87 Monte SS
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Damn, you do it clean. What did it take to get your wheel wells out? I thought the core support had to come out.
Bumpin1ohmSS said:
The big homie TTOp Tony shot thru and brought me a Danali mirror and temp probe. Wired it up..
I just read through this whole thread & all i can say is :shock: WOWWWWW! You have put in some serious work on the Monte!!! Keep posting the motivation. I cant wait to see it complete & painted! 10/10
Cool place to mount the little air fitting for the bags.
How did you hook the rear view mirror up? I want one of those now
west up homies!!! you goin with blue huh? im runnin the same spectre set-up on my 383 build for my next project "t-topped MALObu"you interested in slangin the red filters? im accenting with red and need a set.let me know.
Im keepin em for my Malibu when I get it. Oh boy...I was gonna do the TTop Bu or Elco. Looks like you will beat me to it fam...I'll be watchin 8)
Some pics from my celly. Sorry bout the quality.. Mocking up the bars. These will be chromed. I have the longer set as well. Those will require a lil work to fit tho. My air intake is in the way..I used the polished core support panel and my 2 core end caps as a "roll call" of sorts. Had some stickers layin around and used em. Looks cool to me..
Wells came out pretty good for a beginner. I had a run on the clear coat, but you wouldnt notice it once they are in place...They are hanging up. I wont install em for another 2 weeks or so. I want em to fully dry/cure
Bay is painted...
The runs in this pic below have been corrected. I used a pencil and wrapped it in 220 grit. Rolled it around the pencil and knocked the runs down. Cleaned and reprayed.
Mocked up the ac plate. I had sprayed it black, let it dry and peeled the tape to see how it would look. Came out nicer than I thought. I didnt get any pics tho..
Painted the end caps and threw some stckers on...
Notched out the fender wall hole covers. I really like these cuz they make the bay look complete. I knotched it so the hood release cable could fit. Sanded and sprayed em a high temp black...
The driver side battery is mounted now also..
lil vid..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhDD9YvGFvc
I ended up taking the brake booster/master cylinder out and spraying that also. Came out cool. I'll get some pics up of that next. Im molding the ac delete plate in and will be snatching the motor out for that later. Im chroming the plate and then taping off the bowtie. The rest will be sprayed or powder coated black for now. The outer edge of the bowtie will be blue. Should look good. All the red wires will be swapped to blue but the boots will stay red. Kinda like the red/blue anodized an fittings. SHould flow nicely.. Thanks for lookin...
Some pics from my celly. Sorry bout the quality.. Mocking up the bars. These will be chromed. I have the longer set as well. Those will require a lil work to fit tho. My air intake is in the way..I used the polished core support panel and my 2 core end caps as a "roll call" of sorts. Had some stickers layin around and used em. Looks cool to me..
Wells came out pretty good for a beginner. I had a run on the clear coat, but you wouldnt notice it once they are in place...They are hanging up. I wont install em for another 2 weeks or so. I want em to fully dry/cure
Bay is painted...
The runs in this pic below have been corrected. I used a pencil and wrapped it in 220 grit. Rolled it around the pencil and knocked the runs down. Cleaned and reprayed.
Mocked up the ac plate. I had sprayed it black, let it dry and peeled the tape to see how it would look. Came out nicer than I thought. I didnt get any pics tho..
Painted the end caps and threw some stckers on...
Notched out the fender wall hole covers. I really like these cuz they make the bay look complete. I knotched it so the hood release cable could fit. Sanded and sprayed em a high temp black...
The driver side battery is mounted now also..
lil vid..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhDD9YvGFvc
I ended up taking the brake booster/master cylinder out and spraying that also. Came out cool. I'll get some pics up of that next. Im molding the ac delete plate in and will be snatching the motor out for that later. Im chroming the plate and then taping off the bowtie. The rest will be sprayed or powder coated black for now. The outer edge of the bowtie will be blue. Should look good. All the red wires will be swapped to blue but the boots will stay red. Kinda like the red/blue anodized an fittings. SHould flow nicely.. Thanks for lookin...
Here's the firewall After I took the booster out. Firewall came out cool. When I snatch the motor, Im going to fill all the holes and dimples and totally smooth the firewall. Cool for now tho
Painted. I did the mc in a silver flake. Gonna get some lil caps for the nuts..
My ghetto fabbed up "spray booth"
Came out cool. I did this whole vid setup to show how to do this. The best way is to take the core support out, but alot of peeps dont wanna do all that. For a home job, it turned out clean. Looks a helluva lot better than it did before. I'll get some pics once everything is all back together..
Dusty. Paints dry. Just lettin it cure before I touch it...
Painted. I did the mc in a silver flake. Gonna get some lil caps for the nuts..
My ghetto fabbed up "spray booth"
Came out cool. I did this whole vid setup to show how to do this. The best way is to take the core support out, but alot of peeps dont wanna do all that. For a home job, it turned out clean. Looks a helluva lot better than it did before. I'll get some pics once everything is all back together..
Dusty. Paints dry. Just lettin it cure before I touch it...
sh*t that looks clean!!! I'm not usually a fan of gloss black, i'm a satin kinda guy, but i love what you did!
3XBrownCutty said:
Thanks bruh!! Im the same way. I like a satin gloss finish. Looks more oem to me. I wasnt paying attention to the bottle when I purchased the paint. Saw the cap and grabbed it. Sprayed it and let dry. Came back and was like ahhhh! Looked at THE BOTTLE and it read "Gloss Black". LOL. The can I used for the window cowl the wiper ledge area and the ac delete ledge are a nice satin. Came out cool for a newb. The gloss flows with all the polished/chrome parts. Just lettin everything cure up before I put it all back together. Im going to roll some rubberized undercoating on the insides of the wells to "freshen" em up. The project came out pretty cool. Here's a few pics of the wells hole filling process...
Scuffed up the inside of the wels with 60 grit sand paper and cleaned with denatured alcohol. Then taped the holes..These pics show the underside of the wheel wells
Then I used some 3m bondo plastic filler/bumper filler. Its a 2 part setup. Just pop the cap off and squeeze the product out. Mix and lay it down..
You can see some of the other holes I filled
I built the plastic filler up over each hole. That way i could work the area and knock the material down with my sanding block until level. I used 60 grit for that step..
There's a bunch of other holes that where filled prior to this pic. I had gave these bumpers to Chris- Kuruption109, but they didnt fit his ride. He had drilled the holes out, so I had another chance to practice doin this when I got em back...
Inside the well...I'll scuff this again and lay some mesh cutouts and filler there for extra stregnth. Then roll or spray some rubberized undercoating to clean it up. Should work out cool...
Then came the more sanding and smoothing. I used 320, 400, 600, 800, 1000, and finished with 1500 grit. Worked out nice. I had a few runs, but they are in an area that you wont be able to see when the wells are installed. The key to no runs is to stay 8-12" from the area, and keep the can moving. I used a 50% overlay spray pattern. I also practiced on some parts prior to painting. That helped alot. I was able to get my spray pattern and rythm down. Thanks for lookin fellas!!
Elco Warren 8)
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