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#101 _j.e.d._

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Posted 15 November 2011 - 02:47 PM

That's good to know.. You would do the same to the underside of the car as well with this stuff?

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Posted 16 November 2011 - 06:11 AM

That's good to know.. You would do the same to the underside of the car as well with this stuff?


I probably wouldn't worry about the layer or stone guard, just the sound deadener followed by a couple coats of black paint under the car....

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Posted 04 December 2011 - 05:34 PM

Been a while since my last update sorry...

A few bits an pieces are all finished
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Underneath the bonnet all done

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Boot and the front spoiler in the background

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Under the rear bobtail spoiler

Thought we should do a dry fit of the flares and spoilers

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Lucky we did, the rear flares need some adjusting...

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Posted 06 December 2011 - 06:10 AM

Spray Day is here...

Spraying the first few coats in a friends shed... It's a lined shed with a three phase extraction fan on one side with filtered air coming from the other....

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Here it is all ready for top coats.... The rest of the shed is screened off with silver reflective tarps with portable lights all around...

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Yellow, yellow everywhere.......

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Here's the bobtail spoilers.... It was real hard getting it right... As it's an original plastic unit, it had a few waves along the back from the heat (I guess???) All straight now....

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In the next few days it will be rubbed back with 800 grit wet and dry to get rid of that orange peel effect, then it will be followed by a flo-coat.... A flo-coat is one to two heavy coats to give it that glass appearance.... Hopefully :blink2:

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Four coats later, the Boot lid and vent panel turned out spot on first time around.... may even leave them :dontknow:

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Posted 06 December 2011 - 06:39 AM

very nice napes, it's very yellow, bet ya can wait to get it back together now, gonna be a head turner

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Posted 06 December 2011 - 06:00 PM

Love the colour, well done.

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Posted 06 December 2011 - 06:21 PM

Banana Torana ?

#108 _napes_au_

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Posted 06 December 2011 - 07:12 PM

Definitely Banana.... :iagree:

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Posted 07 December 2011 - 09:22 AM

Mate I love this build thread you are doing an amazing job and its a credit to you. I have a question about the fan on the shed. Was it good enough to use to suck the dust and fumes out of the shed?. I am in the process of building a dust room / spray booth at home and I'm about to sort the ventilation out and what you guys used seems to be a simple design which is what I am looking for.
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Posted 07 December 2011 - 09:38 AM

Mate I love this build thread you are doing an amazing job and its a credit to you. I have a question about the fan on the shed. Was it good enough to use to suck the dust and fumes out of the shed?. I am in the process of building a dust room / spray booth at home and I'm about to sort the ventilation out and what you guys used seems to be a simple design which is what I am looking for.
Here's mine:
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Cheers
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G'day Ruts,

It worked a treat mate. Without it going, the air turned yellow and it would linger around for twenty plus minutes, with it going it kept clear... Before we started, we stood in the centre and sprayed some colour and it made it up there pretty quick...

Another thing worth mentioning, I wet everything I was concerned about including the floor just before painting with soapy water. I just used a nap-sack and it seemed to do the trick of keeping any dust I missed stuck down

It's going to be a good set-up once you're finished...

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Posted 07 December 2011 - 09:59 AM

It's going to be a good car once you're finished. Thanks for the quick reply.

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Posted 07 December 2011 - 11:15 AM

Looks good Napes, you going to wet cut it afterwards?

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Posted 07 December 2011 - 11:35 AM

Depending how it looks after the flo-coat, I'll probably give it a rub with 2000 wet and dry followed by a buff.... Wait see how it looks I guess...

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Posted 17 December 2011 - 07:15 AM

A couple days after the top coats, it was rubbed back yet again with 800 grit wet and dry... It was later had a flo-coat applied

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Once the yellow was nice and hard, it was time to tape up for the black stripes etc...

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Taping up the door frames was a work of art itself.... :banghead:

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On she goes...

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After one coat...

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Unveiling the Beast... I should of left this part to Christmas morning...

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After a Sh!t load of blocking and rubbing, it's nice and straight...

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Still looks a bit bare...

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I love the way two pack looks straight off the gun....

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Next comes the fun job of fitting the interior....

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In a few weeks, it will be rubbed with 2000 grit Wet and dry and buffed....

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Well I'm off to work on the dash....

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Posted 18 December 2011 - 12:20 AM

Its looking bloody good John. Not long now until she is back to her former glory :spoton:

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Posted 18 December 2011 - 07:44 AM

Looks great, not a easy job masking off those stripes, well done.

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Posted 18 December 2011 - 03:14 PM

Looks good what wheels you using John

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Posted 18 December 2011 - 05:51 PM

Will it be ready for our run in March???

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Posted 18 December 2011 - 07:50 PM

Love the result of your work. Won't miss it on the street with that colour!!

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Posted 18 December 2011 - 07:54 PM

Bloody fantastic John. I love the LH SL/R paint scheme.

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Posted 18 December 2011 - 09:48 PM

The wheels on it look sweet !!!!!

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Posted 19 December 2011 - 08:13 AM

Will it be ready for our run in March???

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No worries Barry, all the mechanical is completed... Just gotta fit the flares, bumpers, interior (which is ready from Eastern Upholstery), wheels, glass... Still sound a lot, but I've organise a bit of a working bee between Christmas and New Year...

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Posted 19 December 2011 - 08:29 AM

The wheels on it look sweet !!!!!


They even look worse when the Flares are bolted on....

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Posted 19 December 2011 - 08:34 AM

Looks good what wheels you using John


G'day Wayne,

I'm putting Hotwires all round, 8x14's to the front and 10x14's to the rear..... I had them polished recently and they've come up like mirrors :spoton: But now comes the fun job of taping them up and repainting the black.... :banghead:

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Posted 19 December 2011 - 08:37 AM

Love the result of your work. Won't miss it on the street with that colour!!

Bloody fantastic John. I love the LH SL/R paint scheme.

Its looking bloody good John. Not long now until she is back to her former glory :spoton:

Looks great, not a easy job masking off those stripes, well done.


Thanks for the positive feedback... It's been way more work than I would of ever realised (Love every second though) but now I'm just getting eager to drive it...

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