Weekend 2geez Meet & Bodywork

[2ndGenGuy]

So this weekend was pretty kick ass. Filled with 2gee goodness!

Thursday night I drove out to Xvok's house and spent the evening until midnight pulling the engine out of his '83 hatchback. He's already done some work on it, replaced some smashed fenders... Worked on that until midnight Thursday night.

Got up at 6:30am for work, then left town at about 6:30pm for Castlegar, BC where Guyhatesmycar lives. Took us about 10 hours to get there, since my buddy who came with me forgot his passport 1 1/2 hours into the trip so we had to turn around. Distance from Olympia, WA to Castlegar, BC is about 470 miles. Driving 65-70mph, I got an average of 31.9MPG with the Weber! Yeah!

Map

I got into Castlegar around 5:30am Saturday morning. Called Mike (guyhatesmycar) and woke him up, and we immediately went to Guy's shop and started sanding, touching up, and masking off Mike's car... We worked until about 12:30am (20 hours with a few hour break to swim in the river and eat some delicious burgers). Mike actually stayed until 5:30am Sunday morning to finish getting it ready and Guy put in primer... Yeah almost 24hours straight of hardcore 2gee action...

So here are the pics of the most excellent work!

[2ndGenGuy]

Misc pics from the trip:

Hellacious door gap! Why not to buy Chinese knock-off fenders:






Mike's Other Honda:



Gratuitous Honda Shot:




Mike's 3gee:



And the A20 beer holder:

[ahmad89]

nice and rofl at the beer holder ahah

[knarg]

awesome,
and john i love your 2g, looks so slick with the fat fives and konis

me want some!!!!

[forrest89sei]

SWEET!!

Great Looking Work

[Hazwan]

Thats just hardcore man!

So do that chinese fenders stay or are you guys going to replace with original Honda?

[A18A]

nicce work

[Ichiban]

Thanks again to John and Chris for all the help. I totally owe you guys one! The fenders are going to remain Jackie Chan for now, until I find OE ones in decent shape.

[2oodoor]

Sounds like you guys had a blast. You had that puppy stripped out!

Sometiimes if you put a jack under the uniframe under the drivers door and jack it up some when you mount fenders it helps it come into line better. It has been a while but I think you leave the bottom attaching hardware loose but tighten the upper, and when you let the jack down it pulls the fender back.
That may or may not work depending on that type of fender, It works good on fenders with interstructual support. A 2X4 is a bodymans most handy tool!

[Civic Accord Honda]

sweet man loos awsome

[Pico]

Sounds like you guys had a great Weekend..

[offthahook]

Dedication to the old school Hondas! Hard core Honda lovin' right there. Too bad Hazwan couldn't have flown over to help. You guys would have knocked it all out. Looks like you got a lot done in a single weekend. A telethon like effort.

[bobafett]

2ghb ftw! its going to look great!

[IcedAngel]

The baby is getting washed and ready for paint as we speak. I'll take some pics tomorrow of the brand new hue and post them for everyone. (or rather, have mike post them).

There was definitely a lot of working and not so much sleeping all weekend. Hopefully all goes well with the inspection on Friday and the former "rainbow roadster" will be on her way!

[2ndGenGuy]

The baby is getting washed and ready for paint as we speak. I'll take some pics tomorrow of the brand new hue and post them for everyone. (or rather, have mike post them).
There was definitely a lot of working and not so much sleeping all weekend. Hopefully all goes well with the inspection on Friday and the former "rainbow roadster" will be on her way!

Sweet! Glad to hear that it's coming along! Can't wait to see it finished... Should look good!!

Cool to see you set up an account too! After this car is done, it's time for you to get one too! Maybe a sweet ass 1gee Prelude!

[Ichiban]

It's 0307 in the morning. The car is painted.

[Hazwan]

It's 0307 in the morning. The car is painted.

Pics or

[2ndGenGuy]

It's 0307 in the morning. The car is painted.

Oh man! So awesome! Gotta see it! Hopefully you're sleeping now though. I know there hasn't been much of that recently.

[Ichiban]

We have to fix a run in the hood and the door (both bug related) but I'm going over right now to start on the interior.

[2ndGenGuy]

How does the hood look? I know we felt that high spot... is is still there?

[BITESIZE]

Pictures!!!

[Hazwan]

We have to fix a run in the hood and the door (both bug related) but I'm going over right now to start on the interior.

I feel ya with the bugs. They just love the new paint

[2ndGenGuy]

Not to mention that there was a massive invasion of those little bastard bugs up there. When I drove into town, I must have killed about 5,000 of them with my windshield. I thought it was raining at first. Nasty fuckers. I sucked as many as I could out of the paint booth with a vacuum.

[Ichiban]

Well we repainted the hood, cowl, passenger door and fender today. The door, fender and cowl all turned out well, but a bunch of water came out of nowhere and spotted the hood. Tomorrow it's getting put together. Pictures sometime tomorrow? :suspense

[2ndGenGuy]

Aaah! The suspense is killing me!!