dctrouant1995

Finally painting my car. Hope to be done by the end of june. Gonna get some bumper stripper tomorrow and finish strippin the bumper. I got the left side door and rocker ground effects, and fender vent off to sand either tomorrow or saturday. Also the body molding off to stay off. I'm paintin the factory red color of a 75 trans am. And I'm also gonna shave the antenna. Also on the list, t top headliner, carpet, and weatherstripping. And a bunch of small stuff. Gonna check the bank funds tomorrow and see what all I can order. So stay tuneddd!!!!!

Froddoyo

Another good idea to do with this project is to use a scuffpad to your tailights and put a clearcoat over em. it will really shine em up. I did that with my old 84 bird. and it looked very good.

dctrouant1995

imma buy a new set, the ones I had were brand new till some jerk busted them, so i just grabbed a crappy set from work, gonna be buyin some nice ones soon

dctrouant1995

my new best friends lol. strippin the front bumper and this stuff works great. Got it from my friends paint shop for 13$ a can, picked up 2. The scraper i got from advanced for 8 bucks. Had 3 metal and 3 plastic razor blades and the plastic ones work great for getting the paint off after you spray it. Just wear jeans, t shirt, closed shoes, not flip flops and basketball shorts cause that crap burns like hell when you get it on you

Coffee_Roaster

Try " Aircrart Stripper" sometime...hehe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_DE96qt5CI

dctrouant1995

I actually might on the body. Not on rubber tho lol

dctrouant1995

well made some progress yesterday. got front bumper 90% done, took some pieces off and got em sanded down

82tarecaro

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The body looks relatively rust free. Good luck with the project.

dctrouant1995

haha that part is. the hood and roof is bad. but thanks! imma need it

dctrouant1995

well got the body work done on the pieces I have took off plus finished the front bumper. Off to finish the body work and primer it all tomorrow night. Also ordering carpet, weatherstripping, fatmat, and trim piece carpet tonight!

dctrouant1995

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dctrouant1995

got insulation (fat mat), weatherstripping (am auto), and carpet (1a Auto) ordered.

dctrouant1995

primer is on!!!

djjon76

What primer did you use on the plastic parts?

Cheers.

Jonno.

dctrouant1995

Its a sem flexible primer surfacer. I paid 30$ a quart, gonna finish a few up a lil bit of body work and re prime all of it. Took 1 quart to do that. Got another quart to finish it up. So 2 quarts total

haps

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What did you use as filler on the plastic parts?

dctrouant1995

sem 2 part bumper filler. Then finished it up and smoothed it w/ keystone 2 part putty and reprimed

dctrouant1995

carpet from 1a auto arrived today.. looks awesome, great quality. And also fat mat arrived

dctrouant1995

weatherstripping arrived. Bought on ebay from am auto. Really great product, just missing a few pieces. Gonna get up with them and get it straightened out.

dctrouant1995

finally got the bumper and tail light panel primed. body work done on rocker and door ground effects, front and rear bumper and one small spot on the fender. Got to block it down tomorrow night and prime it

dctrouant1995

passenger side fender ground effect ordered, decal kit ordered, primer kit ordered, interior door panel molding with weatherstripping on its way. cant wait to get my car back together to get all this stuff out of my room.... front bumper, all the ground effects, weatherstripping, carpet, sound insulation, front seats, some audio stuff, gallon of primer and a quart of hardener. To much stuff and not enough room, still gotta order the t top headliner, exterior door handles, door lock actuators, and door lock switches and now a power mirror switch from 1a. Slowly but surely gettin there. Gonna work on it all day tomorrow so I'm hopin for alot of progress to be made

camarosrock1989

iTrader: (1)

Nice, looking forward to seeing your progress!

dctrouant1995

Thanks! I'm just ready to get everything out of my room haha

dctrouant1995

Finally got the front clip primed! pic 1- eye lids, pic 2-left side, pic 3-right side.

dctrouant1995

More pictures! Pic 1- half sanded, half primed. Pic 2-half sanded, half unsanded. Pic 3-bye bye antenna!

dctrouant1995

Best way to remove front hood vents: Step 1, (pic 1) get a universal drill bit thingy, Step 2, (pic 2) drill out the inner holes, it will drill off about half the stud but will not effect mounting, only drill enough to squeeze the socket in there, Step 3, (pic 3) Now you can take out the 5/8" speed nuts easily and completely drill out the hole so it is the same size as the other one.

dctrouant1995

Best way to remove side hood vents, get 4 flat tipped screw drivers, put 2 on the outer edges to slightly lift up, then take the other 2 and push the clips in and pry up, careful they break easy figured this out the hardway, but if they do, you can plastic weld em back together like I did (no pic of it sorry)

Richboll

Looking forward to seeing the finished product. Good luck with the paint.

dctrouant1995

thanks, I got a question, i ordered the factory decal set, do I put the decals on after i spray the basecoat and then clear over them? Or spray the basecoat, 1 coat of clear, then the decals then more clear? Or just put them on over the clear?

dctrouant1995

just ordered the plastic panel carpet kit from third gen ranch for 63 dollars total durin there fathers day sale! Cant wait for that to arrive

haps

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IMO, that's too big of an area to clear over. My advice would be to paint it then put the bird on after.

80schild

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Are you going to go solid red, or red w/ silver gfx?

dctrouant1995

i dont have the large hood bird. Just the small nose bird, fender and bumper names, and sail panel birds

dctrouant1995

either solid red, or red with gunmetal gray ground effects, my color scheme is red and dark grey/charcoal. I dont really like silver

80schild

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I would go solid then. I think gunmetal would look too dark with bright red.

dctrouant1995

well I ordered charcoal graphics, and imma refinish the rims graphite color

dctrouant1995

Got my decals from phoenix graphix finally, amazing! they came with so much extra stuff!

dctrouant1995

the whole car is in primer besides the jams, also puttin in a new radio tomorrow! went to plug my mp3 player into my old radio and the aux input is shot so gotta spend another 100 tomorrow for a radio and install kit

Phenom-1

Nice GTA, I'm considering buying an '86 t/a from a distant neighbor who lives about 3 blocks down from me has it and its the same body with t-tops and the same wheels its even faded bright red.

dctrouant1995

I wish it was a GTA, I hate those rims. but imma keep em regardless. GM just cant paint, or maybe they just sucked in the late 80s/early 90s. Red definately fades the worse. I love the T-Tops, definatley a must have for me, I dont care if they leak haha

dctrouant1995

Got my radio installed. Took all fricken day unfortunately and didnt get anythin done to the car that I wanted to, but owell. Hopefully I'll work on the interior tomorrow, well just get the rear plastic panels carpeted. I have no clue how to tho lol, the only thing I cant do is interior work. So this should be fun.... Any tips?

dctrouant1995

Radio, JVC KD-S38. sounds great

dctrouant1995

I've got a complete antenna assembly set up, minus the antenna cord (bracket inside fender, 2 pieces on top of the fender, and the antenna) for 15$ shipped and a brand new right side outer door sweep for 15$ shipped.

80schild

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GTA's are a bit more of a pain to restore (door panels, seats, emblems, etc). If I could go back I would buy a regular TA instead of mine. I like your wheels better than my crosslaces.

dctrouant1995

well I have the deluxe door panels. Do you have the 16x8 crosslaces?

dctrouant1995

Whole car is in primer, gonna wait till I get back from vacation to paint it so I can take everything off

dctrouant1995

well the car is almost completely torn down, workin on the body work, priming tomorrow or saturday, then wet sand, paint and put back together

dctrouant1995

Color combo: red is main body color, its off a 75 Trans Am. gunmetal metallic is the secondary color for the ground effects. Its from a third gen

Richboll

Those colors should look great!