That's awesome! How much was the Maaco paint job? It looks great in the photo.
Wow! That looks great for $1500 plus four hours of your own labor. How does it look up close? In light, etc?I bought a rotary sander from home depot for $50 and did the heavy sanding myself (800 grit dry sanding). It took me around 4 hours to sand the car.
The paint alone was $699 for the urethane special. $300 for light sanding, $300 for the highest tier sealant, because a lot of bare metal was exposed when I sanded it, and $100 for the color change fee. All in it was like $1470 and it took them about 5 days to do the whole car. I opted to not paint the jambs as they quoted over $2000 for the door jambs and the hatch.
In light it looks great. The reflectivity starts to disappear once I'm closer than about 4 feet to it. I am yet to buff and polish it, but there is a small amount of orange peel on all surfaces. I'm waiting a month for the paint to fully cure before I polish it, but may not have the time because the engine died 2 days ago so I'm going to rebuild it with future forced induction in mind.Wow! That looks great for $1500 plus four hours of your own labor. How does it look up close? In light, etc?
My god you've had pretty rough luck with that thing lol what happened to pop the motor?In light it looks great. The reflectivity starts to disappear once I'm closer than about 4 feet to it. I am yet to buff and polish it, but there is a small amount of orange peel on all surfaces. I'm waiting a month for the paint to fully cure before I polish it, but may not have the time because the engine died 2 days ago so I'm going to rebuild it with future forced induction in mind.
That sucks, I do know, however, if you are looking to do forced induction in the future you should probably put in lower compressions pistons with better rings and also upgrade the bearings, I have heard that those two are the main weak links in the internals so you should be good to at least 300hp+. (Don't quote me on that) Just thinking that if you are going to be rebuilding it might as well get those both out of the way.I finished the auto to manual swap 3 weeks ago and did an oil change with it. Gave the engine around 5 quarts and didn't think about it. 500 miles later I was going 75 in 5th gear on the freeway and lost power to the engine. After towing it an hour back to my home, I found that the engine had no oil in it and there were no signs of oil leakage. So the car with oil burning issues burnt 5 quarts in 500 miles. The engine is busted and it seems that cylinder 4 is the main leaker. I poured oil down each of the plug holes and then turned over the motor without spark plugs oil was spitting oil out of all cylinders except cylinder 4. Guessing rings are busted, and there may be permanent damage to the 4th cylinder. I working on getting the head off of the motor while its still in the engine bay in order to determine whether the block is salvageable. I bought the car with learning how to repair cars in mind, so getting into an engine rebuild is definitely a good learning experience.