Alritey so a few updates!
Paint arrived a few day ago
got really looked after by the company - got many, many litres, plus primer, loads of masking tape, gloves, wipes, tack cloths, polishing heads, polishing compounds - a real end to end system, so super chuffed!
Now i'm in the middle of stripping down the paint to the factory primer / colour. Have chemically removed a few layers, here's the paint job history:
Coat 1:
Factory etch
Factory primer
Factory colour (Gold)
Coat 2:
Black colour
Coat 3:
Primer
Blue colour (that nice shelby cobra / chevelle metallic blue)
Coat 4:
Primer
Red colour
Coat 5: (my paint job)
Primer
Red colour
So i stripped chemically down to the 3rd coat and am blocking down as much as possible. I want to keep the factory e-coat on there as i wouldn't be able to replicate that quality.
A few more days and it should be done, in 320, ready for primer. I will have a few bits of filler work to do, only light though so bought some stopper as it'll only be for minor imperfections.
Underneath is done, all in raptor liner now. Rear suspension is all done, stripped and repainted each spring
, did the herb adams front spring eye mount, new poly bushings all round, new shocks, and a new stance!
Front suspension also got taken apart, having the parts blasted and powder coated, all new polybushings going in too (whenever they get back to me - playing the waiting game as i'm waiting for the bushings to be pushed out before the powder coater gets them
). Off to pick up some new shocks from Rocky in about 30 minutes
Think that's about it, here's the interesting part - some pics!
Stripped leafs back to bare metal, then etched then topcoated
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