I knew I recognized you and your car! Carlos right? We keep running into each other through craigslist. Although its been a while

 

yea that's me, derek right? I saw through your progress and you got slot of time and money going into it. You know any good shops where I can get my Crx painted? I also need to get my cf hood re-cleared.
As far as the spolier I'm gonna get of sprayed as well and slap it back on when the rainy season is over, or I find the correct wiper and motor.

 

Yep, that's me. I don't know of any good paint shops. All the ones I've seen my friends go to don't look so great. Have you ever thought about buying a jdm rear hatch? A friend of mine bought one from n1 before and it came with the wiper and the jdm spoiler. I believe they're $80 without the spoiler, and you get the wiper and bronze tinted glass! They don't have the third brake lights though

 

I'm a fan of JDM or OEM fogs, but those EG fogs looked surprisingly good. I have never seen that done before.

 

woo for another B53'r

but that looks like a Celestial to me

 

wow that's cheap, Honda wants 65 fir a brand new Jdm wiper arm, so i might have to check out n1. Good lookin out, thanks bro


Modified by crx_si-r at 1:05 AM 11/11/2008

 

not exactly yesterday but more like the weekend. started my paint project with some buddies and GF....most of you guys remember seeing my crx......




car now looks like this....

i had a crap load of more pics, but my comp crashed and i dont have them at the moment, im on my GF's comp i will post more pics when i get my comp back from best buy (gotta love warranty). i picked up all my supplies ($650 total in supplies)...



cant wait ill take some pics tomorrow before we spray the primer.and then some after the primer. oh yea my GF got a lil carried away with the sander...

it stings just a little. im getting excited. i also picked up a clean set of fenders from a crx that i am going to spray as well to keep as spares.

 

Looks real good, How the heck did you do that with your sander?

 

My gf got me with the edge, first coat of primer is dine pics will be posts when I get home.

 

ok first layer of primer has been layed. me and my buddy will check and make sure no extra dings or imperfections are still visible before laying down the 2nd coat of primer....here are the pics....
masked off crx...


hanging parts...spare set of fenders, wings west whale spoiler and ukdm wing.....


primer being layed....













what do you guys think so far??

 

nice lol.. might as well pain the floor while ur at it lol.

 

man this crx was sick b4 it got painted now i need to find a new word that will fit its new description when it is done

 

well wasnt able to do work to it last night, but maybe tonight after eating. i was curious as far as painting mirrors do i need to prep them in any special way or just spray it like im doing the car. thanks for the support guys, cant wait till im done.

 

i beleive there jusdt plastic. so. there just like the bumpers. i would pull the actual mirror out that way u get a good clean full spray.

 

Yea that's what I was thinking. I'm gonna pull the actual mirror part out and spray the inside as well

 

nice build up man! i wish my bumper had cut outs for fogs... dang hatch's... lol

 

im in for this paint project.

 

ok didnt really get much done except i found some spots where we left some dings so we sanded back down and touched them up....









i also decided to prep my spare fenders for side markers,
thanks to thevtecnician for the lights....



i will be headed back to my friends house in the morning to finsh up and spray the color on sunday morning. cant wait. ill take some more process pics as well. thanks for following me on my crx restoration project.

 

Damn.... So much time put into this. Cant wait to see her finished. Good luck with spraying the paint man.

 

this will be my first time doing body work and spraying, so far i think im doing ok. i originally bought 2 qts of PPG primer but only ended up using 3/4 of 1qt. and i bought 2qts of PPG B53P paint, and if my guess is right i should have the same left over. any suggestions? i was planning on keeping the 2tone color scheme, good idea?? or should i just spray the whole car 1 color?

oh yea i also prepped my spare set of mirrors and key'ed door handles and key-less door handles for when i go power door locks and mirrors later on.

 

You should keep it 2 tone. The side skirts never look right paint matched

 

last of the body was just finished about 1hr ago. will post pics later tonight, i gotta head out to turlock and pick up the GF. thanks for following me through this long ordeal guys.

 

 

pics of the last of the body work and prep.
here are the mirrors...


prep work on body...

 

Both layers of base fair have been laid. Car came out pretty clean. Ran into a couple blemishes but we fixed those after the first layer. We started to finish up for the night so I could mask off the bottom sections and molding portions on the front and rear bumpers with trim paint when the cables holding up my hood snapped and the hood fell down top side first and scratched the top. So bow I have to go and get more paint tomorrow and spray ilthe hood tuesday night. Pics will be up in a bit after I load them from my camera.