Here are some pics of the work I've been doing on my car >>

Before I even got into the garage I was in an accident...


In the process of fixing it....


I took of the front end, doors and hatch so I can spray my jams Lamborghini candy orange. Oh yea, and my doors fell off the sawhorses onto the concrete somehow while I was working too.



Here's some pics of the base color that the transparent orange will go over.




Sorry, no pics of the orange yet >>

awesome. how long have you been doing bodywork/painting for?

Actually, only since June. I'm just afast learner I guess.

Show your spoiler some

Awesome! I can't wait to paint my car myself. >>

nice man, to bad about the bad luck but it'll all work out.

sweet dude cant w8 to see it finished....you r talented and have some big ones lol to paint ure car ureself

lookin good man! excited to see it all done - been thinkin about paintin the 99 my self this next spring >>

Looks great. I love the hood! Where's you get it?

-subsolo_21+Oct 28, 2004 - 10:46 AM

PICS OF SPOILER

There ya go >>

WOW. Ugliest spolier EVER

hey, does anybody know how to disconnect the stock alarm system?

dang thats big yo

Here are some new pics. Me and a buddy of mine just put the doors and hatch back on tonight. I still have to finish putting it back together and getting it ready for the final paint job.


(that's just dust from sanding in the door jam >> )



Some of the mirror damage from the drop


Here's a nice close up of the candy orange

looks awesome

What kind of paint is that and what color is that. It looks similar to the color that I was wanting to do on my car. It's looking real good.

It's Arancio Atlas candy orange from 2003 Lamborghini Murciaglo's. It's originally a PPG color, but the painter I'm working with likes to use Sikkens brand paint better, so he just mixed the same color in Sikkens paint and gave me some for the jams.

This is what gave me the idea for the hood:

RX-7 Hood

This post has been edited by flipside97LTD: Nov 1, 2004 - 8:49 PM

That hood

That is a sweet hood. Much props on the custom work, bro. Do you have any tips, on painting a car, for amateurs? Something that you might have over looked and had to go back on or any warnings or things we should concider before painting?

Hmm.. good question. Patience is the key to any paint job. It's so easy to want to skip steps or put another coat of paint on before it's ready. If you do that, you will get runs. After you spray a coat of paint, you have to wait till it flashes off. That means wait till it loses it's glossiness. Besides looking at it to see, you can also put your finger in the paint that got on the masking paper. If it's sticky then it's ready for another coat. If it's still wet, wait.

Also, 30 light coats of paint are better than 2 heavy coats. And spray at a relatively high pressure. My primer coat came out really rough and dry. It was like sand paper. The reason was that I was spraying it on at like 25psi. Spray at least at 50psi. You can just spray onto you masking paper and adjust the gun to spray where the paint looks real glossy. If it's real rough then you've got too low of pressure.

Hmm.. and if your spraying a metallic color, the metallic likes to kinda bunch up together in certain areas. That makes it where you metallic is not very even, but very splotchy. If that happens pull your spray gun away from the car about 2 feet and just spray a nice dry coat. that will even it all back out.

That's all i can think of for now.

This post has been edited by flipside97LTD: Nov 2, 2004 - 11:48 AM

damn i cant wait to see it done thats gonna be a nice paint job. Cant wait to change my color I priced out soime house of kolor stuff but damn its a lot of money. But well done keep it up.

To much orange going on now....j/k I wanna see the finished product

Hey flipside,lookn good! Where did you get that scoop onyour hood. I need one that size! Can that scoop be moved up to the front more? I scored some fuzion scoops like that rx7 so I need the little scoop to finish the look.

I like that!Guys that do stuff on there cars them selves.That rx7 picture?Im looking to find those same hood louvers to custom make my hood.Can anyone tell me were to get them? >>

-celicaspeed+Nov 23, 2004 - 1:28 PM
I bought mine off ebay. I can't find the guy who sold them to me. There fiberglass and there the right size. I cant find them on ebay anymore or on google. >>