Progress Thread Finally got a new truck

2Blue2 · Mar 25, 2019

Davedacarpainter said:
Dodge is going to put a hellcat engine in a pickup soon too.

Thats gonna be bad ass. I like Dodges commercials. Lots of fun burnouts.

BlakeusMaximus · Mar 26, 2019

Time for some more body work. I’m going to have to pull a @Davedacarpainter and get some Founders or something.

Rdub6 · Mar 26, 2019

Davedacarpainter said:
Dodge is going to put a hellcat engine in a pickup soon too.

I’ll take one of each when my Powerball hits!!

BlakeusMaximus · Mar 26, 2019

Well, I think I’m done with the body work. I’ll have my painter and a bodyman feel it over tomorrow. Then its time to feather out the rest of the paint and get it ready for primer. I still have the 100+ GT ground effects to prep. I also got all the double sided tape off the doors too. Still waiting for my PDR friend to come over. Ill bug him tomorrow.

BlakeusMaximus · Mar 27, 2019

I had the painter and a body man feel my body work on the door this morning and they said I needed to do one more swipe. I think I got it. I’m having them feel it because that’s what they do all day long. Bodymen fix the panels, painters feel it over before they prime. I got the ok from them on all the other panels. The drivers door was the worst of the panels. There were door dings in bigger dents, waves etc. I think I got it though. This should be the last of the body work, I’ll know tomorrow morning.

BlakeusMaximus · Mar 28, 2019

Well, I had one more swipe to do in a different area below the door handle, had a low spot. I swiped it just a little while ago before I got started with the day. Excuse the way it looks, I haven’t sanded it down yet. I will after work, or maybe during lunch. I would like to see primer on it this afternoon. I swear, it seems like the metal changes over night like “Christine.”

2Blue2 · Mar 28, 2019

BlakeusMaximus said:
Time for some more body work.

BlakeusMaximus said:
Well, I think I’m done with the body work.

BlakeusMaximus said:
This should be the last of the body work,

BlakeusMaximus said:
Well, I had one more swipe to do

Lol just had to laugh.
Body work just takes for ever. Stay on it! Get it right! Your so close.

BlakeusMaximus · Mar 28, 2019

Yeah, I thought about that! That’s funny, especially when you put them all together like that. I know what to do, just not very fast at doing it. It’s getting there though.

BlakeusMaximus · Mar 28, 2019

My bodywork passed the test. The head painter has the final say on the body work the body techs complete and he gave me the go ahead for primer. Tonight, I’m going to prep and spray my aprons with a couple coats of gray SEM primer to match the factory color under there and get my fenders fitted tonight and then on to priming.

BlakeusMaximus · Mar 28, 2019

So I cleaned and dressed up my aprons with some white and gray direct to metal primer and I got my fenders mounted up and aligned. Looks like Ford used both gray primer and white paint in that area I’m really liking on my front end is lining up now. I still need to get my PDR buddy over to do the dents on the roof. I sent him over a car this week for an insurance job so I know he’s busy with that. But I’m really getting to the point where I need him to pull those so I can continue. Oh wait I forgot I still have all those ground effects to prep. I should be able to get the car and primer tomorrow after work.

90sickfox · Mar 29, 2019

My car didn't have speakers in the doors either. The connectors should be in there though. The other end is behind the kick panel. Just a little 2 wire gray connector. Gotta have sound in the doors. When you install them make sure the window mechanism doesn't hit them. The deeper speakers may have a clearance issue.

BlakeusMaximus · Mar 29, 2019

90sickfox said:
My car didn't have speakers in the doors either. The connectors should be in there though. The other end is behind the kick panel. Just a little 2 wire gray connector. Gotta have sound in the doors. When you install them make sure the window mechanism doesn't hit them. The deeper speakers may have a clearance issue.

Yeah I found that strange. I don't have a deck in the car. The one that was in the car when I bought it wouldn't turn up or down correctly. It would either blow your eardrums or just had no sound at all. I took it out and put in an old delete panel I had left over from another Stang I had in. I figure a GT would have came with door speakers from the factory though. Thanks for the tip!

90sickfox · Mar 29, 2019

You would think a GT would've...but people try to save money in weird ways.

BlakeusMaximus · Mar 29, 2019

Pulled into paint shop for primer.

STEVE PATTON · Mar 29, 2019

You will soon be "blockusmaximus" !!

BlakeusMaximus · Mar 29, 2019

STEVE PATTON said:
You will soon be "blockusmaximus" !!

Yes I will Steve! Paint prep isn't one of my favorites.

BlakeusMaximus · Mar 29, 2019

Hey! The nickname might fit me now, but what will it be when I’m done with blocking? Was that @Noobz347?

STEVE PATTON · Mar 29, 2019

Sandusbuffusmaximus

BlakeusMaximus · Mar 29, 2019

Just so you guys know, my grandpa called me “BlakeusMaximus” since I was a little kid, he always did.

I like the names Steve is coming up with.

Noobz347 · Mar 29, 2019

Progress Thread Finally got a new truck

will be trying this sex one when I can find it

Still got to try a little lube on my speedo head

So while I wait to figure out my rear end issues

Still got to try a little lube on my speedo head

Still got to try a little lube on my speedo head

Still got to try a little lube on my speedo head

will be trying this sex one when I can find it

Still got to try a little lube on my speedo head

Still got to try a little lube on my speedo head

Still got to try a little lube on my speedo head

Wasn't a pretty sight...and I've got big hands

Still got to try a little lube on my speedo head

Wasn't a pretty sight...and I've got big hands

Still got to try a little lube on my speedo head

I smell a conspiracy

Still got to try a little lube on my speedo head

Still got to try a little lube on my speedo head

I smell a conspiracy

Still got to try a little lube on my speedo head

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