Re: My 71 510 budget SR20DET build
Posted: 16 Dec 2014 20:48
I have a few things to say.
I picked up my color! 2008 Corvette 'Atomic Orange'. It looks SO much better in person.
(just a bit of it to paint jambs + engine bay though)
The only thing left to do now is pick up some silver mini-flake so I can add that extra bit of zing when we actually spray some color in the next few weeks.
Getting mini flake has been proven to be a bit of a hardship here in Canada however, but I'm still hoping to be able to get some.
Got my shoulders as sore as ever hurrying up with bodywork on the 510.
just so my buddy could spray some super fancy high-build with his fancy primer gun tonight.
Ended up putting 3 coats on, and then spraying a light black guide coat overtop to help with the blocking.
The doors, trunk, dashpad, front valance, gasdoor, entire shell(quarters,rockers,roof, etc etc) are now looking pretty straight.
Plan is to let it harden for the next two days, so that means I can do things not body-related such as install gas pedal + cut holes for cable, cut up parts car for strut tower tops, reem out a couple holes, fix a botched repairjob by the PO I just found, and ther small things.
I found a 280zx I'm hopefully going to be able to rob the struts + rear brake set-up off of as well! Just hoping the owner doesn't flake out as he really wants to sell the whole car.
Took the front crossmember + control arms to get blasted the other day and got them back and painted! what a difference that + a nice coat of paint made.
I picked up my color! 2008 Corvette 'Atomic Orange'. It looks SO much better in person.
(just a bit of it to paint jambs + engine bay though)
The only thing left to do now is pick up some silver mini-flake so I can add that extra bit of zing when we actually spray some color in the next few weeks.
Getting mini flake has been proven to be a bit of a hardship here in Canada however, but I'm still hoping to be able to get some.
Got my shoulders as sore as ever hurrying up with bodywork on the 510.
just so my buddy could spray some super fancy high-build with his fancy primer gun tonight.
Ended up putting 3 coats on, and then spraying a light black guide coat overtop to help with the blocking.
The doors, trunk, dashpad, front valance, gasdoor, entire shell(quarters,rockers,roof, etc etc) are now looking pretty straight.
Plan is to let it harden for the next two days, so that means I can do things not body-related such as install gas pedal + cut holes for cable, cut up parts car for strut tower tops, reem out a couple holes, fix a botched repairjob by the PO I just found, and ther small things.
I found a 280zx I'm hopefully going to be able to rob the struts + rear brake set-up off of as well! Just hoping the owner doesn't flake out as he really wants to sell the whole car.
Took the front crossmember + control arms to get blasted the other day and got them back and painted! what a difference that + a nice coat of paint made.