westy

Just seems a bad idea to me. Would rather not sit in a cabin with a bin full of gas/fumes.

Made one of these, which is nice.

yep thats fine

cletus for president.

Super usefull bloke to have around.

Just quickly

Are side exhausts legal if they exit on the drivers side behind the rear most opening window??

Mucking around with a few things lately.

Painted and polished the front bumpers so should be ready to get a mould off them.

Working on the rear bumper buck.

Filled some more holes

Finally got the gearbox back in after replacing the input shaft bearing

And pissed about with this for a while

Also bits and pieces like fuel lines, proper brackets for the front end blah blah.

shit me days that awesome...

i reckon spotties would look nice in the front there.

try and print a photo of a decent looking spotty and cut it out and tape it on for visual yes or no action..

cant wait for the next update

This idea has merit.

Have been working on these.

A little tricky to see the detail so here's a close might help.

Glad to see the back of that to be honest.

Now, bumpers.

Satin silver. Win.

Looking really good mate!

Thanks fella. Great to see the Esky at the track too. Awesome work.

My, my, that looks sexayy. I vote no spot lights myself.

Thats the way I'm leaning too.

+1 for z-grip. Good stuff, and green!

Well, well. Two days, two updates.

First side came together reallly slowly but the other side was much better.

Still some trimming to do and not quite sure if the size of the hole is right yet, but showing some potential.

To spotlight or not to spotlight, that is the question.

Painfully slow progress

In other new, I have now a set of these to refurb.

Different?

Looks like a million an' one dragracer wanna be's from the eighties lol.

On a roll

Lamborgini Espada Series 2. There it is I've said it. I just love the 70's chique. Lime Metalic Green, brown leather interior.

David.E.Davis said "Everyone should drive a V12 once in their life."

Cant argue with that tbh.

OK So I would love to paint the Anglia this summer.

Budget says DIY

So I read the paint thread article etc but have the following questions

1) Is a 40L compressor big enough

2) HVLP gun ok? How much should I spend?

3) I plan to use enamel laquer as 2k is a bit scary sounding, am i being a pussy?

4) How much paint will I need?

5) Does someone in chch have a booth I could hire? (or shall I plastic line my double garage?)

6) Do I need to clearcoat?

Cheers for reading

Try and clear this up.

1 Probably not unless it can flow at least 12cfm/min. Hire one for a day if you need to.

2 Yup. I bought a half decent one on sale for about $120. The really cheap ones are horribly inconsistent.

3 Use Acrylic Lacquer. If you can prep a car with primer you should be able to manage the colour. The reason it's easy is that it is half dry when it hits the panel. Because 2k is a chemical reaction to dry, it stays 'thin' untill it starts to cure. This gives it far more time to form runs.

4 4lts of colour and 6 ltrs (+a ltr for clean up) thinners should do a little car like an Anglebox.

5 ?

6 Only need a clear coat for metallics. The reason is that you cant polish a metallic paint because you will polish through different layers of metal flakes and it will end up blotchy. Hence, give it clear and then polish through a paint (clear) that has the same consistency through out. Applies to both 2k and single pack.

Tips (acrylic lacquer)

Orange peel is better than runs. It flat sands out if you think you have too much. Runs are very difficult to sand out entirely.

Work from the top down kinda like cleaning a car. Roof first/boot/bonnet around car. Try to avoid overspray settling on already painted surfaces. Tricky.

Take your time getting the paint on and you should be able to continue to paint till you've almost run out (save some for touch ups).

Allow it to dry for at least 7 days before touching it with polish.

If it ha too much orange peel (likely) wet sand with 2000 wet&dry before buffing. Hand polish ridges/corners ect to avoid polishing through the paint.

Acrylic lacquer is a bit softer than 2 pack paints, so it's easier to scratch but seems a bit better for stone chips, and is softer under a hot sun.

But it's easy to work with, you can pull up a great shine from it and it served as the dominant paint for years among manufactures. One of the main reasons it's not used anymore is that the fumes released are a bit crook for the old air quality. Environmentals ect. It's banned in many cuntry's.

Have a go(maybe on an old panel?).

Fark that!

Cut ze trailing arm to fit ze muffler.

Fixed.

Choppy choppy muffler, it's a left over from the 330 so....

Also, yeah Heath, thats the idea.

I like the idea of where that exhaust looks like it's heading

Ha. Gunna need some work though. Nothing like chopping up a $1k+ muffler...

Absolutely love this project man! Glad to see you're still at it..

Drop tank is it?

Thanks.

Drop tank it is.

Na, E36 is long gone, too many annoying electrical gremlins for me.

Have been following the M3 build on S14, impressive stuff.

Hey Conrad.

They're a bit rough round the edges here, but they seem a decent bunch ha.

Raymond?

Tony.

We met some time ago, when I was trying to sort the flywheel on an E36 man conversion, and since have had to sit through Josh regaling me with tales of awe and wonderment over the M3 ha.

You also outbid me on that rolled and bowled E36 M3 at Turners, but dont worry, I got over that (and E36s, shitfull things) even though you didnt use.