240sx Coupe Track Car by noname7198

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We spent the weekend doing body work. All that's left is wet sanding and fixing minor scratches and imperfections in the primer, then it's ready for paint. We decided to shave the upper body line because it looks a lot cleaner that way. Here is how we did the doors:

Here is the stock door:



First grind the line down to bare metal, then feather the original paint to keep it smooth:





Then add filler (pink), sand smooth, and use spot puddy (red) to get the minor imperfections:



Sand smooth and prime it and it looks like this:



I don't have any pictures of the process, but we used fiberglass resin to fill the line on the fenders. Since we plan to run wider wheels this year we decided to get 20mm wider front fenders and 50mm over fenders in the rear.

First we cut the stock fender to make plenty of clearance:



Mounting the rears (the bumper is not all the way on):







The fronts:



We also shaved the front turn signal holes.

Before:



After:





So that's it for now. Hopefully the next update will include pictures of a painted car. I'm tired of looking at primer grey...

2/24/09

The car is finally painted! I spent last Thursday and Friday wet sanding and masking, then Saturday we painted. I decided to use a single stage because I thought it would be easier to work with and touch up when I hit things. I've sprayed several cars before this, a couple base clears and one 3 stage, but this single stage was the most difficult I've ever worked with. It took a while to get the gun set up and was tough to get it to lay a consistent, even color. I did the doors first and was still playing with the gun so they didn't come out that great. We will be re-spraying them. Everything else came out pretty good. Some imperfections and dust, but after we color sand and buff it should look great.

























The color is called intense blue pearl. Jason is going to re-paint the doors this weekend and then we will put the car back together in 2-3 weeks when I can get back down there.

edit: 3/1

Jason repainted the doors yesterday. He also did the valve covers. Everythings looking good.