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Priya's SX/4 project

Started by priya, June 01, 2008, 05:14:05 PM

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68AMXGOPAC

WOW , that is awesome.Those hatch lip patch pieces are perfect,great work.Was that piece of equipment reasonably priced?
   EGG2U

shaggimo

Awesom priya! So by next spring you'll be ready to run it?
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priya

#228
Quote from: 68AMXGOPAC on September 09, 2010, 12:15:10 AM
WOW , that is awesome.Those hatch lip patch pieces are perfect,great work.Was that piece of equipment reasonably priced?
   EGG2U

We were talking about it the other day.  I recall us paying around $250 but my husband remembers us paying $300.  Ward was giving me the gears about it because I thought all the Eagle rust repairs were done, I didn't see a need for it and was reluctant to buy it.  I didn't expect it to come in handy so soon.

Quote from: shaggimo on September 09, 2010, 07:25:40 AM
Awesom priya! So by next spring you'll be ready to run it?

Yes, we should easily be ready to run it by next spring.  My husband is taking 2 weeks off in the middle of September and we're going to put the mechanicals in and by we I mean mostly him.  The plan is to have it ready to drive by the time the snow flies because I'll be taking my Corvette off the road then and have nothing to drive.  The interior needs a lot of work so I'll probably be driving it with a lot of the interior missing/half finished.

Doug, 68AMXGOPAC, and shaggimo, thanks for the encouragement.

mick

That is too cool!  I can't wait to see it in paint!!
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priya

#230
We got some of the painting done on Thursday and Friday night.  Thursday night a grey high build primer went on and a dusting of red for a guide coat which will show low spots on the body work as its sanded off.



Then the doors, hood, hatch, and fenders came off  and Friday night we sprayed the underside of the hood, the hatch and door jambs, the sides of the doors and engine compartment.  It was a very long night, we were there until midnight and the painter still had an hours drive home that night!  And all this after the painter and hubby had already worked an 8 hour day.  I was beat and I didn't start until 5:00 that afternoon, I just can't imagine doing what they did.  Here's some of the results:





We put the hood, fenders, doors, and hatch on this morning and here's how the engine compartment looked.  For some reason the pictures kept wanting to come out blue, but its a really bright purple:


I thought we were going to be painting the whole car Saturday but it takes a lot longer than I realized and Ward and John the painter had actually planned to do this over a one week period and finish spraying the majority of the car next Saturday.  After that paint dries we still will have to go back and paint the door window frames and roof drip rail blue as it was too complicated to do this all at once.  Between now and then I'll be sanding down the high build primer to hopefully remove all the imperfections in the preperation work I had done previously.  The quarter panels, doors, roof, and sides of the fenders had a few spots that weren't so good, the hood and tops of the fenders have a lot of things that never came out too well but hopefully a careful sanding of the high build primer will get most or all of those.  The hood had all manner of little dings and I filled them seperately and most of them showed up as uneven layers in the primer.  I was going to put body fill over the entire power bulge of the hood and sand that down as one like I did with the doors and in retrospect that's what I should have done as the doors came out very straight despite having quite a share of dings and waves themselves.

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thereverendbill

WOW! that is a beautiful color and an excellent job your doing on it ..... good luck on the rest of the project
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Looks like a great purple to me. EGGselent job.
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thereverendbill

My question is are you using that new waterborne paint on yours or are you doing it old school (The shop i work at just converted to that stupid waterborne)
1980 Eagle 2 door sedan (future solid axle swap)
1981 Eagle Kammback (restoration in progress)
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priya

#237
Yes, its a water based paint and its a pain in the butt.  When I told the painter I wanted the door window frames and the roof drip rail painted blue he got upset and said no way, that's too much work, I won't do it.  We asked the shop if they'd do it for money and they said with waterborne paints its a logistics nightmare and they want no part of it. We eventually got the painter to agree to paint those areas purple and then after the clearcoat is dry if I go back and mask and scuff those areas he'll paint it with a regular paint which probably won't be quite as shiny and may be a slightly different shade but at least I'll get it all the colour I want.  Apparently even with that its going to be a very long day Saturday to paint the exterior purple, the lower body blue and put two blue racing stripes acroos the hood and roof.  The purple is sprayed first, then after 3 hours the blue is painted roughly where its going to go and then 3 hours later we mask off the blue we want to remain blue, the car is repainted purple again, the tape comes off some time later and then a number of layers of clear go on.  I was told that back in the old days it was much easier to paint a car the way the sport model Eagles were done but nowadays you never see cars with those sort of multi-partition colour schemes, they're almost all one colour or at most a two tone with the lower body one colour and the upper a different one.

Pat

Sounds like a lot of work. Never knew it took that much to paint a car.
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Quote from: 1OldFordMan on September 12, 2010, 10:40:29 PM
Sounds like a lot of work. Never knew it took that much to paint a car.

It usually doesnt take that long but this car is being done the right way all around. The results should be amazing.
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