Dec 21, 2008

Complete waste of a day. back to square 1.

Finished cleaning up the garage, prepped the engine bay, painted, stripped. prepped.
i fail at life.

Engine bay cleaned up
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Prepping Engine bay- Cleaned with simple green max then cleaned with por15 marine clean
(i cant tell which is which, all the pics look the same and i cant remember lol)
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Then i began to tape off the pass side bin. i decided i am going to cut the bin and reuse my old battery to save money. so this is my pre stage of fg my custom bin batt holder..
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Engine bay prep- por 15 metal ready (i think lol)
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Engine bay/fenders painted... por 15- grey (will be painted over with por15 whitecoat)
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BUTTTTT it came out like shit. i was dumb enough to do all the prepping with a old sweatshirt as a rag. turns outs all the freaking lint got stuck and the paint looked like SHIT. i let it dry for maybe 30 min came back in the garage and it litterally looked like glossy sandpaper. i was PISSED. i decided to strip it...... hense a pointless day. wast

took about 3 hours to strip (i think, its an estimate, i dont have a clock in the garage, idk thats good or bad.)

SOOOOOOOOOOOOO this is what it looks like now.
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awesome, it just has simple green max. tomorrow we'll try it again, por 15 marine clean, metal ready, and por 15-grey.

Dec 20, 2008

Finished sand blasting... what a PITA.

harness all dusty
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under car shot
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DR side
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enginebay
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my huge mess...
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aluminum oxide- this was all swept up.....
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garage- folded the tarps up
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garage
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Dec 19, 2008

holy hell sand blasting (non-cabinet) is the messiest thing EVER.

its gonna be a longgg weekend. hoping to have the engine bay painted by this weekend.

BEFORE (getting masked)
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AFTER (still not done)
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