98 WS6

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So the only thing I have a before of are the headers Keep in mind there was Pewter under that POR 15!


Before: (look at headers, yuck)






Everything now:

















I'm absolutely loving the way everything came out.

99'CajunFirehawk157

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Brush or spray?
Seems like a ton of work, how long did the underbody take?
Just prep (clean) the area and apply?
How much product did that take for the underbody?

Kudos on the effort!

98 WS6

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I brushed it on. I ordered a quart, and I didn't even use half of it. For prep, sprayed the hell out of the underbody with "Purple Power" degreaser and brake cleaner, several times, and scrubbed it really well. After all that I rinsed everything good with the hose and let it air dry. Then I took a wire brush on a drill and cleaned up any surface materials, followed by a wipedown with rust neutralizer. Let it air dry again, then brushed it on.

I was outside painting for around 2/3 hours I'd say. I already had all my exhaust and everything else removed.

TORCHD 02 TA

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God to be young and single again.. If I had all that damn time, and with how **** I am Brian my Trans Am would prolly look like Robbies

99'CajunFirehawk157

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Thanks for the info...looks very nice!

BIG_MIKE2005

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I didnt know POR made a silver coating that would stand up to the temps that LT's see. That in itself could make a set of Pacesetters last alot longer.

DopeFedZ

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Good work. I just painted my underbody yesterday. That crap was not fun.

therobman

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looks awsome if i only had the time and patience

Spd-Kilz

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Looks good Brian! Lots of hard work!


Amen to that. Wish I had the time.

joe77

You must work quick or didnt have much rust, tried to do this on my 85 ta, and took me days, and its only half done lol.

98 WS6

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The headers are actually coated with VHT's high temp coating. I used it on my last TA, it came out even better this time. Even with slamming them around the engine bay getting them back in, not a scratch!

Thanks everyone! I was working pretty quickly to be honest, and it wasn't too bad under there to begin with. And Dope, you got that right.. it isn't fun lol. I finished this 6 days ago and some of the POR-15 JUST peeled off my face.

therobman

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since you only used half if you feel the urge to do it again im always around

chavez885

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So only 3 hours total? Or 3 hours just for the por15...how long to prep bud?

Looks fantastic and worth the effort.

SRZ

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Looks good! When I buy some new LT's, I think I'll do this while I'm down there. Again, good job.

Screamin_99

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That looks really damn good man you did a great job on it.. You should at least put together a list of materials with pictures of the products and a small half-assed writeup.

I wanna do this to my Jeep and my Firebird (if I keep it that is)

lees02WS6

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I just did the same thing to the underside of my mother's jeep. Looks great, will keep the rust away, but a real pig to brush on. If I had the time and patience I'd remove the axles, linkage, gas tank, and exhaust, mask things off, and use my paint gun. Definitely a good deal of work right there.

Smoke Em

i just did the underside of my camaro a couple weeks ago, def the best thing i could have done to the underside, makes it look 100x better. its alot of work but definitely worth it.

looks great OP!!

BenLaz

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Its called POR-20... didnt work so well on mine.... flaked off.

98 WS6

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3 or so hours of actually painting it on. At a sloooow pace and taking breaks every so often. I finished around.. 5PM and I went outside to start cleaning/wire brushing/prep a little after 12 noon. Keep in mind all the waiting for it to air dry (while I was doing other things) so it wasn't bad at all. Thanks man, it was definitely worth it.

You should, you won't be disappointed. Thanks!

I'll keep that in mind, my good man. Maybe I could grab some old part laying around and show the whole process on that one piece.

iiiiii hear that!

It really does man. I was doing some work under the car today with a buddy of mine, and all we kept saying is how great it looked.

After all the abuse of putting my headers back in, scraping them along the driveway, and the beating one side got today IN the engine bay, there isn't even so much as a scrape or a mark on them. Granted that doesn't say anything for longevity but they can damn sure take a punch.

This is all I used, and if you didn't notice, I did my headers as well as the y-pipe with one can.






Thanks again everyone. Like I said I'm loving it more and more as I see it. I'll definitely keep that writeup idea in mind if you guys would really like one. I have more!

MasterV8

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What happened to all the heat shields, did you take them out to paint?