I agree man not trying to hate...I would have done ghost ss emblems if anything or went without all together...

 

paint looks really nice!

 

hey i love the car i've heard alot about your car from matt mgoon up at trifecta tuning.. i love your rims

 

oh those nice pics and a bird comes and ***** on your car

 

change your filter... if you got a tune, get one of the k and n maxflow filters... youll see a completely different attitude on the car, cause instead of the chrome piece... you have another filter element... so air goes directly straight up the pipe.

 

I like the finished product!...but i also dislike your tail lights.. sorry man.

 

bump from the grave.
any pic updates?
i agree with hatrickstu.
you should also get them to paint your grills black. i did that to mine at the paint shop and it came out amazing. maybe tint the tail lights, since im guessing you mostly like them bc they are the led type

 

AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! BACK FROM THE DEAD!

everything else on the car looks great.

 

Holy crap... was thinking the same thing... Ok here is your update...

So the car has under construction since September of 09... yes almost 1 yr...

What has happened is this:
The original estimate was 3 months and 3K. I got the car in December and found a bunch of little issues in the paint - which basically added up to one big issue overall. At this point my estimate had also been blown by another 1.5K (go figure). So the car went back... and was painted again... So then I check in on the car and find that they had cut my quater panel glass seal. Also the front windshield seam that covers the rain groove is actually part of the glass...same with the rear glass. Basically ended up replacing glass... They also braised my rear tails, put a scratch on my front light, and somehow grooved my passenger interior door panel. Yeah, I know - ouch... So there went more time and another 1.5K. But it gets better... When they went to go put back on the bumpers - they popped the paint - again. So they had to take them off and re-paint again. In the mean time I took the car around the corner to a performance shop and had a few more mods done... So right now the bumpers are back at the body shop, the rest or the car is at a performance shop, I have spent approx 6K, the car has been painted twice (in some places 3 times) and the bumpers 4 times. Good thing I am patient. The paint job is actually really good - or at least will be good once I get it put back together. so to summarize:

Time frame - 10 months
Number of times painted - 2-3 (bumpers = 4)
Cost - 6K
New quater panel and windshield, new tails, new rubber rain seals

Performance mods (new):
Rotated tranny mounts
K&N intake
Peddars coilovers
Rear sway bar
snow performance meth kit
catch can
hahn intercooler
KO4+ upgrade
New yellow top battery

Things left to do:
put bumpers back on - cut and rub
tune
put in new passenger interior door panel
new tint job
register the damn car once I can get a safety inspection
take car of all the chevy recalls that I got while the car was down

Was it worth it? Well, that depends on who you ask.... In the end it will be worth it - I was fortunate to be able to put the car down for all this time and get everything out of the way. I wouldn't recommend this for anyone that actually wants to drive their car anytime soon, but at the same time it is an investment that I made in a car I will keep forever and it is a once in a lifetime event so I guess it has/ will be worth it for me...

Time frame until car is done - 2 weeks and counting...

Hey maybe I will enter the COTM next month?

 

Paint looks good. SS emblem on trunk looks kinda silly along with the tail lights.

 

great color............

 

yeah at 1st i thought it was gona look like stock paint.. but its deffinaly custom paint show quality i might add... really sweet man.. but yeah i dont like the 3m covers either, just invest in a nice box trailer and ur car show winner bound lol

me and my dad were talkin bout repainting my car, and as a daily driver its not possible, he told me cant have a trailer queen and drive it too.

i was like yeah if i had it my way id repaint it ever single day.. black is my fav. color and sexy on the balts just its a bitch! i find new chips, dents ding dangs, and scratches almost every day.. its devistating to me because ive already repainted it once and everyone thinks it looks good except me!

is it just me or does everyone see flawls in there car and jus wana go nuts! im not complainig because its a hell of a daily driver(speccially for a highschooler) but it will never be the show car i thought it would be /thread jack lmao

 

Well I found some pictures of Coby on JDP Motorsports so that you guys can see what he looks like right now... Basically, with the bumpers at the body shop and coby at the performance shop he is going to be a little bit longer before he is back together.

This photo album chronicles the coilover install... since then we put on the new intercooler and meth kit..... I will try to get more pics tomorrow...

Link:http://www.facebook.com/#!/album.php...id=59438338248

 

Definitely a nice looking car and nice to see a clean, unique build. I would have gone a little different with the size and ghosting of the "SS," but it still looks great. You should be proud. It's a respectable build...

 

Very nice car man. Love the color. You should definetly go for COTM when 100% done

 

it would be great if it weren't for the tails.... which honestly just ruin it for me.

 

Based on the pics, they looked really sloppy. Why did they not cover the wheels with masking paper or something? I would have been shitting bricks if I saw all the grime on my wheels! I don't like how they just left everything lying around to collect dust. Also, why did YOU have to pay to get it painted the 2nd time? Was it not their fault that there were flaws?

 

Not to be a hater but your Tristage factory paint job looks way deeper and more vibrant. Your new color looks like mud. (Your doors jambs, underhood and undertrunk don't match outside color probably weren't painted.) Just my opinion not bashing just trying to educate others.

I LoL'd at this... Polishing with the windows open.

 

I thought this was gonna be more red.... it looks brown now.

 

K... let me chime in a little...

Yep, the ss are ghosted in.. there are two on sides and one large one on the back - depending on how the light hits it they actually pop out in a 3-d effect... pretty sweet in person but a bitch to photograph...

Much like the actual color of the car... basically what I did for the color is take the sport red tint coat and remove the burgandy/wine color and darken it up with a little black - it is actually a cross between SRTC and torch red. Then we put 6 layers of pearl on it. Once again depending on the way in which the light hits it the color shifts... everything from a brown-like red to a candy apple - it just depends on how the pearl reflects the light. (Low lighting conditions inside the building means you get zero reflection...if you take a SRTC inside you get the same dull effect) I didn't do the door jabs or under the hood - as anyone who has painted their car can probably tell you; not only is it a pita (have to tear out more of the car), but it isn't necessarily worth it. There is also a good chance that even when the car is finished I won't be able to get good pictures of the paint simply due to the pearl reflection - it just doesn't photograph...

Yeah, the rubbing compound everywhere is a pain. They didn't do a good job covering the car up during the cut and polish so it will take a while to clean it up. However, with that being said they could have covered everything and I would still be dealing with dust. Basically the electrostatics cause the car to pick up everything - it doesn't help that the dust was flying. Heck, even when my car sits in my garage I still have to dust it every other day (yep - California duster ftw!).

I never had to pay for a second paint job (or the 3rd or 4th on the bumpers)... they are sticking by their work - hence part of the reason it is taking so long to get everything done. Whenever something gets messed up - back it goes again. The cost increase is the result of increased cost of materials (was underestimated initially), glass, interior door panel, etc. The big thing here is the extension in the schedule that I have run into...

Oh and as for the tails... I have been defending those for well over a year now so I am pretty used to it... yeah they stick out - yeah no one likes them...eh, I have heard it all - until people see them in person. Then it is a different story. I will say that like them or not, they are a better performing and better quality product than the original stockers, hands down. So until I find something better I will keep them - and continue to defend them (I guess)... It is actually all good

I plan on visiting the car tomorrow so I hope to get some additional pics for everyone... Oh and right now the estimate is 2 weeks from tomorrow... but that will probably change again next week...

Oh - one last thing... As for the future plans for this car - since the paint is now show quality I am thinking about showing it next year. Of course there are a lot of people that want to see it race - after all it is set up for both auto cross (suspension mods) and drag (boost mods). I will probably miss most events this year since it is getting so late but I am keeping my options open in the future.

 

how much is this costing!!!!

 

^^^ I stopped adding it up a long time ago... I think the performance mods and labor this time around are probably between $3-4K (not including the paint at all)... that is about average for my yearly upgrades... next year will probably be a clutch and new rubber (go figure)...

So here are some pics I took yesterday when I checked in... keep in mind he is still dirty and as I predicted the paint just won't photograph properly... enjoy:

New KO4+ turbo by Autowerks:






And coby in the process of dropping the old turbo (ran into a bolt that is sitting at about 400ft-lbs so this is taking longer then expected):




And the meth (waiting on a solenoid):








And the intercooler:
Before:


After:


Some paint pics:




The link: http://s624.photobucket.com/albums/t...20July%202010/

Hopefully the bolt won't hold us up too much...

 

Well - not necessarily to resurrect an old thread - but I did promise to show you guys the finished product. Here are some final pictures of Coby that I took today:

























Well I hope you guys like the final product. It took a year to get him to this point, but I think he turned out pretty well.

 

Car came out great! like others said, I don't care for those tails at all but they actually look good with that paint color. Now time for COTM

 

1 year to finally get it all done, **** that. seems like a bad shop to go to.