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    My car build thread

    Finally starts working on my car. There are couple of small rust spots that I need to take care of first. The car has been repainted 2 times before and theres body filler everywhere Some of them are as thick as 5mm! I'm stripping to bare metal and use the filler only when its needed.
    I'm working together with my father. He used to work at body shop back in the 60's, and pretty good with it.

    Heres couple of pics:
    Rusts at the quarter panel near the rear window. Look at the filler!!!!


    Realigning the door and fender:


    Removed the bonnet


    Clean door hinge lol

    Moar rusts


    More filler
    [IMG[http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v197/ullyeus/forum/3geez/DSC01047.jpg[/IMG]

    Scrapping the paint (before I used my grinder lol)


    eeek!

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    Re: My car build thread

    Much better!






    Heres the fucking filler on the bonnet, look at how thick it is????!!


    Thats all for today.. My back hurts now
    Reinstalled the bumper because I'm going to get the rust welded tomorrow. I don't want any trouble with cops
    Last edited by Hazwan; 06-17-2007 at 02:37 AM.

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    Re: My car build thread

    wow from previous pics your car looked so clean lol, but thats still pretty good compared to alot of 3geez on here. that car looks so cool, better than those rx's

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    Re: My car build thread

    bondo/filler is the cheapest way out from fixing a dent or ding....the point of it is...pull out the metal as far as possible to original place then use bondo to smooth it out.....and yeah 5mm is alot.

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    Re: My car build thread

    Owtch but hey its guna get another nice dose of TLC good luck


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    Re: My car build thread

    The rust is not that bad actually. The paint itself is still in good condition. The filler is ugh.. its so thick that the original lines and curve is almost non existant. I am stripping it as much as I can.

    Remember that the car has frame damage and not what I can call straight car anymore. Me and my dad are doing this just for 'fun' and to learn. We are planning to spend less than $200 in paint and materials. Hope everything goes well!

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    Re: My car build thread

    I know trying to get the bonnet perfect is a real pain with large flat areas & thin sheet metal, mines still got a few dents down the spine & odd subtle depressions -I'm just glad it's a light colour to hide it. & the panel flexs so much, filler is all too likely to crack & fallout or let moisture behind & rust & removing its paint I gave up trying to sand it & went for the paint stripper -too easy to over-heat & warp with electric sander. (My Accords bonnet weighs about half what my Lancia one does!)

    I'm now repairing rust holes in my Preludes where filler was used around w/screen pillars & rear panel joints instead of seam-seal like factory. You're unlikely to get a perfect surface with it, but if there's movement involved it will flex more rather than crack & won't let the moisture in.
    Last edited by 79cord; 06-17-2007 at 07:07 PM.

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    Yeah man your car has less rust on it than my 2gee does! Though I think my 81 has got yours beat in that department. Your car was beating me in the paint department, since mine is a nice shade of pink. I'm sure your car will look fantastic when you're done though. Getting rid of that bondo should be some nice preventative maintenence.

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    Re: My car build thread

    The car has minimal rust as its already been fixed sometimes ago. The original color is beige and repainted silver. Thats what it is when my dad bought it somewhere in 90's from his friend. My dad then repainted the car metallic blue (current color). Imagine at least 6 layers of paint on the body excluding the filler.... In some area theres even 3 layers of fillers in different color!!!

    Todays update..

    Heres the left quarter panel. arrrr!!!!!!!




    The quarter panel is welded sometimes ago




    WTF!!?!??!??111






    Its going to be fun to smooth that metal..

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    Re: My car build thread

    Front left fender continued..




    Sanded the right doors to make it flush. Not much filler here






    Fender lines sanded. No filler here.. thank god



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    Re: My car build thread

    Antenna hole fiberglassed. My dad changed his mind not to send out the car for welding. We used fiberglass to cover the holes instead. (Saves $$$ lol)

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    Re: My car build thread

    I love the current color. Are you going to keep it that way?

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    Re: My car build thread

    Don't know yet. Still can't decide what color to put on.. Any ideas?

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    Re: My car build thread

    Well you can never go wrong with that classic bright red color that the 2g's had. Very sporty. Or black. But I do like the current color.

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    Re: My car build thread

    Nothing much today, I stripped the interior.


    Antenna hole. Almost done, ready for.... filler!


    Driver's original side mirror hole ready for fiberglass. It used to be filled by.... filler.


    More scrapping..





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    Re: My car build thread

    As for the color, I was thinking of something like this:



    What do you guys think?

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    I think we need some photoshop action to know for sure... But it's a cool, unique color indeed!

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    Re: My car build thread

    Hazwan is your car color currently midnight blue?

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    Re: My car build thread

    Yeah its midnight blue.

    Heres a chopped image of the color. I don't know if I like the orange+chrome.. but then the color is a bit off due to crappy original image.


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    Re: My car build thread

    Cleaned up the tail lights.. Can you see the difference?







    Too bad theres some small cracks on the orange part..

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    Re: My car build thread

    There were at least 3 Honda metallic gold's '76-82 weren't there if you liked any of them, brassy/bronze though to a soft gold... & some blue's similar to yours (maybe a little less grey?)
    But so often people do bad colour matches when retouching metallics....

    Nice to see your car's colour change was so thorough, under the interior door trims & all.

    It's amazing how much difference all the detailing like inside the light lenses will make to the end result. That looks great.
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    Re: My car build thread

    Did some work today. Removing the weatherstrips and misc parts thats not going to be painted.

    My dad priming the bonnet




    First layer of filler (Now thats how you use them!)


    2nd layer, still lots of low spots. The fender has been hit while back, its no longer straight.




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    Re: My car build thread

    man just seeing you progress on your car makes me want to work on my car as well.

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    Very nice

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    Re: My car build thread

    i can tell this is going to turn out awesome
    thumbs up bud

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