mrbigtanker Posted August 15, 2013 Report Share Posted August 15, 2013 If your a fucker Mark then what the hell do we call John.lol Quote Link to comment
Duncan Posted August 16, 2013 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2013 If your a fucker Mark then what the hell do we call John.lol Old fucker :) 1 Quote Link to comment
WICKED JESTER Posted August 17, 2013 Report Share Posted August 17, 2013 Old fucker :) now now mark you have to say it with respect its Mr old fuker :thumbup: LOL 1 Quote Link to comment
KELMO Posted August 17, 2013 Report Share Posted August 17, 2013 I have a set of goon bumpers and have not decided if they are going to be used yet. If you get to a point where you cannot find any let me know and hopefully I will have made a decision by then. The ones I have are sanded down and primered (not by me) and I have only taken a quick look at them and put them in storage. Quote Link to comment
Duncan Posted August 17, 2013 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2013 Thanks Kelly. I have a brand new NOS 1200 Coupe windshield that needs a home... The front bumper is fine. Quote Link to comment
Duncan Posted August 18, 2013 Author Report Share Posted August 18, 2013 Been busy on the goon.. Hopefully, the last lead filled spot. The guys in the shop were having a field day on referring me as the "Jackhole" working on the jack hole :) (That hole is for the license plate light wire, but who am I to kill a good bit.) Got the headliner out. The PO glued some foam in there and I had to sand the roof down. Lizard Skin to be shot shortly.. Note the nice burnt orange original color. I'm not sure what the official name of that color is. Floors stripped and waiting for the Lizard Skin, too. The back 1/3 of the roof stripped to bare metal. Before any Lizard Skin goes on the inner roof, I need to completely strip this to bare metal. If there are any repairs, I don't want to be removing Lizard Skin to do it. I would normally strip this chemically with paint remover, but since the lower half of the car is mostly finished, I can't have paint remover getting on all that nice primered finish work..I did this car a bit backwards, but that's how it goes sometimes. Quote Link to comment
KELMO Posted August 18, 2013 Report Share Posted August 18, 2013 Hmmmmm you have a coupe windshield. I actually (for once in my life) have money. Since you are not going to Williams can you pimp Datrod into bringing it maybe. I currently have one but am planning on installing it myself on the green car if it ever comes back from the body shop. Always good to have an extra....especially in this state. Goon is lookin the goods and you were close to the jackhole so you can just say OOPS! I missed :angel: Quote Link to comment
Duncan Posted August 18, 2013 Author Report Share Posted August 18, 2013 Kelly, I'll take this to PM. Check your e-mail. Quote Link to comment
Duncan Posted August 18, 2013 Author Report Share Posted August 18, 2013 By the way, my friend's shop does pristine and/or hot-rodded Sunbeam Tigers and Alpines. Here's some photos of a nearly finished Tiger. If your not familiar with the Tiger, it's a 2 seat British sports car that Carol Shelby shoehorned a small block Ford V8 into. They have some serious muscle :) 1 Quote Link to comment
KELMO Posted August 18, 2013 Report Share Posted August 18, 2013 haha, the shop that is doing the 1200 had a subeam in it when I dropped off....bet his car is already done and gone. Quote Link to comment
Burabuda Posted August 20, 2013 Report Share Posted August 20, 2013 the car needs a respray :rofl: Quote Link to comment
Duncan Posted August 25, 2013 Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2013 Trust me on this, it has been painted enough... He keeps futzing with it. John took me for a ride in it the other day, and that thing is a rocket. The stock motor I think was around 180hp or so, and this one is probably over 300. Quote Link to comment
mrbigtanker Posted August 25, 2013 Report Share Posted August 25, 2013 Sir you do awesome work my friend. Quote Link to comment
Duncan Posted August 26, 2013 Author Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 Thanks, but I didn't do much of anything on the Tiger. (Except dispense armchair advice) :) I did get my roof stripped and in primer. Believe it or not, this roof was about 16 or so total hours of labor (including priming and cleaning up) Note to self: Always start at the roof first and use chemical paint stripper. I re-learned this the hard way. Spent some quality time at home today and have the front fenders about 90% there. Coming soon to a roof and a floor near you... I'm headed to Arizona to pick up paint right after labor day. Cal-compliant paint blows ass, so I am picking up some good stuff from Arizona before the entire country follows California's crusade.. :( 1 Quote Link to comment
mrbigtanker Posted August 26, 2013 Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 What type of paint you getting sikkens,DuPont. Quote Link to comment
Duncan Posted August 26, 2013 Author Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 PPG Single stage acrylic urethane. Quote Link to comment
Duncan Posted September 7, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2013 Lizard Skin Sound control applied on inner roof. Important safety tip: If you apply this stuff, mask the shit out of EVERYTHING. I used a "Schutz" undercoating gun which worked great, but overspray went to literally everything that wasn't masked off. Nothing fatal happened, but I did spend a few hours scraping it off of door sills, etc, etc.. The stuff appears to work well. With the headliner out, tapping on the roof would make a pronounced ring. With the lizard skin, the roof just makes a dull thud. It seems to dampen the acoustics quite a bit. I don't know how it will be when driving, but it passes the tap test pretty well. He shoots, He scores! Checked Craigslist San Diego this morning and found and found a guy selling wagon parts. Got an incredibly great price on a very usable rear bumper. It's reasonably straight, and it fits! (The last one I bought did not fit) Quote Link to comment
Duncan Posted September 8, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2013 Been working on the roof the last few days. It had a lot of small dents and my friend reminded me it is a wagon, and people hauled stuff in it, and threw crap on the roof while loading and unloading. Makes sense. Another surprise when I took out the headliner and the roof flexed (or oil-canned) like crazy. Those darned clever Japanese engineers designed the headliner bows to support and stabilize the roof. Take those bows out and you have one big-ass piece of flexible thin metal :) Especially on a wagon. Quote Link to comment
Duncan Posted September 8, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2013 hhmmmmmm....paint.... Quote Link to comment
mrbigtanker Posted September 8, 2013 Report Share Posted September 8, 2013 Looking good Big man,my truck is next.lol Quote Link to comment
Duncan Posted September 8, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2013 You know I would normally ignore that, but this is my 1000th post, so I will respond. Earl Scheib? Maaco? 1-day? :) Looking good Big man,my truck is next.lol 1 Quote Link to comment
Burabuda Posted September 8, 2013 Report Share Posted September 8, 2013 hhmmmmmm....paint.... my can says dbc and the activator says dx. what's the difference on yours? Quote Link to comment
Duncan Posted September 8, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2013 my can says dbc and the activator says dx. what's the difference on yours? going from memory dbc, dbu are prefixes for the basecoat color in a 2 stage system. DT is reducer, and DX, DCX and possibly a few others (usually with an X) is activator in the PPG line. The primers and clears follow some sort of system , too. The single stage paints are all over the map depending on what "series" they belong to. My paint is the "concept" line.. I could be full of crap too, because it's been a really long time since I thought about this stuff :) Quote Link to comment
mrbigtanker Posted September 9, 2013 Report Share Posted September 9, 2013 You know I would normally ignore that, but this is my 1000th post, so I will respond. Earl Scheib? Maaco? 1-day? :) Why do you treat me this way. :rofl: Quote Link to comment
Duncan Posted September 10, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2013 Edit to my deleted post. I have been spending a long time on both sides of the roof. The roof is a BIG single piece of thin metal. Lotsa work to get this big-ass panel straight. We're getting very close, though.. I have a nice dealer roof rack I was thinking about installing, but after all this work on the roof, there's no way I'm drilling holes in it.. Quote Link to comment
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