dddude55

Some of you may have remembered crying when seeing my tib:
http://www.rdtiburon.com/index.php?showtop...mp;#entry325812

But I have tried fixing the outside of it. Basically I grabbed some bondo and went at it. I had no experience with bondo and to top it off planned on painting the car myself afterwards.

This had been planned for quite some time but me and my friend kept putting it off. It's like every time we plan to goto the junkyard something makes us not go. Well the night before we were going I randomly suggested we stay home and work on the cars.... So here we are.

First some pics before wash:





After Wash:


My fav for some reason



Then we started applying bondo:


Not sanded


what it looks like when you apply dried bondo...


First layer sanded

You can see in the pic below i sanded my light a tad sad.gif


Now after that I was too dirty to take pics, wasnt my camera. And when we painted I didn't bring the cam...

So here are some pics of when i got done at 5am. Not complete yet but looks badass at night lol.








Me and my friend drove each others cars so we could see what they looked like. My tib now looks mean instead of like a little girls car.

HyundaiKitCoupe

^i completely agree! your friend should get a tiburon! haha... it's funny i thought he was helping you out there in the background when he's really playing guitar. laugh.gif

that;s insane. what are you going to do with it? and you should remove the window liner and get in there too. looks good, also make sure you completely smoothen out the edges of that bondo because the slightest line sticking out when painted and you'll get what's known as a continent.

keep up the good work.

dddude55

Day pics to see my horrible coverage. Remember its just the first layer.





Door came out alright i suppose, see the triangle on the window...





horrible on the sunroof, couldn't get all the paint off

optimoprime

u got a long way to go man.....hope u keep it up

Jason

Good to see you're making some progress. But it looks like you should have prepped it a little more carefully before painting, and maybe used a few more coats.

Do you plan on using clear coat? or you just want it flat black?

dddude55

Its still a work in progress, I just painted the whole car so it wouldn't look all patchy. Everyone seems to look at it like this is the final thing. I will sand it all down again, i need to sand some of the original paint still because of some bubbling in a small section.

****This is in progress and is in no way what it will look like when finished****
(not talking about anyone inspecific, just alot of people in real life as well like to tell me it doesn't look good because some sections are not as well coated as others. Yes more work in the long run but that's how I roll. I'm not a body shop and can not do all the work in a few hours)

That said, here's some work I got done before the rain was coming:

1st 2 are the same just 1 taken regular and 1 high sensitivity



Same as first 2



Looking at it from the passenger door


Comparison of the side that has no damage


just a couple profile pics



Shows how low my car is for the people that tell me my mudguards shouldn't scrape on speed bumps.
Although my drive way got in the way a bit, but not by much


Slightly above pic


And close up



***Not finished*** drillsergeant.gif

A quick walk around:

SOCKS_old

lookin pretty damn good man.. MUCH MUCH better than before when it had all the dings/dents, etc.

do i see an attempt at fixing the front bumper fing02.gif

Jason

I assumed you were not finished, I just said you should have prepped a bit more carefully because you got paint on your windows and lights. And I know that can be kinda annoying.

But it seems to be comming along, good job.

optimoprime

arg i gotta start thinking about doing this for my car soon.......

BlueRD2

NICE! just gotta fix that front bumper and she'll be good as new. Im also wondering what it sounds like, i know it was on it the vid but give her a rev i wanna hear.