Heist's Build Thread.

[LaMaR-]

Haha! I two good friends who do automotive painting for a living and ive talked to both quite a lot about their craft. They say they normally apply two coats of clear to an average customer's car, my buddy did 3 three when he resprayed his Corrado and that thing is shiny as fuck! Id honestly say 6 coats is a shit ton of clear!
You're right about getting it smooth though!

I would say that your friends are correct about doing it for production or bodyshop ways the faster stuff gets done the more money is made. I painted for 3yrs before joining the navy.

I was just stating that 6 isnt that much, ive seen alot more then that done to help cover heavy flakes for minitrucks and such. But in the end I have no idea how many coats were sanded off the make it smooth lol

[Heist]

Nothing good, but still progress.

welded the lines shut. The little things get to me haha



Pulled out another wire wheel and stripped all the primer off the seals. I'm set on making this as rust free as possible.


Purchased the prep and por 15. The prep and ready leaves a zinc coat, pretty badass.


sprayed all the metal and infected areas with the metal ready.




After 30 minutes you can really see it bubbling and pulling up the rust.


cleaned everything off and applied a liberal coating of por 15 to all the headliner, a/b pillars. and any trim that had raw metal/ rust.





Por 15's light sensitive so i'm going to let it dry in my garage till friday, then do a light sand and spary some can primer on it.

[Heist]

Still drying. Applied a light spray of primer.

stuff is really amazing, can'y wait to see how it holds up.

[hffvdbl]

Beautiful 2002! Love the wheels

[CubbyChowder]

Nice progress! I love this build. Keep it up dude

[Flashpoint_RX7]

Just finished reading this from page one. Finally I can leave work.

also, its coming along fantastic!

[ChristopherJason]

Nice work man. Cant wait for the paint to start flowing.

[KenSpec]

wow, excellent work sir!!!!! Hats off to you and doing this all in your driveway

[Dirty Thirtie]

Nice work man Im in the process of building mine too. Im going bags though. Leaving it just I as I got her with faded paint and rust and all for the moment

[Heist]

nice stoked to see another 02 in the stance scene. should look sick dumpt. Keep me updated !

[Dirty Thirtie]

Will do should be bagged for Bimmerfest, can't wait to see the faces on the 2002 purist that **** bags and the stance scene haha

[Heist]

nice! yeah man the purist's really don't know what the hell to do with it. The 2002faq site forum makes me feel like an outsider.

[Dirty Thirtie]

I know haha that's why I don't even bother posting it on those forums just to get the needed mechanical tips

[G535]

Great progress! Proper work as always, keep it up.

[2win]

Great job, cant wait to see it finished!