ttt more progress pics please

 

the hammered is a nice touch and i like the carbon fiber plates. gonna be a real clean ride when its all done.

 

Lookin' good Dope.

 

hell yeah man. its lookin bad ***. keep up the good work

 

I like that Hammertone, but all I've ever seen it in is rattle cans.

Nice job, I might steal the wire loom idea and replace my factory plastic crap with it.

 

That hammertone paint looks good, let us know how it holds up.

 

Ok now that I cleaned my self up. lol

One thing I know about Carlos is that He pay a Really close attention to detail. He also has Good Taste. Loves his car and takes Pride.


Theres nothing better that putting in all the work your self.


Bad *** Carlos. your Work is coming out Awesome. Keep it up. Cant wait till you get it back on the Street.

There I go again. lol

 

You can find it in quarts at Walmart and I think Home Depot. You thin it with a tiny bit of Xylene/Xylol and spray it. I'm using a little cheap $40 gun I had bought at Harbor Freight.

 

Looking good! Rustoleum and 3M must truly appreciate you as a customer.

X2. I want to do this to my car as well one of these days. Just the other day I was test spraying a piece with black hammertone to see how it looks against Pewter.

 

Looks sick bro. The magazine pics just didnt do it justice. kudos to you man, can't wait to see more.

 

nice rebuild its comin along good keep up the nice work

 

Great work, can't wait to see finished pics

 

You sir have a sickness !!! I love it

 

 

Did you smooth in those holes with bondo or did you weld them in and grind them first??

 

I'm in.

 

My welding skills suck *****. I bought a little welder from harbor freight and got owned. I turned a 1/4" hole to about 3 times that . I did a couple with the welder, grinded them down and finished with a little filler. Most of the other really small holes I filled in with a two part epoxy called Qbond and finished up also with a little filler.

 

So you could just do them all with qbond? Nothing else needed?

 

Hasn't been much progress. Car is sitting at my buddys house while I waited for a few other parts to come. I just picked up my circle d multi disk for the 4L80 and a new flex plate. I think I have everything now to start the reassembly other than the dipstick for the trans. Probably start putting it back together next week.

 

I'm sure the professional way to do it would be to weld and grind and touch up with filler. I just couldn't figure out how to weld and my buddy who could never showed up. I just used duct tape under the hole to keep the qbond from falling through. Then I used a pencil to push through the holes and create a little pocket/separation around the hole so the qbond would have enough area to grab to.