another day of sanding

[Brads70]

Looks great but I don't envy you. I dislike sanding very much LOL 

[RUNCHARGER]

Ha, ha. I'm worried. I told Greg to get a good water filter before spraying it. I may not be done yet. I prefer fabbing patches and welding them in, or wrenching, or grinding, or setting up gears, or changing a clutch.

[RUNCHARGER]

Sprayed the bottom of the hood and hatch. We were up glueing inner parts on these assemblies today and will install them and broom out the shop and jack up the car and remove the wheels tomorrow for the final paint assault on Monday. Colour is awesome actually. It's a 4 coat system from House of Color and looks like the most awesome F8 you ever seen in certain light. It should be a fun week I hope. I'll be welding and fabbing on the Charger while this car gets sprayed Monday and set up Tuesday.

[xx88man]

Awesome!   

[RUNCHARGER]

Well: Greg sprayed the car today (while I was grinding trunk floor welds and tail panel brackets off the original tail panel on the Charger, fun day), Colour is awesome but I guess there's lots of trash in the paint so I'll be sanding my guts out again on it. Superstraight though apparently so that makes me feel good.

[Brads70]

I can't say I envy you, I hate sanding.

[RUNCHARGER]

After today, I prefer it to grinding.... Quite a bit of riveting left on the GTM as well. I have to rivet all the underbelly on and a few panels in  the wheelhouses as well as some carbon fibre pieces. Probably 1000 or so rivets. Install windows, lights, mirrors etc. I'd just as soon do the sanding first and get it out of the way.

[JS29]

 :iagree:But i would wait on buffing so if you slip you don't have to buff twice!                                                                     P.S. The longer that clear seat's, The harder it gets.

[RUNCHARGER]

Halfway through wetsanding it. Took it for a bit of a rip today and everything is dialed in pretty well. It's about as fast as my Viper (400HP, 2450lbs) but we can fix that. Sick of working on it as there have been lots of frustrating episodes but it's almost over. One day we'll get another sunny day and it will be buffed. Hopefully next week sometime.

[Brads70]

Looks nice!Just a few hours on that one I'd bet!  I'd rather have a Viper but that's just my opinion.

[RUNCHARGER]

Yes, I much prefer my Viper. This car will likely get tore up a bit though. Greg wants to track it and he goes all in, he's raced quite extensively so he prefers the lighter weight of this one. I wouldn't be surprised if he does the One Lap of America with this one. He did it a few years ago with his NSX and a couple times with a 70 Charger (factory FC7 R/T but about the only thing left was a roof skin over an Art Morrison chassis etc.)

[jimynick]

Based on your work and comments, you have to be a well experienced guy and that makes me wonder about your comments that buddy was painting it while you ground off rivets, etc., could that be the reason for all the schmutz in the paint you said you'd have to sand out? I also hear you about all the sanding, as I'm in the same boat with my Challenger and it seems endless. Good for you to stay at it and get through! 

[RUNCHARGER]

Nope, he sprayed it final all alone. I know it takes concentration to paint anyway plus I don't paint anymore because of the fumes, so I pretty much made a run for it! Lol. He should have rented a booth but wanted to do it in the shop for some reason. So we got lots of crud that is sanding out okay. A few spots missing a pass too because of the lack of lighting but I think it is going to come out fine with some labour. The paint flips from green to the blue undertone in different lighting so sometimes you figure it's thin but it's more light related. The rockers seem a bit blue but again if you change the light they look different, there are Carbon Fibre side skirts to install yet so you won't see the rockers anyway. Body is extra straight so I'm really happy about that, there were a few spots I had to do bodywork (roof added scoop and hole repair, doorframes and b-pillars and a crunched right side quarter from shipping damage) and they are undetectible.
I went back and see where the confusion came from, the day Greg decided to spray it, I went home and worked on my son's Charger,

[anlauto]

Dumb me has to ask what kind of car is it ?

[RUNCHARGER]

Factory 5 GTM kit car. Has a Z06 Corvette LS engine, Porsche transaxle, box tube chassis, fibreglass body. A fellow Greg knew was building it for 8 years but unfortunately succumbed to cancer. Greg decided to buy it and finish the build and wants a car he can race anyway so it all worked out quite well. It will be a fun car to race without the fear of damaging an artifact.