Turned out pretty good and Just wanted to show ya'll...
90 Si, bought for $800 with burnt valve.

Swapped on a Z6 head and started on the body.

Used door, Aftermarket hood and fender.

One late night of bodywork and priming


A few hours wetsanding and scuffing with red scotchbrite.


A few more hours minor dissassembly and masking.


Another hour of spraying. Hour of baking and time to unmask.


And finially put back together.




And yes I know the headlights need to go. Its my GF's car and she likes them but I"m still trying to talk her out of them. But for now I need to lower it and maybe different rims.

 

Hey I have a perfect set of factory headlights... i would be willing to trade you straight across for the ones shown in the pics.
IM me if interested!
Thanks.

 

why did it take an hour to paint?

 

nice!

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by janz3n &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">why did it take an hour to paint?</TD></TR></TABLE>

Lemme see,
-Mix sealer 5 min.
-Spray sealer 5min.
-clean gun and mix paint 10min.
-Spray fist coat of paint 10min.
-Flash time 10 min.
-Second coat 10 min.
-Flash time 10 min.
-Last coat 10 min.

Oops looks like I'm a liar, It may have been more than an hour...

 

what paint did you use then? painter at my work doesnt take an hour to paint a car.. and doesnt wait 10 min's for it to flash off... and no his paint jobs arent shitty.

 

also whats witht he painted mouldings on one side in the booth but then its not painted in the finished pictures?

 

he masked them off.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by janz3n &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">what paint did you use then? painter at my work doesnt take an hour to paint a car.. and doesnt wait 10 min's for it to flash off... and no his paint jobs arent shitty.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Good for him... To do a good job on a complete and spray a single stage it takes about an hour using the paint I did, some paint has longer flash times than others and it also depends on the temp. in the booth and the temp. reducer you use. Did I want to rush it and hammer on 3 coats in 20 minutes so it could solvent pop and I could spent the whole next day colorsanding and buffing? Nope. This was a quickie job done on the cheap and I masked off the moldings and untaped them in the booth before the paint was fully cured. But maybe after 12 years of doing this for a living I have no idea and I'm doing it all wrong... Thanks for asking really intelligent questions....

 

car looks great man. kids got serious issues though, hint of jealousy. oh and if those wheels are 15" then id be interested.

 

sweet

 

Nice

 

Thanks for all the positive comments.. Any idea on rim choice? Was thinking black GT3's or 99-00 Si's or GSR blades..

 

holy calm down buddy. how were my questions not intellegent? and when did i ever say you did anything wrong? lol wow. nice job though. i realize some paints take longer to flash off and ****.. thats why i asked what kind of paint you used.

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by fin781 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">car looks great man. kids got serious issues though, hint of jealousy. oh and if those wheels are 15" then id be interested.</TD></TR></TABLE>

i hate the paint part of auto body. to time consuming. im apprenticing for the body work right now.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by janz3n &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">holy calm down buddy. how were my questions not intellegent? and when did i ever say you did anything wrong? lol wow. nice job though. i realize some paints take longer to flash off and ****.. thats why i asked what kind of paint you used.

i hate the paint part of auto body. to time consuming. im apprenticing for the body work right now.</TD></TR></TABLE>
Its cool, You just came off as trying to sound like you knew everything. To this day I learn new things from others in the trade all the time, you never stop learning and you will never learn anything with a know it all attitude. But it you didn't mean to sound like that I'm sorry.. Good luck in the trade...

 

yeah dude great job where can i get into line for mine

 

ya man no problem.. i hope not to learn much about refinishing though lol. took me a full 8 hours to sand a car down by myself at work. that is a really nice paint job though.

 

I think the black GT3s would be a tasteful choice, and I'm glad you kept the molding black.

 

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

 

nice job. wana paint mine now. lol

 

suuuuper clean man

 

hey man that paint job looks great....i wish i could have someone fix the minor rust im my 91 ef and spray it for a decent prive and make it look like that i dont see why people are sayin negative things that car looks good

 

damn i wish i could do that

 

looks great man. i want to spray mine. well have my friend do it.

 

i say go with gsr blades. the polishes look would set that color red off. great paint job.