Not A Duster's Most Excellent Progress

NICE WHEELS..!![smilie=p:


The car looks Most Excellent...!!!:2thumbs:
now get it together and snap more pictures
 
Oooohhhhhh! the CAR, I was thinking those were some crappy pics of your flat Grey D-100. lol Car looks great call me jealous. I'm not even finished the Garage to work on the Dart in.
 
Looks great. It will look even better when you are driving it out in the sun next spring :giggedy: I have only seen one Viper GTS in the flesh and that color is truly captivating. Gonna be a knockout ride for sure.
 
Thanks folks.

Closer inspection revealed some orange peel in the paint. I've about had enough with the whole bodyshop thing, so I'm not sure what i'm going to do...

Spent today installing interior stuff, only because it's eating up the garage space normally occupied by the neon...

Got the rear seat & headliner in, and installed most of the dash. Began removing the column shifter and replacing the upper column "cans" with those from a floor shift car.

Last project of the day was freshening up the interior door emblems.
 
excellent work, Sir!

my paint guy said there's always going to be orange peel for some reason or another. I don't really believe him, but what do I know?
 
Not A Duster said:
Closer inspection revealed some orange peel in the paint. I've about had enough with the whole bodyshop thing, so I'm not sure what i'm going to do...
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If that's a decent bodyshop, they'll fix their mistakes. It sucks you have to send it back and lose more time working on it or driving it but you paid for it, it should've been done right the first time. Looks good so far though.
 
Most paints, when sprayed properly, are supposed to mimic modern factory applied paint. That means orange peel to some degree. How excessive the peel is will be a factor of air pressure, mix ratios, spray technique, ambient temperature (while spraying), proper hardener for spray temperature, cure temperature, and cure time. I can't speak for your shop, but if you specified a nice flat, peel free surface, it's not unreasonable to expect them to produce that for your money spent. It seems fairly common to see shops color sand and buff the day after a paint job, and while it may be fairly flat at first, some peel can return as solvent comes out of the paint (curing). One good solution is to cut the clear with 1500 a couple of days after paint, and let it sit like that for a couple of days, then finish out with 2000-2500, and buff. That opens the paint up and promotes solvent cure, and in my experience, gives a flat, peel free paint job.

For the least amount of peel straight out of the gun, House of Kolor clears are excellent (and damn easy to run), cost effective, and they have a ton of UV inhibitors. For the money, it's hard to top HOK clears.

The car looks excellent, and I can't wait to see it assembled!:giggedy: Thanks for sharing it with us.
 
What JC said..............but the shop that did it should have wet sanded and buffed it before returning it to you.
 
Thanks for the input guys.

The car was wet sanded and buffed - I saw it before & there was a lot of dust in the paint that they have removed. They missed doing some of the small items like the gas cap, so I expect they will have to fix that as well.

Latest progress is as follows:

Pics 1, 2 & 3 - got the floor shift column parts installed. The little silver stud on the left side of the column is for mounting a tach. The orange wire looped over the column in the first pic is the wire that provided light to the shift indicator on the column shift setup. It's a nice convienient switched power source for the tach/stereo lites.

Then the wheel and front seat. I sat behind the wheel of the car for the first time in over a year tonite. Kinda different - there's an extra pedal and a new handle by my right knee....[smilie=i:

Sure like that front seat. Glad I went with it - it feels much better than the buckets.
 
I wasn't sure how that wheel was going to look against the blue and black of the interior but I think it looks pretty sharp.

Did you sit there, shift through the gears and make "vroom vroom" noises? :D
 
That blue is stunning! I love it! My car (we painted it in our garage) has some orange peel, we could have wet sanded it all out but I kinda liked a bit of it. Plus it is already full of rock chips so what's a little orange peel? :doh:

Sucks about the windshield, but shit happens, it won't be the last time something breaks. :D Way to make you feel better, eh?

The Not a Duster looks great! Wish I was closer, I'd like to make vroom vroom noises in it too. :dance:
 
nice duster lady said:
That blue is stunning! I love it!
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Thanks, Dustergal - I'm really fond of the blue myself.

I expect the car will get it's share of chips & nicks as I plan to drive it, but I thought it would be nice for the finish to be as good as possible for the first couple outings at least. As much as I really don't care for them, I was thinking of entering the thing in a couple local indoor shows just to see how all my work measures up against other people's projects. I'm not sure the paint is up to that kind of standard.

Mind you, I'm not sure it's not either - I walked around the local cruise nite on Saturday evening and checked out the finishes on as many of the cars there as I could. Given what I saw there, there is a chance I am being overly picky...it's also possible that because it's over 25 years since I last had a car painted, I just don't know what I should be expecting for my $7300.00 spent....:huh:

flamin' head kid said:
I wasn't sure how that wheel was going to look against the blue and black of the interior but I think it looks pretty sharp.
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Yup - It provides a pretty nice contrast & some warmth to the otherwise cold colours in the interior. I was thinking maybe a fabricated oak shifter ball to match it would be cool as well, but I'm not sure yet as I really like the feel of the T-handle. (At least as I sit there going "vroom vroom.")
 
Not A Duster said:
Yup - It provides a pretty nice contrast & some warmth to the otherwise cold colours in the interior. I was thinking maybe a fabricated oak shifter ball to match it would be cool as well, but I'm not sure yet as I really like the feel of the T-handle. (At least as I sit there going "vroom vroom.")
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Could always make an oak T-handle. :huh:
 
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