What did you do for your ride today? (v3.0)

[TimTaylor751647545500]

A lot hinges on those doors being able to open.

[iwashmycar]

:fa:

[AudiOn19s]

M2 Competition showed up finally and I’ve started its protection program. Didn’t take as many pictures as I should have...was more focused on getting shit done. Still at least two days to go.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited June 16, 2019 by Mitch
tried to fix pics and failed

[cstmg8]

M2 Competition showed up finally and I’ve started its protection program. Didn’t take as many pictures as I should have...was more focused on getting shit done. Still at least two days to go.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Can't see the pics on Tapatalk, I want to see pics!

 

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[Mace1647545504]

Didn't drive it today in this mess

[AudiOn19s]

IDK why I can't get that post from my phone to work...but here are the new car prep shots from the M2 comp, initial detail,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[AudiOn19s]

prep day 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[AudiOn19s]

I get back into town tomorrow, it gets full front wrap and Tint Thursday / Friday.

 

Sunday planning to install these:

[Miller]

Nice Andy.

[iwashmycar]

:fuckyeah:

[cruizin01]

M2 looks great. Saw you here when the car came the one day talking with "Mr. Know It All" and didn't want to interrupt that. :-)

[RS69]

Bleed the brakes on the 69 vette.

[BIGGU]

on the Mark 2 it finally got a new radio (Pioneer W4400nex) and new front speakers since I found out that one was blown and the previous owner just disconnected it.

[Not Brian]

Changed muh oil. Fumoto valves are the best thing ever.

 

 

[Not Brian]

Bought some fun stuff

 

[BuckeyeROC]

Bought some fun stuff

 

 

Does that mean no 6th gen soon?

[Not Brian]

After rolling over a dozen cars I think I've finally learned just to stick with what I got and mod it to hell.

[BuckeyeROC]

After rolling over a dozen cars I think I've finally learned just to stick with what I got and mod it to hell.

 

You have a BA car, I don't blame you.

[EssFo]

After rolling over a dozen cars I think I've finally learned just to stick with what I got and mod it to hell.

 

That's always worked for me. :fuckyeah:

[Wease]

So I've been slowly getting some shit done on my '86 Mustang GT. Over the years there have been little things that broke, need attention, etc. and I normally blow them off because it's an older car and as long as I can keep driving it and it wasn't a safety concern, I didn't care for the most part. One of those things has been the hood. A few years ago, the pine tree next to my driveway leaked sap on the hood and fucked the paint up. Granted the paint on the car has never been great to begin with, but now it really looks like hell. I didn't want to spend money on a repaint, as some day I'll build an engine for the car and paint it legit. So I wanted some kind of stop gap. I had heard / seen guys use PlastiDip on their cars for stuff, and figured it might do the trick. After all, the correct hood on my car is supposed to have a flat black decal, not the painted on one I had, which is what the guy I bought it from did to it. So flat black PlastiDip on the hood is going to look really close to that flat black decal, if I can do it right.

 

So this weekend I cleaned the hood off as best as I could, then taped it all off, bought two spray cans of black PlastiDip, and went to town on it. I probably put 8-10 coats on, and went through one whole can and part of another. Here's the timeline of how it went down.

 

Here's what I started with, note the missing clear coat where the sap got it, you can't miss it:

 

http://wease.net/86/Hood/Hood1.jpg

 

http://wease.net/86/Hood/Hood2.jpg

 

You're supposed to go really, really light for the first couple of coats, and wait 15 minutes between each coat. I stuck to those rules, so here's what that looked like. You can barely see it on there:

 

http://wease.net/86/Hood/Hood3.jpg

 

This is about halfway through, you can see it filling in nicely:

 

http://wease.net/86/Hood/Hood4.jpg

 

And here's the finished product. Pretty much all the defects, as well as the stripes and "GT" have been filled in:

 

http://wease.net/86/Hood/Hood5.jpg

 

http://wease.net/86/Hood/Hood6.jpg

 

I realized that if I wanted the tape to come off as straight as possible, I needed to lightly cut it away with a razor blade. It's not perfect, but at first glance, it looks really close to the flat black that it's supposed to be, other than the missing bottom stripes and "GT". Considering I spent nothing more than a couple cans of PlastiDip and some tape, I think it turned out better than expected, and is a great stop gap until I actually build / paint the car.

[iwashmycar]

Looks like Plastidip.

[AudiOn19s]

full front wrap and tint complete, now we can actually put some miles on her.

 

Hope to find time one nigh this week to get the suspension on there.

 

[Wease]

Looks like Plastidip.

 

LOL, that's kind of the point. The original decal looked just like this.

[caseyctsv]

Quick cell pic of my new wheels...

 

 

They look painted in photos but in person you can tell it is a tinted clear coat over polished. It is a pretty cool effect in person.

 

 

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[Not Brian]

sticky meats installed