The Project Pad

Ya. They do have quite tiny wheel wells length wise back there. I was originally planning on using some e30 flares, figuring the cars were from the same era so maybe id get lucky. Long story short, it woulda been some work.

zerb wrote:i will get that 4" pipe over the rear diff mount and out the back of the car. by oval-ing it. this was a thicker gauge piece that i had lying around, but you get the idea.



got the passenger side IC pipe done too.

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Look at that, 4 inch over the axle out the back. Hollaaaaaaaaa.

awesome i am doing my dp and exhaust next too. looks sweet.

If you plan 4" out the back. Lots of hammering lots. Cutting floor. More hammering. Oval-ing tube. Hammering.

no i went 3.5". with the vband housing it was just easier to weld the 3.5 on vs the 4 to the housing.

so with the fresh paint scheme this season i decided that all of the engine bay bits needed to be re powder coated as well. i wanted a lighter color with the jazz blue color the car is going to be, but i didn't want just boring old white or off white. so, almond wrinkle it was.

That looks so awesome... very nice.

thanks, i think it'll look nice in the bay with the jazz blue

was it you that was looking for some 4" bends a bit ago?

i have lots of that aluminum pipe/tube and long radius sweeps in 3" and 4" and other sizes of tube as well....

anyways, the wrinkle looks nice but it looks like its gonna be hard to keep clean.

i cant wait for this to be done!

Damnit! I coulda used some of that pipe.

I'll be honest. The wrinkle you can't even tell is wrinkle until you get up on the car. I'll have to see how I like it all done and in the bay. The other wrinkles colors I've seen, red and black, you can really TELL its wrinkle. I assume that's just because they are darker colors though.

You think you want to see it done now? Wait and see the other powdercoat color for some of the smaller engine bay bits, should have it this week. :-)

i love the strap holding up the tubing aaron

i like the jazz blue too.

main larger pieces in the bay will be the almond wrinkle from above. some of the tinier bits, the stainless hardware, etc. will be candy raspberry...

i sprayed this right over the aluminum. the vibrant van box i stripped the anodizing off of it, polished it a bit, wax and grease remover, then the powder. the clamps were clear anodized i think...just sprayed right over those. the bolts i did were stainless and the fuel rail i stripped the old powder, wire wheeled it, then powdered it. they say to chrome powder or silver powder for a base coat with this shit....but i think i like it better just over straight up aluminum.

dude, i dont know why, but I like it.

Wait until I get the intake mani done so you can see the rail sitting on the almond intake. Shit will be mint!

Love it over the bare aluminum

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loxxrider wrote:Love it over the bare aluminum

Ya. The vac box was just billet aluminum like I said that I stripped the ano off of and then took a 3m cookie to it just to get the surface gook off left behind from the ano stripping process. That fuel rail I actually took a wire wheel too then powdered it.

I THINK I'll end up doing the turbo housing this color too once the time comes. Then that'll be it.

so supra

so, i got to get the intake manifold and the throttle body done today so i could see how the candy raspberry fuel rail and intercooler clamps were going to look on the white almond wrinkle stuff.

ill let the pictures speak for themselves...

looks good man, but how much do you drive the car? Wrinkle coat is hard to keep clean when it's a dark color, I can't imagine the horror of trying to keep that looking good.

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roortube wrote:looks good man, but how much do you drive the car? Wrinkle coat is hard to keep clean when it's a dark color, I can't imagine the horror of trying to keep that looking good.

car got about 900 miles on it last year. but it wasn't running well til mid summer. honestly, running mint. it'll see 1,500 max per year. weather permitting, lol.

so, in the midst of waiting for things to get back to me in one piece after welding has completed...and it being a bit too cold to push the car outside and spray the engine bay yet, i decided i would tackle the idea i had of making a fiberglass dashboard.

i have used fiberglass mat, never, in my life time. it didn't come out perfect, but with some sanding i think it'll be pretty good. its going to get suede flocking on it anyway so it wasn't OVERLY concerned about it coming out butter ass smooth.