Update at the body shop

well my whole car is in primer and all the body work is done. what a relief. i just ordered the hood and paint today. i got a ppg paint called pearl orange burst. its a tri stage paint, a little more money but its a good investment. and the performance shop next to my dads body shop finished up my charge pipes on my turbo which is finally done. i love the whistle. :D but all i have left is the alarm which is 200 bucks and then m,y dad will lay the paint. i will keep everyone updadted.

looks really good man, Cant wait to see the finished product.

thx, i will show some pics of my turbo but i lent my digi to my friend on her trip up north and she don't get back till next week. so untill then...

I hope you are getting the entire car painted, right?

i would hope so

lol what kind of question is this? Of course he is getting the entire car painted :rolleyes:

lol, c'mon now. well actually i am just painting half my car, trying to start a new fad. lol. my side skirts and door caps cover the bottom of my car so there is really no point to waste paint and clear coat. it will be dusted on under there but thats it. :)

Originally posted by Melt
lol what kind of question is this? Of course he is getting the entire car painted :rolleyes:


So, the motor has been yanked, interior taken out, etc. To have the whole care painted?

OH man i hate it, that is sooo f*ing gay. Seriously, that is soooo messed up. I mean really now, how in the hell can ur blitz front bumper look badass on ur car and mine ruined my crx? Thats not cool, lol, ohwell. Anyways, very badass, i can see the sexy already, and apparently I havent been following very well, cuz i dont know wat kind of engine/turbo ur doing. So if someone can let me in on it i'd appreciate it. THanx, and yes, badass.

different manufacturers produce different style blitz kits, the one he has looks amazing, despite his complications, its the nicest, best fitting blitz kit I have ever seen :)

oh ok well i didn't want to go to crazy on that, i am doing alll the door jams and in the back hatch area. there will be no red showing if that is what you mean. and my engine compartment is going to be all flat black.

thanks guys, i have put alot of effort into getting that bumper to fit the way i want it to. and as far as my motor is concerned i have a d16a6 with a 14b turbo, aem fuel pressure regulator, turbo xs boost controller, 1g bov, 1g intercooler, and thats about it. bout to put in a stage 2 clutch and thinking about a ZC but i don't know. maybe if my motor blows. :D

here is a better shot of the front bumper

damn it looks like it fits like a glove, like like like :licker:

looks very toight...yes, toight like a toiger :hehe:

yes i know, i have a dutch accent. isn't that funny?:)

It looks pretty dam good, but what about all the gaps and spaces and rough edges?

Just messin' around. Looks great. good luck with the rest of it.:D

lol, you had me going at first:) but you did point out one little gap that i never fixed on the right corner.that peice hangs like 1/8 inch over but owell. can't tell anyway.

Originally posted by walt0023
lol, you had me going at first:) but you did point out one little gap that i never fixed on the right corner.that peice hangs like 1/8 inch over but owell. can't tell anyway.

Yea, me too, i was like WTF, thats sooo dick!!!!! but then i'm like, OHHHH!!!!

Damn dude that looks killer. Can't wait to see when it's finished.
Makes me even more excited to have my kit installed!

Its lookin nice! A ZC is also a great motor to turbo! I would get one...LOL wait I did get one, its in my back yard! Here $750 shiped www.Hmotorsonline.com they are good folks.
Also why dont you just fill in the "gaps" with bondo? Its cheap, and I figuered since your pops owns the bodyshop he would hook you up!

i actually like the gaps, it gives the car its body line!!

damn man, i know what bondo is. lol if you didn't see the first couple of pics i posted awhile back you would see that there is prob bout half a gallon of the shit on the along with some duraglass. but i noticed the small gap after wards and i said f*ck it, its not really noticable. plus it was already primered and sealed.

damn ur car looks koo and a orange color with some SI rims would look hella sweet. cant wait to see the finish product. any other people with some SI's im still waiting 2 get a pair myself

Originally posted by walt0023
oh ok well i didn't want to go to crazy on that, i am doing alll the door jams and in the back hatch area. there will be no red showing if that is what you mean. and my engine compartment is going to be all flat black.

same exact thing i am doing, right now im in the process of stripping everything from the engine bay, exterior, and interior. my car is getting done up in champ white with a flat black engine bay, and its even having the same sideskirts and door caps you are doing. im using the combat front and combat2 back though, with 97 prelude tails, black housing projectors and corner lights, a CF hood, and SiR spoiler

Originally posted by incucivic


same exact thing i am doing, right now im in the process of stripping everything from the engine bay, exterior, and interior. my car is getting done up in champ white with a flat black engine bay, and its even having the same sideskirts and door caps you are doing. im using the combat front and combat2 back though, with 97 prelude tails, black housing projectors and corner lights, a CF hood, and SiR spoiler


Changing the whole color of the car, without painting everything = http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/images/icons/icon13.gif in my opinion. I mean, if you are stripping everything from the engine bay anyways, why not finish the job right?

Originally posted by kris



Changing the whole color of the car, without painting everything = http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/images/icons/icon13.gif in my opinion. I mean, if you are stripping everything from the engine bay anyways, why not finish the job right?

you mean you dont like the idea of a flat black engine bay? the car is blue right now, and everything that is blue is getting repainted. i like the way a white car looks with a CF hood, black projectors, and a black engine bay. it makes everything under the hood stand out.

Originally posted by incucivic


you mean you dont like the idea of a flat black engine bay? the car is blue right now, and everything that is blue is getting repainted. i like the way a white car looks with a CF hood, black projectors, and a black engine bay. it makes everything under the hood stand out.

Depending on paint and quality of job the paint that COULD go on the hood COULD be enough to buy a CF SIR instead! My neaghbor accross the street has a frend when he took his moms t-bird to get fixed for $40 there was a 98 ITR gettin a $9000 paint job! Looked sick as fuck but I bet all that paint weaghed like 200 lbs! It was dark blue w/silver fleck from the back angle and dark green with gold flek from the front angle... Anyone know how the fuck they do this? I asked the guys they were realy secritive about it...

its light, check the car another day when the light is hitting it at another angle and the colors will probably change!

Its not the light dude! I walked from the back of the car it was blue then to the front it was green and there were bright ass lights all over in there... Pluss I heard them saying something about using 2 diff collors and putting paint on at an angle? It sounds like they sprayed it with green @ a 45 and then blue on the other side... I just dont see how this would work because the paint would mix?

Originally posted by seth 90DX/ZC
Its not the light dude! I walked from the back of the car it was blue then to the front it was green and there were bright ass lights all over in there... Pluss I heard them saying something about using 2 diff collors and putting paint on at an angle? It sounds like they sprayed it with green @ a 45 and then blue on the other side... I just dont see how this would work because the paint would mix?

hmm, thats interesting, kind of like a polarized glass, but how can they do that on paint? very interesting, i'm curious on how they did that, so if any1 knows....... POST IT!

Originally posted by MyFirst4G


hmm, thats interesting, kind of like a polarized glass, but how can they do that on paint? very interesting, i'm curious on how they did that, so if any1 knows....... POST IT!

I can eplain what it looked like if you got a piece of paper and a blue and green marker... Fold the paper back and forth in 1/4" increments and mark each side... To all the ones on your left hand green and all to your right hand blue... It was sick! But it looked realy heavy... You could tell the paint was SUPER thick and dense prolly had like 20 clearcoats... OH shit! Maybe they had it painted one blue and clearcoat then added green at an angle? That would work! Also would explane why it looked so thick!

Originally posted by seth 90DX/ZC


I can eplain what it looked like if you got a piece of paper and a blue and green marker... Fold the paper back and forth in 1/4" increments and mark each side... To all the ones on your left hand green and all to your right hand blue... It was sick! But it looked realy heavy... You could tell the paint was SUPER thick and dense prolly had like 20 clearcoats... OH shit! Maybe they had it painted one blue and clearcoat then added green at an angle? That would work! Also would explane why it looked so thick!

i understand what you mean, and i have a visual of how it would look, but its just mind boggoling (Spelling?:bloated: )........

Id be willing to bet that without the clearcoat the paint would look real bumpy. The clearcoat was used to smooth it out. If thats the case it would be the same effect as swade or thick carpet. Looks slighly different from oppisite angle. That would also explain why so much clearcoat was used.

Yea, it had REAL depth to it... Like I said toe must have weaghed at least 200LBS!<---- The paintjob ALONE! It would be tight on an oldschool like a 63 Impalla or something that not going to be fast anyway, but on a ITR? Come on, honda's have always been about PTWR! Thats what makes them so godamn fast!

just updating some progress in case anyone was intrested:)

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not bad walt! it looks awesome, i'm getting anxious to see it finished!:) it's gonna look tight when its done:)

BAD BAD BOY! Were was the prep work in that paint job?! I see you have just sprayed over the red with white! PAINT IS HEAVY!

ur car is gonna look HELLA nice when its done bro

Originally posted by slammed89civic
ur car is gonna look HELLA nice when its done bro

It will look nice...

hes gettin a new hood

Originally posted by seth 90DX/ZC
I see you have just sprayed over the red with white! It's primer.

Originally posted by seth 90DX/ZC
Its not the light dude! I walked from the back of the car it was blue then to the front it was green and there were bright ass lights all over in there... Pluss I heard them saying something about using 2 diff collors and putting paint on at an angle? It sounds like they sprayed it with green @ a 45 and then blue on the other side... I just dont see how this would work because the paint would mix?

if they allow the paint to flash, and dry, the paint won't mix. There would be no need for clear in between colors, and a reasoning for so mainy clearcoats could have been they wanted more protection for the basecoat.

grats on the new paint job sir

i wanna see the orange!!

Originally posted by seth 90DX/ZC
Its not the light dude! I walked from the back of the car it was blue then to the front it was green and there were bright ass lights all over in there... Pluss I heard them saying something about using 2 diff collors and putting paint on at an angle? It sounds like they sprayed it with green @ a 45 and then blue on the other side... I just dont see how this would work because the paint would mix? are you talking about paint like this? that changes color at different angles/light
http://www.automotiveforums.com/scalemodeling/kicker/itr4.jpg

chameleon

Originally posted by H4Bangin
chameleon yes, thank you for that. :rolleyes:


now once again, is that the paint that you guys are talking about?!?

i do believe that is what they are talking about. I haven't got that far in my paint classes to answer that question right, but Im sure you probably can Kicker

welcome to the 90's... my friend has a chameleon 2k2 eclipse... i dont like the car personally but ill try to find you guys a link to it

why the eye roll?

why couldnt u just say chameleon

double post~

Originally posted by H4Bangin
why the eye roll?

why couldnt u just say chameleon because I asked if that's the paint that they are talking about, and you told me what it's called. I know what it's called and you weren't helping me any. Thank you though :)


and the paint that my shop uses is applied completely different than what you guys were talking about spraying it at angles. First there's a flat black applied and then the color is sprayed. It's just like other paint and is sprayed the same, but it changes colors. You don't have to spray two different colors, it's all mixed together and once it is on the flat black base coat then it can change colors. Here's a pic of the stuff I painted that model car above with
http://files.automotiveforums.com/uploads/330007Dcp_0078.jpg
Flat black, color, clear.
Same stuff we use at our shop except for it's not in a can. Check out this thread, it's explained with pics http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=50652&highlight=irridescent+ITR

very expensive as well, my dads hayabusa is chamelen. that paint looks tight as hell but i would never put it on my car and as for spraying paint on angles?? i don't really see how it would make a difference from being sprayed on straight but maybe there is some trick that i don't know about.

Originally posted by walt0023
very expensive as well, my dads hayabusa is chamelen. that paint looks tight as hell but i would never put it on my car and as for spraying paint on angles?? i don't really see how it would make a difference from being sprayed on straight but maybe there is some trick that i don't know about. yes, the paint is extremely expensive. $20 for that rattle can that I posted. I'm not even gonna say how much for automotive paint lol

Originally posted by i am teh best
double post~

WTF is this? You got something you want to say?

Anyway no it wasnt camilian.. It COMPLETLY changed from one angle to the other. And if you notice camilian has other colers in it besides the coler aimed for.

he posted twice

chameleon changes color completly at different angles

how much does that paint-job cost?? someone told me once like $2000

Originally posted by blueturtle
how much does that paint-job cost?? someone told me once like $2000 the irridescent (chameleon) paint that I posted a model car painted with is about $5,000 for a basic paint job. I know a guy that spent $12k painting his car that color and got about 8 coats of paint and about the same about of clear.