. Anyone know what kind of paint i should use for it?

 

I assume there has been an attack...

 

Wow. Great pic. However, no.. no attack of the flying monkeys... nothing like that. I AM having weather issues... its slowing me down significantly. We had freezing rain last night... GREAT. I'm looking into booth heating solutions so I can continue.. I also had some primer adhesion issues which I will cover later in my ammended review of the HOK DTM primer/surfacer product.

Thanks for staying up to date though... but, sadly... I might have to <pause> this thread for a week or two further.

 

Damn, I knew this was going to happen- that's why I questioned your painting sequence earlier.

Well, good luck...maybe you'll get a chinook or something.

 

Changing the sequence wouldn't have fixed anything.

 

Absolutely love the car!