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Still waiting to go to the painters....they are backed up They told me by the end of this week, but they never called me.....I am hoping it will be early next week.
But while waiting, I got my door panels recovered, painted some of my interior plastic, got most of my new upholstery on, and put on a new typhoon intake. I will get some pictures sometime and give you guys something to look at.
Looking good Kyle. That's about the same color I purchased for my coupe a couple of months ago. If I get off my azz, I shouls have my car running this next weekend or so after I get home. After I get the engine dialed in to where I want it, then it's straight to the paint work. I will do the paint job from start to finish in just a few days. I was so tired of spending money at this project, I bought a cheap gallon kit off of Ebay for $235 delivered that included paint, reducer, clear and hardner. It will do for now and between my friend and myself, it will turn out good, cause my friend is a huge "ball breaker" from New York. He's old and grumpy to boot.(64yo)
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Looking good Kyle. That's about the same color I purchased for my coupe a couple of months ago. If I get off my azz, I shouls have my car running this next weekend or so after I get home. After I get the engine dialed in to where I want it, then it's straight to the paint work. I will do the paint job from start to finish in just a few days. I was so tired of spending money at this project, I bought a cheap gallon kit off of Ebay for $235 delivered that included paint, reducer, clear and hardner. It will do for now and between my friend and myself, it will turn out good, cause my friend is a huge "ball breaker" from New York. He's old and grumpy to boot.(64yo)
Sounds good Big Chris, post up some pictures when you get it all finished up! Hopefully I get mine done before yours.....if my painter doesn't hurry his ass up, I am going to rent a booth and do it myself. Reason I am waiting for him is because he will warranty and guarantee the paint to look good.
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Here is what I have doing to hold me over....
The rear seats look great, but the fronts are not as great, but they look good still. My lower seat cushions were pretty well shot and I don't feel like spending another 150 bones on them to make it look better right now...maybe in the future. I think steaming the seats will go a long way to straighten them out....we will see
The door panels...I bought the new recover skins from CJ's for about $120, figured I would give them a try. The are a little tricky to put on, considering you have you dissemble the old panels, glue the and rivet them all together, and cut the holes in them, but I think they will look really nice in the car with some armor all on them. I also got new arm rest pads, window cranks, and handle bezels....they should look like new.
I bought a Typhoon intake, just the satin one...figure I will paint it or polish it up one day. That install went pretty well. I had already port matched my heads to the stock lower intake gaskets so the ports were just the right size. The stock gaskets are about .100" smaller each ways than the 1250 felpro gasket(those are the ones you have to use), but the new intake came about .100" to .150" smaller then the 1250 felpro gasket. Without the port matching, there would have been a big restriction in the flow....so if you want to run one with stock heads, keep that in mind. Last year I made a custom TB spacer since I moved up to a larger TB to save me money(had a 70mm, went back down to a 65mm), well I made it about 74mm to give me room to work so I had to port match the upper plenum to match my spacer. They say the intake will take a 70mm TB, but I think you would have to port match to run that large of a TB, 65mm would be perfect and that is what I am running now. Please excuse the dirty engine bay, I can't clean it till after I get the car painted, and I can't wait!! BTW, I also bought a cheapo CAI off ebay to clean that area up a little.
Here is a quick picture of the rear quarter plastic I painted satin black. They look really good, the picture doesn't do it justice....not to mention I was too lazy to move them to get a good picture
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Looking good man . Your in the same spot im in, doing the interior an painting the panels, i have a set of 87-89 seats i got but i don't like them, so i got all sn95 seats front and rear im puting in. I just finished painting most of the pieces, but i have 2 more left i put a black headliner and black carpet in the a lil darker gray paint on the panels for a good 2-tone look somthing a lil different
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What paint are you using to paint the interior with???
I am using Krylon Fusion satin black....seems to work good. Last time I used Duplicolor vynal/plasic dye, and that worked good, but it was too shiney and I don't think it held up the greatest......we will see how this stuff works out.
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No Still waiting. I callled my pianter on tuesday(considering he said he would get it in last week, then never called me) And he said defintly not till next week.
Then I called my other buddy to see how soon he could get me the booth and he said it would be 2 weeks.....so I guess we will see who gets free first.
I hate this waiting sh!t....I busted my ass for 4 months to have to sit on if for another month waiting. ANd the whole time during those 4 months I was in contact with my painter telling him when I would be done...him saying, "oh yeah, we''ll get it right in" ....my ass, I am getting really PISSED!
Looking good man . Your in the same spot im in, doing the interior an painting the panels, i have a set of 87-89 seats i got but i don''t like them, so i got all sn95 seats front and rear im puting in. I just finished painting most of the pieces, but i have 2 more left i put a black headliner and black carpet in the a lil darker gray paint on the panels for a good 2-tone look somthing a lil different
het thats my idea.. kinda.. lol im keeping the stock grey/black look but im gonna be puttin black seats, black carpet, black headliner, and i have the black arm rests and black center console arm rest thing.
but keepin the grey center console, gery hatch panels, grey door panels as well as the grey/black dash like i said b 4. i think it should look good.
oh and 5.0 sux about ur painter be a slow POS
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Just took the time today to read this entire thing and the suspense is killing me... Whats the painters number? maybe if we all start calling him your car will become a priority!!!
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Called my painter yesterday after he didn''t call me again, but I ended up talking to his Boss, the owner of the shop. Told him I needed my car painted this week or I was going to find someone else to paint it. Today, the painter called and said it will get done this week, even if he has to do it on his own time. I hope they follow thru with it. I told them if I don''t hear from him I am bringing it up there anyway. I hate to be an ass about it since I am getting a good price, but you do what you gotta do. So hopefully I will be able to post some new pictures soon
i thought you should have gone with a better intake. those typhoons are garbage, the casting job on them sucks. there are always a lot of extra casting goobers in the runners and such. that and how you said a 70mm tb would get restricted because of the port size? well thats their claim to fame, nothing will be as big as they say, even something used off ebay would have been a better choice imho. but either way the engine bay looks great. did you paint the engine bay or leave it the way it was?
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, but I guess I have time to finish up the interior.
it looks freakin sweet so far! 
just my Opinion though! 
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