Just out of curiosity, what's your sandpaper budget for this project? I bet you could buy a small car for what you've invested in consumables.
Budget? What’s that?
Lol
You’re not wrong, the consumables are the most expensive part of the whole equation. I joke with my supplier that it’s physically impossible for me to leave for under $100. But that being said, they do take exceptional care of me. Discounts on partial/opened product, free trials of things like grinding discs, splitting up sealed boxes of paint strainers, selling individual 8” grinding discs, etc that no other company would do for you.
So it’s a give and take relationship. Usually I give, and they take.
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Looking good. I noticed you still put 2k urethane over your spray poly. I’ve done it that way as well, most times. On the vette I’m doing now I’m going to go spray poly to sealer and paint. I did my boat cowl that way, and I was happy with the result.
Thanks Chris.
Yes, you are correct. I look at spray filler as just that - filler. You wouldn’t ordinarily apply paint directly over filler, so I still utilize 2K high build primer surfacer over top of the poly spray filler. I know the car will still need at least one more round of blocking before paint yet, so the primer affords me that additional material for that as well.
Looking killer D. That's a whole bunch of hard work! And that's going to equal laser straight body panels.
Thank you Tony.
It was definitely a taxing thrash to say the least. But when you’re that close to the finish line, it’s hard not to just keep going. It’s the knowing that you’re
thaaat close to being done, just sand this, just finish that, then I can move on to the next thing… I know you know what I mean, you’ve been there too.
As for equaling laser straight panels, here’s hoping. If I’ve done the work correctly, that should be the case.
In other news…
After unmasking and reassembling the car last night, I got to really looking at it, and realized there’s not really all that much bodywork left to do. The mirrors are next on my hit list, then probably the front bumper filler panel, and the front bumper itself.
I want to rework the “A” pillars and where the windshield trim meets the roof, but the roof itself needs nothing. Just a strip to bare metal, epoxy and primer.
The “C” pillars will need a little bit of loving, the torque of the big block wrinkled them a little bit so some additional reinforcement work will need to be done there.
The quarter panels will be their own entity that we will gloss over right now due to utmost secrecy, and will be the most intensive part yet to come.
I plan on welding in the back window/trunk lid filler panel to streamline and simplify back there a bit, and I will be making my own metal quarter extensions, so that should be an interesting but fun exercise.
I may or may not keep the existing trunk spoiler, but at the moment am leaning more towards scratch building a totally new and different style. The trunk lid itself needs very little to be perfect.
That leaves just the rear bumper, it still needs to be sectioned and tucked, but that’s it for the bodywork.
I know it sounds like a lot, but should be completely manageable.
Sounds good in theory at least…
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