Archive for April, 2009
23
Apr
09
Car Park Car Show
I headed over to a local bike meet (check out my post on RSM for more info) this week and met up with my mate Topi. Topi rolls a bad-ass 86 daily drifter. Seriously, this thing gets DOWN.
Another guy Jack knows randomly was in the same car park as us. This was good news as he drives a sweet E36 M3 slammed over some BBS splitties.
I have some awesome pics of the evenings industrial estate terrorism….. but, I probably shouldn’t post them here Ha Ha. All you need to know is: Corollas rule, Topi can pedal one like a hero and out of town industrial developments are our playground.
I headed over to my Friend’s Rog and Rach’s last night to play cameras. Rach is selling her Sport Wagon, so we took a drive out to get some pics for an advert. I was shooting out of the back of a BMW 530D which has a spilt rear tailgate, making it ideal for these sort of tracking shots!
Panning shot:
It was a really good night and has got me excited about doing more photography and shooting cars again ! Expect to see lots more pics taken with me hanging out of the back of a 530!
19
Apr
09
Project Roadster: Rear Alignment
The rears have been rubbing a bit, so I thought I would dial in some more camber and hit the arches with a big hammer.
Settings:
Toe: 0 degrees
Camber -3 Degrees + however much is added by the lowness so, probably around- 4-5 degrees?
Spotted this awesome SR20 powered NA over on Roadster Drift!
Wheels are Centerline knock-offs called Pacers in 15×8.5 et -7! They have been re-drilled to 4×100.
Check out the build thread HERE.
The sun shone today, so when the world had warmed up at lunch time I laid the first couple of coats down.
Mixing:
Started off with my Binks gravity fed gun; Just couldn’t get it to work right and give me any sort of fan.
Swapped over to the gun that came with the compressor and BAM: Awesome spray!
Put about a litre down so far which has covered all the primer and for the most part given a good finish.
When it goes off I’m going to wet sant out a couple of imperfections and then hopefully, Friday, shoot a final couple of coats.
Well Thursday spray-day never happened as when it wasn’t lashing with rain, it was 100% humidity. Not good. I have spent the last couple of days prepping and painting the trims and rad; all the little nitty bits. As it stands now the weather is set to be good all weekend so I masked her up ready to rock as soon as the sun shines:
Hopefully tomorrow is the day!
While noone was looking I threw my TRD harnesses in the washing machine; I think they came out pretty sweet!!
15
Apr
09
Project KP30: Media Motivation
The new Retro Cars mag came out last week with a show report from Race Retro. I was stoked to find a big pic of the KP in there with the promise of a full feature soon! Best get painting!
So, when I said the fuel filler was the worst bit, I was wrong: The front wings and the bonnet edge are the worst bits!:
The wings are not the original ones off this car; the original wings were used to restore anotherKP30 hence, the rest of the body is un-welded and immaculate and the wings are a bit well, rough round the edges!
As I hate body filler and don’t have the kit for lead loading, I used the trusty MIG and added new metal as required.
Here is the wing:
With al the pin holes plugged, I gave them a skim of filler, a flat, more flatting, knifing stopper, more flatting, more flatting and then primer.
The rest of the car is solid as a rock so no issues to deal with other than dent/ mark removal. The drivers door being the worst, having a bit of crease in it from someone opening their door against it! A little panel beating and some plop later and it’s silky smooth.
So that has been my life for 8+ hours a day for the last 6 days and this is how the car looks now:
It just needs masking and then spraying! Fingers crossed the big spray-day will be tomorrow (though the weather is looking like it has other ideas!!). Optimistically I have put up my spray booth:
Of course, when I say spray booth I mean “a load of tarps tied to my car port” but it does the job and keeps at least some of the paint off the neighbours cars!
I have also prepped the splitter so it can be painted at the same time:
And made a start of refurbing the light surrounds and trims:
Still aiming for the end of the month to have her on the road. Alls that is left to do tonight is watch the weather!
OK, so I was bored waiting for some paint to dry; Fablon attack!!
