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very cool colour, nice work!

Goos shit. Colour is looking awesome, the brake lines look great! Good to see you taking your time with it

Very nice work.

Good your brother in law helped out. Good savings on panel beaters bills! Looks awesome, nice finish, and the colour is excelent. Like you said, very close, if not same to factory green shade.

Put some cardboard on the floor panels so you do not scrach that finish with metal parts like those muffler/exhaust parts. It has happened to me, being extremely carefull...only to accidentally drop a metal part on a finish, dang! that is an awful feeling.

Congratulations on excellent progress. For sure a very nice "J"!!!

Jaime.____________________________________________________________________________________

Thoes floor panels just have DP40 primer on them im not to worried about them will most likely have a scuff back then a coat of etch primer then colour over top or get sprayed with zinc paint in a can as there will be carpet going down so you won't see any of that and it should still give a good protective coating. Not 100% on that one.

Good to know.

My concern was not cosmetic, but rust prevention. Since that area will be carpeted, exposed metal would rust under heat and humidity trapped under the carpet.

Since the final coats have not been applied, you are right, not the time to think about it.

POR-15 is paint that can be applied with a brush, and it is strong and thick. That is what I used on wheel arches and other areas. Good finishing paint for tough areas like floor panels and under the car.

You can see it in here. This is my 180B.

Cheers.

Very nice. The movement of the carpet was something else that concerned me over the floor pan didn't want it to rub through the paint over time. So want something nice and hard. I might look into that stuff though seeing as it can be applied with a brush saves masking up areas etc.

unlimitedpower wrote:Very nice. The movement of the carpet was something else that concerned me over the floor pan didn't want it to rub through the paint over time. So want something nice and hard. I might look into that stuff though seeing as it can be applied with a brush saves masking up areas etc.

I used chip gaurd. after etch primered and all the rust treatment etc.

is there a turbo L18 in this cars future i seen your bid after i put one on will be watching it hope it goes well for you

yea im noticed that Manifold come up it'll be running a L18E that i have now originally it'll be fitted as a straight rebuilt L18E then converted to run on CA18DE ECU at that stage the turbo will hopefully find its way onto it.
Along with upgraded front brakes and rear diff with swap to disk rears. Lowered the legal 2" and that'll be pretty much about it at this stage anyway.

I have a set of R31 Struts already to go but i really want some with a 100mm bolt spacing for the calipers (like everyone else) so i can use Z31 factory front brakes. Anyone wanna swap?

Man that has to be the best deal look forward to seeing what you do with it
out of intrest sake could you pm me how much you think that was worth just so i know what im looking at if i go this way when i get a motor rebuilt