mikeb75's build thread

[mikeb75]

Don't try to load like that with the body on otherwise you'll be buying a new bumper most likely!

Agreed! Wouldn't consider it if the body was on. Speaking of the body, after doing a bunch of repair, sanding, cleaning, sanding and cleaning I put on my first coating last night to see how it would work out. I'll just throw this teaser out there:


There's some overspray and edges that need to be addressed; I screwed up an area (on the underside) where the cord of the sprayer hit the still wet surface, but I'm pretty happy with how it's looking. This is 6 coats of matte black plasti-dip. I bought a gallon of un-thinned material and diluted it with 1 gallon of Xylene. Other than the buzz (even using a paint/organic solvent filter mask) it seems to be going on well and sprays properly.

The cost for the material (paint/thinner) is less than $100; and I should have enough to do the entire car (hopefully, forgot to include the hard-top in my estimation).

Tune is scheduled for this afternoon. Don't know about the alignment numbers, a bunch of the hardware had loosened after the test drive(s-ha!), and I forgot to re-torque, so the guys at the shop aborted the alignment after verifying it was 'close'; since they didn't want to waste my money going around re-torqueing all the suspension bolts. I'll be taking the car back after the body is fitted for corner-weighting and final alignment anyway, so no biggie.

[Flamshackle]

Agreed! Wouldn't consider it if the body was on. Speaking of the body, after doing a bunch of repair, sanding, cleaning, sanding and cleaning I put on my first coating last night to see how it would work out. I'll just throw this teaser out there:


There's some overspray and edges that need to be addressed; I screwed up an area (on the underside) where the cord of the sprayer hit the still wet surface, but I'm pretty happy with how it's looking. This is 6 coats of matte black plasti-dip. I bought a gallon of un-thinned material and diluted it with 1 gallon of Xylene. Other than the buzz (even using a paint/organic solvent filter mask) it seems to be going on well and sprays properly.

The cost for the material (paint/thinner) is less than $100; and I should have enough to do the entire car (hopefully, forgot to include the hard-top in my estimation).

Tune is scheduled for this afternoon. Don't know about the alignment numbers, a bunch of the hardware had loosened after the test drive(s-ha!), and I forgot to re-torque, so the guys at the shop aborted the alignment after verifying it was 'close'; since they didn't want to waste my money going around re-torqueing all the suspension bolts. I'll be taking the car back after the body is fitted for corner-weighting and final alignment anyway, so no biggie.

My race car is matt black plasti dip. Great product.

Cant wait to see all the pics of this.