Here is Chad taping off the rear hatch hole. All the oriphices must be painted over. Door jams, and Rear hatch jam is whats being painted first, then the doors and rear hatch will be reinstalled to paint the whole car over. You can see here that he had to repair a chip in the paint I developed on teh rear bumper. I was fiberglassing a mockup mold to see if I would like the setup for subs in the rear seat and a drop of fiberglass landed on the bumper. Later I tried to pop the small sliver of resin off the paint like I have done every other time with success and it popped the paint off instead! Who knew the bumper was really black up under there. Strange becuase the front bumper is a yellow color on the inside under the paint.
Chad tapes over the other side of the rear hatch. Both doors were already done at this point. All the parts are laying in the next room. The whole booth wash washed and new filters put in the cieling before he pulled the car in.
Picture of Passenger side without the painter standing there. I dont know wat he is goint to prime the car. I covered both Sueded seats with a blanket that I used to get the new hood home.
The tail lights are sitting in the car at this point. I have contiplated having the tail lights retinted. To do that I must first wet sand off the black thats there and get it to a 600-800 grit finish to be able to respray with good quality. The Tuberon exhaust is still looking good. Because of the overly rich situation ( small idle tuning issue) when I leave I need to bend a piece of card board and tape it over the exhaust tip. That will extend how far the exhuast blows out to prevent damaging black sutt with unburnt gasoline in it to collect on the fresh paint of the rear bumper.
Here is the current condition of the 420a Turbo install. It is still looking very nice dispite the dust and rain that has been going on the last three weeks. It has rained on the car 5-6 times. The manifold and turbo have incurred a small amount of surface rust spots as a result of not being started. Both surfaced will see acitone and a fresh coat of High Temprature Black spray before I take the car to a meet or car show. Otherwise there are no rub marks from the Oil and fuel lines on any powder coating that I can see. I changed out the filter with a APC Turbo Filter with Heat shield and I am so so about the way its installed. Due to its shape movement is limited. The filter just doesnt ever feel really tight on the pipe, it can still flex a little at all times. It may be due to the fact the base of the filter is silicone and not hard rubber like some other filters.
I thought this was really funny. There were alot of employees in the shop tonight and you have a random body guy spray painting a table on the floor standing in front of a Paint booth with a painter. Just goes to show you you either can do Body work or Paint but not Both!
I think they were using every stand they had here. Its like my car Sneezed really hard and this is what happened! The Hood , Hatch and both doors are off right now. All the jams, under the hood and under the hatch had to be painted to match. The rear hatch was the only part of the car free from dents and other imperfections. Ironically because most Import cars more than ten years old have dents in the trunks deck lid ,or even worse, hole drilled for wings and spoilers.
The passenger side door has already had it's jam painted as it sits here. The color is pretty cool. Its a cool silver, frost white color. You can see the stock hood in the background here and it has two small dents filled in it. Even the underside is being painted. We already removed the insulation from the underside of the hood and will add some better insulation later from DEI or Thermo-tec. The Matts that have aluminum coating and are good for 1000 degrees radiant heat protection.
The drivers side door recieved the same treatment of painting the jams however this door had more filler and primer. Seen here the door has already been wet sanded and washed. The painter texted me about ten minutes ago to let me know the car is now back together and tonight it is being painted all over and clear coated to be ready for pickup tommorow.
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