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So its been a long ass time, sorry to the fans of this post but a combination of a busy life and not enough time in a 24hr day ended in me not working on this car for a while. It sat outside for what like 3 months now> maybe longer. But wait theres progress!!!!! I worked on it today heres some pics of the acomplished work:





Pretty much all primed, that happened 3 months ago so i could kick it outside so they would have room in the shop while i was on vacation... needless to say since it was out of sight once i came back it was also out of mind lol.

Only damage remaining is this quarter:


As you can see a little rust from sitting, no biggy, some water got under the plastic.

What i mainly did today is slap the whole interior back in, like 98.99 % check it out.... remember this?



It has now become this:



and this:



All thats left is the sill peice and the door trim, i will be painting the inner jams very soon, so i can fully assemble the interior. Also have to finish the quarter since thats all that lefte between me and this car.

Mainly been me procrastinating (dunno about spelling on that one) getting it done as i always do with everything in life. Unless i'm getting paid to do something i tend to start things and not finish them. Lack of motivation when theres no dough involved!!!!

Also would like to point out, the glass is NOT glued in. Because the flange still needs to be painted.

 

lookin good im going back to college for bodywork as soon asi can

 

Looking good. I have been wondering what happened to this project.
Dennis

 

I happened to it lol.

So i've been comming in stupid early and staying stupid late a lot lately. Also worked last saturday and sunday and all day today on the car. I managed to fix the quarter, check it out!





It came out very well after i clamed down and took my time with it. I was freaking out a little when i first tackled it because it was near the end of the day and it just wasnt working for me.

I'm now in the process of prepping it out for paint. the whole car is sanded down in 500 grit (will finish in 800) and just needs some spot priming. Everything has come off, decided to paint the whole thing, bumpers and all. Finished fixing the rear bumper it had some minor damage.




I had to fix that quarter because i managed to damage it while moving the car sideways on a jack, put a slight dent in it ><



how you like that masking paper eh? i dont really care what it looks like as long as it works. Plus it was a bargain. :P

So i'll be shooting some primer on it tomorrow morn (sat) and i think i'll finish sanding everything on sunday. Hopefully can get it painted sometime this comming week!

I know its been a long time comming but i'm finally seeing the light at the end of the tunel!

 

coming out awesome bro..wut u think u shud b done?

 

I'm thinking 2 weeks but that might be slightly hopeful, maybe more like 3 weeks. It needs to go for a structural, wheel alignment and government inspection once its all done. then the final detail and i'll be insuring it.

 

f' painting it, just pull it tight, slap on a little adhesive and clearcoat the darth vader masking paper on there

 

lol yea now theres a kick ass idea. But what do you think of maybe just doing the hood and the trunk? i think it would be pretty sick. :P

 

Holy **** dude you are good at that stuff +rep for fixing the passenger rear looking good and better then it did a while ago

 

HE WRAPPED MY PRESENT IN STAR WARS PAPER! WOOT



lol. looking good tho dude, you've come a looong way. you've resurrected the Cobalt!

 

You should see the peter pan paper or the maple leaf paper. :P its pretty hawt. lol

 

Nice man looks great. Its funny, the other day i was just wondering what happened to this project then i see this. I cant wait to see the final project. How many hours do u think u have into this project?

later

 

looking great, what a turn around. Keep up the good work

 

So far id say maybe 100ish. by the time i'm done 120 ish. I'm going in tomorrow to paint the inner door jam, inner door and trunk gutter . I did my spot priming this morn so it would be fully dry when i tackle it tomorrow. This will be 2 weeks in a row with no time off after this sunday. I guess 3 weeks without a day off by the time its over lol. We're swamped at the shop its slightly ridiculous yet i'm still finding myself working on my car 2-4 hours a day. Tomorrow i'm not leaving until the inners are orange. ;-)

 

Shave the nub on the gas door cap... and make it pop... come on.... please...


later

 

This would be possible , somewhat easily by raping the system hondas use, get a honda gas cap and the release cable and handle and start retrofitting. Hardly worth the effort IMO. Specially here, i've never had anyone try to syphon my gas. You could also make your trunk pop with the same handle on the floor because the way they have it set up is with one cable going to both places, one the the trunk latch and the other to the gas door.

Stuff like that is better left to the dealer to figure out. Its like making a convertible, theres just too much engeneering involved.

 

goodluck! lookin better all the time now!

 

So its Sunday... went in to work today at 9 to see if i could sand and paint the inners and i did! check it out:

Heres a couple pics of it ready to go:




Then the next thing to do is mixing the base coat:

As you can see looking at the mixing cup theres several different colors at the bottom. Using the computer, when you punch in the color code you get information on which toners and how much of each you need in grams to mix the color. Add some reducer and once you mix it all up you get this:

The darker areas in the cup are the metalics floating around reflecting light in different ways. When you put the paint in the gun it atomizes it and helps to align the metalics so the color looks right.

Ok here we go...
Spray gun...check
Mask... check
Air line... check!!!


So i started spraying and realized that the color covers very very badly:




(pictures courtesy of my better half)
After 5-6 coats of base, maybe 7, i finally got coverage JUST as i ran out of paint, on the last stroke.

I then sprayed the clear coat and this is what it looks like now finished:




Shiny eh?

So there you go folks! Tomorrow morning i will be putting the trunk and the door back on and will begin final prep to paint the outside of the car. I hope i can get that done this coming week. So close yet so far away!!!!

 

nice looking good

 

While it's down shave everything antenna,door handles,keyholes,ect...but lookin' good

 

WOW! excellent job! Glad to hear your mess has become a whole car again :-)

 

My mess? It never was a mess, just a Diamond in the rough all along. :P

 

Its getting painted this week end ;-) Its all masked up ready to go in the paint booth!!! ;-)

 

Sweet... post pixs asap...

later

 

awesome!