"RotaryLover" (rotarylover)
12/31/2013 at 17:00 • Filed to: None
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"RotaryLover" (rotarylover)
12/31/2013 at 17:00 • Filed to: None | 0
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Because, it's still the one!
Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy
> RotaryLover
12/31/2013 at 17:05 |
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Never have I seen a butler so happy.
N/A POWAAAHH
> RotaryLover
12/31/2013 at 17:06 |
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I LOL'd
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RotaryLover
> Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy
12/31/2013 at 17:13 |
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hahahahahahahaha indeed.
Casper
> RotaryLover
12/31/2013 at 17:18 |
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My next car shall be a 240Z? I have thought about that, but what if my current 240Z gets jealous? I don't think she's the sharing type...
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RotaryLover
> Casper
12/31/2013 at 17:26 |
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You could do some...240z swapping...talk her into it!
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Casper
> RotaryLover
12/31/2013 at 18:09 |
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I just talked her into having a some enhancements. I would rather not push my luck.
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RotaryLover
> Casper
12/31/2013 at 18:18 |
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You got Kinja'd. Looks like Kinja wanna save you from your 240z's wrath!
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Casper
> RotaryLover
12/31/2013 at 18:24 |
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There, just had to edit and save about 40 times for it to work...
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RotaryLover
> Casper
12/31/2013 at 18:29 |
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Huh...what I'm I looking at exactly? I see the body, but I'm confused at the front...
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Casper
> RotaryLover
12/31/2013 at 18:33 |
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We took it down to bare metal did paint, undercoating, and just re-undercoated it to fix a few things. Here are a few more pics after we tossed suspension under it.
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RotaryLover
> Casper
12/31/2013 at 18:38 |
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How much does it cost to do this normally? Just asking as a reference...
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Casper
> RotaryLover
12/31/2013 at 18:44 |
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Depends on the grinding and clean up involved. I think we figure it would be about $5,000 to completely strip the underside of a normal car, undercoat it, and powder coat all the parts like we did on mine. It didn't cost me as much because I used favors/my own labor to help on stuff. My dad is doing a 55 Buick and it will be about $10,000 to do full undercoating body off, paint the frame, and powder coat everything metal.
Materials is only a few hundred bucks. Powder coat is some where around $1000 depending on who is doing it, the prep work, etc. The labor is the biggy. It's about 40 hours of grinding to do it right on some old cars. Mine was about a week of grinding.
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RotaryLover
> Casper
12/31/2013 at 18:52 |
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Interesting. I was considering it on the Miata, since I was gonna keep it after all. 5000$ doesn't seem bad at all, but I might think of another car that could get the treatement.
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Casper
> RotaryLover
12/31/2013 at 19:15 |
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Yeah, it's not as big of a deal on newer cars as well. Most will have better sealants and such. You could probably get away with just cleaning it all up good and powder coating the important parts.
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RotaryLover
> Casper
12/31/2013 at 19:21 |
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I did a good clean up and removed all the rust from the floor. I did the undercoating too but badly...Now as soon as there a good amount of heat, the undercoating get's gooey/liquid. I'd like to redo all of it.
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Casper
> RotaryLover
12/31/2013 at 19:30 |
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Under coating is a lot like painting, most of the quality comes from the prep work. We grind the cars down to bare metal, which generally takes a whole box of disks and a week of grinding. Then degrease it all again, make sure the surface is as clean and prepped as possible, then start putting it on in coats. It's so thick you don't need many passes.