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Posted by: URY914 Feb 5 2006, 02:37 PM

Last night I painted the front hood, the tonnaeu cover and both one-piece sides.

Results: from best to worst...

Tonnaeu cover: Paint is thin but no orange peel, I'll keep it.
Front hood: Orange peel, but only a few thin spots. I'll keep it as is.
Left side: a few sags and orange peel, but no thin spots. Repaint it.
Right side: OMG! Did I do this with my eyes shut? Sigs all over, thin spots where you can see the primer and orange peel llike 30 grit samd paper. Complete sand and repaint required.

I reshot the left side this morning. Much better job. But I'll have to spend a few nights working on the right side before being able to reshoot it. Here is the left side in the booth, I mean my garage this morning.

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Posted by: Aaron Cox Feb 5 2006, 02:38 PM

i love how you can take the side of your car off.. ROFL

Posted by: Stutgart46 Feb 5 2006, 02:39 PM

Sounds good Paul.
I can't wait to see it put together.

Posted by: URY914 Feb 5 2006, 02:41 PM

Here is the hood after a few hours baking in the sun. Today is a perfect day for sun.

We learned a few weeks ago that a little turbulance is a good thing. So if my hood has a finish sorta like an orange, this would be OK right? Kinda like a golf ball.

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Posted by: URY914 Feb 5 2006, 02:43 PM

Here is the best piece...

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Posted by: URY914 Feb 5 2006, 02:44 PM

Sweet love

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Posted by: URY914 Feb 5 2006, 02:49 PM

I'm going to let the left side sit for a few hours inside. This has some orange peel but not as bad as before.

I'm not showing you the right side.

Next Sunday I'm going to Sebring to put it on the scales.

P

Posted by: STL914 Feb 5 2006, 03:04 PM

Looking good Paul.

Did you make the one piece left and right sides?

I've been searching for something exactly like that for several years now to use as a life size wall hanging in the Porsche Loft in my house. That and a pair of Fuchs and tires cut down to fill in the wheel wells.

What does the single piece weigh?

Posted by: wrpspddrvr Feb 5 2006, 03:19 PM

QUOTE (URY914 @ Feb 5 2006, 03:44 PM)
Sweet love

Wow- it looks nice. I don't much care for the fan propeller mounted swamp-boat style on the rear lid, though. Is that SCCA legal?

Cole

Posted by: Lou W Feb 5 2006, 03:30 PM

Sure does look good

Posted by: URY914 Feb 5 2006, 04:41 PM

QUOTE (wrpspddrvr @ Feb 5 2006, 01:19 PM)

QUOTE (URY914 @ Feb 5 2006, 03:44 PM)
Sweet love

Wow- it looks nice. I don't much care for the fan propeller mounted swamp-boat style on the rear lid, though. Is that SCCA legal?

Cole

I KNEW someone would say something about that.

Posted by: URY914 Feb 5 2006, 04:43 PM

QUOTE (STL914 @ Feb 5 2006, 01:04 PM)
Looking good Paul.

Did you make the one piece left and right sides?

I've been searching for something exactly like that for several years now to use as a life size wall hanging in the Porsche Loft in my house. That and a pair of Fuchs and tires cut down to fill in the wheel wells.

What does the single piece weigh?

Yes the sides are one piece and 95% fiberglass.

One side weights 20 pounds maybe. Kinda hard to hold it on the bathroom scale.

Posted by: seanery Feb 5 2006, 05:13 PM

Paul, it's easy, just climb on the scale...check your weight. Then climb on with the panel...check new weight, subtract old from new weight and there's your easy answer...take the scale outside to make it easier

Posted by: Aaron Cox Feb 5 2006, 05:22 PM

QUOTE (seanery @ Feb 5 2006, 04:13 PM)
Paul, it's easy, just climb on the scale...check your weight. Then climb on with the panel...check new weight, subtract old from new weight and there's your easy answer...take the scale outside to make it easier

thats how we weigh our dogs....

Posted by: seanery Feb 5 2006, 05:27 PM

QUOTE (Aaron Cox @ Feb 5 2006, 06:22 PM)

QUOTE (seanery @ Feb 5 2006, 04:13 PM)
Paul, it's easy, just climb on the scale...check your weight. Then climb on with the panel...check new weight, subtract old from new weight and there's your easy answer...take the scale outside to make it easier :D ;)

thats how we weigh our dogs....

me, too!

Posted by: Aaron Cox Feb 5 2006, 05:29 PM

QUOTE (seanery @ Feb 5 2006, 04:27 PM)

QUOTE (Aaron Cox @ Feb 5 2006, 06:22 PM)

QUOTE (seanery @ Feb 5 2006, 04:13 PM)
Paul, it's easy, just climb on the scale...check your weight. Then climb on with the panel...check new weight, subtract old from new weight and there's your easy answer...take the scale outside to make it easier :D ;)

thats how we weigh our dogs....

me, too!

rofl!

Posted by: trekkor Feb 5 2006, 07:41 PM

Good job!

Thin coats are lighter.

KT

Posted by: watsonrx13 Feb 6 2006, 08:05 AM

Great job Paul, nice to see the car one color again...

-- Rob

Posted by: BarberDave Feb 6 2006, 08:29 AM

GREAT CAR !!!! Keep us posted.

DAVE

Posted by: Hybrid_Teener Feb 6 2006, 09:42 AM

OMG!! LOOK AT ALL THAT PAINT!!!

now it weighs too much!

=p

Posted by: Root_Werks Feb 6 2006, 09:43 AM

Sweet mother of painted FG flared race cars! That looks great!

Posted by: URY914 Feb 6 2006, 05:55 PM

I hung the left side on it after I gotr home from work.

Man it is RED.

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Posted by: URY914 Feb 6 2006, 05:56 PM

It was getting dark so the pictures are doctored up a little.

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Posted by: neo914-6 Feb 6 2006, 10:06 PM

Very nice Paul!

no offense intended but it sorta reminds me of a cross between the one-piece amusement park car ride...

...and the Isdera Spyder 036i!

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Posted by: URY914 Feb 7 2006, 06:37 AM

Felix,

I don't think I've ever seen that car. Looks good.

I plan on taking some pinstriping tape and outlining the door lines so from about 10' away it won't look one piece sides.

P