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Old 04-20-2010 | 09:18 PM
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Where did you get that cover for the battery? Did you customize it yourself to say cobalt ss?
read through the thread.
Old 04-20-2010 | 09:20 PM
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where's the new update, i check this bih everyday, it's all i look forward to.
Old 04-20-2010 | 09:27 PM
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also its not a battery cover...its a fuse block cover. battery is in the trunk....

yes, where is our update!!!!?
Old 04-20-2010 | 10:12 PM
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lol you guys crack me up. Your awsome. I loved the "why are you painting **** orange" question. Should have just told him im going yellow/orange 2 tone with a pirate flag painted on my hood

UPDATE:

sorry, forgot my good camera again, so on to cell phone pics:

took the car off jackstands today:




Finished Headlights (did the charcoal color with the candy orange pinstripe eyelid, then I cleared the whole headlight and added just a tiny bit of the charcoal black to the clearcoat to smoke them and add pearl to the entire headlight just a bit. I taped up the orange when i smoked them so i didnt darken it, then i added 2 coats of regular clear over it)







and all done slightly smoked


Grills, interior pieces that needed to be touched up, bowtie, SS emblems were sprayed:





Reded my taillights, they were messed up from fiberglass so i needed to strip them and redo, what a nightmare. Used bumper stripper, and it worked great at first, till it started eating the plastic lens leaving a ****** MESS. thought the lights were ruined, till i started DA Sanding them with 400 grit and then realised they were salvagable. The reverse lights i couldnt get back to perfect, but there not backlight all the time like the others so i think theyll be just fine. Outside taillights i got fixed pretty damn well though. I forgot about the sidemarkers untill i was leaving and went "ohh ****." so ill hit them tommorow

Heres the stripper working what looks like beautifully


And heres the reverse lights after the stripper before i fixed compared to a tail light i fixed



Finished:


There tinted Charcoal black too, so they have silver pearl in them as well

And fixed some low spots and primed the spoiler again:
Old 04-20-2010 | 11:12 PM
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Oh my godddddddd do my car next? Those rims and calipers are ******* sexy! But after seeing the headlights i need to clean off my keyboard.
Old 04-20-2010 | 11:37 PM
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this project is ******* sex!!!

those headlights look badass!
Old 04-20-2010 | 11:40 PM
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Kev when I come down we need to make my bumper fit right... since you the body guy and I'm the tuner guy we will work out a deal!

You may have a freebie tune in there for ya...
Old 04-20-2010 | 11:43 PM
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I...i......!
Old 04-20-2010 | 11:45 PM
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Yup... we may have to fix or if there is a way to... when I took my bumper off I tried to bring the bumper back in with the screw.... and well it kinda went through the little plastic tab....

So some more cutting maybe involved to get the bumper to fit right!
Old 04-20-2010 | 11:50 PM
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wow dude
looks ******* good so far
i love the headlights
Old 04-21-2010 | 12:57 AM
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Headlights look great man!
Old 04-21-2010 | 01:24 AM
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my old headlights look good! i'd like them back now haha
Old 04-21-2010 | 02:17 AM
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Just read all 30 pages straight through. had glimpsed at the first page a while back but tonight i started reading the thread and just kept wanting to see/read more. can.t wait to see it finished. Color looks amazing as well as all the stuff that has been painted so far.
Old 04-21-2010 | 07:48 AM
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Did you just want the whole "SS" emblem that color? Or just to lazy to tape off the silver?

Haha, I probably spent an hour taping that 1mm trim off when I sprayed mine. Hope I don't have to do that again. lol.
Old 04-21-2010 | 09:39 AM
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that looks sick man i love that gray paint on the emblem
Old 04-21-2010 | 01:01 PM
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looks ******* amazing, complete sex!!
Old 04-21-2010 | 02:25 PM
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Kev dude, im getting more and more excited for you! This is lookin amazing! Wish i could have been there to see it in person. The wheels are ****! Lookin good bro!
Old 04-21-2010 | 03:24 PM
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the body artwork is given all of us cobalt owners "a boner" for the amazing work you are doing. be excited when it gets done.
Old 04-21-2010 | 06:56 PM
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Originally Posted by JoshuaVnyrd1817
Did you just want the whole "SS" emblem that color? Or just to lazy to tape off the silver?

Haha, I probably spent an hour taping that 1mm trim off when I sprayed mine. Hope I don't have to do that again. lol.
they were already all black from the 1st time i sprayed them. The 1st time i sprayed them they were spraybombed b4 i knew anything about body work and painting and i tried to tape them up and got frustfrated and said **** it lol. So now i just sprayed over it.
Old 04-21-2010 | 07:00 PM
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any updates????
Old 04-21-2010 | 07:02 PM
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UPDATE:

Alright i had kinda a slow day. It was rainy and the shop was crowded so i didnt do a million things like usual. And didnt get too many pics. But i did my valve cover today. Tried a marble kind of effect on it, doesnt look so much like marble but just has a cool different look to it. You spray the black, let it flash, then the silver in some venom art fluid, then you blot it with a scrunched up piece of saran wrap while its wet, then you candy over the whole thing.












The color sucks from the lighting in the pics, i apologize, cell phone pics still. But it looks pretty sweet, well see how it looks installed in the engine bay

Also polished and installed interior pieces since they had a bit of overspray on them i had to remove


And I final sanded my spoiler so its about ready for paint. Dont have any pics of that though. Then i just removed the trim on the roof of the car, removed the XM antenna and regular antenna, and continued to DA Sand the entire car for paint. Started scuffing up the door jambs and everythign too. I have the booth scheduled for NEXT WEDNESDAY. Theres people in the booth monday and tuesday so it gives me plenty of time to finish and get it taped up.
Old 04-21-2010 | 07:13 PM
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damn dude... so sounds like I should have taken this class a long time ago. I like the interior pieces, so how many weeks do you have till your finished up with school?
Old 04-21-2010 | 07:15 PM
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I love you.
Old 04-21-2010 | 07:17 PM
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I love you.
lol me?

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damn dude... so sounds like I should have taken this class a long time ago. I like the interior pieces, so how many weeks do you have till your finished up with school?
its not just a class, its a year of full time classes to get your Autobody degree. And yout cant just start out painting your ****, you gotta get good at doing hoods and banging dents out of 1/4 panels and painting tons of other ****. I spayed alot of other **** b4 i even thought of attempting my own car. Which is why im down to the wire now at the end of the term. I didnt decided to paint it till half way through. I have a full schedule this summer and then i graduate in august. But i believe may 6th is the end of spring, and summer semester starts sometime after that

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Old 04-21-2010 | 07:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Gestapo007
lol me?
Uhh this is awkward....

Just kidding, I love the CAR, even though I'm sure your great it still takes dinner and a trip to the bar for me to tell you that I love you....

I wish I had 1 more year of highschool left so I could take this course... ****.


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