[car_overhaul] Project Eddie

[Carbs4me 45]

Oh i dont know if this is entirey acurate but my mate who is a profession mechanic tells me to rough up the ports slightly rather than making them smooth with a polish... he says something about it causing turbulance which gives a good mixture which gives more power if i understood what he said correctly, and beware oversizing the ports it dusnt always increase power figures. His words where after i mentioned getting a port and polish "its just a money making scheme that gives no benefit"

 

I aint no expert but he won the mechanic of the year award! LOL

Edited July 5, 2012 by Carbs4me

[GTIJIM 10]

oh right ill just rough it up then should work well with a good cam and a 4-2-1

[johnnyboy666 195 1 Cars]

i think you want smooth one side, and rough the other, but I forget which way round it is

[GTIJIM 10]

right proper update finally lol there are a lot of pictures

 

the last week i have been juggling jobs on other peoples cars and my own but managed to get quite a bit done first up got some filling done on the knackered wing

painted over in black for the night to stop the bare metal rusting still fare from finishing...

bit more filler work

got some of this filler primer from my local parts shop, was up for 4.99 but as i know the man got it for £4 excellent stuff and lasts for a long time.

wing dent finished off and primed

other dent still to finish in this pic

while that was drying i stripped the door down so i could get the lock and handle out when painting it

Edited July 8, 2012 by GTIJIM

[GTIJIM 10]

got some more dents repaired and primed on the drivers side

next day after repairing the other dent on the passengers wing and priming it also a bit of primer on the bonnet but its got too many dents to repair so will be replacing it at some point with an Auto one

boot got flatted

plastics removed

all dents now finished off :thumb:

[GTIJIM 10]

front bumper off

and the rear with the lights

 

and today then up to date it was a nice day i thought great day for painting so moved the car over (it actually started first time ) and began masking up ready to tack cloth it and get on with painting and what would you know the heavens opened just my luck lol so left it like this

rear valance in stone chip after repairing the rust

 

fingers crossed i get a better day tommorow then the paint will be put on

[johnnyboy666 195 1 Cars]

at least it didnt rain after youd started spraying! you gonna put some sort of canopy over it when painting just in case?

[GTIJIM 10]

may ask my uncle if i can borrow his last thing i want is £40 worth of paint down the drain

[johnnyboy666 195 1 Cars]

exactly! and the weathers a bit on and off at the moment.

 

even just a sheet of tarpauline tied to something either side would help

[GTIJIM 10]

luckily managed to get some good weather today so now the car is fully painted in its new colour, bit of a poor finish at the moment but so was my brothers until we flatted and polished it and it came out like glass so hopefully this will be the same

[allye 530 3 Cars]

what was the new colour?

[GTIJIM 10]

you'll have to wait and see pics will be up later, there's plenty of them just got to get them off the camera

[GTIJIM 10]

right then pics finally i think my camera doesn't like me any more lol

 

soooooo this is the compressor i used today cost me £50 off my brother and its nearly new so bargain lol, i know its not exactly huge but its not the size of the tool its how you use it

so first coat of the new colour going on

yep its black had many sleepless nights trying to decide what colour to do it and even went through a faze of wanting to paint it racing blue but that idea quickly went out the window

so next coat on

and another

and another

went for 5 all together

at this point this was how the sky was looking

but still carried on lol next was the boot and the bonnet, the bonnet im not happy with as well as the roof but it should flat and polish to a nice even paint finish like on my brothers, well i hope it will

boot getting a few coats

and boot and bonnet done

[GTIJIM 10]

then the passengers side got painted, again 5 coats

and the roof as i say not happy with it but should look good with a bit of work :thumb:

all done then so unmasked it and put in some different rear windows as the previous ones had a registration off a different car etched into them

then as soon as i moved it back to its regular spot this happened

yep rain ah well paint is dry now some nice fresh paint beading

[GTIJIM 10]

and last but not least got some flatting paper, 1200, 1500 and 2000

 

hopefully begin the flatting process tomorrow will get some more pics then.

[GTIJIM 10]

bit of progress today began the flatting and polishing process on the bonnet in-between the rain lol

 

here's how it was before hand

as you can see its was as flat as a flat thing so i broke out the wet and dry paper grades 1500 and 2000 which gave me this

whole bonnet done the same

then onto the polishing after one pass with farecla scratch remover

after a few more, half the bonnet done :argie:

and finished

[GTIJIM 10]

not bad considering it looked similar to this before

[allye 530 3 Cars]

you've done an amazing job mate! really well done on the finish. Just bit of a shame your not doing the door shuts, engine bay etc? You could have done it in red and looking pimp! opinion and that.

[GTIJIM 10]

you've done an amazing job mate! really well done on the finish. Just bit of a shame your not doing the door shuts, engine bay etc? You could have done it in red and looking pimp! opinion and that.

thanks

i was planning on doing it red but i like black ones

door shuts and engine bay are all getting painted as well when the weather gets better hopefully never be able to notice it was red

Edited July 11, 2012 by GTIJIM

[BusEngineer 7]

Im seriously impressed, that looks to be a great finish

 

Im waiting for the right weather to start rollering my VW T25 campervan, that will be flatted after each coat and polished after, never done it before so slightly nervous!!

[GTIJIM 10]

Im seriously impressed, that looks to be a great finish

 

Im waiting for the right weather to start rollering my VW T25 campervan, that will be flatted after each coat and polished after, never done it before so slightly nervous!!

 

thanks

ive seen quite a few roller paint jobs and it can look amazing just have to make sure you get a good few coats on there so there's a nice amount to flat back i was nervous painting the pug which is nothing on a T25's size lol just got to get stuck in there and keep thinking of what the end result will be like.

[rikky 37]

just read this from start to finish, pretty good work, brave to chance painting it outside though! a lad who lived near me painted his mk2 escort in the rain years ago and it was a right state

[GTIJIM 10]

thanks i thought it was going to rain a couple of times when i was painting it, lucky it didnt

[rikky 37]

i've always wanted to be able to paint decent myself, i've had numerous experiences where i've had shells etc whch needed prepping and had to pay others to do it due to having no kit. think i need to invest in a compressor and proper spray tools. i had someone paint a wing of mine on my 306 a few months ago and he got splatter or debris inside the gun and it caused small marks all over the wing - presumably due to him rushing it or being an amateur! so basically how my whole car would end up if i did it

[mikeygulley 19 1 Cars]

That looks great! Good work!

 

I resprayed my car last year in similar conditions but unfortunatley I didn't use a rocket hardner and put the car back together too soon! The paint has moved in places where the trim has expanded and contracted. But it looks ten times better than it did!