- Wed Oct 06, 2010 1:58 pm
#217122
Started body work last night. My camera died so i called it quits and will be posting the rest later tonight. Went out to the store and got myself a nice gravity feed. I dont have a whole lot of experience painting with one so its going to be interesting. I havent ordered my paint yet, just got some primer. Considering repainting the whole car jet black so that i dont have to try and paint match. Well see how things go.
Started out by sanding down any dents with 80 grit BEFORE i sanded the rest of the panels, that way i still knew where to bondo afterwards. I dunno about anyone else but once that clear is gone its hard for me to find any dents. Other sand paper used is 230 grit, which i used to clean up the edges of the bondo and for any sanding on an area that wasnt going to be filled. For anyone who doesnt have experience with sand paper, use 300 grit to finalize the bondo.
There were no major dents anywhere, just little dings here and there, you can see one high spot where the hood was dented out for some reason. (looks like a red target on a blue hood with a metal bullseye, lol)
Another view, you can kinda tell where the dings are as the clearcoat hasnt been sanded out of the dips yet at this point.
Here is the hood after body filler, before sanding. My method of body work is putting more on than needed. It takes less time to sand excess than it does to apply it 2-3 times. Of course if it wasnt my DD i would probably not do it this way. (and if i had a garage).
Sanding all the badly done blue paint off the bumper because im worried if i paint over it itll flake off. But the inserts were a pain in the butt to sand down...had to do it by hand and was done after this photo. The quality of the paintjob on the blue panels is maaco or something. Luckily the rest of the car still has its factory paint.
Heres the hood mostly sanded and wetted down for cleaning. The drivers fender hasnt been filled yet.
Can really see were the dents are on the drivers fender, lol. Red on either side of each dent.
And thats where my camera died. I know its not much yet, and it stinks that i can only do so much per day, but i always have to make sure my car will be drivable the next day for class, which i have 6 days a week. There is already more work done than this that i havent taken photo's of yet because i like documenting everything and didnt want to get to far ahead. More to come later this evening.
94 blue lx sedan (sold)
95 black ex sedan (wrecked)
93 white z6 del sol (Sold)
95 red y8 hatch (sold)
98 red coupe