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boosted98gst · 07-30-2007, 08:55 PM

HI everyone! I already did the intro part and now just wanted to share what I have been working on. I picked up this 89 coupe in apex NC about 9 hours from me, due to the all the snow/ rust issue's living here in the snow belt. I bought the car 2 years ago ,bone stock from a 1 owner doctor who was tired of the car and just wanted somthing new. and now for some pic's

BONE stock 89

I used the car during the summer months as my daily driver, it had 192k on it so things just wear out, the suspension sucked, tranny sucked and engine smoked alot , so when I was on a business trip in California I picked up a blacktop from R&D

The suspension on the car was so mushy that I had to do somthing with it and bought a set of jic-fla1 for it, car never see's winter time here just pulled it out to take pic's of it after the install. (yes i know i need ruca's)

Winter came and gone, and I still was undecided what I was going to use the car for, its not my daily driver, So i was open to anything and started to tear her down.

Ater pulling the motor the battery tray was rusted due to years of letting shit leak, so I had to cut it all out sandblast and primer.

I work part time at a local tuning / paint shop and kept hating my stock color more and more, and deecided to paint the car before the sr went in.

Since the car was going to be used as only a weekend/nice weather car, I took out all the sound crap from inside.

Finally I decided what color that I was going with and had the local dupont store mix it for me. Went with 2007 350z carbon silver, keep it in the nissan family aleast.

Hours of sanding and preping the engine bay in the hot sun paind off.

Went to the local junk yard and found some decent int, was tired of that brown stuff.

This is where I left off at as of early july due to working crazy hours, will keep this updated. Thanks zilvia for the space
jason

CA18_S13 · 07-30-2007, 09:01 PM

Keep up the bulid makes me want to pull the motor out of mine and paint the bay and do a wire tuck job.

wannabe_drifter · 07-30-2007, 09:21 PM

Looks good so far
Can't wait to see it completely painted

What are those wheels ??

Farzam · 07-30-2007, 09:25 PM

I'm kinda pissed off that you ruined that Champagne paint....especially on a coupe...

But awesome build.

Keep it up!

boosted98gst · 07-30-2007, 09:27 PM

the wheels? I have no idea some no name junkers that came off another 240 I bought for parts.

boosted98gst · 07-30-2007, 09:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Farzam

I'm kinda pissed off that you ruined that Champagne paint....especially on a coupe...

But awesome build.

Keep it up!

funny thing my friends are pissed about the paint also.

CKAMC · 07-30-2007, 09:35 PM

Good paint skills! I like what I see so far, keep us up to date

boosted98gst · 07-30-2007, 10:03 PM

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Originally Posted by CKAMC

Good paint skills! I like what I see so far, keep us up to date

thanks 100% of the work has been done by me , so its not going to be done anytime soon. But if anyone is in the ohio area and needs paint work I can hook it up.

unicoladron · 07-30-2007, 10:16 PM

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Originally Posted by boosted98gst

thanks 100% of the work has been done by me , so its not going to be done anytime soon. But if anyone is in the ohio area and needs paint work I can hook it up.

Nice i love that piant color man, i'm thinking about doing my engine bay too cuz mine isn't my daily driver either but it's not a show car. i also have a coupe and a blacktop. And i have a painting question. when you primered, did you just rough up the original paint and just primer over that? what type of primer did you use?

boosted98gst · 07-30-2007, 10:36 PM

what we use at the shop is either steel whool or scotchbrite (sp) pads for detail work, on the flat area's you can use 320 also. Go to your local auto/store get some thinner. strip all the stuff from your car ect before even starting, get yourself or borrow a power washer and scrub every inch with like dawn type soap to get most of the grease and crap off. next just make sure you skuff up every inch that youre going to spray, make sure you look over your work, and clean with thinner when done, I did this process a few times making sure I was free of any film ect. The thinner is going to take off thin layers of the paint off the engine bay due to , factory engine bay are not cleared at all, you will see the factory sealer but do not waste your time and go to bare metal, just skuff good all over.
paint
reducer
primer
activator
clear
all dupont brand.

SexPanda · 07-30-2007, 10:40 PM

Damn that looks noice. I wish I had a coupe... Damn hatchbacks...
Good luck with hooking up that sr. Wirings not too hard though. Just gotta know how to read a wiring diagram. And I like that silver paint, but the champagne is, IMHO, a nicer color.

prang11 · 07-30-2007, 10:52 PM

Good stuff. The color rocks.

boosted98gst · 07-30-2007, 11:16 PM

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Originally Posted by prang11

Good stuff. The color rocks.

thank you, hopfully the rest of the car goes this smooth.

DOOK · 07-30-2007, 11:32 PM

sweet, where in Ohio are you located? I'm in WV and I'll be needing my car sprayed sometime. I have all materials to do candy apple red, but I dont know if I want it for the 240, I may spray the jetta that. PM me.

Dousan_PG · 07-30-2007, 11:35 PM

woooah
this is rad
car looks great, i like that silver al ot!!
silver engine bays..u cant go wrong!!

keep it up!

boosted98gst · 07-30-2007, 11:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Ltdnismoracer4

sweet, where in Ohio are you located? I'm in WV and I'll be needing my car sprayed sometime. I have all materials to do candy apple red, but I dont know if I want it for the 240, I may spray the jetta that. PM me.

sent you a pm, I get great deals at the local dupont place, The guy that i work for has been using him for 30+ years, he can mix anything you want. Let me know if its possible to get the car up here, and I can def help you out.
jason

William__s13 · 07-31-2007, 01:31 AM

Nice pics.. keep up the progress!!

Dirty Habit · 07-31-2007, 06:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Farzam

I'm kinda pissed off that you ruined that Champagne paint....especially on a coupe...

Agreed. I got to that part too and thought aww shit, heres where the guy picks a candy lime green color.
Thankfully you didn't.

Nice to see another clean Ohio coupe.

opponheimer · 07-31-2007, 06:40 AM

looking great man! you got to keep us updated now!

Edgar · 07-31-2007, 07:26 AM

nice looking build man!

Gjohnson7 · 07-31-2007, 07:30 AM

Hottness! Keep up the good work. I love the silver.

ripnbst · 07-31-2007, 09:31 AM

Where at in OH are you located? I need my shit painted, hook me up with a ballpark price for black hood, roof, pillars, engine bay, door jambs, and trunk lid. White everywhere else on a s13 coupe. Colors 350Z Black and 350Z white plz. Again I know you prolly cant give me an exact but ballpark it as closely as possible. P.S. The car is currently stock heavily faded Red.

*exitspeed* · 07-31-2007, 09:34 AM

Werd. Good stuff man. Keep us up-to-date!

boosted98gst · 07-31-2007, 01:46 PM

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Originally Posted by ripnbst

Where at in OH are you located? I need my shit painted, hook me up with a ballpark price for black hood, roof, pillars, engine bay, door jambs, and trunk lid. White everywhere else on a s13 coupe. Colors 350Z Black and 350Z white plz. Again I know you prolly cant give me an exact but ballpark it as closely as possible. P.S. The car is currently stock heavily faded Red.

Like i told the guy who pm'ed me about painting his car, the car im doing now is easy because the body is so straight, anyone that paints knows that the prep work is going to be 80% of time and outcome of the actual paint job, if you can do alot of it yourself and bring me a car thats apart ready for paint is going to be the cheapest way, starting off its going to be around 500-600 just for the materials alone, and thats depeding on the color prices ect . I am located outside columbus ohio. pm me if you want more info, the guy i work for painted a guys s15 front end and his body kit from zilvia , i have no idea what his name is on here, maybe he will chime in on the work he did. because it came out amazing.

azndoc · 07-31-2007, 01:53 PM

Looks like you know exactly what your doing.

Looks really good.

Mad props to ya.

Wait did you pick up the motor along with your dad? Who's a truck driver I think it was.

boosted98gst · 07-31-2007, 01:59 PM

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Originally Posted by azndoc

Looks like you know exactly what your doing.

Looks really good.

Mad props to ya.

Wait did you pick up the motor along with your dad? Who's a truck driver I think it was.

yup that was me, I had to travel with him because he had surgery and could not lift things , so I took 2 months off work to travel with him to help him get back on his feet, but yup that was me.

axiomatik · 07-31-2007, 02:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Farzam

I'm kinda pissed off that you ruined that Champagne paint....especially on a coupe...

But awesome build.

Keep it up!

why? champagne looks like crap on s13s

turtle m3th · 07-31-2007, 08:14 PM

Subscribed! Looking very good man. Can't wait to see the progression on this thing. Do you have any recommended literature for body work and paint?

Farzam · 07-31-2007, 10:01 PM

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Originally Posted by axiomatik

why? champagne looks like crap on s13s

boosted98gst · 07-31-2007, 10:17 PM

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Originally Posted by turtle m3th

Subscribed! Looking very good man. Can't wait to see the progression on this thing. Do you have any recommended literature for body work and paint?

Everyone knows the basic's in the body work and paint, the hard part is finding someone to teach or help you , your best bet is finding one of them old school painter guys to help you, thats what i did. see if hes willing to teach you , while you help out around the shop.
......I used old doors , fenders, ect to practice on when I first started, painters shop's are always going to be littered with used sand paper, old paint, old pannels from cars to start out on. No matter every painter is going to say somthing different to what they are use to, your just going to have to learn from someone and work with whats best for you , and how you do things. Even to this day the guy who taught me still uses a siphon fed gun from the 70's he swears that it sprays better then my sata jet gravity fed gun, its all in what works with you. You have any more questions just pm me and I will try my best to help you out.

07-30-2007, 08:55 PM	#1
boosted98gst Zilvia Junkie Join Date: May 2006 Location: oceanside Age: 42 Posts: 389 Trader Rating: (3) Feedback Score: 3 reviews	newbie 89 coupe build. HI everyone! I already did the intro part and now just wanted to share what I have been working on. I picked up this 89 coupe in apex NC about 9 hours from me, due to the all the snow/ rust issue's living here in the snow belt. I bought the car 2 years ago ,bone stock from a 1 owner doctor who was tired of the car and just wanted somthing new. and now for some pic's BONE stock 89 I used the car during the summer months as my daily driver, it had 192k on it so things just wear out, the suspension sucked, tranny sucked and engine smoked alot , so when I was on a business trip in California I picked up a blacktop from R&D The suspension on the car was so mushy that I had to do somthing with it and bought a set of jic-fla1 for it, car never see's winter time here just pulled it out to take pic's of it after the install. (yes i know i need ruca's) Winter came and gone, and I still was undecided what I was going to use the car for, its not my daily driver, So i was open to anything and started to tear her down. Ater pulling the motor the battery tray was rusted due to years of letting shit leak, so I had to cut it all out sandblast and primer. I work part time at a local tuning / paint shop and kept hating my stock color more and more, and deecided to paint the car before the sr went in. Since the car was going to be used as only a weekend/nice weather car, I took out all the sound crap from inside. Finally I decided what color that I was going with and had the local dupont store mix it for me. Went with 2007 350z carbon silver, keep it in the nissan family aleast. Hours of sanding and preping the engine bay in the hot sun paind off. Went to the local junk yard and found some decent int, was tired of that brown stuff. This is where I left off at as of early july due to working crazy hours, will keep this updated. Thanks zilvia for the space jason

07-30-2007, 09:21 PM	#3
wannabe_drifter Zilvia Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Québec, Canada Age: 41 Posts: 245 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	Looks good so far Can't wait to see it completely painted What are those wheels ?? __________________

07-30-2007, 09:25 PM	#4
Farzam Post Whore! Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Los Angeles (SFV) / Raleigh, NC Age: 34 Posts: 5,185 Trader Rating: (1) Feedback Score: 1 reviews	I'm kinda pissed off that you ruined that Champagne paint....especially on a coupe... But awesome build. Keep it up! __________________ loading HATERS.....99% ███████████████]

07-30-2007, 09:35 PM	#7
CKAMC Post Whore! Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Desert Age: 38 Posts: 4,804 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	Good paint skills! I like what I see so far, keep us up to date __________________

07-30-2007, 10:40 PM	#11
SexPanda Post Whore! Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Where ever there is free beer Posts: 3,239 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	Damn that looks noice. I wish I had a coupe... Damn hatchbacks... Good luck with hooking up that sr. Wirings not too hard though. Just gotta know how to read a wiring diagram. And I like that silver paint, but the champagne is, IMHO, a nicer color. __________________ BRAND NEW GReddy PRofec E-01 EBC for sale, Cheap!

07-30-2007, 09:01 PM	#2
CA18_S13 Zilvia Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Virginia Beach Age: 40 Posts: 180 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	Keep up the bulid makes me want to pull the motor out of mine and paint the bay and do a wire tuck job.

07-30-2007, 09:27 PM	#5
boosted98gst Zilvia Junkie Join Date: May 2006 Location: oceanside Age: 42 Posts: 389 Trader Rating: (3) Feedback Score: 3 reviews	the wheels? I have no idea some no name junkers that came off another 240 I bought for parts.

07-30-2007, 10:36 PM	#10
boosted98gst Zilvia Junkie Join Date: May 2006 Location: oceanside Age: 42 Posts: 389 Trader Rating: (3) Feedback Score: 3 reviews	what we use at the shop is either steel whool or scotchbrite (sp) pads for detail work, on the flat area's you can use 320 also. Go to your local auto/store get some thinner. strip all the stuff from your car ect before even starting, get yourself or borrow a power washer and scrub every inch with like dawn type soap to get most of the grease and crap off. next just make sure you skuff up every inch that youre going to spray, make sure you look over your work, and clean with thinner when done, I did this process a few times making sure I was free of any film ect. The thinner is going to take off thin layers of the paint off the engine bay due to , factory engine bay are not cleared at all, you will see the factory sealer but do not waste your time and go to bare metal, just skuff good all over. paint reducer primer activator clear all dupont brand.

07-30-2007, 10:52 PM	#12
prang11 Zilvia Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Oregon Posts: 218 Trader Rating: (4) Feedback Score: 4 reviews	Good stuff. The color rocks.

07-30-2007, 11:32 PM	#14
DOOK Post Whore! Join Date: May 2007 Location: Land of Milk and Cookies Age: 42 Posts: 7,552 Trader Rating: (3) Feedback Score: 3 reviews	sweet, where in Ohio are you located? I'm in WV and I'll be needing my car sprayed sometime. I have all materials to do candy apple red, but I dont know if I want it for the 240, I may spray the jetta that. PM me. __________________ <------ Grumpy Old Asshole MY REVIEW THREAD: Ltdnismoracer4=DOOK http://www.zilvia.net/f/showthread.p...ltdnismoracer4

07-30-2007, 11:35 PM	#15
Dousan_PG Post Whore! Join Date: May 2002 Location: Orange County, California Age: 46 Posts: 16,640 Trader Rating: (23) Rides Gallery: Dousan_PG Feedback Score: 23 reviews	woooah this is rad car looks great, i like that silver al ot!! silver engine bays..u cant go wrong!! keep it up! __________________ Aaron Pink GodziRa www.geocities.com/pink_godzira

07-31-2007, 01:31 AM	#17
William__s13 Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: San Diego Age: 44 Posts: 8 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	Nice pics.. keep up the progress!!

07-31-2007, 06:40 AM	#19
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07-31-2007, 07:26 AM	#20
Edgar Post Whore! Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Indianapolis,IN Posts: 4,980 Trader Rating: (13) Feedback Score: 13 reviews	nice looking build man! __________________ Drift Indy

07-31-2007, 07:30 AM	#21
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07-31-2007, 09:31 AM	#22
ripnbst Zilvia Addict Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Tulsa, OK Age: 38 Posts: 814 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	Where at in OH are you located? I need my shit painted, hook me up with a ballpark price for black hood, roof, pillars, engine bay, door jambs, and trunk lid. White everywhere else on a s13 coupe. Colors 350Z Black and 350Z white plz. Again I know you prolly cant give me an exact but ballpark it as closely as possible. P.S. The car is currently stock heavily faded Red. __________________ In the market for a Clean Coupe

07-31-2007, 09:34 AM	#23
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07-31-2007, 01:53 PM	#25
azndoc Post Whore! Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Los Angeles Age: 43 Posts: 9,487 Trader Rating: (47) Rides Gallery: azndoc Feedback Score: 47 reviews	Looks like you know exactly what your doing. Looks really good. Mad props to ya. Wait did you pick up the motor along with your dad? Who's a truck driver I think it was. Last edited by azndoc; 07-31-2007 at 01:53 PM.. Reason: forgot something.

07-31-2007, 08:14 PM	#28
turtle m3th Nissanaholic! Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: San Diego Age: 38 Posts: 1,608 Trader Rating: (41) Feedback Score: 41 reviews	Subscribed! Looking very good man. Can't wait to see the progression on this thing. Do you have any recommended literature for body work and paint? __________________ "cigarettes killed my father, and raped my mother!"