Lappy's Corolla

[lappy]

i just scraped with a razor blade for 30mins

[lappy]

i have these set of rims for a while so i decided to paint one up to see what it looked like and i think it looks good so now is the plane to paint them all but 30 mins of masking up then I'm looking at getting the silver face remachined. also while i had some left over black in the gun the wheel arch got a squirt of paint.

Thats all for now

Lappy

[ke30king]

those wheels are f@$king cool! what are they?

[JiP]

I do agree, those wheeles look f@$kING HOT!!

[lappy]

i don't know what rims they are they have cheviot stamped on them i was kinda hoping someone on rollaclub could help

[lappy]

well over the weekend i have been rubbing the rim back getting rid off the pitting on the silver with some 500 grit sand paper then 800 then 1200 grit sand paper it has come up pretty well i just have to do the silver parts on the spokes and then i remeber i need to do 3 more

Lappy

[JiP]

Looks HoT!!

[lappy]

took the car to dad's work in the washbay and degreased it with the dregreaser gun

[JiP]

That looks HOT!!! Came up beaut

 

Question:

How do you go about degreasing the engine bay?? I've wanted to do mine but just am unsure because of the wires and looms under there.

Edited August 20, 2006 by JiP_01

[lappy]

we just got the degreaser gun filled it up with degreaser plugged it up to the air compressor and squirted away then it started 1st go. also bled the brakes after having all the struts and diff apart the brakes are soo good the car came with new brake pads and shoes all around.

[JiP]

So it doesn't matter if the wires get wet??

[Dan]

In a carby car, not really, think about it; they get wet when you drive it in the rain anyway. However, when you get into injected cars, apparently its a good idea to stay away from the wires. WTF is all I could say, but apparently it happens.

 

Just go and buy a $2 can of degreaser from SuperCrap, spray it on (keeping in mind to KEEP IT AWAY FROM PAINT, it eats through it) and hose it off five minutes later. Good as gold, you'll understand how it works as soon as you have the can in your greasy little hands.

[JiP]

thanks, I'll giv it a go.

[lappy]

i have 2 doors coming and a right hand front mudguard and a litre of paint.

Edited August 22, 2006 by lappy

[Dan]

:good: Will look mad, did you get the paint colour matched? I'm looking at buying some paint for my EAs door and bonnet but I'm scared that it will look out of place, comparing 25 year old paint and brand new paint, it will probably be different.