Catapultkid's never ending build

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Re: Catapultkid's winter work and then some

Postby catapultkid » Sat Mar 06, 2010 12:13 am

update!

been busy getting setting up in a new shop and a mkv daily. more on those later.

to the pictures

shaved the wiper and squirter thing on the hatch
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shaved the door trim holes
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close up
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started on plastic but takes too long to harden
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got bumpers in, not real happy with fitment
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placed headliner in to set up the cage.
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how much that needed to be cut
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headliner in place with cage
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tacked in place
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then stood back and looked at everything
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then cut out rear seat brace
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took cage out again
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zero rusted the spots
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Re: Catapultkid's winter work and then some

Postby GTi_Phil » Sat Mar 06, 2010 7:59 pm

I love how you are getting this spot on. Really making sure everything is perfect. Top work pal.
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Re: Catapultkid's winter work and then some

Postby D16vGTi » Wed Mar 10, 2010 10:07 am

Yeah its looking awesome and is making want to do another racer mk2 :whistle: :up:
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Re: Catapultkid's winter work and then some

Postby catapultkid » Wed Mar 10, 2010 9:37 pm

thank you for the kind words

i started to tape everything off for finial coat of primer and noticed two imperfections :mad: so now im back at the plastic stage redoing those areas. i hate this but hopefully its the last for the body of the car.
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Re: Catapultkid's winter work and then some

Postby catapultkid » Sat May 15, 2010 2:03 pm

Ok well its that time again. I couldnt see my build on the second page and its been 2 months since an update.

Last time I left with finding a couple of areas that needed some work still after I had blocked everything. So up first was to set these areas correct. But first here are the wet sanding pictures.

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masked off for finial primer

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wet sanding

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roof after 400 grit

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alittle shine too it

Next the annoying part. The only thing that may these pictures dont decribe is the shear amount of time this process takes. It seems to never end.

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the infected area

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after a skim coat and blocked again

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masked off and painted, ran out to the yello high build primer so using gray now

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wet sanded the area

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then moved everything out and power washed the room to prep for paint

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moved the other items outside for alittle work between painting

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finial straighting

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trying to get the latch correct

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painted one with the left over primer i had mixed for the quarter

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masking up for finial paint

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more masking

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AND PAINT! more on this later, my camera died over a couple of weeks

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then masked the inside up, after about 7 hrs of scrubing and cleaning

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shot the inside with Euro Gravel Guard, then ran out of that. then used GRAVITEX

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again

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then white on the inside

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hope you guys enjoyed the update. this is still a slow go as many of you guys have personal experiences with. i landed a job in Richmond again, so its back to weekend work.
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Re: Catapultkid's never ending build

Postby GTi_Phil » Sat May 15, 2010 4:59 pm

Nice update dude. Looking great.
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Re: Catapultkid's never ending build

Postby catapultkid » Sun May 23, 2010 1:10 pm

well the paint was still wet on the remaining parts of the interior. but i just had to pull the tape off and step back to enjoy it.

update coming soon i hope

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Re: Catapultkid's never ending build

Postby OAKVR6 » Sun May 23, 2010 2:57 pm

Very impressed m8 keep up the good work :clap: :clap:
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Re: Catapultkid's never ending build

Postby GTi_Phil » Sun May 23, 2010 5:00 pm

8)
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Re: Catapultkid's never ending build

Postby madmanluke » Mon May 31, 2010 8:44 pm

wow, great work! Honestly - how would you want to tackle mine with some mica red?
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Re: Catapultkid's never ending build

Postby D16vGTi » Mon May 31, 2010 9:04 pm

Looks awesome! 8)
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Re: Catapultkid's never ending build

Postby GTi_Phil » Fri Jun 04, 2010 7:04 pm

madmanluke wrote:wow, great work! Honestly - how would you want to tackle mine with some mica red?
You have skills!


He's not really that local Luke lol.
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