I decided to go ahead and post pictures of my current project. I had my car painted a little over two years ago after it got hit. I switched from Milano Red to NSX formula Red. It was out of the body shop for 4hours befroe it got hit again in a parking lot. Since then it has been hit 4 more times while parked, hailed on, and suffered sever swirl marks. So I'm tired of this **** and secided to go for a flat black paint job. this will also solve my other problem which is that the door jams dont match the rest of the car. Here are the pictures of the project as it has unfolded. THe car is currently in primer. tomarrow it will get wet sanded and prepped for its final paint. I will be painting it next weekend. THis project was done completely by me in my driveway and in my garage. Enjoy or ridicule as you see fit.

here is the bfore pic. ctually this was about a yer ago before someone hit the front bumper



here is the spray booth i constucted in my garage with thumb tacs and plastic sheeting



i shaved the raer washer squirter while i was at it. and fixed as many dents as i could


here it is w/ the front end stripped in prep. I painted the bumpers and fenders off the car.


here is my setup for painting the bumpers. i suspended it in the air with 550 paracord and a couple bolts


here it is in the garage before i primed. as you can see its a tight squezze for me to fit in there and spray


and here it is after i rolled it out of the garage today.




i filed an insuarnce claim that paid out $2500 to paint my car and fix all the damage. Which wouldnt cover it actually getting done. So this is what i did. and i spent the rest of the money on this:




23mm jdm type r sway bar

3" thermal exhast (was planning on going turbo but i think i'll stay N2O


type R head with toda spings, cam gears and portflow retainers




clutchmasters dual friction clutch

jg victor X manifold


AR-15 carbine (semi auto M4)


this is my interior before i sprayed the jams (still have to take off my hatch to do the top of it







the jabs and interior were done with rattle cans. I'm thinking about spraying the wheels black too, since they are ugly and i dont plan on replacing them for a while. Eventualy i'll get some 16'' rota grids in royal sport bronze and paint my bracket too.

What do you think? should i spray the wheels while i'm at it.

 

you're using John Deere Blitz Black??

 

Paint the wheels black or dark gunmetal

 

yeah john deere blitz black. i havent actually seen it done yet on a honda. eve if it has i dont care. I gotta gallon of it from the not so local store.

 

BTW i painted over the antena because i'm replacing it with a s2k unit soon, so i wasnt worried about it. I hate taking that damn thing off anyhow

 

Wicked . Keep us updated on the progress. My car (in my H-T garage) was a DIY garage job too. Props for joining the club .

 

looks good

 

nice machine gun.

 

Archidictus is there a way i can view your car/paint job. I havent heard of the H-T garage.

 

Nice job man. I have been looking forward to seeing a honda in the john deere blitz black color.

 

take off the side moldings and paint them individually..it be a cleaner outcome

 

^ me too thats why i'm doing this. I dont even know for sure what its gonna look like

 

anything blitz black/john deere gets my respect from old school rat rodz to the new school rat rodz

can't wait to see the pics! photbucket bandwidth exceeded.

edit: I pasted the direct link to my browser and saw the pics. Good ****. Can't wait untill the black is actually laid on there. Keep us updated.

 

Bandwidth.

 

bandwidth owned

 

do what he said and the pics will work.
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Doesn't work for me. "Copy Link Location"..paste in FireFox browser, what I see is the Photobucket crap.

 

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sweeeeeet pics

 

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lol.....i have the same paint on my car....looks good, but it dirty right now

 

i just fixed it

 

nice pics

 

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^thanks