He has them all now... just waiting for the public debut.

WOW! That tub looks fantastic!!! Way to go

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz (we're waiting damn it)

Keep yer pants on...

It will be a few hours before I can get 'em up. I have to resize all of those HUGE pics!

Still workin....

STILL waiting

QUOTE (morgan Posted on Dec 23 2004 @ 06:03 PM)

STILL waiting

You guys can really whine when you don't get your 914 porn! Eric is the exception. He took the pics so he's just being the antagonist.

Teaser thread from earlier today

Here ya go!

Beautiful car !!!!!!!!!!!!

Now to open up my mouth and let my ignorance shine.....

How do you get primer and paint coverage on the inside of the tunnel and the heater tubes ???????

That is great Mike. I remember dropping the front suspension out of it at Brads shop. Completely different looking! It looks juicy

WCC05? Maybe that's pushing it.

QUOTE (heavydriver Posted on Dec 23 2004 @ 09:42 PM)

How do you get primer and paint coverage on the inside of the tunnel and the heater tubes ???????

The tunnel is easy enough, inside the longs just got primer when they were open. Now they are mostly sealed up. No way you're gonna get paint in there. The factory didn't either.

QUOTE (ChrisReale Posted on Dec 23 2004 @ 09:47 PM)

That is great Mike. I remember dropping the front suspension out of it at Brads shop. Completely different looking! It looks juicy

Thanks Chris. Hard to believe huh? It was certainly a long time getting to this point.

QUOTE (rick 918-S Posted on Dec 23 2004 @ 09:56 PM)

WCC05? Maybe that's pushing it.

I doubt it. I'll be lucky if I make it without the car. I *really* need my wife to find a job. We're two months away from losing half our income.

Mike, It's amazing. I remember just a short time ago, lifting your tub onto that flatbed trailer in pieces and all undone.

Nice to see it getting done the right way.

Congrats on a job well done and looking foward to the finish.

KT

Mike,
Thanks for the pics - one of the best Christmas presents I'll get this year

Can't wait to see the rest of the project unfold.

regards
GAZ

PS: I fell in love with the Tangerine too - the real reason I bought mine!

Bee-U-ti-ful..... Wow Mike, it is looking great...

BTW, I assume this was the step of spraying the interior and underneath and the outside body will be painted separately, along with the doors and hoods? (I noticed the masked off areas...). Are you going to paint the top or leave it the factory black?

Congrats for doing the restoration the right way. Hope your wife finds another job soon.

Really great work. Now don't scratch that paint putting it all back together..



Paul

HO-LY CRAP MIKE!!!!

That thing looks unbelievable. You did it up right for sure. From the pics, it certainly looks like it was worth the trouble.

That's freakin' awesome!!! Beautiful metal work!!!

Geeze Mike, that thing really is going to come out phenomenally well. I can't wait till it gets back here now. I am here to offer up my reassembling help when the time comes. I'm sure that is going to be a very tedious, time consuming, nervous, careful, process. But, hell, putting it all back together is the fun part. /peter

BEAUTIFUL!
Makes the wait certainly worth it!
I'm not going to volunteer to help assemble, to scared to be near it .
But will come over, help drink beer and supervise!
Congrat Mike!
Hope your wife find something soon.

Thanks for all the great comments gang. It's been a long time comin...

QUOTE (watsonrx13 Posted: Dec 24 2004 @ 04:44 AM)

Bee-U-ti-ful..... Wow Mike, it is looking great... BTW, I assume this was the step of spraying the interior and underneath and the outside body will be painted separately, along with the doors and hoods? (I noticed the masked off areas...). Are you going to paint the top or leave it the factory black?

Yes, and no.

1) Non-polish areas have been painted as you said. Exterior panels will be done next with special effort applied to body work and paint polishing. Couldn't wait to show off the tangerine paint though.

2) You mean the targa top? It will be factory black. I'm initially going to powder coat or anodize black the roll bar and sail panel trim (I have an extra set), as well as the aluminum seal channels on the A and B pillars. Basically any stainless or aluminum that is against a large field of black anywhere on the canopy. Make sense?

Yo, local guys! Thanks! We'll have an unloading party when I get it home boys.

I just got back from a conjugal visit with my tub. I couldn't help touching it. All of that smooth shiny paint instead of crusty, rusty panels. If I could have hugged it, I would have. Is that wrong?!?!

Glad you made it back safe.

Thanks Eric. Drive went extremely well. Great weather. Did you get to see this pic? I posted it in the I guess I will start it, What did you get for Christmas? thread

Very Nice Mike,

glad your travel went well and also sounds like the best christmas present EVER!!!!

brant

Mike! Glad you had a great Christmas! And a safe drive.
When does your "Toy" comes to Denver?
I've notice the pedal floor area is toatlly different than a reg. 914 floor.Is this a 914/6 thing also?

Missed that one... thanks (proud papa)

She likes Mike... (and Troy)

Bump...

Hey Gint, what's the latest?

QUOTE (Travis Neff @ Feb 3 2005, 01:36 PM)

Bump... Hey Gint, what's the latest?

Damn....I got the 'Topic Reply' email and got excited for new pix!

My Camera literally died. I just sent it back to Nikon today.

Next week will be base primer. I'll try to get another camera to snap some pics with. Troy is working on straightening the sides. Final body prep here we come.

Thanks for steppin in Eric.

Nasty day at work today. It doesn't help when they start talking about firing the biggest slacker - amongst 14 people who are to busy to slack much at all anyway - to "motivate" the others, it isn't a good idea to be surfing 914world.com on the job.

I haven't seen it myself since two weekends back. Troy has taken a few insurance jobs to pay the bills also. I keep telling him, The longer it takes you to finish, the better my chances of decent weather to haul it back home. So no rush."

It's gettin there. There will lots of updates to this thread when it gets close to done.

Part of the tub is home!







Guide coat for block sanding prior to final prime and paint:

Naked teener

Wow, its a beauty..
won't be long now until its all painted!

Paint starts sometime this week!

Sweet, we may have to have some sort of party when she returns home to CO
Ferg

Straight as an arrow...

QUOTE

Ferg  Posted: Mar 15 2005, 04:46 PM]Sweet, we may have to have some sort of party when she returns home to CO :beerchug: Ferg

This tub's homecoming will definitely be party-worthy!

Looks great!!!

This may have been asked in 22 pages of posts so please excuse me but what did you use to strip the shell of the old paint and primer?

Is the paint you used a single stage or a clear-coat?

QUOTE (db9146 Posted on Mar 15 2005 @ 06:27 PM)

Looks great!!! This may have been asked in 22 pages of posts so please excuse me but what did you use to strip the shell of the old paint and primer? Is the paint you used a single stage or a clear-coat?

Dipped and epoxy primed immediately afterwards. Single stage. If you want any more detail than that, you're gonna have to go look at the first 22 pages.

Tub has paint!

It looks great. What color red is that?

oh, and btw. original /6 and all, you should really also black out the front shock tower tops !!!

man, i remember how bad that car looked when it was sitting on that trailer.
it really has come a long way ...

Andy

QUOTE (Lou W Posted: Mar 18 2005 @ 11:13 PM)

It looks great. What color red is that? :smilie_pokal:

That aint red!

It's Tangerine. Or a really reasonable facsimile.

QUOTE (SirAndy Posted on Mar 18 2005 @ 11:21 PM)

oh, and btw. original /6 and all, you should really also black out the front shock tower tops !!! man, i remember how bad that car looked when it was sitting on that trailer. it really has come a long way ...

Tell me about it.

I've never been wild about the black shock tower caps. We'll see...

QUOTE

bad that car looked when it was sitting on that trailer.

I remember it strapped to the flatbed after you marathon drive.

Parts in the van, rust piles left behind...

KT

You are my hero...

I'll get the last patch of old paint off today, and start at filling and :: hope :: by next weekend, I should be ready for my first stab at primer...

Looks fantastic...keep it up man.

QUOTE (CptTripps Posted on Mar 19 2005 @ 05:36 AM)

You are my hero... I'll get the last patch of old paint off today, and start at filling and :: hope :: by next weekend, I should be ready for my first stab at primer... Looks fantastic...keep it up man.

I'm just paying the bills for the metal and paint work. You're actually doing yours yourself. Your the hero man...

Here's another pic for ya. This one looks more like what the color really looks like. Reds and oranges are so hard to get decent color pictures of.

Please excuse the stupid question but I've been wondering about it for a long time and haven't really had the chance to ask someone who's actually dipped a car.

When you acid dip a car, the solution goes all over the place, inside and behind, in areas that will never see the light of day and that you also won't be able to get to with primer unless you dip the car in primer (i.e. inside the windshield frame, the longitudnals, etc.). Since you don't dip prime a car, how do you prevent the windshield frame and the rest of these areas from rusting from the inside out?

BTW, GREAT PAINT.....WOW!!!!!

I've heard of places that dip in a zinc bath.

IMHO, it's not really necessary unless you're planning on driving your car underwater. Those areas might get superficial surface rust, but without a significant source or moisture they're not going to rust significantly. It's a non-issue as far as I'm concerned.

I agree with the 'writing checks' thing. I think I'll be doing it that way next time!

Speaking of next time: I'll be dipping the tub on my next 914 (whatever engine I end up with)

Just seems like a MUCH better place to start. This paint removal is for the birds!

Did you paint that yourself in the driveway/garage?

QUOTE (db9146 Posted on Mar 19 2005 @ 09:56 PM)

When you acid dip a car, the solution goes all over the place, inside and behind, in areas that will never see the light of day and that you also won't be able to get to with primer unless you dip the car in primer (i.e. inside the windshield frame, the longitudnals, etc.). Since you don't dip prime a car, how do you prevent the windshield frame and the rest of these areas from rusting from the inside out?

Cut apart a 914 sometime. Those areas "that will never see the light of day" don't tend to rust. As Mark said, they get some superficial surface rust, but nothing that ends up structural.

QUOTE (CptTripps Posted on Mar 19 2005 @ 11:10 PM)

I agree with the 'writing checks' thing. I think I'll be doing it that way next time! Speaking of next time: I'll be dipping the tub on my next 914 (whatever engine I end up with)Did you paint that yourself in the driveway/garage?

I'm writing the checks, remember? Troy's shop is behind his house. He has a rather large garage attached to the house though in which one side is setup for exclusive use as a paint booth.

IF I ever do this again, it will be soda blasted and not acid dipped.