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Nicely done. You are doing front and rear extensions along with sideskirts, right? Or just sideskirts?

wat happened to the honda color you were discussing awhile back...

Yep, front and rear extensions and sideskirts. I was trying to fit my rear extensions on today but they're such poor quality that they look horrible. I have a lot of work to get them to fit.

Yeah mine are not great either so I've decided to mold them.

But - I hate bodywork so I'm not doing it, when I get my car painted it will all be done.

Thats strange, mine fit nearly perfectly.

Day Five

Today was a long day. I started by sanding the sideskirts, cleaning and sanding extensions and the spoiler and the front bumper, and then disassembling the mirrors and cleaning and sanding those. I also worked with the rear extensions and managed to get them to fit somewhat decently.

The most time consuming part of the day however was building a home-made paint booth in my garage. First I cleared out an area.



Then my mom and dad and I put down plastic for the floor and ceiling and north and south walls.



Then we put in the east wall and the filter.



Then we put a fan in, which sucks air out of the booth.



Then finally we put in the west wall and I made a door and finished sealing it off.



The idea is to get the overspray to flow upwards and out of the paint booth so it doesn't fall on the paint. I tested out the booth a few minutes ago though, and it just sucked the plastic walls in. I need to put weights on the floor on the outside to hold that down and probably put a fan blowing air in behind the filter. I'm going to do that tomorrow though, since I'm crazy tired.

nice work chris, your definetly gonna want to get some form of filtered air in as well.
cant wait to see your results man!

nice. looks like professional work. keep it up. i already know your car will turn out even more awesome than it already is.

Day Six

Today I got the paint booth to work reasonably well by setting up another fan behind the filter.

I then laid out parts and cleaned them again.



Then I painted. This is where it got bad. The gun I was using sucked and everything has tons of orange peel, and the rear bumper will have to be repainted because the gun malfunctioned and shot globs of paint everywhere.





Below you can see the orange peel detail.

I'm going to send you some parts ok?



Looks good. Gotta have patience for this type work.

Coomer what gun are u using for your spraying and what kind of Air compressor do you use to powe ryour spray gun.

if u got that much orange peel it was probably becaues you didnt spray the coats wet enough. and the spatter coming from the gun is either because it wasn't clean, the gun wasnt working right or the paint was too thick in parts

Coomer you are doing an amazing job! Keep it up man

Check what Air pressure your Paint gun requers - is it low pressure gun or high press. I would suggest you getting some Low pressure gun (bout 1.5-2bar) and not a big one, they are easy to work with, do not requer big air compressor.

You got orange peal just cuz your air pressure was too low for your paint or gun, or either your paint was not so liquid.

Ussualy take a sample metal sheet - and before painting test everything out on it.

Hey Coomer,

keep at it man! That yellow fender is really bright. Reminds me of Lissa's new toy .

i finally got going with my bodywork too. Slow and steady wins the race, eh? Started sanding the engine bonnet-- big job, many surprises!! Right now i'm fighting with the adhesive residue on the sideskirts. RockGuard panels peeled right off but left a real sticky mess behind. Tired everything i had in the house. Rust remover + rubbing compound + elbow grease works best but is slow.

The spray booth rocks. We are going right to the garage walls with the plastic and venting to the outside through a couple of furnace filters. Hope to paint this weekend.

Anyway it's still raining here so i guess i'll work on the skirts some more.

Hey Chris nice project. Long time no type. I'm glad to see your keeping the car. It was always inspiration for me to DIY on mine. The STi project is coming along nice. I'll have to send you a few links to check out.

Are those the power-fold mirrors? I never got to see an end result with those. I'll check back and read up the project thread. Your making me wish I still had my Celica.

wow blast from the bast, whats up ti

Great work Coomer, I'm following this closely because my car also needs to be painted.....very badly. This is inspiration and education for me to take on the job myself, and take my time to make it look as good as possible.

Can't wait to see the end result, its going to look excellent.

Any updates yet Chris, or have you been busy lately? I've had the habit for the past week of checking the exterior forum to see if anythings changed, looking foward to seeing more.

Bump. Updates?