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- Thread starter Bill Blue
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Looks great Bill/ Can you keep the tarps up until I finish my S3? 
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I'm impressed and I love to see when somebody is talented and brave enough to tackle a paint job at home. Great job! Looking forward to seeing the final paint results. Unique color - I like it.
Like so much stuff, talent is not as important as the determination to go ahead and do it. There is considerable pucker factor involved in pouring that first bit of color coat into the paint gun. It is a butt load of work. Finishing a car is sort of like finishing dry wall, there is always something you can do just a little bit better. This effort is not as good as the previous one, I am operating against a time constraint and some of the details are not very good.
This paint is very interesting stuff. It contains a lot of metallic of differing size. So much that Kirker says the metallic will snag and must be clear costed. The basic color seems to come from a coarse metallic particle, with a bit of pearl from a tiny particle. It is very interesting to watch the swirl of color as it is stirred.
A person wishing to do a paint job would be well served to look into the Kirker paints. They do not have a huge selection of colors, but do have some very pretty offerings. Smart Shopper sells a kit containing a two part primer, base coat, clear coat, catalysts, reducer, mixing cups, filters, and stir sticks. My kit cost $229, including shipping.
Michael, I have sewn up seats. But that was years ago and I decided not to do it again unless I had an industrial sewing machine. Don't know if I could handle piping, that's a considerable complication.
Bill
This paint is very interesting stuff. It contains a lot of metallic of differing size. So much that Kirker says the metallic will snag and must be clear costed. The basic color seems to come from a coarse metallic particle, with a bit of pearl from a tiny particle. It is very interesting to watch the swirl of color as it is stirred.
A person wishing to do a paint job would be well served to look into the Kirker paints. They do not have a huge selection of colors, but do have some very pretty offerings. Smart Shopper sells a kit containing a two part primer, base coat, clear coat, catalysts, reducer, mixing cups, filters, and stir sticks. My kit cost $229, including shipping.
Michael, I have sewn up seats. But that was years ago and I decided not to do it again unless I had an industrial sewing machine. Don't know if I could handle piping, that's a considerable complication.
Bill
Bill: Do you have neighbors near by and if so, are they still talking to you? Did the filter on your fan keep any of the smell from permeating the neighborhood?
Jim, I have neighbors, but not very close. Haven't seen them lately, but the closest one knew I was going to paint the car and thought it was something good. She has watched as I've struggled with the car the last few years and is pretty impressed. Count it as a benefit of living in this type (semi rural, red neck) of community. I really doubt anyone smelled anything. The filters are for incoming air, not exhaust.
As a side note, Barb commented on the orange on her garage floor, I told her that this job evened up the orange that was on the floor from the previous job. She had no further comment.
Bill
Looks like extra room under the wheel wells. Gonna put 22's on it?
Yeah, just after the air shocks go on.
Bill
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Did ya click the pic? It's a link to a mov I took yesterday. Toward the end you may be able to see it parting company w/drive shaft.
Did ya click the pic? It's a link to a mov I took yesterday. Toward the end you may be able to see it parting company w/drive shaft.
Yeahh! What everyone needs, a dancing, self destructing truck. What people speed money on.
Bill