Pearl white coupe revival

[jbrentd]

It will look great! What the name of it again? Looks like the Porsche Macadamia Metallic...

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[ThatGUY]

Spousal agreement! Awesome.
I like it... whatever my opinion is worth.

[ottawa coupe]

Played some more this afternoon between meetings. Wet sanded a small section and cleared it. Put it in sunlight before it orange peeled again and looked at it. Very neat indeed.

Wife took a look and i have spousal agreement ( ).

Looks like we have a winner here. Going to do a full wetsand and buff (to try and get a semblence of a proper job lol) over the next few days and confirm.

[ottawa coupe]

used up the last of the clear i had and put it out in the sun.

i'm warming to this i must say.

i must reiterate, pretty much no panel prep hence the horrific orange peel! it will be done better on the actual car lol

[ottawa coupe]

Ignore the actual finish quality if you can see it, i spent less than an hour on prep. And we're talkin bout rattlecans for the moment lol.

Interesting colour


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i have paint stripper so i may use it on the other fender and try again. at least that way i won't have sanding marks all over the place lol.

i may have to change the title of this thread lol

[ottawa coupe]

Right, so the s6 is more or less sorted, a pad/rotor change can be done in the driveway. So, the coupe is in the shop.... temporarily. Got all the stuff that's not going back on immediatly on the shelves and in boxes.

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The next jobs are to actually get the hvac box done (packed the car away before i realized i need the bits i had packed away lol), get the brackets that i got from the cabrio welded into the engine bay and deal with getting the cabrio dash in to the coupe (mounted much differently). Then the engine comes out again and i get on with actual bodywork.

But that will be inturrupted by my wife's vehicle most likely for brakes. It's going in for service this week, they're most likely going to say the brakes are shot (they are lol) and i am not feeling terribly rich right now so i'll do them myself i suppose. Also helping a friend out with his pos nissan and try to get his AC sorted for the summer...

Oh ya, i've also got a massive landscaping issue to deal with at the end of june.... fun times

[ottawa coupe]

Thanks, we'll see what the future brings. The colour change idea is as a result of the local paint supplier quoting an insane cost for pearl white. But given how expensive everything paint related is, this might not represent much savings lol.

I wonder if i can get paint shipped to ogdensburg ny where i have a PO box lol. May be a reasonable alternative.

[jbrentd]

That will look good...very unique, which is a good thing in my book. I've been kicking around the idea of wrapping my CQ.

[ottawa coupe]

Nothing actually done on the car but i think i have a decision on the colour. Wife approved to boot.

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[ottawa coupe]

So, just cuz i needed to feel good about this lol

20240502_214143.jpg i like the general direction it's heading.... something something it needs to be one colour lol.....

Seals came for the steering rack today. So after i got the kids to bed, quickly knocked this out.

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Wasn't a terribly fun job i must say. The shaft seal is not inspiring confidence. It's teflon and requires significant deformation to fit. I hope i didn't mess it up....

If anyone has a leaky rack, this is where i got my kit:

https://powersteeringseals.com/rack-...ck-and-pinion-

Heater box this weekend is the most i will be able to do for the next little bit i think.

[jbrentd]

I had to piece together one airbox from both too. IIRC, my manual airbox had a crack around the evaporator drain.

Progress is progress. Keep plugging away.


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[ottawa coupe]

I can make a mess quickly can't i lol.

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Hvac boxes torn down to get one good one. Of course, now delayed because the blend door foam on both units was no longer there. At least amazon says they'll have it sorted by the weekend. It's a good opportunity to get everything clean though, the amount of debris (vegetation essentially!) inside was a bit alarming

[ottawa coupe]

You're too kind lol. Competing priorities in life mean the most i can hope for will be primer by christmas at this point.... and i have my doubts i'll make that.

[Tractor Dave]

I think you have actually made very good progress. Just a few months back it was upside down getting welded.

[ottawa coupe]

Got a line on seals for the rack today, hopefully that works out, we'll see when they get here. Getting things organized and trying to filter out the excess from the cabby teardown. Figure the best way to clear things up is to just toss them on the car... here's a terrible pic of the mess lol

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Baby steps at this point is all i can really do on this for the next while.... god this is gonna take years lol