Lewis's '89 1.4 SR - Now with added XE

[Connor]

Does it? Not the ones i've seen...

Bully

[MK999]

Benns obviously not familiar with the tramps

[Lewis.]

/\ that needs a damn good polish

[Lewis.]

right, first real update for quite a while.
Dan and I have realised that it seems to have become a tradition to wait until the weekend before PVS to paint our cars, and this year is no exception

went round to his on Saturday and started to prep the tailgate. got screen out, spoiler, wiper, handle off, and Cookie machine polishing it




then Dan got a bit rough with it


blocked it down and it made an attempt to rain, so chucked the glass back in and went home


then yesterday, Dan came round and we got the tailgate in high build


then today, I blocked the high build down, and Dan put the top coat on. Had to do a couple more areas too, so masked them all up


photobucket's an **** and won't rotate these two






mixed some paint


got my tame painter out of his box






plenty more to come! praying it's done for PVS

[Iain]

Are you spraying a cm deep line across the top of the door? Interested to see how that turns out. Nice work though, cracking on with it.

[Lewis.]

Thank you

And Yeah we are, it was missed last year and primer isn't a good look

There's Plenty of paint on the edge so we should be able to blend it in. I hope it comes out okay

[Balley]

As lewis says, it should blend in okay, If not we will do the hole door.

[Lewis.]

Just got home so unmasked it to see what it was like. Pleasantly surprised with the results. the top of the door and the bonnet wont be any problem, the tailgate will be okay, but the wing has some rather enormous runs right across all the swage lines, so will require some attention
(sorry if the pictures are a bit enormous, but having 'upgraded' to an iPhail, the camera is utter shoite, so I used the SLR instead. long exposure and no tripod ftw )












Oh, and I got my wheels back last week, they've been on a day or two now, and I really like the colour, Will look even better once the car is polished, as they look odd with the matt paint







And Balley got me a new tailgate vinyl for my birthday (cheers man!) which will of course be going on once the tailgate has been flatted and polished.

It's fast for a 1.4


I'll see what the weathers like tomorrow before I say what I'm going to do!

[Lewis.]

a picture-less update, but one full of win

Took the Nova to work on Tuesday afternoon, and have spent the last 3 evenings on it until about 11pm after work. I'm nackered, but it's done! My boss has resprayed the wing as it was just shoite, and I've machine polished the whole car, and it actually looks pretty good now. I've fitted the new tailgate vinyl, and my recaro's.

so all I need to do in the morning is wash and wax it, and she's ready for PVS

[Connor]

Excellent work boys, wish i had the skills and motivation you two have .
Quite gutted i am not going PVS now as would of loved to seen this again!