Time for a shave.

I spent the last week or so working on installing my door poppers.. like 1 hour a night, haha, not much free time. Finally got them all working today, so it was time to get to work.

just a solenoid, no big.


Chopped up my old door for fillers:

ew



then the hardest part.. grinding into the old paint


a few tacks... gettin the settings dialed in and stuff (never used this welder for more than a few practice beads yet)


tacks on the front.. I think I got the technique pretty much down, hoorah!


That's as far as I got tonight.. both passenger doors have a good number of tacks, and the reflection in the paint doesn't look like it's warped yet, so fingers crossed!

Looking good so far.

That is ballsy. I could never do that.

No warping from the welding, but your patch that you cut out looks very un-even.

here's more progress. Warped the front passenger door.. oops, but I learned my lesson and the rest went smoother.






spray bombed for the weekend, until my All Metal body filler gets here

Looking good man.

When seeing the word shave I thought we would see some pics of you shaving in the mirror or something. BTW, I just started shaving with a double edge safety razor!

Nice progress man.

SickWitIt wrote:

Nice progress man.

I agree.
Keep us updated.

Alright.. got antsy today and wanted to do work.. but no filler yet and didn't feel like starting sanding the rest of the car, so I pulled off the side moldings.

The plan was just to pull them off to do the paint right.. but should I just weld the holes shut and smooth it out and leave em off?? I'm kind of diggin the idea.





Then I got this wild hair... how would Aurora mirrors look if I close up the spots for the stock mirrors?


I need opinions, so that way I don't go do something stupid, lol.

Usually I would say remove those moldings,but on your car it looks like they flow nicely with those lines on the side of your front and rear bumpers. As for the Aurora mirrors,I'm not digging the look on your car,I would just keep your mirrors on there.

dont put those mirrors on there HORRIBLE

Haha, that's unanimous for the mirrors so far. Alright alright, stock it is.. just bought a new stocker anyways.

I think I'm gonna shave the moulding holes just incase.. if I don't like it, double sided tape will always work just fine (that's what they were held on with stock anyways.. the holes were for alignment.

Ehhh

Got the trim holes shaved on one side today, and started slinging some All Metal body filler that came in the mail today. Using that stuff to do the majority of the filling/ building shape... then gonna bust out the Rage Gold regular filler and board-plain to make sure everything is wave free (fingers crossed). All Metal's a SOB to sand though..! Regardless.. the goal is to get the driver's side bodywork all finished tomorrow.

there used to be holes here



Dustyy


Not so great at slinging it perfectly


Sanded the handles.. but not the bottom yet.

Awesome progress. Keep this log going.

Defe. interested to see the outcome.

I hate when people write on my windows -.-

Nice work, cant wait to see it finished. I need to shave mine too

Leave the mirrors how they are... Good work so far

Ahh, didn't get much sanding done today.. just knocked down the rest of the All Metal, no feathering. Got the passenger side welded up though.

Also..
Would this much flake be tacky??

Everything else is already over the top so I dunno...

Any flakes = tacky

^Meeehhh, it could keep it modest, I think it look's alright.

Car above though looks like a Ranger bassboat.

Please tell me you are going to fix the big dents in your pass door?

Lookin good dude.

kornholio788 wrote:

Please tell me you are going to fix the big dents in your pass door? Lookin good dude.

Lol yess, all dents are being taken care of.

Say NO to Flake ... Pearlescent or color change flip/flop FTW

takes alot of nuts to dive into a project like this, looks very good so far.

bad venge wrote:

Say NO to Flake ... Pearlescent or color change flip/flop FTW

No Flake and yes to flip flop? Are you kidding me? You must be one of those homos that wears mandals too...

Microflake is SICK

pOrk wrote:

bad venge wrote: Say NO to Flake ... Pearlescent or color change flip/flop FTW No Flake and yes to flip flop? Are you kidding me? You must be one of those homos that wears mandals too... Microflake is SICK

LMFAO @ "mandals"

I thought that bike was gaudy and not very 'clean'

I also say no to flake... takes away from the clean look and just makes a GOOD paint good look worse...

My M3s have like a small amount of pearl? In the paint gives it a nice pop in the sun

It's getting there!!!



And my sweet haul from the junkyard today!



All new woodgrain

You need to update your HU

The Ipod cassette connect CANT be getting you any poon! haha

Need $500 for an Alpine in-dash w/ blackbird GPS navi dock

The bondo'd up outside isn't helping matters of poon either lol.

Brah bandanna

i'm gonna wait till its done to judge.

You should ditch the wood grain and get more of those hot blue pieces in there

ya id say turn that wood grain into blue. that looks like a lot of bondo.... i hope not

I hope its not actually 'Bondo' brand. That stuff SUCKS. Go to a paint shop, get something else. I cant think of what I use off the top of my head, but its in my shop. Sands A LOT better and last longer.

It's All Metal base with a Rage Gold glaze.

All Metal's basically like filling it with lead, so it's not ***** regular body filler. Even stronger than Durglass even.

updates? yes yes?

Yesss! Spent like 4 hours today and almost finished blocking out the whole passenger side. Had to split though and didn't get pics. I'll try to throw some up tomorrow.

Here ya go dawgggg. I need more free time to finish

Nice progress Sir.

Looks good, hurry up and finish! i wanna see it when its done