Its now March 19 and i have a race commitment for Pinks All Out down in Rockingham, NC on April 6-7. I've been busy for the past few months and just recently have I been able to work on my personal car.

The motors are almost ready to reassemble. The Trannies havent even been popped apart, but luckily the suspension and body is staying the same till later in the season.

For now we decided to do the big items like paint before the season started because the interior and the engine bay were lookin shotty. The whole interior was stripped out to clean the carpet, fix some wiring clean all parts and then paint the carpet and inside body.

The Engine bay came apart to paint and redo some wiring and misc items for appearance.

Big thanks go out to my buddy Jeremy (dc2kid) for taking his time to help paint for me. thats one of the few things i dont know how to do on my car.

Without further ado, here are the pics. I will post more pics over the next few days with the rest of the progress.

Post #2 - Before and Engine Bay Painting Pics.
Post #3 - Interior Painting and Final Paint pics.
Post #5 - After Paint and Rear Interior/Bars Installed.
Post #20 - Wire Tucking the Engine Bay and Harness Bar Installed


Modified by RPRacing at 9:27 AM 3/20/2007

 

Washing and cleanig the car



In the garage for a wipedown then finishing prep

All Taped Up


The Crew
(Left to Right)
Me, Chris, Jeremy

Primered and Ready to go

Jeremy laying down the first coat of base



Nothing like prepping a drag car for the season while watching Drag Racing on TV. WOOT!!!


First coat of base down

Second Coat of Base Down


There's the first coat of clear

 

Interior all Prepped with overspray from painting the engine bay.

Base. Round 1. FIGHT!


First Base coat down.


Second Base coat all done



Taking a break in our heated and vented booth

First Clear coat down



Interior ALL CLEARED!!!



Look how shiny it is in the nice light







Modified by RPRacing at 2:19 AM 3/19/2007

 

nice love to see itr's go fast

 

Engine Bay ready for assembly

Rear Interior - All wired, paneled, and PasswordJDM barred up



CompositesFab Carbon Fiber Door panel inserts back on the car. Thanks Dustin!



Look at that pretty interior. Such a shame carpet is required.

PasswordJDM Rear 4pt Strut Bar and Rear 2pt Lateral Trunk Bar. Thanks Leo!

CompositesFab Carbon Gas Covers and Password 4pt Strut Bar


so fresh and so clean clean...



Modified by RPRacing at 2:26 AM 3/19/2007


Modified by RPRacing at 2:27 AM 3/19/2007

 

very nice...but how come you didn't take a little more time to mask the brake lines, prop valve, etc. lol....wheres your clutch pedal

 

so what motor is going in to it?

 

no problem dude. glad i could help. my motor is next damnit!

glad it turned out good. (im the one who painted it) for having no booth, the dirt levels werent tooo bad. ill prolly swing by tonight again dude.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by jarel &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">lol....wheres your clutch pedal </TD></TR></TABLE>

Dood, it's gonna have a sequential clutchless tranny with straight cut gears.

 

Looks good guys. Sorry I missed the paaaartaaaay.

Jeremy- paint come out nice from what I can see. good work from a gayrage...esp frisky's dirty one

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by jarel &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">very nice...but how come you didn't take a little more time to mask the brake lines, prop valve, etc. lol....wheres your clutch pedal </TD></TR></TABLE>
meh, it wasnt about the time really. It was about the color of them. i didnt want to paint them black. I figured to paint them yellow so they are less noticeable and looks cleaner when the motor goes back in.

and who needs a clutch? we're going to make it an AUTO!!!! jp, it was easy to remove that pedal with the line i had without opening the system to air so i did.

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by esohsee &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> so what motor is going in to it?</TD></TR></TABLE>
got a couple race motors for this seaons. B18C5s

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by dc2kid &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">no problem dude. glad i could help. my motor is next damnit!

glad it turned out good. (im the one who painted it) for having no booth, the dirt levels werent tooo bad. ill prolly swing by tonight again dude. </TD></TR></TABLE>
yes sir, we're going to get your motor running right. thanks again man

 

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Dood, it's gonna have a sequential clutchless tranny with straight cut gears. </TD></TR></TABLE>

GM Hydromatic what!

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by raaawrz &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Looks good guys. Sorry I missed the paaaartaaaay.

Jeremy- paint come out nice from what I can see. good work from a gayrage...esp frisky's dirty one</TD></TR></TABLE>

you sure missed a fun one.

 

Looks good. I'll stop by sometime to see how things are coming along.

Good work though.

 

Looking good fran!

 

I feel that unpainted brakelines is much cleaner than painted lines. It shows detail in a paintjob.

Hell, take em out and hide them.

Lookin' good so far man!

 

Well since no one else has said it...

You ruined a perfectly good ITR.

 

car looks great there buddy good luck on the season this year youll be seeing me out there alot

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by nerdsports &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I feel that unpainted brakelines is much cleaner than painted lines. It shows detail in a paintjob.

Hell, take em out and hide them.

Lookin' good so far man!</TD></TR></TABLE>

meh. they were dirty. they are ugly either way. thought about changing it. but stainless lines and hardware is heavier than stock so they stayed.

its all about weight savings this season

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by RedRCKT000 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">car looks great there buddy good luck on the season this year youll be seeing me out there alot</TD></TR></TABLE>

I seriously doubt this. Make up your damn mind what car you're using as a freakin' project first!

&lt;3

but if we do see you on the track it'll be good times- last season was a blassst

 

So i decided to do a wire tuck after all since i was already in so deep and i'm sure all season long i'd be hearing "Man, you should have wire tucked..." And it'll look good

Passenger side is all wired up and ready for motor install. Looking clean.

Those wrapped wires are for the radiator fan and will get finished when the motor goes back in.

Driver's side tuck in the works. I made sure to run 2 extra wires per side for anything i might want to add in the future if need be.


Harness bar all painted and installed. Man i cant wait!!!

 

Looking good
In for future progress.

Don't make the pictures so small. Hard to see the details. Keep up the good work

 

thanks. you can click the pics so it opens in a bigger window.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by raaawrz &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">

I seriously doubt this. Make up your damn mind what car you're using as a freakin' project first!

&lt;3

but if we do see you on the track it'll be good times- last season was a blassst </TD></TR></TABLE>

Oh the civic is almost done just need to get it tuned.

 

i told you to wire tuck. glad you listened!

 

sick car man...looks great