Car respray - Page 2

MADED-6 · 18-02-2007, 01:09 PM

yeah both cars look heaps good. also if i pay someone would they buff my car for me i will help if i can but i dont want to burn the paint or anything and how much would u want.
cheers josh.

XRated · 18-02-2007, 05:18 PM

Looking mint Doug and Co. More pics needed though!

Kenaz · 18-02-2007, 05:55 PM

Saw it today. It looks mint in the flesh!

Doug's got some good pics.

chich · 18-02-2007, 08:54 PM

Did you remove the front & rear windows or did you leave them in?

EDXR6T · 18-02-2007, 09:20 PM

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Originally Posted by chich

Did you remove the front & rear windows or did you leave them in?

By the looks of the pics he left them in.

sphell · 18-02-2007, 11:41 PM

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Originally Posted by nos_james

hey what panel shop did you take it to and did you spray it yourself if so how much did it cost to hire the boot by the way it looks mint

The guy down my street does car restoration/spray painting and runs a panel shop with another guy so they let me use their booth in exchange for two slabs of Beam. I sprayed it myself though.

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Originally Posted by CrannersEL

Whats this swirl remover stuff, and how does it work?!?

It's the final step before hand waxing the car. Basicly, after you buff out the sanding marks with the cutting compound the car will be shiny but in the sunlight you will see those white looking buff marks. You know the ones you always see on cars at second hand car yards? Using swirl remover on a very soft buffing pad gets rid of these so all you see is the shine...with no swirls.

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Originally Posted by MADED-6

if i pay someone would they buff my car for me i will help if i can but i dont want to burn the paint or anything and how much would u want

Mate personally I wouldn't really feel confident buffing your car incase I did actually burn through the paint. It really doesn't take much to **** it up. Even Sunny bites his nails everytime I wind that buffer up lol....

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Originally Posted by chich

Did you remove the front & rear windows or did you leave them in?

Nah left them in, just removed the side glass. The windscreen is ok because I managed to fold the rubber at the top of the windscreen back and painted underneath it. The rear window is another story.....just relied on some good masking up there.

I'll post some pics in a minute.....

sphell · 19-02-2007, 12:07 AM

Today I got down the booth at 8am and started putting the car back together roughly just so I wouldn't get pulled over on the way home. Sunny came down and helped as usual then we drove back to my joint to put it together properly.

It didn't take long to do but we kept sitting around because it was so hot. No one wanted to touch the front bar because its such a pain in the *** to put back on.

Had to put the handles on, side glass and rubbers back in, door trims on, front and rear bars, side moulds, mirrors, headlights, tail lights, boot lock...that's about it.

After that Ash and Damo came over and we went down to the car wash and gave it a good clean to get all of the sanding dust out of the door jams and engine bay.

There's a few pics attached cause I've run out of web space atm. After all of that I didn't get any good pics of the car when it was all back together! We chucked Pats wheels next to the car just for giggles :P Much better than stockies! BTW before any of you eagle eyes point it out, in the pics the bars and lights are all wonky because they're just sitting there with two bolts each. In that pic where I'm putting tyre shine on the wheel that's how it looks now.

RUQ1KA · 19-02-2007, 12:14 AM

damn that looks awesome! good job doug!

Cant wait to see it when its all properly polished up! it already has an awesome shine

XRated · 19-02-2007, 12:15 AM

That looks sweet Doug! I wish I could afford a respray.

EDXR6T · 19-02-2007, 12:20 AM

Doug its look's the BombShiz bro!!!!!

Buy my rim's;)

P.s. It looks so raised next to Damo's car lol G spec time I think.

sphell · 19-02-2007, 12:35 AM

yeah we were gonna G spec it today but it was too hot and I was over working on cars lol. I've got some G spec King Springs in my shed I should chuck in, but they are so low the car will be on the bump stops.

niko · 19-02-2007, 12:37 AM

not bad felony would be jealous lol

DEVL-XR · 19-02-2007, 01:23 AM

Just out of curiosity, how much roughly has it cost you for a respray?

efgiar · 19-02-2007, 08:04 AM

nice number plates... "_unt" would u like to buy a C ? :P

Stevo · 19-02-2007, 06:03 PM

nice paintjob sphell. I hate you.

Black 19's will look good on that (if thats what your still doing?)

galapogos01 · 19-02-2007, 06:51 PM

nice work doug. get a transcooler!

bentles · 19-02-2007, 06:56 PM

if you dont mind me asking, how much was the total respray? in raw $ u spent to get it done including all materials etc.

im thinking of doing mine just havent really ever known what the $$ behind it would cost.