Johno's 86 Corolla Seca

[Johno]

Just prep and repaint, nothing flash. Just as long as supermarket dents are fixed and its shiny.

I am a painter myself but Car painting is totally different. I know that if i do it wont look very shiny and i'm worried about a silicon reaction happening.

It happened b4 when i painted the rear plastic :dance:

[Johno]

Started my boot install today! :dance:

 

 

[Johno]

 

How do i take off the rear bumper? Do i undo the bolts inside the boot that are covered up by plastic covers?

 

 

EDIT: It is so i can start the prep on the car painting. I know what colour i'm going to paint it now. :) Ivory white!, sorta a light cream colour. Something unique that doesn't look really out there like flouro green. White seca's are too common. Black will show up dents and it will get dirty very easily and scratches will show too. Red is also common but also oxidise's in the sun. I think ivory will go well with black door trims, window tint and black rear plastics. Colour coded mirrors, bumpers and door handles. Guess I'll see when i do it.

 

Question still remains.. How do i remove my rear bumper?

 

Cheers johno :D

Edited September 12, 2008 by Johno

[watty]

johno just undo the bolts under those rubbers

 

wayne

[Johno]

Thanks watty, I worked it out last night. Just started undoing bolts so see what happens and it came off like magic.

The reason i was asking was because it just looked too simple. Fords and holdens are such a prick to remove bumpers.

I'm only just starting to work out how easy Rolla's are to work on, lol.

 

Here's some progress pics..

 

Edited September 13, 2008 by Johno

[eviltwin]

dang , you definatly have begun stripping the pants off her mate , good work

[watty]

johno are you colour coding front and rear bumpers if so they look way better sanded down nice and smooth thats how i done mine lot of work but they look good.

 

cheers wayne

[Bowler]

Are you allowed (is he allowed) to show pics like that on here? do we need a credit card to see pics like that? i can see right up your tail gate - HIDE YOUR SHAME!!!...hehe

Edited September 13, 2008 by Bowler

[Johno]

Yeah all the bumpers will be colour coded, mirrors as well. Not too sure if i should colour code the door handles yet :)

 

 

If you think those pics were a bit rude, you should see this one.. Oh and Andrew, No credit card required for these pics.. all free my freind,.. lol!

 

 

[Bowler]

ARGH! is she over 18? filth...utter filth, you dirty, dirty man, hehe

[Johno]

Got some good news about the paint job. Went to a Auto Paint shop in bayswater to get prices on primer and topcoat. I was thinking which paint to go for.. Acrylic lacquer or 2 PAC :y:

 

The story goes... The guy that owns the shop has a spray booth out the back and a oven. He said if i do all the prep work and masking up he would spray my car with 2 pac and oven baked for 1400 bucks. Plus 2 PAC paint which is about $100 per litre, so all up about $2200 total. Not bad for oven baked 2 PAC full internal-external respray.. :y:

 

The colour i'm going for (Not sure what it is called), I forgot.. lol! It is a BMW colour. Ivory sorta

[dfunkt]

don't stress bowler, if she's an '86 model, she's in her early 20's already....so all legal :y: haha

 

and johno, that price sounds very good indeed. nice score.

[Johno]

I was trying to take off my rear boot door. Got all the looms sorted, washers and camera wires. The only thing that is stopping my from taking it off the the gas struts to hold the door up. How do I take them off?

 

I tried to pop it off the ball joint with some force but no good. I don't want to force it too much and break it. Has anyone removed these before?

[silverra23]

Should be a little metal circlip thing that needs to be slid back along the shaft of the strut away from the ball joint - use a small flat head screw driver. Then the strut will come off easy as pie.

[RollaBus_4agze]

Nice work on the paint dude :)

 

Bet you are stoked ;)