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wftb JAN 02, 07:47 PM
putting the new shed to good use .i bought a bunch of rustoleum spray bombs a while back.i gave up on the red that i wanted to use as it came out blotchy. the arctic grey i used on my new to me rear clip was very easy to use .so i decided to paint the upper half of the car in the grey .so i put a finish coat on the rear clip and painted the roof .working not too bad , i had 2 full cans left so i decide to get some more .go to home hardware to find out that shade is discontinued .great.i gathered all my part cans and managed to finish the whole top of the car .i now have half a can left and that has to do a second coat of the rear deck lid and some minor touch ups .the lower half of my car is gloss black .i dont mind the way they look together , but the bumpers have spider webbing .and i wanted to paint the top half of the front bumper the same as the upper car .right now it is all black , the way it was when i bought it , and it does not look right as far as i am concerned .anyway , i hope to have a passable job when i am done , with a lot of buffing and waxing maybe a 10 footer .pics

slightly darker shade still available




its hard to get decent pics because the shed is a little small for the camera .

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Fiero_gtp JAN 03, 09:26 PM
looks like your newspaper might have messed up the paint just a little bit on the side of the window.

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wftb JAN 03, 10:10 PM
there is a lot of reflections of the red tape that i taped up the seams of the styrofoam with.i have one run under the driver side mirror , one run right at the left hand front corner of the front hood and three finger prints on the other side of the front hood from when i lost my balance stepping over the nose .i am going to let the paint harden up for a month and then wet sand and hit them with rubbing compound .i found some water based tremclad paint that might work for the bottom half of the car .get to try out my new sprayer .first i need to see if the stuff even sticks to the old paint .

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wftb JAN 04, 12:21 PM
the gallon of water based tremclad i bought does not have good adhesion on the OEM paint .i dried it with a heater for an hour and i could still scratch it off with my fingernail .it really sticks well to the rustoleum spray paint i have been using .and there are more colours available , but i have to drive to Owen Sound Home Depot to get some .
wftb JAN 16, 12:28 AM
i had the whole top of the car done in the light grey rustoleum .but i did not have enough for the second coat on the deck lid .so i had to switch to the dark grey .home depot still carries the slate grey , and is a currently available colour .everytime i wet sanded a coat, i would look at the finish and think that it looked better than the high gloss unsanded paint .it is nearly impossible to get a consistent finish with the spray bombs .some panels came out perfect , others not . so i decided to wet sand the whole car and then just wax it .so the process is, two thick coats of paint ,wet sand with 800 then 1000 grit , then polish with ultra fine synthetic steel wool .gets rid of the orange peel and all the waviness .comes out looking like a sheet of semi gloss plastic.the bumper was a pain , the spider webbing was right in the bare plastic .had to use some high build polyester primer to fill the spider webbing .finally came out pretty good , nothing has come through the top coat yet .here is what the finished car is going to look like :


wftb JAN 16, 12:35 AM
more pics, you can see the difference in gloss here:

fixing the bumper


the whole top of the car except for the rear deck lid is now the darker grey .called universal slate gloss by rustoleum .
wftb FEB 10, 03:06 PM
it is all one colour now .really am sick of paint work .about 40 hours of wetsanding and buffing to go and then i have to decide what i want to do for 1/4 panel windows and the rear grill area .pics:


i wet sanded and polished the top of the back bumper, in a couple of weeks it should all look like this:
wftb FEB 10, 03:07 PM
double post , sorry .

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wftb FEB 24, 10:15 PM
fixed my turbo oil leak with a new gasket and a new hose .fixed the clutch leak , real easy and cheap as in free .what happened was some crud got in to the cavalier master and caused the leak .took it apart , cleaned it and put it back together and no more leak .here is a bad pic of the crud around the seal :
wftb MAR 15, 04:43 PM
put the insurance back on since i am very close to being done with everything .weather is still too bad to drive the car yet , we are getting a late spring .i now have the back half of the car back together :

painted the fastback trim to match the car and repainted the gills in black satin

got rid of my icebox, took up to much room and i never used it any way


later i also removed the evap canister(AC) since it frees up some space and i dont intend to get the AC working anyway .
installed earls solo bleeders and bled the brakes .i got these because i seldom have any help and i was having trouble getting the last bit of air out .these work better than any thing else i have tried and are cheap for most cars around 30 bucks for 4 .would be good for clutch lines too .


my interiour is all back together , just have to set the ride height and then off for an alignment .