haha lessons well learned my friend!! pics or ban!

 

You are dumb. Paint is a type of plastic, powder coating is a type of plastic. Why would air craft stripper not eat your plastic headlights?
And I told you to be carefull when buffing plastic.

ETA on car being finished? You should have it back by friday yes?

 

i should have the car back by the end of this week-beginning of next week unless something happens to where the shop has to wait to do something.

i didnt mean to spill the aircraft stripper all over the headlight...and i was being carefull buffing. the dremel was the last resort to try to fix the aircraft stripper accident and that was a bad idea.

alright so...

i started by finishing off the sanding and buffing of the lenses.
as you can see i removed the black on the bottom of the headlight and the black on the edge of the headlight.


then i taped off the lense so i could paint the portions grey that used to be black. this will flow better with the color matched inserts. i used a grey primer that matched pretty decent.




here is how it came out:




i started putting everything back together


for some reason getting the lense back on to the housing has been a bitch because of a slight distortion in the housing from oven baking them. but after some clamps and some wait time it seems to be holding up.

FINAL PRODUCT





and tires are all mounted, balanced, and the wheels are ready to be slapped on the car.


thanks for looking.
_zac

 

jealouse

 

just read all 15 pages, not really a fan of preludes but nice work, Im sure its gonna looks sick when its done

 

thanks guys. i appreciate it.
_zac

 

nice work...the wheels looks super nice...this gonna look sick

 

Where did you get your rotors? I want EBC rotors for my car. The cheapest I can get the fronts for are around $170/pair (GSX fronts) and $125/pair for the rear

 

i got lucky man... craigslist find. guy in tampa got them for his 5th gen lude and ended up selling his lude before installing them = $50 EBC rotors brand new in the box
_zac

 

i got pics from the shop yesterday!!!! MY CAR IS PAINTED!!!! WOOOHOOOOO



the bumpers, door handles, spoiler, skirts, and mirrors will be painted by this weekend probably.



the shop has about 3-4 days until it can be wetsanded and buffed, then about 2 days for swapping the motor and getting everything set mechanically, then it goes in for final assembly which should take about 2 days, and then the final wax and full detail which should be a day or 2. i figure in about double that time for the unexpected so im looking at about 3 weeks left until i drive her home.



i have decided not to post any pics of the actual car until the final product is available

the paint and body looks amazing though!!

_zac