87 Monte SS

[-83MONTESS-]

So warren when you gonna start having classes at your place.It would kind of be like how Home Depot has there classes on saturday mornings and we can either call it Warren101 or Warren's corner.We need a space on Gbodyforum just for warren with a schedule of up coming projects.

Haha a fellow Home Depot employee!

 

[Mikes83ss]

Yep been with the company for about 3 1/2 years now workin the 9pm till 530 am shift slingin freight.

 

[barney562]

man dats some true love to a car to spend time like dat to do all that

 

[Bumpin1ohmSS]

man dats some true love to a car to spend time like dat to do all that

You know how it is..Some bro's like to spend $500 a month on an Escalade payment. I 'd rather put the time and cash into my old schools... 8) Thanks for checkin it out..

Got the dash prepped and painted up. This was 1 complete can of SEM Satin black. Cleaned it with Purple Power, clean water and acetone. Let dry and then used some Dupli-Color Adhesion promoter. 3 coats of the adhesion promoter and then after 5 minutes I sprayed the first light coat of Satin Black. Nice light even strokes. I still have small cracks on the top of the dash, but they are from me handling the dash. So brittle. I didnt want to spend the loot on a dash cap since I'm wrapping the other dash coming out of the SS. This lil project came in at..

Carpet dash cover---$25

Adhesion Promoter--$5

SEM Satin (1 can)---$10

$40 total. My cutoff was $70. Any amount over that and I would have just sent it out to be covered. This will work for now. looks waaaaaay cleaner than the badly cracked dash in the car. Now the whole interior will be SEM Satin black..

Stripped of old paint and this has the 3rd coat of adhesion promoter

Last "wet" coat of SEM satin black. Still drying

All thats left to do is spray the radio bezel and respray the instrument cluster and swap dashes. Then I can clean that bad rewire job up and cut/bundle all the loose messy wiring up...

Elco Warren 8)

 

[kuruption109]

a bro can u post a pic of the areas u filled in on the dash?

man dats some true love to a car to spend time like dat to do all that

You know how it is..Some bro's like to spend $500 a month on an Escalade payment. I 'd rather put the time and cash into my old schools... 8) Thanks for checkin it out..

Got the dash prepped and painted up. This was 1 complete can of SEM Satin black. Cleaned it with Purple Power, clean water and acetone. Let dry and then used some Dupli-Color Adhesion promoter. 3 coats of the adhesion promoter and then after 5 minutes I sprayed the first light coat of Satin Black. Nice light even strokes. I still have small cracks on the top of the dash, but they are from me handling the dash. So brittle. I didnt want to spend the loot on a dash cap since I'm wrapping the other dash coming out of the SS. This lil project came in at..

Carpet dash cover---$25

Adhesion Promoter--$5

SEM Satin (1 can)---$10

$40 total. My cutoff was $70. Any amount over that and I would have just sent it out to be covered. This will work for now. looks waaaaaay cleaner than the badly cracked dash in the car. Now the whole interior will be SEM Satin black..

Stripped of old paint and this has the 3rd coat of adhesion promoter

Last "wet" coat of SEM satin black. Still drying

All thats left to do is spray the radio bezel and respray the instrument cluster and swap dashes. Then I can clean that bad rewire job up and cut/bundle all the loose messy wiring up...

Elco Warren 8)

 

[Bumpin1ohmSS]

a bro can u post a pic of the areas u filled in on the dash?

Oh its not clean at all bruh. I just layed the epoxy down and used a "cheese grater" to knock the high area down. I didnt blend or smooth it at all...It can be smoothed and then you could use some wrinkle finish top coat to give the smooth area some texture. I could have smoothed the whole top and finished it off with 2000 grit sand paper for a nice smooth top like my wheel wells. But since its gonna be covered, I just concentrated on keeping that crack under control. I think that Autozone even has a dash repair kit that comes with some sort of mesh to give the smoothed filled areas that oem looking texture.I didnt care about the top as it will be covered with the carpeting. Man that top is BRITTLE!. The epoxy will keep that big crack in check for now...

 

[Bumpin1ohmSS]

Mocking the parts up to see it all together. Pretty cool for a homegrown job..The glove box and lower steering piece are sprayed and on the dash. I still have to sand the radio bezel and filler primer it. I'll mess around with it after work in the morning..

Elco Warren 8)
80zBabiezCC

 

[T-TOP TONY]

dayyyyuumm!! Bro that came out sick!!! very very nice

 

[melman109]

dayyyyuumm!! Bro that came out sick!!! very very nice

x2

 

[tmoneymr2]

We need updates on this sweet *ss monte build!!!!!