project rebuild. PICS

[Turbo Dave]

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this was my car when i first got her.
i added dc sports headers and low profile tires
i run synthetic oil as well


then i crashed it



^hole in my cat

because i had a shitty spare


i restored it and fixed the rust

NOTE: METAL SHEETS WERE PUT ON THE INSIDE NOT ON TOP!!









and now im painting it

[Turbo Dave]

another pic of the paint. i have no clue what color it was. i picked up a mistoned paint at a paint shop.... i have a lot though.


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thennn i crashed it again



so i got new parts



guess whats in the box?


you got it jdm ambers


oh shit my car has cancer!!







ive got 2 of these!! found em both for 50 bucks!!

[CustomLowz]

Color looks good... How did you get rid of the rust? Looks like you just screened and bondo'd over it...

[Turbo Dave]

i cut out some more of it and put the screens behind the metal not in front of it. then i just applied bondo. i just cut the metal till thier was no rust behind thier.


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Stripped






dirty dirty





pimpin the interior

[AccordWarrior]

I hope you treated all the area you cut out with anti-rusting treatments and also treated the inner fenders, or it'll be back.

[T3aM 83rD]

that blue looks good, are you living in florida now or are we gonna see you up here again?

['93accordse]

paint looks good, pretty even laydown from what i can see,couple questions :

did you feather the edges really good of your bondo? Also, think about using a glaze as a last layer over the bondo, instead of painting directly on top of filler. Spraying over filler causes "paint soak" and you will see where your body work is and a final layer of glaze will fill in any tiny pinholes that filler might leave.

curious as to why you painted your hood only without painting fenders? also, hope you didnt spray the hood on the car, as you still have alot of sanding dirt left on your car from what i can see. Buy a tack cloth it will save you trashy paint nightmares. Also, did you primer? It looks like from the drop sheets you painted the hood where it sits, hope you didnt clear it yet, and youre gonna run into problems when you go to spray the rest of the car, either primer or blue, painting body pieces individually is ok as long as you take them off and hang/ sit them somewhere. Be careful when shooting the rest of the car so you dont overspray onto your already finished hood (if your laying primer might wanna take the hood off completely). And take out your headlights, tailights, corners, grill etc.... makes life alot easier. AND TAPE UP YOUR WINDOWS!!!!!

[Turbo Dave]

thanks dude. i did the hood as a test because ive never painted a car before, those picse are random i wet sanded the car down and im going to resand the hood again i cleared the hood already and obviously matching is going to be hard so thats why, right now im installing a resonator that i found at the junk yard today.

pretty good find eh?


i got it for 10 bucks i just found it sitting thier so we'll see how it sounds

[Turbo Dave]

'93accordse, when you say glaze you mean clear coat right. i should just spray a layer of clear over the bondo??

and yeah i didnt prime the car either i just wet sanded it real flat...

['93accordse]

'93accordse, when you say glaze you mean clear coat right. i should just spray a layer of clear over the bondo??

and yeah i didnt prime the car either i just wet sanded it real flat...

no, i mean like using this:


http://www.azautobodysupply.com/fievmegl30oz.html



and i would definitely recommend primer on the car, especially since you had rust issues. I would take the car down a little more, maybe use 220 grit on the whole thing before wetsanding, this would also let you really feather the edges of your body work.

[91accord2dr]

metal glaze is like bondo but more fine. i was think bout this question today. i heard the best thing for paint to stick to is paint i am gonna be repaintin my car and was wonderin if i should use his method. as of right now my plan is to sand down to metal and seal prime wetsand prime base wetsand base and like 4 coats of clear.

['93accordse]

metal glaze is like bondo but more fine. i was think bout this question today. i heard the best thing for paint to stick to is paint i am gonna be repaintin my car and was wonderin if i should use his method. as of right now my plan is to sand down to metal and seal prime wetsand prime base wetsand base and like 4 coats of clear.

youre doing too much

you can sand it down, but not to metal. first of all, youre never gonna get the whole thing down to metal unless you just blast the whole car. I sand, prime, wetsand, base and clear MAX 2 coats. The theory that more clear = more shine is just wrong. Because youll end up wetsanding the clear between passes, so in the end the only coat that matters is the topcoat. Now youre gonna have three layers of clear UNDER your top layer doing nothing but turning yellow in the sun. Make sense? The people who say MORE CLEAR arent good enough to spray clear. Clear is hard, thats why i just put a piss coat on first to get the whole car tacky, then lay my final coat. Real professionals can get it in one pass most of the time. After you clear buff and polish your car like a month later. thats where your shine comes from. A good sprayer is only worried about orange peel and runs.

[91accord2dr]

youre doing too much

you can sand it down, but not to metal. first of all, youre never gonna get the whole thing down to metal unless you just blast the whole car. I sand, prime, wetsand, base and clear MAX 2 coats. The theory that more clear = more shine is just wrong. Because youll end up wetsanding the clear between passes, so in the end the only coat that matters is the topcoat. Now youre gonna have three layers of clear UNDER your top layer doing nothing but turning yellow in the sun. Make sense? The people who say MORE CLEAR arent good enough to spray clear. Clear is hard, thats why i just put a piss coat on first to get the whole car tacky, then lay my final coat. Real professionals can get it in one pass most of the time. After you clear buff and polish your car like a month later. thats where your shine comes from. A good sprayer is only worried about orange peel and runs.

thnx for the info. keep ur eye open for my post up here when i finish my car. prolly sumtime in april it will be done at least my bodywork.

['93accordse]

np, im local too, so if you need more advice feel free to contact me anytime.

[accordtypeR]

Wow man you spoke the work at the man meet but after seeing the pics that some intense shit..keep it up....