So after clearing out the shed and buying some shelves and stuff ive made some room for the mini project
Its now indoors - to my relief, and subframe and engine is out of the car, the engine bay is all back to bare metal and the little rusty bits have been coated with the good old rust converter too.
While ive been at school this week, dads been helping me out by cutting out the 4 rust spots on the car and making replacement metal bits (out of some mini boots) and matt (aka sswanab) is coming saturday helping out with some welding for these spots
cheers mate. its the common under the rear bumper on the pass. side, and drivers side the floor join under the pedals. the other 2 spots were cut out of the shell when i bought it, on the dirvers front quarter panel thingo
Helpfully, my neighbour used to spray cars (hes only young, been donig it for 7 or so years, now just had enough though) and is real keen to help me with the mini
and he's got enough primer and clear coat left over from previous jobs (real good quality stuff of course). He has suggested to me what i should do now:
He recons i should get the engine bay all good, perfect- as i want it first. painted the colour i want the car etc. then get the engine in - wheels etc. get it rolling, do all that sorta stuff - then i can continue prepping the rest of the car ready for the whole paint job. does this sound stupid doing this way? I think it sounds pretty good to me, but some of my mates were like wtf are you going to do it like that for.
Hes got all the expensive spray guns..and we've got the compressor - he recons it will be fine doing it in the shed - putting up drop sheets up etc.
So thats the plan. what does everyone think
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