My track/weekend build and learning how to paint thread!
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hahaha yahh I am going to run 1 inch spacers all around... Dont tempt me with new wheels!
Anyways, did more work yesterday!
Smoothing in the vents.

Smoothed out the two dents (remember the one i burned a hole in?)

Final shaping up of this panel.

Ok here is where I need help. I am going to need to define the body line on the door because it was dinged in a little with the dent on the door. I pounded them out but I still need to smooth it over. Any advice on how to tackle remaking the body line? I was thinking just getting a lonnng sanding block and going over it across ways but lightly and rocking it with the curve of the line. I don't know if that makes any sense to you guys...
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I wanted to have the panspeed front fenders but my vents would not allow... so I bought a set and cut a notch in them to make it work. Ill smooth it out before paint :P. I plan on riveting them on. Oh, I also got an aluminum hood.


ok.. enough spending money and back to painting!


ok.. enough spending money and back to painting!
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Yah I was thinking sanding then spraying it and sanding it again to see if there were high or low spots. Dunno! hah
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thanks guys! As for updates.. might not be as much this week because my class is on spring break so no shop :/. I will be working on the car though.
I plan on stripping the paint off the bumpers. Any good ideas for that? Or is sanding the best way.. I think getting in the cracks of the s5 bumper between the moulding part will be a painn..
Maybe aircraft stripper on the whole thing will work? Haha. Anyway, thanks for the encouragement!
I plan on stripping the paint off the bumpers. Any good ideas for that? Or is sanding the best way.. I think getting in the cracks of the s5 bumper between the moulding part will be a painn..
Maybe aircraft stripper on the whole thing will work? Haha. Anyway, thanks for the encouragement!







