Shaved turn signals, open mouth grille, shaved bumper line
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So I made alittle progress. Plastic welding is time consuming and frustrating.
Its also hard to form the plastic to the contours of the bumper. I am getting there.
Few pictures of welding it in, then getting the welds to meld better. My slag cutter was good enough to defend the motherland so its good enough to cut extra plastic.
Last pic I sanded alittle to see where my high and low areas are(clearly need to shape alittle more lol)
Anyways hopefully have it shaped and the other half done tomorrow night.
Its also hard to form the plastic to the contours of the bumper. I am getting there.
Few pictures of welding it in, then getting the welds to meld better. My slag cutter was good enough to defend the motherland so its good enough to cut extra plastic.
Last pic I sanded alittle to see where my high and low areas are(clearly need to shape alittle more lol)
Anyways hopefully have it shaped and the other half done tomorrow night.
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Got alittle more work done
Then after the pictures, I noticed some of filler plastic coming apart.
So I pulled on it and ya. I have alot more work to do that I dont have pictures of. Anyways though hopefully getting the otherside done tomorrow.
its alittle wavy and im having a hard time with the heat gun. I may just have to sand alot then add in alittle filler in the low spots till its close enough for the primer.
Then after the pictures, I noticed some of filler plastic coming apart.
So I pulled on it and ya. I have alot more work to do that I dont have pictures of. Anyways though hopefully getting the otherside done tomorrow.
its alittle wavy and im having a hard time with the heat gun. I may just have to sand alot then add in alittle filler in the low spots till its close enough for the primer.
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So ya,
I havent posted in a while as I used a inferior plastic as my filler. So when I started sanding it kinda all fell apart.
So it took a while to get the motivation to get back and tear it all out clean and start over.
Anyways though I did and the otherside got almost finished. Got a very good feel for it this second opening and looks much better than the first.
Gonna pick up some bumper filler tomorrow and even this out. Obviously fill in the welds and voids on the passenger side prior.
might actually finish this before I deploy(well have it ready for paint)
I havent posted in a while as I used a inferior plastic as my filler. So when I started sanding it kinda all fell apart.
So it took a while to get the motivation to get back and tear it all out clean and start over.
Anyways though I did and the otherside got almost finished. Got a very good feel for it this second opening and looks much better than the first.
Gonna pick up some bumper filler tomorrow and even this out. Obviously fill in the welds and voids on the passenger side prior.
might actually finish this before I deploy(well have it ready for paint)
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So I sanded it down some more, dropped down to 80 grit, then moved up to 180.
Sprayed some Krylon enamel tough rust primer and boy is that stuff hard to sand. Ill be honest I dont really know what im doing but I never do so its fun to learn. I was able to greatly improve my technique when welding in the patch panels hopefully ill figure out this smoothing out bit.
Anyways from what I was reading, shoot adhesion promoter then two coats of enamel oil based primer ideally two seperate colors fix the high spots and use a flexable bumper filler on the lows. Then after it is dry and hard I cant take it to a body shop they will shoot their primer and paint and ill be good to go.
Im having a bit of trouble sanding this primer though.....anyways I was reading after trying to find a easy way to sand that enamel primer and getting a real paintjob dont really mix
anyways any help would be great.
Sprayed some Krylon enamel tough rust primer and boy is that stuff hard to sand. Ill be honest I dont really know what im doing but I never do so its fun to learn. I was able to greatly improve my technique when welding in the patch panels hopefully ill figure out this smoothing out bit.
Anyways from what I was reading, shoot adhesion promoter then two coats of enamel oil based primer ideally two seperate colors fix the high spots and use a flexable bumper filler on the lows. Then after it is dry and hard I cant take it to a body shop they will shoot their primer and paint and ill be good to go.
Im having a bit of trouble sanding this primer though.....anyways I was reading after trying to find a easy way to sand that enamel primer and getting a real paintjob dont really mix
anyways any help would be great.
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its alright i have no idea what i am doing when i'm doing body work as well haha. Only one way to learn, i now need to re do my fender because it looks like *** and i ran out of material to fix it, oh well for now it should stay that way until i have money for an actual paint job.
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its alright i have no idea what i am doing when i'm doing body work as well haha. Only one way to learn, i now need to re do my fender because it looks like *** and i ran out of material to fix it, oh well for now it should stay that way until i have money for an actual paint job.
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so on the enamel primer part. it has to go. I was told I could keep it in the lows and cover it with flex filler but if I can remove it.....yay
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So alot of learning,
I was told I cant wetsand the enamel primer by one of those guys thats been there done that....well I shouldnt have listened. I didnt find much of anything on removing enamel primer from plastic so i figured id suffer slowly as I tried to dry sand this crap off.
Then finally I was like well i wanna see what it will do if I wetsand this garbage. unlike I was told not only was it easier I had most of it off minus the lows in 20 minutes
so now, im still looking to see if I can just put the flexible bumper filler over the low or if I have to sand into the lows... then start again.
anyways pic
I was told I cant wetsand the enamel primer by one of those guys thats been there done that....well I shouldnt have listened. I didnt find much of anything on removing enamel primer from plastic so i figured id suffer slowly as I tried to dry sand this crap off.
Then finally I was like well i wanna see what it will do if I wetsand this garbage. unlike I was told not only was it easier I had most of it off minus the lows in 20 minutes
so now, im still looking to see if I can just put the flexible bumper filler over the low or if I have to sand into the lows... then start again.
anyways pic
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Well alittle progress and alot of knowledge gained.
So what I have read
Enamel primer doesnt always agree with other brand enamel primer(ie rustoleum ontop of krylon)
Primer filler doesnt appear to like wetsanding(rustoleum brand)
Krylon enamel primer loves the wet sand and not dry.
3M flexible bumper filler in a tube works great, and sands pretty good within 30minutes after application.
Here are some pics I have alot of work to do so i mapped off some of it thus why tape and primer is not on the whole area.
I am using a rustoleum primer filler as I am going to rustoleum paint the bumper and eventually my whole car.
Ill make a seperate thread on the paint process. anyways here are some pictures this is super slow going but I am learning alot and learning how to actually do plastic body work(metal is so much easier)
first pic is mapped off area for bumper filler and applied
second picture is showing a light sand to the filler, left is almost full and smooth middle is needing more and right has none
third picture is primer going on
forth is a defeated picture showing how after 30 minutes its no wanting to get wetsanded. I misread the can it takes 2-4 hours for sanding, I thought 20-40 minutes(dont know what happened there lol) Anyways sanding after half an hour dry time has gummed up real bad my paper. so I am gonna give it some more time hopefully trying to wetsand that early wont ruin the coat(not sure how it would ruin but we will see)
anyways Im thinking of compiling a info thread of step by step and dos and donts as there isnt alot especially regarding the rustoleum paintjob in the way of prep and body work prior to the actual paint going on.
So what I have read
Enamel primer doesnt always agree with other brand enamel primer(ie rustoleum ontop of krylon)
Primer filler doesnt appear to like wetsanding(rustoleum brand)
Krylon enamel primer loves the wet sand and not dry.
3M flexible bumper filler in a tube works great, and sands pretty good within 30minutes after application.
Here are some pics I have alot of work to do so i mapped off some of it thus why tape and primer is not on the whole area.
I am using a rustoleum primer filler as I am going to rustoleum paint the bumper and eventually my whole car.
Ill make a seperate thread on the paint process. anyways here are some pictures this is super slow going but I am learning alot and learning how to actually do plastic body work(metal is so much easier)
first pic is mapped off area for bumper filler and applied
second picture is showing a light sand to the filler, left is almost full and smooth middle is needing more and right has none
third picture is primer going on
forth is a defeated picture showing how after 30 minutes its no wanting to get wetsanded. I misread the can it takes 2-4 hours for sanding, I thought 20-40 minutes(dont know what happened there lol) Anyways sanding after half an hour dry time has gummed up real bad my paper. so I am gonna give it some more time hopefully trying to wetsand that early wont ruin the coat(not sure how it would ruin but we will see)
anyways Im thinking of compiling a info thread of step by step and dos and donts as there isnt alot especially regarding the rustoleum paintjob in the way of prep and body work prior to the actual paint going on.
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man this is why i never got into body work, to time consuming and a lot to learn. Unfortunatley i feel i will be learning some with my new t/a i bought. It was in an accident ( that i had no idea about) and now i'm finding it was put together crapilly and painted then probably sold while it still looked good. I knew it needed paint but with all the extra im going to have to do it myself now.
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man this is why i never got into body work, to time consuming and a lot to learn. Unfortunatley i feel i will be learning some with my new t/a i bought. It was in an accident ( that i had no idea about) and now i'm finding it was put together crapilly and painted then probably sold while it still looked good. I knew it needed paint but with all the extra im going to have to do it myself now.
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It got put on hold as im getting divorced. I have the driver side about done. Im gonna try and finish it over this long weekend. Ill have a solid update monday.
I also bought a 4.8, ideally ill build it and get it running and this bumper will give me a great way to move some air through the intercooler.
I also bought a 4.8, ideally ill build it and get it running and this bumper will give me a great way to move some air through the intercooler.