Darryls 3rd 1200 Coupe

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Re: Darryls 3rd 1200 Coupe

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Wow, this is really coming along. Great to see! Lot of respect for your work! What did you use to strip paint? Strippers?
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Re: Darryls 3rd 1200 Coupe

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Paint stripper for the most part, some of the paint was a blue that was like plastic, sander barely touched it. Seems to be a lot of areas that were stripped to bare metal, then a coat of datsun brown sprayed on with no primer, then primer over the top, this has meant there is light surface rust under, so been sanding as much as i can, then will have to allow Brunox to do the rest.
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Re: Darryls 3rd 1200 Coupe

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3/4 way through a 3litre can of bog, roof, doors, bonnet and boot are done, just side and rear to do now.
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Re: Darryls 3rd 1200 Coupe

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Picked up some boot trim today, its the little things that feel good for fit and finish.

Car is nearly ready for paint, hopefully spray some primer this weekend, and have the top coat sitting ready to go.

Working all the time on missing parts, and getting some stuff together for intake for engine. Im going to run 4age throttle bodies and a modified nissan ecu, running map sensor/tps. A nissan distributor will be modified to suit as a trigger for ecu, and is internal coil so nice and tidy.

My workshop is covered in sanding dust atm, cant wait to get some paint on and begin to bolt stuff to the car again.
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Re: Darryls 3rd 1200 Coupe

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Big day today, after a lot of prep and sanding, finally got some 2k primer on the car.

Made a spray booth up out of a $149 Mitre 10 party tent, and a big fan in window with a duct at back of tent to keep fumes down.

Used Durapox 2k. Ordered grey as the car will be white, took can out of box and its Black! Argh. Panic. What the hell, its Waitangi day, but worth the phone call, and put dude was there, told me to come over and swapped for light grey, whew!

Brand new gun performed like a champ, but learnt that filtering the paint is a must, got a few splatters in a few places.

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Come a long way!

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Niiiiiiice!! Looking good man gotta be stoked with that!
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Re: Darryls 3rd 1200 Coupe

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Looking good mate cant wait to see it.
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Re: Darryls 3rd 1200 Coupe

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Awesome, so satisfying getting that paint laid on.
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Re: Darryls 3rd 1200 Coupe

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Kitch wrote:great effort! looking real nice & straight
Cheers, the camera is being fairly forgiving, but its not too bad. Will find out when i get some guide coat on and start blocking.

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