So some good news and some bad news, good news got a trust titanium cat back exhaust to match up to the front pipes,
bad news is as we were doing the final wash prior to color going onto the car this happened
Basically what happened is the same as the roof, the white paint that nissan applied to the car lifted and resulted in the whole primered section coming off.
This obviously meant that all the work on the 1/4 pannels was lost and we had to start again.
Out came the paint stripper?
All that hard work down the drain, but on the plus side it means the whole car is now bare metal rrespray and it meant i got too see what was hiding behind any factory paint.
This is about the extent that the paint stripper would get the paint off the quarters, the roof was saved as we stipped it back before due to the same issue.
We then move onto the mechanical removal of the paint to bring it back to bare metal and highlight any problem spots
After an hour or 3 and a few beers we end up with this
As im running n1 side skirts i didn't have to strip any of the lower sill area as the sun helps with the prevention of delamination and we had no issues with the few test spots.
Few more hours later and we have
Ready for primer, the few tiny dents will be metal finished. Over all I'm very happy with how nice the quarters are with only tiny spots of bog, which has now been removed wnd repaired properly.
The spare parts pile gets bigger for my car with the purchase of a new overflow bottle and cap to match the washer bottle.
Small steps keep this more affordable.
Here is an example of a respray the boys did over at the paintshop and the body of the restored engine bay on the black gtr we did
And of cource my engine bay is still looking mighty fine.
Talk soon guys.
P.s how do you change the thread name?