Ok. Big day.
On Friday I got one additional qt. of G-monster orange paint. For those of you here, I've decided to take a friends offer to professionally paint the car for the miserly sum of a plane ticket from his town to mine for around 500 bucks. The really good news is that by some stroke of really good fortune, and some magic dust thrown around by the body shop elf, PPG has taken an interest in the monster, and offered to comp their premium Concept brand acrylic urethane paint system so the monster will have a really nice skin this time around. The only stipulations are that I use a professional painter, and have it painted in a real paint booth.
Since PPG agreed to the product, I've established contact with the distributor and they are looking for a shop that'll let me use their booth over the week end. He said that the typical shop would be receptive to that especially if I offered to replace their booth filters (150-200).
So,...in the grand scheme of things,...I'm getting around 1000.00 at cost worth of materials and a pro painter that'll guarantee results for the price of about 1000.
Seems like a pretty good deal to me
That damn monster,......all the time I'm cussin' him he's out rubbing elbows with the powers that be using his "influences" to get something for nothing.....whoda thunk it?
So,...to save that guy time on the non-essential areas I've decided to spray the back side of the trunk, and doors so that they can be installed and painted in place.
Since the last attempt at using this paint failed so miserably, I decided to document the first coat.
See, not "hosed on". Just enough to insure a light, even coat.
Second, and third coats follow,...only this time it ends up looking like this:
Now admittedly, I'm no painter, but if you ask me,...that door turned out pretty decent.
as did the trunk.
On my other forum, I said I was gonna color sand and buff the front bumper so that I could bolt the oil cooler shroud on, and install the oil coolers.
Of course, pictures never look as good (or bad) as stuff does in person,...but again, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Since it wasn't bolted down, I had to be very careful that the buffer wheel didn't get hold of it, and rip it off the stand,..so in the grand scheme of things, it could probably be better. Once it's bolted on,...I'll hand rub it in the ares that still need a little work.
But,..when you put dude on the bumper, bolt the bumper on, mount the coolers, and put the monsters' shoes on and set him on his feet,....this is what that looks like.
There is a "splitter" that hangs beneath the shroud that spans the width of the front bumper. I'm gonna wait to install that till after the fenders are in place because it makes it hard to get them on w/ risking hitting it. but that is what will bolt to those tabs that you see hanging off the shroud.
That quarter panel looks like it's about 10' long..
The poor dirty, dusty monster.
This is why I bolted the doors on. Even though I marked the positions where the doors were the last time I had them on,..they needed adjustment. Adjusting them F'd up the paint on the hinge bulkhead. Fortunately, this area will be exposed, so when we paint it, this area will get scuffed and shot w/ the good stuff.
I about blew a nut pushing the monster back into his pen,...but nonetheless he's back inside, and both of my nuts are still where they're supposed to be. So all in all,.. it's all good. Doors are hung, but I'm holding off on installing the trunk until after I talk with Dave to see if he wants that installed or not.