Doogs' Ke20 - Lke020

[ke30dude]

Nice mower in the background of the last pic (sorry, I do them up for extra money after work... lol)

 

Looks like you are progressing well, my ke20 has been put off for way too long :thumbsup:

[Doogs]

Nice mower in the background of the last pic (sorry, I do them up for extra money after work... lol)

 

Looks like you are progressing well, my ke20 has been put off for way too long :(

 

LOL Cheers mate, the mower is probably tougher than the old 3k ! (Something to fix when I have rego)

A mate welded up the gaurd for me at his work yesterday, but I will need to get him to redo some of it. (When I ground back the welds

there was a few holes) I spose the thin rusy steel makes things difficult.

 

I stripped the front of the doorjams today (where the hinges bolt in). Slowly getting there !

I need to keep moving so I can be ready for topcoat soon as the weather slowly turns to shit.

 

Having the semester off because of my operation means I have plenty of time to work on the car which is nice (not much money though becuase I can't go back to work yet).

[Doogs]

 

Front of doorjams stripped and etch primed;

 

 

 

 

[Doogs]

I have now stripped the gutters and down the C pillars. Unfortunately my mate has taken his compressor back for a bit so this limits what I can do. The weather is slowly turning crap in Melbourne at the moment which makes things difficult for paint and panel in my outdoor work area. Due to this I'm trying to keep things moving as much as possible.

 

 

 

[Doogs]

Hey guys, today I etch primed the bits I stripped yesterday. Suprisingly orange peel does not seem to be much of an issue even though it was reasonably cold when I was spraying. I used a direct drive compressor my cousin loaned me a while back because I still don't have my mates back. The thing was absolutely hopeless ! The pressure regulator was terrible and so I had it wound out completely at apparantley 100psi line pressure! lol

It also struggled to keep up with the small amount of painting I was doing, I often had to pause to let it catch up.

I hope it does'nt die before I get the other one back, I don't really want to buy my cousin a new one (even though it would be dirt cheap).

 

Yesterday I received my new dash pad in the mail, cheers Raven :wink:

 

I'm pretty stoked because my mates have just bought an awesome sandblasting cabinet, so I will be able to do all my door hinges and my fuel flap hinge. Should be an intersting little job, save a bit of cash and it sure beats hand sanding them !

 

 

 

 

[Doogs]

I have spot filled a few pockmarks in the doors, now I'm just waiting on the compressor. It's frustrating because I can't progress further untill

I have it !

 

 

[13BT_KE20]

looks good, this is going to be real tidy once finished

[Doogs]

Thanks mate, hopefully !

It won't be perfect but at least I have improved things. It's been good to hone my skills so my next project is a step better.

 

Today's weather in Melbourne was beautiful ! :jamie: I spot filled a little more, then rubbed back and layed down some highfill. I also began to baremetal

the back of the bonnet and will continue this tomorrow then etch prime. My mate who is now into his second car re-build and respray is going to give the centre

of the bonnet a go for me, this should improve things as he has a reasonable hand for repairs now.

 

 

[Doogs]

Finished stripping the bonnet today before giving it a coat of etch, and taking it round to my mates place.

 

 

 

[oh what a nissan feeling!]

man, lots of hard work, looks great!

[Doogs]

Thanks mate, getting close now.

Hopefully it's only a matter of weeks now before I'm ready for topcoat.

[78_7kRolla]

It gets more and more exciting with every update! top effort as always ;)

[Doogs]

Thanks Matt, I'm starting to see the end in sight now too ;)

Rubbed off some more spot filler today and primed the bootlid, doors and front gaurd.

I'm waiting on my left gaurd back from my mate so I can get that done.

[Doogs]

Today I guidecoated the rear left 1/4, rubbed it back and spot filled any pockmarks. Will prime it tomorrow.

 

Also I received my Hayashi Streets (13x6 +8) thanks to LukeAE71 :dance: I think they will come up tops with some paint, a polish, and some nice centrecaps and chrome nuts.

 

 

And just for laughs a test fitment minus a tyre;

Edited June 1, 2010 by Doogs

[Johno]

Nice progress dude :dance:

 

If you want to paint the car with the rubbers on the windscreen, i found a really cool trick so you don't get those ugly mask lines around the rubber. Just get some wipper snipper line and push it under the rubber just slightly. That way the rubber is raised up and you can get paint under it. When it comes time to finish, you pull the line out and the rubber sits back on top of the paint just like as if the rubber has been removed for painting :)