although this lips are no longer for this car due to my purchase of the rs's , heres the rm dishes ive refurbed, If i can get away with it ill be fitting theses to the bbs rm's that are going onto the renault 5
although this lips are no longer for this car due to my purchase of the rs's , heres the rm dishes ive refurbed, If i can get away with it ill be fitting theses to the bbs rm's that are going onto the renault 5
Look real nice mate, top jobnot trying to thread jack but I've just re done a set of bbs rc038 like yours.
look cool as **** man, theres somthing very satifying about taking fuked lips and making them better than new, or at least there is for me.
stunning, we've got a bench polishing machine with two wheels like a grinder, im tempted to buy a set and refurb some, ive tried polishing things in the past but it took soooooooo long to get imperfections out, most would polish amazing but any scratch or corroded spot just took literally hours and still wouldnt go? how do you get larger imperfections out?
I quite litrally do it all by hand pretty much..
My process is as follows.
Very carefull use of a grinder with flap wheel < 240 grit, im very carefull to keep it moving otherwise the alloy can melt causing more issues, I use this until all the pitting has gone, by the end my arms aching and im wishing i never started.
Then the next stage 80 or 120 grit sanding, this is mainly get to get the damage done by the flap disc out, as the lip will no longer be round but instead a serious of gouges etc (hopefully not to many, this stage takes a long longe time , and you need to go until theres no deep marks seft by the flap wheel.
From then on the work gets easier and faster, but i just repeat using wet and dry.
240 > 320 > 400 > 600 >800, it gets easier the further you go, also i setup a matt and bucket and water and do it in front of the tv, its a labour of love and each night my hands and arms are black.
http://www.thepolishingshop.co.uk/ac..._Kits.html#a30
Then i use the top polishing kit in the above link ( the £10 one) on a drill, a bench mounted one would be far easier but unfortunatly i have no where to mount it, i then give them a run over with hd metal polish but i may invest in some 'mothers polish' which is meant to be great and generally what all the guys in the states use.
Basically its a long process, but somthing that can be done in front of the tv, i just give it about 45 mins a night, and that way its not to much of a chore.
check back to post number 13 onwards and you will see the stages a bit beter , other than the flap disc as i didn work that out until the second rim.
I like this a lot man. It's coming on well.
Those RS'sI've wanted a genuine set for a good 5 years now. One day
hehe and me man, pretty rare to get in the 4x100, there redrilled, these came up on mx5 nutz, and within less than 10 mins it was post number 16, needless to say i asked for the guys paypal details rather than beat about the bushOriginally Posted by scratcher
I like this a lot man. It's coming on well.
Those RS's
yeah, you can't mess about
A friend has a set on his mk1 Caddy in 4x100. I offered to swap my Bora for them but he still won't let them go.
What are the future plans for this then? I love the lazy lights look
MX5's have started getting more and more popular on edition38.
hehe yea everybody seems to have a firm grip on them , or they just want stupid stupid money.
Yea will lazy eye it, only a 50p mod , been to lazy to get around to it, indeed they do seem to be popping up everywhere now.
ill play with the height, camber and stance, smoke the front side lights, and then ill just repaint the whole thing black so its super fresh, that can wait till summer though, plan to blast it out in a week or so, cant let the good weather go to waste.
Nice work.
DJ, what would you use to take over-spray off paintwork, trim/plastics and glass?
We took my Mrs' Focus to a place for some body repairs a few months ago. The repairs they did were cheap but the result was pretty good for the price tbh. However, after I got home I realised they'd been sloppy with the paint and there's over-spray on the back end of the car.
I don't want to risk using anything too abrasive to get it off. Any thoughts?
try a clay bar and some detailer matey, so long as its not bonded to the paint to well that should shift it off the plastics and paintwork.
http://www.rollupandshine.com/roll-u...-bar-192-p.asp
that product looks ideal, quick detailers about £6 from halfords, meguairs stuff, good stuff to have around aswell, ideal for inbetween washers.
Off topic, but I think that Meguiar's clay is pretty useless.
Bily Hamber clay is my personal favourite. It's a lot cheaper per gram, and is designed to only need water for lube. You can mix a bit of shampoo in to make it more slippery if you want to.
It's the only clay I'll ever use now
http://www.bilthamber.com/pro-introd...clay%20regular
Smart, thanks bud.
me and skid mounted the tyres redneck style
after a few goes we soon got the hang of it, however skids eyebrows took a blow ! Boys will be boys and do these silly things
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxyXh...1&feature=plcp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YBHo...2&feature=plcp
brave or stupid, its a fine line, think we tiptoed it!
ill give ya brave.... i reckon ur stupid when you get burnt and it doesnt work.
not the best day today, the mrs helped me out in painting the hardtop.
Masked up,
Applied high build primer, then a couple of areas blisteered up, i sanded these back and it all the way back through the original silver the hardtop once was. I filled these with top stop, reapplied high build , and flatted this all back to 800
I then applied basecoat black in a 2:1 ratio as per morleys, however no matter what i did this was going on with a terrible orange peel, air pressure was fine etc, to top it off, when i applied the basecoat , once again 2 areas of the roof had a blister, once again this is all the way back to the very original silver coat.
All i can think is that the original paint was cellulose and the thinners are reactivating it, although this is just a guess.
Plan is to flat all the orange peel back, dig out the blisters and filler the whole, and then go again with a 1:1 ratio on the basecoat. (although i did confirm with my friend who said morelys basecoats are 2:1 so im really not sure.
Enough orange peel there to make a whole lot of marmalade
tell me about it, although the photo does make it look a bit worse than it really is.
Ive confirmed im using the correct mixing ratio for the paint with morelys.
Plan is to use barcoat on the whole roof to avoid any more blisters/reactions, high build the whole roof, flat the whole roof, and then try repainting with a diffrent air regulator.. if its still terrible im going to mix the basecoat to a 1:1 ratio and see how it goes..
HASSSLEEEEEeee
the only thing i knew about painting was from this experience, too much pressure caused my orange peel.
worked out the reaction is cellulose, and the orange peel is wrong mixing of basecoat, should of been 1:1
Atleast you sussed it
If you paint something like that again with shady areas such as burn throughs to other colours, primer edges etc make sure you dust these areas really carefully first and then blowing air inbetween dust coats to dry the solven quicker, it less likly to cause you trouble as there is less solvent on the panel which is what causes problems.
cheers man, i do always attack the dodgy areas first, however with the paint being mixed 2:1 is just wasnt right, and really i should of just stopped there and questioned it before hammering more on, ah well, we learn from mistakes dont we.. (never take paint advice/mixing ratios from the suppliers as i dont think they know there arse from elbow)
lol i suppose its like asking a parts supplier how to fix a car?
Apart from perhaps Sparkie(sorry)
Too true mate, sometimes you end up just going with what feels right, get the base and thinners in a paint cup and just play with it with a paint stick, in the end you can feel what is right, with solid stuff like clears etc it's best to check it with a din cup to have the viscosity bang on, this way you are taking the ambient temp in to consideration.
indeed man.. and even my little bit of experiance was screaming.. thats to thick.!!!! .
i may look at getting hold of a din cup mate, ive seen them , just never purchased one.. easy enough to use?
finallly got some front front lights..
excuse the 5 pictures just for lights, im doing a group buy on them at the moment, and felt it best to photo every angle
bit of an update
firstly, my car spank a leak, which involed in lots of steam and borrowing skids car to get to work ( thanks dude). Looking today ive found the issue, this little bung on the back of the engine.
Also fitted my smoked fronts
and also fitted my bbs wheels to attend streetrace newbies meet, there back off now and tucked away until the good weather comes (we pray).
also the new ride height with the bbs wheels resulted in dave richards having to tow my car back off a hump of grass
looks brilliant, that rear camber must make it even more twitchy????
Bit too low for my tastes. Looks ace all the same
ermm , i wouldnt say any more twitchy.. but certainly the level of grip moved, only summer wheels though.
forked out for the rear lip that i love on my gfs mx5.. omg it was expensive.. worst still its only a snotty bit of fibreglass.. however ive recieved it.. if im honest im not really that pleased..
Its been painting like like a matt black paint.. they havnt even got the edges these are still white.. i mean on a splitter thats £120, you would expect to have at least the crappy edges painting.. with that point in mind im not entirely happy with it being matt black as it will just stain and look crap very quick...
guess ill just have to live with it
see martin your converted
attacked the job of fitting the rear lip today, what a slag.. well its fully bolted up now.. not being a man to bodge and tigerseal lips on i opted for about 8 nuts and bolts, and a bead of black sealer..
well got my xxr 527 wheels , had these on back order a while in order to get this colour.
They are going to look gorgeous.
cheers man, i hope so. I can get really good prices on these xxr' wheels, them ones in the set me back £380 delivered to my door, which for some pretty unique and cool wheels is a steal i genearlly think.
Looks superb on the bbs mate! The xxr rims look nice too
just an update , gv lip fitted, 527's fitted, also got rsandy to come up as i was getting pissed off with the hardtop , wanted to check i wasnt doing anything silly as ive never had so much issue painting, , surely enough he also found it was lifting.
We put it down to a porous gelcoat over the fibreglass which didnt like heat very much and as such avoided heat as much as possible.
still need to give it a flat and polish as quite a lot of dust dropped in it but still.
That is looking fit Damian always have had a soft spot for the mx5's
Looks awesome! Mate loving! Those wheels
Badass on the black wheels dude, re the din cup just dip it in to the paint you are mixing and then record the time it takes for all of the liquid to run through it, more thinners less time= flatter finish and possibly more hangers. Most paints have the info on the side of the can at how many seconds it should be mixed up at, I used to paint clear at around 13-14 seconds like pi$$
Wheels are fantastic
couple more pics from just attending a few random things, thought id hoar them out.
The XXR wheels look really good for the price, never seen them on a 5 but they look awesome. Black on black always looks good, I recently had all my dished Enkei RPF1's done in Satin black again and it makes the car look hard.
couple of pics i found from fast show,
Looks fantastic
Nice work deej
been a while since i updated , so i just thought id have a pic hoar sesh to keep updated.
mrs robbed the car
schweet, looks shiny on the BBS and blummin evil on the XXR's
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