Need a whole thread to post my MKIV! Come see why!!! (56K DIE!!!)
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Well got a little bit more done these past couple days. Finally getting to put some more paint down on the car!!! Not much YET mind you, but definitely some. We bought all of the rest of the paint we need to finish the car, so maybe next weekend we will get to paint the rest. I hope the color matches. We painted the back bumper, but I haven't put it on yet since we haven't 100% finished the body work on the rear quarter panel yet. It's 95% done though and looks amazing! My dad did a really really good job on it. Its in primer now, and that just needs sanded and we can spray it and put the rear bumper on to see how well it matches. Its gonna be really close if it doesn't match. We also painted the sides to my RMM spoiler and I already put it back on, but I need to roll it into the sunlight to see how good it matches. It looks really close in the basement though!!!
I will most likely be dropping my motor back in the car sometime this week!!! I ordered a coil and it should be in tuesday, and once I get the motor back in and the new coil plugged in, I should be able to fire it up! I can't wait!!!
I haven't gotten any recent pics of the quarter panel (DOH!), but I will get some tomorrow and show you how well it turned out. We decided to not cut that side of the car in half to put that other one on and just pulled it back out. Like I said, it turned out awesome IMO. But anyways, let me show ya'll some pics, cause after all, that's probably what you are here to see! LOL.
So that's what my car looks like wingless! (ewwww, mine just can't pull it off!)
What exactly was I doing with my wing you might ask? Painting it of course!!! But not just any paint scheme, I wanted to do something different with it. Mine is all carbon fiber and I wanted you to still be able to see that, so I didn't want ALL of the sides to be painted. Of course I would leave that little rectangle unpainted on the outside where you access the bolts for the middle part, but I wanted people to still be able to tell the side pieces themselves were carbon fiber too. So here's what I did. Getting my inspiration from the Mitsubishi Evo VIII carbon spoilers.
Turned out just the way I was envisioning it and I love it!!!
Here is a pic of my back bumper being finished up. My dad is spraying the clear on it in this picture.
I will most likely be dropping my motor back in the car sometime this week!!! I ordered a coil and it should be in tuesday, and once I get the motor back in and the new coil plugged in, I should be able to fire it up! I can't wait!!!
I haven't gotten any recent pics of the quarter panel (DOH!), but I will get some tomorrow and show you how well it turned out. We decided to not cut that side of the car in half to put that other one on and just pulled it back out. Like I said, it turned out awesome IMO. But anyways, let me show ya'll some pics, cause after all, that's probably what you are here to see! LOL.
So that's what my car looks like wingless! (ewwww, mine just can't pull it off!)
What exactly was I doing with my wing you might ask? Painting it of course!!! But not just any paint scheme, I wanted to do something different with it. Mine is all carbon fiber and I wanted you to still be able to see that, so I didn't want ALL of the sides to be painted. Of course I would leave that little rectangle unpainted on the outside where you access the bolts for the middle part, but I wanted people to still be able to tell the side pieces themselves were carbon fiber too. So here's what I did. Getting my inspiration from the Mitsubishi Evo VIII carbon spoilers.
Turned out just the way I was envisioning it and I love it!!!
Here is a pic of my back bumper being finished up. My dad is spraying the clear on it in this picture.
Your just mad cause you didn't get one cause you didn't go to the IFO! hahaha. I gotta beat my buds record of keeping one on for 3-4 months.
you are treating this car to a second life and let's hope that this car doesn't have to take another trip down this painfull point in its life. *knock x2 on wood* you have done this car nice. if i am ever in bama i better see this car or at N.O.P.I. Nationals this September.
don't mean to rain on your parade, but it looks like you didn't paint the sides of the wings the same way...
they're masked off slightly different...
but It's a small thing, it looks great overall..
they're masked off slightly different...
but It's a small thing, it looks great overall..
Dont worry, your not raining on my parade, I am just curious as to how you could come to that conclusion since I dont have pics of the 2 pieces at the exact same angle. Trust me, they are very close. I masked them and I am some what of a perfectionists. LOL.
Who knows though, they might be off a smidge, but i dont think you would be able to tell by the pics.
Who knows though, they might be off a smidge, but i dont think you would be able to tell by the pics.
In this pic, you can see the yellow part goes straight down:
and here, you can see the cut out follows the lines of the winglet:
and here, you can see the cut out follows the lines of the winglet:
Yeah, definitely just the angle of that shot. I can see how you made that mistake though. This is a better picture, but I cut off the bottom. But you can clearly see where it follows the curve as well.
