by "ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com" (ita97)
Published 04/17/2017 at 14:34
by "ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com" (ita97)
Published 04/17/2017 at 14:34
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I mentioned a few weeks ago that I had started making my old racecar presentable again. I started off by painting the trim, on the car. As much as it went against my initial thought to remove the trim for painting, I considered the likelihood of breaking brittle 30 year old plastic clips that hold it all on, and I considered the fact that only one of the three types of clips I would be likely to break are easily available. My better judgement told to just leave it on the car, especially since this is an old racecar. Some self-etching primer and a few coats of enamel black later, some parts of the trim that hadn’t been black since the mid 90's were black again.
It made the car look a lot better, so like everything else on getting the car going again, I took things way further than I initially planned to. Before I knew it I was removing the cracked and peel remains of all the numbers and decals and scuffing the faded original paint with 320 grit. I managed to find a new hood for the car, which was no small task. This morning I broke out the old spray gun that I had not used in over 10 years and shot the car with urethane primer. This is new look for the car.
After I sand this stuff and wipe it down, I decided to go with a single stage urethane topcoat in the original R-63 Honda Rio Red. Being a racecar, a 50 foot paint job will be more than adequate. My goal is end up with a 10 foot paint job. So long as it sticks to the car, I’m sure it will be a vast improvement over the original red paint from 1988 that had faded to an “ask me about Mary Kay products” color.
"PartyPooper2012" (PartyPooper2012)
04/17/2017 at 14:55, STARS: 0
when you say racecar, do you mean 1989 Acura Integra LS 5spd? If so, I miss my baby. Give her back!
"ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com" (ita97)
04/17/2017 at 15:01, STARS: 1
Close, mine is an 88 RS. Been in my family since new, was my first car, made into an SCCA ITA racecar in 99-2000ish, being brought back to life.
"Autophile412 - what's the world got in store?" (autophile412)
04/17/2017 at 15:02, STARS: 1
I had a 91 LS 5spd Integra back in 2000-2002. I had Neuspeed race springs and a roll cage. That was a lot of fun but sadly she ended in a heap underneath a guardrail after I made the terrible decision to drive home late at night once after having fallen asleep on my girlfriends couch. Should’ve just taken the earful the next morning rather than lose my baby like that.
"404 - User No Longer Available" (toni-cipriani)
04/17/2017 at 15:10, STARS: 1
You should get some Rover badges just to mess with people.
"PartyPooper2012" (PartyPooper2012)
04/17/2017 at 15:25, STARS: 1
I don’t know if your car comes with the wink feature. There is a button to the left of the steering wheel that makes the lights pop up. If you hit it quickly several times, one light will open and one will close and they alternate.
#PopUpHeadlightsLife
"crowmolly" (crowmolly)
04/17/2017 at 19:03, STARS: 0
FWIW you can get a passable and cheap paint job with the HF purple gun and Eastwood’s house brand paints.
"ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com" (ita97)
04/17/2017 at 19:25, STARS: 1
I’ve got an old suction spray gun. I scuffed the original paint, put down some Matrix urethane primer, sanded that down and shot it with a Matrix single stage urethane mixed to the original paint code. It was expensive, but I wanted it to be the correct color for some reason. So far, it looks better than I was expecting. After it sets up for a few weeks, I was going to wet sand and buff it out.