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J4MEZ · Joined: 14 May 2012 Posts: 5

Anyway I promised I'd show you the work I'd done to it.

Started off like this.

Had a front end hit that pushed the lights and bumper out of alignment also the vent was broken and the wrong colour. Damn they hard to find replacements too

Passenger side door handel was broken too. $19 fron the states ya.......... $49 postage doh!!!

And inside

Already decided the colour was going to be red an black

But needed to sort the tin worm out first.

And

It also looked like some one at some stage had had a slight disagreement with the door I don't no who come off better but the door had seen better days.

I think it's a good idea to point out at this stage I have never attempted anything like this before and had only prevouisely read in a book what to do and literally though..... I'll give that a go.

Any way the rest of the photos are just the car being rubbed down. I did brake the back bumper bracket and while it would have been alot easier to drill out the bolt and buy a new one something inside of me thought it would be a food idea to smooth the back end. (what a plonka)

Finally got it all primed up

Bought the paint a spray gun mask and compressor I'd like to say there were alot of people out there that gave me a hard time over this telling me the primmer wasn't right for the base coat the compressor wasn't man enough blar blar blar

It was more then enough and I don't expect it to be perfect FFS I'm doing it my garage not a dust free spray booth der!!!

Anyway the compressor was only a 2hp 40 lt job and handled it.

My gun

So I went to work on the base coat

Before

After

Finished that after a few days. Yeah alright I'm slow so what!!! It was time to trile fit bits

Stripped the parts back off ready for it's top coat

Put all the bits back on it

Made a go faster strip out of some masking tape

Broke out the wet and dry and cutting compound

Spent about three days so far rubbing it down and removing runs and orange peel lol

And the result

Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22438 Location: UK

Very smart indeed, rarely see any 240z/260z around here, although occasionally one does appear in a local driveway. Good stuff!

RJ
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