Painted my engine bay...

[dashboardmonkey]

Looks much mo better, good job.

[StereoInstaller1]

Pitch those crimpers in the trash, pronto.

Channel lock or Snap-On, Klien in a pinch.

Bay looks great. Booster in white is pretty damn cool, too.

[dashboardmonkey]

Hi Luke!

[el bob]

Looking good!!

[Paukert11]

Dude i was going to go to the factory today, but I had to get RM racing started!!!!!! But you cant ever see the yellow on the fire wall. looks really good. I think we should roll my fenders the day before bimmer fest. lol. o ps. your have a miss where your intercooler mount is. bottom left L bracket. im fucking with you!:hitler: just playing lol.

[blueapplesoda]

4 days ago i started filling and massaging out all the dents, yesterday we just sprayed a second coat of filler primer and finished blocking the whole car for the second time in my 10x20 pepboys tent. Today is gonna be some phresh alpine2 and a very nice urethane clearcoat over that.

Also just finished half the 3" ss downpipe of the two sets I am doing, and routed and tig welded the external wastegate setup

Still have to paint, clear, install motor/trans, fab up an exhaust (stainless mandrel yay), work out any bugs in the revised MS setup..hopefully before saturday.

the fastest semi-complete paintjob, been working 11am-1am everyday for the last 2 weeks..the skin on my hands have essentially hardened into plastic.

I have only today and tomorrow til Bfest........off to work for another day of preparation :D

[Paukert11]

you are crazy man. lol i will be there friday to help.

[MR 325]

Looking forward to seeing this!

[Mossman]

plz explain nice urethane clear over alpine 2. I tried a body shop quality clear over a single stage black once and it came out terribly. Granted I don't know shit about painting so there are many ways I could have gone wrong, but do you need a special kind of clear to sit nicely on top of a single stage color?

What if you wanted to clear over a rustoleum type enamel? (want to spray some wheels).

Thanks man, and awesome project / craftsmanship

[blueapplesoda]

we are using two stage base/clear, mixed at the local paintshop.

some update pics.



Mike3 (Paukert11) fuckin up my paint lolz jk


BTW if anyone ever installs a spoiler DO NOT GLUE IT TO YOUR TRUNKLID

i bolted mine down, but it still wasn't secure with the stock mounting, so i permanently attached it with some adhesives, thinking...or lack of it..sigh. hence the ghetto masked off wing.

[She loved E]

badass! what type of compressor are you using for the hvlp? i'd like to put together a setup in my garage but its too small for a 220v 60-gal stand up. that's prolly what you have though