by "Powershiftmedia-ResidentDSMGuru" (matt-powershiftmedia)
Published 10/15/2017 at 13:19
by "Powershiftmedia-ResidentDSMGuru" (matt-powershiftmedia)
Published 10/15/2017 at 13:19
Tags: DSM
; Projects
STARS: 1
Always messing with DSMs around here, my buddy Casey has his 99 GSX that we yanked the motor out of a few weekends ago. At that time we brushed on rust proof paint, which will prevent the very real shock tower rust issues that 2G cars suffer from.
The problem was, when it dried, it looked kind of janky at best. So, he came over and stayed this weekend. I took vacation for this week and decided to throw back some cold ones, or 12. Then I did what any smart drunk person would do, decided to start painting.
Now, I’m not the world’s best painter. I get the job done, but always end up with runs and stuff. It was 51 degrees in the garage, not ideal temps to paint. However, we were wasted and wanted it done. So I grabbed some scotch brite, and started sanding. After scuffing up the surface, we cleaned the heck out of it using windex, which is an old school degreaser prep trick.
Then, we used legit paint prep spray, used my heat gun to help dry it up and get the temp of the metal where the paint would bond. We kept about 15 minutes between coats and I ended up doing about 5 coats total, and allowed it to dry overnight. I wish I’d have taken pics before clear coat but didn’t.
The next day, we waited until about 7pm to start again. I ended up clear coating it, the garage was nice and warm. Somehow, I managed to get zero runs. It actually turned out 8/10 I’d say. Not bad for rattle can.
We had to swap the oil pan, trans pan and alternator to the new motor from the old one. Swapped the cam angle sensor, coil, and had to remove every pulley to mount the lower timing cover. It was a chore, because stopping the pulleys from spinning was nearly impossible.
The valve cover was literally completely encased in grease and oil build up. I hosed it down with citrus degreaser and scrubbed it for roughly an hour. We decided we were gonna paint it. This is where things take a very hilarious turn.
He wanted wrinkle black, but we didn’t have any on hand. It was now 48 degrees in the garage again. I’d scotch brite sanded the valve cover, and used a heat gun to heat it up to paint. I did three coats of high temp primer to allow good adhesion of the paint and to cover up imperfections. After the primer dried, we went on to use high temp black.
Unknown to me, if you keep direct heat on high temp paint when it’s wet, it causes it to wrinkle. Now we were both pretty wasted by this point, and my buddy Nathan shows up home from working a second part time job. I’ve got the heat gun full blast curing the paint for a next coat. The conversation went roughly like this.
Me to Nathan - “how’s it looking man, I think it’s turning out good”
Nathan to me laughing “are you trying to wrinkle that paint, because that’s how you wrinkle paint”
Nathan did body work professionally for quite some time, and Casey and I look at each other. He was right, it wrinkled like it was supposed to be wrinkle paint. We kept up doing what we accidentally did, and laid down two more coats, and didn’t clear coat it. Casey was absolutely enamored with the results. I have to say, I was glad he wanted wrinkle because I couldn’t have pulled that off twice in a lifetime, let alone while being heavily intoxicated.
He ended up using nail polish to paint the letters, he wanted some contrast, and he’s color blind so it was interesting helping him pick out the color. Here’s how it turned out.
All in all, the engine is ready to go back into the car next weekend and it should be driving. Excellent progress among two drunken idiots aye?
Matthew is an idiot, and you shouldn’t listen to anything he says. You can find him in the garage breaking things and probably working on a DSM. Be sure to follow me and read through our adventures in the DSM world.
"farscythe - makin da cawfee!" (farscythe)
10/15/2017 at 15:37, STARS: 2
eh.... thats some pretty stellar painting/wrenching for a couple drunks...
best ive done was tack welding half a beer can over a tear in my muffler (i may have sorta kinda backed over a big ass rock thats lived in my garden since time began)
apparently tacking on half a beer can is not a fix that passes m.o.t
"Powershiftmedia-ResidentDSMGuru" (matt-powershiftmedia)
10/15/2017 at 17:48, STARS: 1
Haha thanks, we thought so too. Shoot turned out better than what it would have had we’d been sober lol.
LOL I’m not familiar with MOT but I get the idea behind it, they should have let you slide haha. Did it actually quiet the car down and hold up? That’s amazing
"farscythe - makin da cawfee!" (farscythe)
10/15/2017 at 23:14, STARS: 0
lol it worked...(well.... it improved the noise problem) not sure how long it would have held tho......it was pretty much a last ditch attempt at passing m.o.t without shelling out for a new muffler
"Powershiftmedia-ResidentDSMGuru" (matt-powershiftmedia)
10/15/2017 at 23:48, STARS: 0
That MOT stuff is super strict isn’t it? I’m assuming that’s the UK emission and tax thing correct?
"farscythe - makin da cawfee!" (farscythe)
10/16/2017 at 00:10, STARS: 0
it is... tho im actually in the netherlands (i just call it m.o.t coz pretty much no one here would know what im talking about if i call it APK)
and yes... its pretty strict. i’ve been failed for having my license plate light out before (least that was a cheap one)
"Powershiftmedia-ResidentDSMGuru" (matt-powershiftmedia)
10/16/2017 at 00:23, STARS: 1
Yikes, and I thought Ohio was bad lol