strip your car interior....put the screws back in after you remove whatever item you are doing that way they are in place when you put them back AND you don't have to figure out which screw goes where. You're other alternative would be buy some sandwich bags and put all the screws from certain pieces in the bag and mark the bag very specifically.
If you are going to paint your doors and dash, you can't because of the vinyl. You can either SEM like I did or Fiberglass and bondo them. We were under time constraints so I just SEM'd it.
I invested in a little random orbital sander for like 40 bucks. Then I bought some 80 grit sandpaper. Some 80 grit for the sander and then some additional sheets for hand sanding in those hard to get areas. I would use the orbital to cut labor time significantly. Basically sand the excrement out of everything til' its knocked down really good and scuffed up.
May want to take the time to fiberglass and cracked or broke pieces, I had 2 pieces that needed small patch work, you can't tell now though.
Wipe everything down with a paint prep solution and then spray with a high build primer. Spaying primer is not very hard. I would spray real heavy so you don't sand through real easy.
After spraying primer use a real fine grit sand paper to smooth the primer. On some pieces you may have to reprimer and spray depending on if you sand through to the plastic again.
No, we didn't bring any hoppers this year. At least 1 of our cars should have placed in the 3 wheel competition. Its a hard one to judge though, basically a hydraulic shop guy judged it but there really is no measurement. But one of the people he gave a trophy to was actually over by us asking how we got bigger rear cylinders in than him (they had the same car). There are many other factors involved but one of the easiest ways to get a higher 3 wheel is bigger cylinders, so we were scratching our head on how he won the trophy.
No big deal though, were not there for trophies. We took a few home though and they're always nice reminders of all of our hard work.
two and a half months with no income means I have to see my funding options. Maybe a Saturday Sunday pass for 25 bucks. I'm assuming you're showing again this year?
I hear that. We didn't go last year because everyone in the club was in your boat. Plus everyone was feeling like they're asking for more money and its really not worth the hassle. Gonna give it one last try this year.
Very nice work btw. What shade of purple is that or do you have a color code available? Also, what did you mean specifically when you said that the SEM sucks?
Its house of kolor.....paint code is BC10 with additional miniflake added....here is a couple pics in the sun....
you can see the flake, but my car is in the background, this was a pic of one of our club members cars....its his little beater while he works on his 60 impala.....
as far as SEM sucking......its alot of prep. If you don't really take your time and follow directions you'll get reactions in the paint when you spray it. the first test piece I did had fish eye and crackled on me.....but I slowed down and really prepped the heck out of it and let every stage properly dry and I got good results....
So when can I drop my car off to get my interior done?? LOL
That looks really good. I wish I had the patients to pull everything out and take the care to do it right. There's only a few pieces on my interior that have any painting and I was sick of doing it almost as soon as I started!!
I got sick of it rather quickly....you're from wisconson, do it during the winter like I did.....My husband was working on another club members car, so while he did that every weekend I brought a few pieces to work on. I did it little by little, but I wasn't too impatient because I couldn't take the car out anyway. I still took it right up to the deadline and I started doing this way back in the middle of february. Some of it is painted, the doors and dash are vinyl so rather than fiberglass, and bondo, I wanted to keep a semi factory look so I bought some SEM vinyl paint. Thats stuff sucks too....
There are two ways one) mount it to the rear axle two)mount it under the rear bumper and use black tape to mask it
My husband used black wire loom, he cut the slit part bigger so more of the light shined through but you don't see the bar......too bad I haven't turned them on in years ......little outdated
whats up everyone? how bout a little update. I spent the last 2 months completing as much of the interior of the car as I could. Long ways to go, but I figured I would continue the painted/coach fabric theme on the inside to match my trunk....
As usual I did all the work myself.... My husband and other fellow club members guided me with any questions I had, but it was very similar to all the work I did last year to the trunk. First I gutted all of the interior, then I sanded everything, then I primered, I sanded some more , I primered again , and a final sanding .....from there the paint and clear was done by Chad from my club. Then I reinstalled everything carefully. There is still some touches that need to be done and hopefully I'll be getting some nice seats soon.....heres some pics to snack on.
The poopy part was I did all this work for our cinco de mayo show, which is always the "whats everyone been working on this winter" break out show, but it was a damn monsoon so low turn out.
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because I couldn't take the car out anyway. I still took it right up to the deadline and I started doing this way back in the middle of february. Some of it is painted, the doors and dash are vinyl so rather than fiberglass, and bondo, I wanted to keep a semi factory look so I bought some SEM vinyl paint. Thats stuff sucks too....
.....from there the paint and clear was done by Chad from my club. Then I reinstalled everything carefully. There is still some touches that need to be done and hopefully I'll be getting some nice seats soon.....heres some pics to snack on. 
