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Old Mar 29, 2011 | 10:20 AM
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Originally Posted by SSHAWK
lol No WS6 formula.. I wish..

I want a hard top Formula really bad.

Like skeeter99 said just call him and tell him Josh and Sean Sent you. lol
Guess my spelling is a lil off lol
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Old Mar 29, 2011 | 10:24 AM
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Originally Posted by skeeter99
Guess my spelling is a lil off lol
It's ok lol
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Old Mar 29, 2011 | 08:14 PM
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Thanks......To the ******* that put bondo on my bumper... I spent 2 hours sanding half my ******* bumper..grrr


I used the DA for this...Made it go by pretty quick but still takes some time to do.

Anyone have any trick of the trade to get that **** off easy let me know .lol


Sorry no pictures... I didn't feel like taking a picture of a halfway done rear bumper.
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Old Mar 29, 2011 | 08:49 PM
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cant use bondo on a plastic bumper it wil fall right off its either a putty glaze or plastic repair glaze, sand the bumper with 320 dry nothing less it will make too big scrathes then primer the "putty' spot and wet sand the entire bumper including primer with 600 wet sand paper ready for paint. also to prepare your entire car for paint especialy if your goign black again all youd really have to do is wet snd the entire car with 600 and 400 for those bad scrathes.. just take off clear and first layer of black.
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Old Mar 29, 2011 | 09:34 PM
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I saw the bubbles in the paint in the back....Which is one of the reasons I wanted to repaint my car it looked so bad.

I have the same problem with my front bumper it was red and painted black. I just think the reason its flaking off is...it was a cheap maco paint job... I didn't get it painted there the first owner did.


As for my passenger door it was white before.....You can see if coming out on the edges.

What you talked about doing sanding down and painting over it is what they did.

I want to do this right.. I'm going to sand the car down and get it to metal and fiberglass. And start new.



Thank you for the help..
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Old Mar 29, 2011 | 10:40 PM
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I cant wait til I have the time, money and place to do this **** again.
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Old Mar 29, 2011 | 11:08 PM
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Originally Posted by gringo dfw
I cant wait til I have the time, money and place to do this **** again.
You can come by and help so you can see..... what all fun your missing. lol
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Old Mar 30, 2011 | 12:03 AM
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oh man i redid a e30 bmw that had to be painted 574328965432 times i swear! lol It took DAYS of sanding before I could lay some paint. Once my car is fixed and i got time Ill head out and help.
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Old Mar 30, 2011 | 12:57 AM
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Sean, I'm glad you're getting all the practice you need on your car.. I'll let you know when I'm ready to paint mine so I can have you sand my car... LOL
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Originally Posted by SSHAWK
Hell yeah it's lighter lol
Race car
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Old Mar 30, 2011 | 08:29 AM
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Originally Posted by jgarza54
Sean, I'm glad you're getting all the practice you need on your car.. I'll let you know when I'm ready to paint mine so I can have you sand my car... LOL
No problem... It's pretty fun.

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Race car
Race car pffff No… that’s Joel’s "jgarza54" gutted out car …..mine has full interior


I still have my TA wing I can put on anytime. I'm sanding that down to paint also.
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Old Mar 30, 2011 | 11:41 AM
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Originally Posted by SSHAWK
No problem... It's pretty fun.



Race car pffff No… that’s Joel’s "jgarza54" gutted out car …..mine has full interior


I still have my TA wing I can put on anytime. I'm sanding that down to paint also.
Someone say gutted car? lol
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Originally Posted by skeeter99
Someone say gutted car? lol
No ****... Even Sam said this isn't a street car this is a race car lol
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Old Apr 10, 2011 | 11:40 AM
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Updated pictures..

Going to do some repair to the rip on the bottom right of the LP area.

So far I have spent about 6 hours sanding this bumper

nding little things out about the car I didn't know.

Damn bondo top right of the bumper

Sanded down the red bumper ...

Only took 2 days of my time going to the shop to do this.

Got half way done and time to leave for the night.

Getting all the bumps off.

I will need to detail the car after Im done lol inside has a lot of dust.

Getting all the bumps out of the side.. I think someone back up into a poll and had a shitty repair job done.

Time to start wet sanding this one.

More bondo on the car ... The people that did the this most have really liked it.. Taking it all off to see how bad it was.

Completed the sanding on this..

Side skirting sanded down.

Both fenders sanded down.

Sanded down back quarter panel

Finished the Spolier. Damn that took along time.

Getting it ready for paint.

Off with the doors. sorry bad picture


Better shot of the doors. Also getting to door jams painted.


I have the car tapped and ready for primer.

Thanks to Josh "skeeter99" for helping me take the car apart.
And Joel"jgarza54" for helping me tape up the car.

And Luckymex_dallas.... I found out yesterday your cousins the one painting my car lol
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Old Apr 10, 2011 | 11:50 AM
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Originally Posted by SSHAWK
Updated pictures..

Going to do some repair to the rip on the bottom right of the LP area.

So far I have spent about 6 hours sanding this bumper

nding little things out about the car I didn't know.

Damn bondo top right of the bumper

Sanded down the red bumper ...

Only took 2 days of my time going to the shop to do this.

Got half way done and time to leave for the night.

Getting all the bumps off.

I will need to detail the car after Im done lol inside has a lot of dust.

Getting all the bumps out of the side.. I think someone back up into a poll and had a shitty repair job done.

Time to start wet sanding this one.

More bondo on the car ... The people that did the this most have really liked it.. Taking it all off to see how bad it was.

Completed the sanding on this..

Side skirting sanded down.

Both fenders sanded down.

Sanded down back quarter panel

Finished the Spolier. Damn that took along time.

Getting it ready for paint.

Off with the doors. sorry bad picture


Better shot of the doors. Also getting to door jams painted.


I have the car tapped and ready for primer.

Thanks to Josh "skeeter99" for helping me take the car apart.
And Joel"jgarza54" for helping me tape up the car.

And Luckymex_dallas.... I found out yesterday your cousins the one painting my car lol

Holy **** its a small word i guess that means we better watch out for luckys car to if he is anything like marty lmao them damn old school street racers. Its going to be fun as hell working there full time now im sure ill learn a few tricks especially dealing with "turbos" So hmmmm who knows what the next mod may be!

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Old Apr 10, 2011 | 12:23 PM
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Damn it I wanted to come help you out Friday night but my wife and her friends had plans to take me out for my 30th bday sorry sshawk
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Originally Posted by SSHAWK
I have the car tapped and ready for primer.

Thanks to Josh "skeeter99" for helping me take the car apart.
And Joel"jgarza54" for helping me sand and tape up the car.

And Luckymex_dallas.... I found out yesterday your cousins the one painting my car lol
FIXED... lol
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Old Apr 10, 2011 | 03:54 PM
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Hey SSHawk, any way i could talk to your buddy with the paint shop? I live in mesquite, and I got my '81camaro torn down and ready for paint. I was thinking about doing the prep (and the painting) myself, but ive never tackled anything like this. Thanks man.
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Old Apr 10, 2011 | 05:24 PM
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Looks great Sean - keep up the hard work, it'll look badass when it's done
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Old Apr 10, 2011 | 07:31 PM
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Originally Posted by skeeter99
Holy **** its a small word i guess that means we better watch out for luckys car to if he is anything like marty lmao them damn old school street racers. Its going to be fun as hell working there full time now im sure ill learn a few tricks especially dealing with "turbos" So hmmmm who knows what the next mod may be!
LOL yeah Joel found out talking to Marty that Lucky was his cousin lol

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Damn it I wanted to come help you out Friday night but my wife and her friends had plans to take me out for my 30th bday sorry sshawk
No problem its all good. I will be there all next week so if you want to come by you can.

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FIXED... lol
lol Yup

Originally Posted by jb451
Hey SSHawk, any way i could talk to your buddy with the paint shop? I live in mesquite, and I got my '81camaro torn down and ready for paint. I was thinking about doing the prep (and the painting) myself, but ive never tackled anything like this. Thanks man.
Yeah I can ask him .. Are you wanting to do everything yourself or have him paint it?

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Looks great Sean - keep up the hard work, it'll look badass when it's done
Thanks I can't wait for it to be done.
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