Ryan's bug is gettin' close

[NO_H2O]

Well Monday Dave Mace came over to the house and we sqaured up the last of the bodywork on Ryan's car. Then we shot $120 worth of Evercoat Slick-Sand High Build primer (great stuff-highly recomended). After we put 1.5 Gal. of mixed high build on it, I spent the next few days blocking it out and finished up with the blocking today. It's ready to spray. Sun. the engine will come out and Monday it will go the the booth for a few coats of PPG Porsche Gaurds Red. The interior kit (black/black/black) has ordered today. I hope I can get it done before the end of the month for his wedding.

[vdubvr6]

got any pics? :D :cool:

[boygenius]

How much was the paint? I know it will look good when its all painted. :D

[NO_H2O]

No pix yet.
I got the paint for just under $200 shipped from autobodydepot.net ,,,,,thats 1 Gal. and 1 pint of paint, 1 gal. reducer and the hardener.

[boygenius]

Not as expensive as I thought. Maybe I will do my own bodywork. :rolleyes:

[vujade]

wow thats cheap for red...Red is usually really costly.

Thats gonna look really good Dave. We NEED Pics! :D

[hybrid_john]

Thats a really good deal on paint. I just bought some epoxy primer the other day from Dupont, it was going to cost me around $200 just for the primer...I'm glad I could hustle him down to around $110.

There ar some disadvantages to living in a small town in the middle of nowere!


cant wait to see the pics, I know the car's gonna look great!



John

[NO_H2O]

The internet is great. Most sites can't advertize prices on PPG stuff. I bought the same pait that was used on the black car for $20 less per gallon and in red. The Slick Sand primer I bought local because I needed it then.
I took some pix but I'm havin' trouble uploading them

[yellow73]

Dave, glad to hear that the car is coming along. Now that is a cool wedding present. Is the spoiler on already or being installed after paint?

[NO_H2O]

it's on the decklid now.

[NO_H2O]

Well the engine got pulled, we towed it to the booth, wiped it down, masked it off, wiped it down, pushed it in the booth, wiped it down and wiped it down again. It will get tacked and shot tomorrow. Thats alot of wiping. I havn't done that much wiping since my twins were in diapers.

[NO_H2O]

Well it's RED. We will color sand and buff it tomorrow.

[yellow73]

Dave,
It looks gooooood

[NO_H2O]

Color sanding is done and the heavy cut buff is done. 3 more stages of buffing and she will be ready to bring home.

[Mikey]

Color sanding is done and the heavy cut buff is done. 3 more stages of buffing and she will be ready to bring home.

That sounds great, I can't wait to see my Ghia painted. Hopefully before the end of the year. :rolleyes: While I still have the money.

[NO_H2O]

Zen. I got that frozen adjustable beam apart today. It took my truck, a tree, a chain, a come-a-long, 24" adjusable wrench and a 6 lb. deadblow. Even with all that I think I can use it for Ryan's car if I get the bearings out and replace them with a urithane bushing kit.

[boygenius]

I'm looking foward to seeing the car painted. I love guards red... :D :agree:

[zen]

Zen. I got that frozen adjustable beam apart today. It took my truck, a tree, a chain, a come-a-long, 24" adjusable wrench and a 6 lb. deadblow. Even with all that I think I can use it for Ryan's car if I get the bearings out and replace them with a urithane bushing kit.

guess i wasn't imagining that then. :D didn't expect it would be that bad though.

[NO_H2O]

Well, it is home and we will strip the old headliner out and get cracking on the new one today. I got all the new rubber and glass in the drivers door last night so it is air/water tight, well at least untill we strip the old headliner out. The paint came out great. I would recomend Dave and Shannon to anyone looking for paint/body work. www.autobodypaint.net :agree:

[NO_H2O]

Ok, we are on rain hold so i will make a run to Hankock Fabric for some interior stuff (padding/foam). and Lowes for some glue and brushes.

[zen]

yep. just got the rain up here to. glad you got the car back home safely. need to tell Mace to come to me for a website. :D i am sure i have a painting need somewhere.

[NO_H2O]

Already told them :laugh:

[NO_H2O]

Headliner and glass are in. We had some EMPI 1/4 window rubber and WCM front and rear rubber. Had to make a 1 hour drive to Herrel's Bug Parts to get WCM 1/4 window today after the EMPI rubber split trying to install it. The WCM rubber went on like butter. The Empi rubber went on the glass hard and never got completely in the car. My hands hurt bad today from fighting window rubber and pulling the installation cord. But it is all in and most of the trim is on. I just covered it up and I need a nap. To top things off Kustom 1 sent the wrong seat covers for the second time. First time all the int. kit was black except the seat covers were off white (ordered an all black 73 kit). This time I got 70-72 black seat covers. New ones are on the way after some @$$ chewing on the phone.
I hate stupid people. :mad:
I will never order from them again. If Herrel's would have had what I needed I would have bought the set from them.

[zen]

a second time????!!!!!?????

i have only heard a couple of stories about them, but they all had the same theme and same level of customer service...none. always try to put shipping charges on the customer for their misshipment. i have no direct experience with them and not planning on it.

[NO_H2O]

This will be my last time to deal with them. :mad:

[NO_H2O]

Well the seat covers came yesterday and the front seats are covered and need to have the backs put back on. I have stripped the rear frames and need to get some food and pick up the shop before I get back to it.
All the rubber is in and I am waiting for an intake to be welded to install the engine. The deck lid is done and waiting for the engine to go in. I need to swap the front beam and weld a patch in the rear floor also. The audio stuff showed up 2 days ago, so I need to make a rear cabinet too.

[NO_H2O]

Seats are covered. I will put the backs on the front seats today and try to knock out the speaker box.

[NO_H2O]

Speaker box is done. Yesterday and today I welded in the floor repair and stripped and POR-15'ed the floor.

[justdubbin]

Any pictures yet?
I can't wait to see it :D


Rob.

[vujade]

Headliner and glass are in. We had some EMPI 1/4 window rubber and WCM front and rear rubber. Had to make a 1 hour drive to Herrel's Bug Parts to get WCM 1/4 window today after the EMPI rubber split trying to install it. The WCM rubber went on like butter. The Empi rubber went on the glass hard and never got completely in the car. My hands hurt bad today from fighting window rubber and pulling the installation cord. But it is all in and most of the trim is on. I just covered it up and I need a nap. To top things off Kustom 1 sent the wrong seat covers for the second time. First time all the int. kit was black except the seat covers were off white (ordered an all black 73 kit). This time I got 70-72 black seat covers. New ones are on the way after some @$$ chewing on the phone.
I hate stupid people. :mad:
I will never order from them again. If Herrel's would have had what I needed I would have bought the set from them.

I have ordered from Kustom 1 before and will never do so again either.
I ordered a whole mess of rubber from them and ordered either WCM or German which ever was avaiblable. I also order a WCM dash from them and they sent me a cheap piece of crap one instead and still charged me for the good one.

When I called up to ask what was up, they told me the WCM ones were on back order and they didnt have any in stock (so did they make a mistake by sending me a cheap one or did they try to pass it off, seeing as they knew they were on back order?). Then they tell me to send it back and they will send me a new WCM when they get them in. Well I sent it back to them and they call me and tell me that I destroyed it (which was a bunch of BS). Told me that I folded it in half and put it in a smaller box then they sent it to me in. I told them if that was true, then UPS did and not me. In the mean time I called WCM directly and ordered one from them and asked them if Kustom one was a dealer. They told me that they were no longer dealers as of 3 or 4 months before I ordered from them and that they were probably getting WCM products from other avenues other then directly from WCM.

So the moral of the story is I wont be ordering from them anytime soon.
BTW, the owner was a complete a s s to me on the phone and I had to get irate with him to get anywhere.

[NO_H2O]

I still can't upload pix but I have taken a bunch.

[yellow73]

NO_H2O you get more done in a week than I do in a year!!!!!!

[NO_H2O]

I still didn't get as much as I had planned. Hard to do stuff by your self. Pluss I had to wait 2 extra weeks for the seat covers.

[NO_H2O]

I posted some pix here under Ryan's profile. "82 Silverburst"

[NO_H2O]

Interior, Seats and Stereo are in. Still waiting on the new dash/vents, trunk/spare carpet kit, stuff the engine/hang the deck lid, install guages, install mirrors and swap the beam out.

[yellow73]

So what are you going to do after lunch?????

[NO_H2O]

Beam swap is done(yesterday). It rained all day today so I got nothing done today.

[zen]

you can't have that much left. looking forward to seeing it.

[vdubvr6]

I posted some pix here under Ryan's profile. "82 Silverburst"


:( OK, either i don't know where i'm looking or they still didn't post right man! sounds like a fun project though. i have a 72 that i'm working on right now, but getting no where as far as you are in that amount of time. mine'll prolly take a couple years cause i have no money. :laugh: have fun and continue to keep us all updated! :cool:

[NO_H2O]

There are 4 pic under his profile in member rides on the main page.
PS: I got so much done because I took a week off to work on it. :laugh:

[hybrid_john]

:D it's lookin damn good Dave, I'm stuckin with a little envy ;)


One Sweet ride...


Kudos


john

[NO_H2O]

Here are some of the latest pix of the car.

[Scotts73SB]

Wow whatta beaut!!! Love that color.. in fact...it makes me hungry!
Great work guys!:bowdown:

[NO_H2O]

He still has to do the brakes and wheels but I think I have put him on the right track. And I have spent enough time and $$$ on this one, being that I won't be the one driving it.
Glad you like it.