My Ae92 Build

[razza]

looking good mate. those rims will look good on it.

[dannyboy86]

Metallic white pearl flake arrived :)

 

[dannyboy86]

Update with the rolla.

Haven't gotten much done this past week as the weather in Sydney hasn't been the best, plus getting organised for a job interview and celebrating my birthday.

 

There was a little surface rust on the console/ dash mounts so I removed that sanded them back and resprayed gloss black, looks alot better.

 

 

 

Just sprayed the guide coat on and going to start wet sanding the collora.

[dannyboy86]

Update:

Finished wet sanding the whole car back with 600g sandpaper. This took ruffly 7 hours to do today...minus front and rear bumper, so I'm glad that's all over with.

 

The car is now ready for some colour! :D

 

I'll get some pictures once it has some colour on it...hopefully tomorrow.

[Ben-89]

Nice progress, looking forward to seeing some photos. The pearl will give it what it needs :y:

[dannyboy86]

Update:

 

Yesterday started putting some colour down, got 2 good coats in because it started to get windy.

Today put the 3rd coat of basecoat down and 2 coats of clear with flake in it. Its pretty sparkly!! When the sun hits it, it really shines You can actually see the flake in the paint job...i thought the flake was going to be much finer but I'm still happy with the result.

 

Still have to do a few more coats of clear because I can still feel the flake so that will be getting done tomorrow.

 

Before Clear 3 coats of Taffeta white

 

 

 

This is after 2 coats of clear with flake. The pictures don't do it any justice. Might need to get a picture without sunlight because its hard for the camera to pick up the flake.

 

[Ben-89]

You can see the flake, I'm sure it will look better with the clear coat and bit more camera flash. Awesome job :)

[dannyboy86]

Update:

 

Had to buy a new spray painting mask after speaking to a few spray painters because the mask I was using hasn't got the correct filters for 2k paints. So invested in an awesome Sundstrom mask.

 

Got the bumpers, Fuel cap & grilles all primed

 

 

Got the inside of the hatch jamb sprayed. Had to mask off the whole car not to get over spray. So once that was done sprayed the jamb and the inside of the hatch, front and rear bumper, grilles and fuel cover.

 

 

Repaired some deep scratches and marks in the front and rear bumper with plastic body filler. Basecoat and clear finished just didn't get any clear pictures.

 

 

Completed wet sanding the car back with 1500g then did a float coat of clear to finish. Panels of the car feel like glass :) So happy with the result!

Just have to wet sand the front and rear bumper, grilles and fuel gap and do the float coat of clear on that. Hopefully bring the car back home next week and then hand polish and polish sealer the car and start putting it back together.

 

Finished product on the LH quarter wet sanding with 1500g and the float coat without polish

 

 

Resprayed the surrounds of the rear tail lights gloss black

 

 

Resprayed the cowl gloss black

 

 

Tow point for a coat of black aswell

 

 

Did a matching paint job on my iphone case while painting the bumpers

 

[Ben-89]

Wow Daniel that looks great! Glad you updated this thread as my curiousity was beginning

to grow about the progress. I got the repairs done on my 92' and whilst removing those rain channel trims which you gave me the top tip on I found the usual 450mm mud tunnel in the a pillar channels :| Gave it good clean out and nothing suspicious underneath. The windscreen had surface rust and thats all.

While I didnt need to remove my tailgate for the spray paint, how did you go about

removing the vinyl headlining to access the wiring for the wiper etc,etc? I had a look at one at the wreckers and it looked like a real pain to pull it apart compare to my old ae82 which was rather simple.

 

Anyway, nice progress mate, keep it up :y:

Edited September 17, 2011 by "The Mint KE70"

[dannyboy86]

Haha the common mud tunnel. Yeah I'm afraid when I take out my front windscreen there might be rust, just having my fingers cross there is no rust. On the other hand there was a little rust on the rear tail jamb in the top right corner under were the rubber seal is supposed to be. So I have that a good wire brushing and then rust treated it. Hopefully want have any more problems with that. To take off the vinyl head liner to access the wiper stuff you will have to take off the metal strip off, and then if I remember correctly there are these metal clips that are pinching the vinyl on the edge of the frame. I just a tiny small flat head screwdriver to help pry these clips off.

By the way I just saw your thread of your car and wondering how much did the new windscreen and rubber seal cost? Cause I have to get mine done and I don't want to use the original corolla seals.

[Ben-89]

Looking at your pic with no windscreen trims I couldnt see any rust, particularly at the top. Mine had a bubble however it didnt penetrate the metal. So it was a case of repairing wasnt extreme. Down he a pillars where the old sealer separated and exposed the metal did cause a little scaling but was easily removed with the angle grinder :y: This bloke in Melbourne is quoting 190 to low 2s which is fine as no other local glass guy has these seals.

 

Thanks for the info on the disassembly of the headliner, it looks quite tedious.

 

Edit: just re read the tailgate jamb regarding the wire wheeling. Not enough paint from factory, pretty common. While its easy to access hit it hard :y:

 

 

From the sounds of it did you have a little surface rust below the back window where that black trim

clips along the tailgate? They are notorious for rusting if thats the case, but its good you stripped it anyway. As the tolerances are very tight with that trim, along with the flexing of the tailgate I noticed wear marks between the paint edge and the trim - thus exposing the metal combined with the debris caught behind there already it was a recipe for trouble. So, if you have the access to a bench grinder (as it will be much easier) shave 5mm or a tad less off the whole lenght then put some paint on the grinded section as its metal then and install on the car. You'll notice a reasonable gap which will allow water and dust to escape whether its dry or wet :wink:

 

If you can, shave 5mm or less of that black trim. (Use the groove in the plastic as a marker to go up to. And taper it off as it reaches the bottom of the window rubber) Plastic was not shaved yet.

 

Edited September 17, 2011 by "The Mint KE70"

[dannyboy86]

Progress with the rolla is going well. Still waiting on my buffer polisher to arrive, so In the mean time Ive started putting the interior back together.

 

Shopping bag full of all the screws, nuts & bolts and other little parts of the car. Lucky I bagged and named every screw and were it goes because it would be a nightmare to put back.

 

 

Vacuumed and cleaned again before laying carpet

 

 

I cleaned the carpet aswell. Scrubbed it with a broom with omo and hung it up and hosed it until the water ran clear from it. Surprising how brown and smelly the water was from this carpet.

 

 

Got all the console and dash plastics in

 

 

Put all the hatch seals on

 

 

Put the wiring in the hatch with tail lights and re applied the vinyl roofing (what a sh*t job)

 

 

Close up shot of the tail light resprayed gloss black and the tow point in gloss black aswell.

 

[ke70dave]

excelent work mate. not seen your thread before.

 

one question about the spray painting. is the pearl "hard" to paint?

 

i did metalic blue back in the day, but to add a pearl is it just a matter of mixing in those pearl flakes to the clear? and how do you know how much to mix in?

 

going to look great in the end, I'm sure your girlfriend will be impressed.

[Ben-89]

Looks awesome, and that carpet looks so lush. I'm not suprised about the condition of the water when you rinsed it off! Actually I like how you did those tail lights I might do the same thing :blush:

 

Will look great when its finished, can't wait to see it :y:

[dannyboy86]

excelent work mate. not seen your thread before.

 

one question about the spray painting. is the pearl "hard" to paint?

 

i did metalic blue back in the day, but to add a pearl is it just a matter of mixing in those pearl flakes to the clear? and how do you know how much to mix in?

 

going to look great in the end, I'm sure your girlfriend will be impressed.

 

 

The pearl flake can be hard to paint because you need to keep the same distance and angle of the gun when spraying otherwise you might get dull spots because the flake is not sitting correctly.

 

Yeah I just mixed the the pearl flake in with the clear, well thats what I was told. But I spoke to another guy and he said it has to be mixed in with a binder so that the flake lay flat. I had some sticking up but wasn't really a biggy because I blocked the whole car back after 2 coats of the flake mixed with clear and then spot another 3 coats of plain clear over that.

For mixing ratio they guy I bought the flakes from he said 25g of flake to 1L of clear. But it call comes down to personal preference on how much flake you like. I would recommended mix up your flake and shoot it on a test panel and if you like more add more.

Another thing you can't use a paint strainer when pouring the clear your gun because the flake clogs it up and you will have to take the small filter out of the gun because that will clog to.

 

Yeah she can't wait for the car.