mw66nova

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jack (my little brother) frequents this board, so to keep this a secret, i couldn't post it up on here. but, i figured since you guys like to see progress pics and such, not to mention finished products are a plus, i'd post up since he got the car back today.

as a result, i'm just going to copy and paste:

so my little brother now has andrew's old car. we've been working on it pretty diligently the last few months trying to get the car ready for paint. he really doesn't have the money to get it painted and i started thinking about what i was going to do for him for graduation. it's not gonna be a show stoppin' paint job, but it'll be all one color and i think he'll crap a brick once he gets home from visiting our grandparents for a month and sees it. anyhow, here's progress pics.

my good friend jeremy winters is doing all the work. i'm helping as best i can, but it's turning out to be mostly me just being a "go-fer", lol!

mw66nova

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yes that is the hood from my white car. i'm gonna fix my old cowl hood and put it back on the white car. jack didn't like the iroc style hood so this is what i came up with. all this is happening in secret, so keeping it from him, but still pulling enough information out of him for his personal prefrences has been an interesting challenge.

jeremy is coming over to block the whole car tomorrow and wednesday, and i'm having my ISS at work (i'm working at O'Reily's now) order the paint today. "flame red gm paint code 9353" is what it's getting painted...basically back to stock, the maroon metallic color. i'm getting excited now

pics of yesterday's work. like i said, the car is now blocked in 320. jeremy's coming over today to get the rest of the car prepped and in 600 wet. so far, i've pulled the rest of the emblems off and pulled the inner fenders. i'm not really sure what's left to do. i don't wanna take lights all the way out cause it has to be driven to the paint booth where i'll ****** the tails out. anyone got any ideas of what i can do while i'm waiting on my day off, let me know!









i'll try to get some more up from later on today as well

mw66nova

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i just left jeremy's house. our paint booth fell through, so we made one at his house. i'll get some pics up as soon as he sends me some( i forgot my camera again) the booth is actually pretty nice looking considering our situation. this job is done on the CHEAP, but we still are doing the best we can with what we got. basically we just hung some tarps around the side of jeremy's car port, then he put some box fans at each end with old A/C filters on each side. it's lookin' like it's gonna work GREAT. the car is taped up and is getting basecoat tomorrow afternoon and a clear on friday morning. i'm getting the car friday evening and i'm gonna be able to get good pics of it saturday. i'm excited!

in the booth about masked up:




makeshift booth from the outside

mw66nova

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it's back at the house guys! went and picked it up this evening between storms, lol! there's some minor issues that'll need to be addressed by jeremy behind a buffing wheel, but he's assured me it'll all buff right out. i'll get some better pics later when it's reassembled, but i can tell you this right now, the color is gorgeous.

mw66nova

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90% reassembled, ready to be buffed now. should get some good shots of it buffed up by wednesday or so. thursday for sure.





quazi buffed. lookin' very good, i can't believe we painted this in jeremy's carport! i'm about to hop through the shower and go get my little bro from the air port. i think i'm gonna have jeremy go back in and buff the rest of the car, but he got all the little problem areas out.




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reaction! he dropped his luggage here, hence me getting on to him in the video to pick it up out of the middle of the parking lot.



video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tszNV2nvtvg

MaNiAk86

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Very Nice as always Matt... looks just like i wanted my old iroc to look like.

cameron7710

wow what a awsome surprise

vette gator

"You guys suck" - Priceless! What an awesome graduation gift. Thanks for sharing.

Street Lethal

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..... "Pimp my Camaro"

That was really awesome of you Matt....

maroon88iroc

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how much did the paint and supplies cost you (with discount) curious? i havent checked on it.

mw66nova

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thanks guys! i seriously could not have made this happen without Jeremy. mike, i'll pm ya with specifics

smgseanmicheal

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nice im trying to do a flat white hood and some advice would be nice right now im using steel wool and uhhh brake cleaner to make it happen any better way? and after a clear coat it will it still be flat

GuitarJunki17

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Very awesome, I wish that someone would do that for me while I was away at school! He's lucky to have such a cool brother.

godreject

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what hood is that looks good, is it a reg hood with louvers removed im diggin it

cameron7710

im pretty sure its a 82-84 z28 hood

mw66nova

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yes, it's actually an 82-83 z28 hood. very rare in good shape. this one is in excellent shape. it's a factory fiberglass hood. (fyi, the 84's looked identical, but were infact, steel) i bought it for my race car, but after using it for a couple of months, i realized that i need to go back to a cowl hood for my own camaro. so the hood was donated to the project as well.

TorqueTilla

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dude come to new jersey and be my new brother?? haha nahh but that seriously is a great present man, mad props to you being a great brother, hes a lucky kid

HCR13

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haha, good job!

gcgarner

The "You guys suck" comment was hilarious.

I don't want to sound uber-queer and say that what you did was "really sweet", but it was. Very thoughtful gift.

Sonymaster20

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Thats awesome man. Its a good thing you did for your brother. NICE! lets see some more pictures!

mario82z28

what a cool gift that would be wana do mine it still in primer... just kidin i dont think that hood is that rare i have one just collecting dust in the garage

mw66nova

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it's not so much that they are rare, but rather that they are rare in good shape. wish kansas wasn't so far away, i'd come get that hood

cameron7710

got eny pics of it befor u got ur hands on it?

mw66nova

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best i can do:

Street Lethal

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Ohhhhh how schweeet <lisp>....

19CAMARO85

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hey man what you did was great. That video was great to lol. That car looks sweet. Does he have any plans for it now? Good Job Matt! -Matt

Jason1313

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That's cool as hell of you and your bud, great graduation present!!

87_GTA_5.7

How much did the paint cost? It looks like the front is already banged up???

Sonymaster20

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the front isn't banged up.. these pictures right above these post are the before pictures. and the ones in the middle are of it after.

Stephen

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Like he said...Not so much as rare, as in good shape. Although, the factory 'glass ones are becoming "rare", and the steel ones are more common. The factory 'glass ones had a problem with the top panel suddenly peeling off, yet the bottom was still down & latched. Customers got steel ones as warranty replacements & while the 'glass ones only lasted 2 years.

Tobias05

awesome! what a graduation gift!

mw66nova

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the paint is nason and consumer price is roughly $40/qt. not banged up yet, lol! he's got plans to put a new grill in it, as well as new emblems and decals all the way around. he wants to put the iroc stripes on it too. as far as future plans goes, i'm not quite certain, other than full suspension...maybe a motor build eventually?

JohnC

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Thats the coolest graduation present ever.

FueledSoul

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very nice, looks like it turned out great man

billybob6110

what kinda wheels are thise> im diggin em

Scamo-2.8

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Man that is so impressive! Can you be my brother?! lol My car needs the exact same paint. Great job, your brother is a very lucky guy.

mesterz2889

thats awesome i wish my brother would do that for me, so i take it he was happy about the FG hood over his other one

InfernalVortex

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Looks great! Gotta love a clean thirdgen... mine'll get there someday.... I hope.

mw66nova

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billybob, they are a set of steel wheels made by bart. i think they are 15x6 up front and 15x7 out back. im sticking some street tires and puttin them on my white car for putting around town.

ssean92

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Hey matt that looks great, that was really cool to do for him. looks like ti turned out great. He just needs to paint the headlight buckets

billybob6110

do u know where u bought em buy chance or where i can get a set? pm me if you can with more details. thanks man

krisb410

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That was only on certain 83 SMC hoods. In order to save a few bux, GM changed the supplier for the glue that held the hood together. So when GM switched vendors, the glue was bad. All 82 SMC hoods, and the left over 82 hoods that were put on 83 model cars in the beginning of 83 production run, where not affected by the separation problem. So GM put a recall on certain 83 SMC hoods because of this glue failure. I did a lot of research on this, I even found the range of VIN #s that the recall applied to.

FYI: If you had one of those hoods effected by the recall, GM replaced it with a steel hood. And all 84 Z28 hoods were steel.
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Anyways, that is awesome what you did. I always loved that style hood. Hense why I have one too.

Sonymaster20

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Hey could we possibly see some more pictures of the car completed?!? I think it looks awesome.

91RS5spd

looks great, and it was very thoughtful of you to do that for you brother. Im just about to send my car off to get painted the same flame red color as your brothers, so it was nice to see on right after paint, im more excited now more then ever.

ncgator

I'm liking those wheels you had on there for paint