painting a car with stripes and numbers

[Anonymous No.870991]

so i've recently come into possession of a 2000 chevy metro LSI 4 cylinder. its a cute little car, body is in perfect shape, real clean, used consistently and lightly with good maintenance, buying from the first owner. its my first car.

so naturally i want to do some fun stuff with it.

i'm going to paint it hot flat satin gloss pink, with black stripes, and the number 138 in either arial italic or rosewood font interrupting the stripe on the driver side door. the side stripes will fade by a slash-thin-out . the side stripes hit the wheel well and follow thinly along the well and then the head lights, tracing up to the chevy medallion, then going up the hood, the roof, down the back, down the trunk and out.

i'm assuming that i'm going to need to sand the body down to metal, remove/tape and plastic off the parts that aren't getting painted, prime it, tape off the stripes/decal exactly, paint the body pink, let it dry, then tape off everything but the decals and paint the decals black, and then finish with layers of clear gloss coat, and buff it. i can follow a car painting guide.

i guess my question is, are there any services that will help me print out sticker tape to more easily tape the decals? am i understanding the decalling process right? its pretty much just a process of measuring and mirroring accurately with tape, isn't it? but getting those curves right will be hard... help me diy?

pics related, crude representations of what i'm aiming to do. black stripes on hot pink.

then comes the 21 inch sub ;)

[Anonymous No.870993]

[Anonymous No.870994]

[Anonymous No.871007]

tint windows...properly. Buy steelies and paint them white.

i think your idea of painting stripes will look too gheto

[Anonymous No.871009]

>>871007

i'm not asking for opinions or advice on WHAT i'm going to do. only asking for any advice on HOW to do what i've chosen to do a little easier.

[Anonymous No.871012]

>>871007
It's a Geo metro
It's already ghetto

[Anonymous No.871015]

>>871009
Be a smart ass and you can kiss your chances of getting advice goodbye you cuck fucking faggot.

[Anonymous No.871017]

>>870991
you could paint it but you could probably get it wrapped cheaper
don't know how well they could wrap it to your pattern though

[Anonymous No.871024]

>>871012

exactly. i'm just going to shamelessly ghetto-rice it. even gonna paint the engine metallic sky blue after i pull it and do a tune up and clean the bay. buy all new leads. start working on getting some extreme compression, maybe get new scalloped pistons. its an easy car to work on so i'm going to try and go as far as i can with it.

>>871015

i don't want to be told not to do what i've decided to do. if that's your advice keep it. i'm mostly trying to figure out how to stencil out tapings for the curves.

>>871017

i want to do a really nice job, my budget is about 1500. i already have a gun and a compressor. which is plenty for paint/sandpapers/caramel wheel, buffing heads, etc. just need to figure out how to tape those curves off! its easy enough to mask straight lines and stuff, and i can print out the fading-smaller lines on the sides, its just those damn curves that are gonna be hard.

[Anonymous No.871028]

i might not do the numbers. i think i won't probably. i'll just put 138 in the plate numbers.

[Anonymous No.871034]

>>870991
I think this is a b8 thread

But hey, I didnt know that Metros came in Sedans badged under Chevrolet. I thought they were all Geos and all hatchbacks. You learn something new every day.

[anonymous No.871041]

now

[Anonymous No.871043]

>>871034

its not bait, i'll post pics of it in two weeks, i gave him 1000 up front and will give him 250 more next paycheck to bring it home. and its actually a cool little buggy. 13 inch go-kart wheels XD.

but its got FANTASTIC pedals, seriously. the brake is light and springy, so you can brake seamlessly so easy, with a slow squeeze, and the accelerator is similar, except it has a more straight response than the brake, which has a log response (the same distance of press at the end of its extent is three times as impactful as the same distance of press at the start of its range). and it stops fast.

the engine is tiny, but purrs, and everything is so easy to get to, probably the easiest car to work on i've ever seen... two guys could probably pull the motor by hand. its not all computerized, a 30 dollar hand held reader can do all the computer diagnostics you need. its not powerful by any stretch of the imagination but can get 44mpg with tuning for efficiency. which i intend to do, get the engine harmonized, do some basic balancing, flatten out the compression on the cylinders, start with the injectors and work down to the exhaust to get a perfect back pressure response on the valves... i'm gonna baby this car and see if i can't get it to 600,000 miles. maybe even a million. that'd be cool.

and yes, gunna rice the everloving fuck out of it. its gonna get some mad fucking bass, maybe in the future do some black-and-pink re-upholstering in leather. maybe someday learn to install nitrous, and race at stoplights XDDDD. don't know how to do that yet though.

you get the picture, i'm just gonna have some fun loving and caring for this car.

[Anonymous No.871052]

>>871043
RIP /diy/
Even the greatest of boards succumb to poor trolling.

[Anonymous No.871065]

>>871052
no, rip /diy/ you.

wtf is wrong with you? seriously? painting your own car is considered trolling on this board full of people DIYing bowls of cereal and shit?

how is doing fun things to a cheap car trolling?

would this be non-troll if it was a camaro or mustang i was striping? well i don't have one. i have a fucking 2000 chevy metro LSI.

what a dick.

if anyone has suggestions for how to accurately tape those curves, let me know. i'm thinking of making something like a score-guide for wood, and dragging it along the wheel well and head light to cut mask tape accurately to get clean curves.

the quality and pleasingness of the of the job will pretty much rely on how well done those curves are. and those pics aren't very representative, the straight lines on sides and front/top/back will be like 6 inchs wide, but the curved following lines will be like 1.5

[Anonymous No.871068]

>>871015
This dudes right, Im not helping you with this stupid shit.

[Anonymous No.871069]

>>871065
>how is doing fun things to a cheap car trolling?

Because nobody spends 1250$ on a car, and then budgets 1500$ to paint said car trying to make it look trashy

too much bait

[Anonymous No.871071]

>>871068

you probably didn't know how to in the first place.

it was a long shot, hoping that someone on diy might actually know how to do something.

>>871069

lots of people do it. and its probably going to be more like 900. and why not? i think it'll be cute. especially when you can feel the bass from half a mile away, and its nice and clean, and i've tuned it to growl (to the extent that 79 hp 4 cyl *can* growl)

i haven't always had nice things in life, but i've always found ways to take pleasure in taking care and learning to work with what i have. i don't have a camaro. i have a fucking metro. and i'm going to paint it hot pink with black stripes. you're essentially saying that it's not cool because i didn't spend 50 grand on a camaro. be more optimistic.

[Anonymous No.871073]

>>871071
>it was a long shot, hoping that someone on diy might actually know how to do something.

Its pretty tough figuring out how to spray paint a car eh?

> you're essentially saying that it's not cool because i didn't spend 50 grand on a camaro. be more optimistic.

No, you are essentially saying "im a teenager give me attention"

Everyone could sit and shit all over you, but then it would be taking the bait son.
And boy do I hope this is bait, because if not...

[Anonymous No.871075]

>>871073
its not bait you moron.

and its not painting the damn car with a spray gun and air compressor that's hard. that's easy. its masking the curves of the stripes accurately that's difficult.

if you have a problem with painting a car, then why are you even in this thread? go post in a thread you like instead of one you don't like. you don't think it'll look cool. so move on. go away. someone else does.

[Anonymous No.871077]

>>870991
You'll have to sand it down to metal, prime it and then paint and clear coat. ..... You will ruin the resale value and this will just be a personal project. An easier thing would be to go to a car wrap company and get it installed.. then it can also be removed in the future.

[Anonymous No.871078]

>>871077
>You will ruin the resale value and this will just be a personal project.

cant you read?

>>871043
>the engine is tiny, but purrs, and everything is so easy to get to, probably the easiest car to work on i've ever seen... two guys could probably pull the motor by hand. its not all computerized, a 30 dollar hand held reader can do all the computer diagnostics you need. its not powerful by any stretch of the imagination but can get 44mpg with tuning for efficiency. which i intend to do, get the engine harmonized, do some basic balancing, flatten out the compression on the cylinders, start with the injectors and work down to the exhaust to get a perfect back pressure response on the valves... i'm gonna baby this car and see if i can't get it to 600,000 miles. maybe even a million. that'd be cool.

it isnt going to be sold anytime soon moron

[Anonymous No.871079]

>>871075

you claim you're gonna make it as efficient as possible. Than, your next claim is you're gonna tune it to race with and add nitrous.

>>not a bait thread.
>>no bait thread.
>>bait thread.
>>bait.

[Anonymous No.871080]

>>871079
Hes mad that the other "mod my car" thread with the VW didnt devolve into a shitshow, so he tried to make his own. Except he isnt subtle at all

[Anonymous No.871081]

>>871077
right, i'm not going to be selling this car. it wouldn't be worth it. besides the cosmetic stuff, i'm going to be learning more about engine and car maintenance and tuning, i've found some people that have installed turbo intake manifolds on metros!

i know how to sand, prime, paint and coat it.

i also know how to tape off stripes and paint them a different color.

what i DON'T know how to do is tape off curves that follow the wheel well and headlight. i'm thinking i'll have to make wooden guides with exacto knife blades and cut the tape to size on it.

>>871079

dude, i don't have a fucking agenda here, i don't know exactly what i want to do with it, yeah? haven't even cleaned out the engine bay yet. brainstorming. depends on a lot of things. maybe its more worth it to turbo it, maybe its more worth it to make it efficient, ANYWAYS, the under-the-hood stuff isn't what i'm asking about. i have a lot of studying and talking to do on actual chevy metro forums about that kind of technical stuff on maintenance and upgrading and ECU flashing.

that's not what this thread is about.

this thread is about taping curves accurately in order to paint curved stripes neatly and cleanly.

i think you're the one baiting me by being a jerk.

>>871080

i've never even owned another car.

[Anonymous No.871082]

somebody actually did this lol

[Anonymous No.871083]

@OP, did you say you want to remove the stripes?

Here you go.

yw.

[Anonymous No.871085]

>>871083
what? no. i just used paint to demonstrate what i'm going to MAKE the stripes on that car.

[Anonymous No.871086]

this:
http://www.sv-lavita.com/Site/Log/Entries/2014/2/21_How_to_Re-Paint_Deck_Non-Skid_and_Other_Adventures.html

or this:

http://www.tesa.co.uk/craftsmen/spray_painting/special_applications

[Anonymous No.871089]

>>871086
>http://www.tesa.co.uk/craftsmen/spray_painting/special_applications

thank you so much. flexible tape + a wooden block guide with a knife to gauge cut distance from well should do the trick. this is exactly what i was looking for. thank you.

[Anonymous No.871091]

>>871089
Thats some real technical stuff right there Chip Foose, are you sure you are up for it?

[Anonymous No.871096]

>>871091

why you gotta be like that about it?

[Anonymous No.871212]

>>871024
>i don't want to be told not to do what i've decided to do
In my country you have to be at least 15 to drive, and only with a parent and during day light

>>871083
Good job, op could have never pulled that off

[Anonymous No.871221]

>>871096
Its reasonable to doubt the technical skills and ability of someone your age. Especially when we see your lack of judgement.

[Anonymous No.871258]

>>870991
depends how many fucks you give OP. the more you fuck it up and make it the ugliest piece of shit ever. There's a point where people actually will start asking you if they can take a picture with it... yup, if you want attention. Make your car the ugliest piece of crap you can possibly. like you have to try to make it ugly, not just have autism.

This was posted on facebook awhile back ago... Reminds me of you OP.

[Anonymous No.871269]

>>871258
But that car is cool anon, shows you that he isnt a square and that he can joke about his cheap car

[Anonymous No.871271]

>>871269
Keep living in your false fantasy of having a riced out ghetto piece of shit. That self painted car looks like shit and you know it.

Even if you paint the thing hot pink and take it to a car wrapping place, they'll laugh their fucking asses off before getting started. And it'll still look gay as fuck.

[op No.871290]

>>871258

i'm mechanically adept and have been a spray painter professionally for farm structures for a long time. its not exactly rocket science.

i'm also 25 and do a bit woodworking/jointery for a little money on the side in addition to my factory job.

>>871212
don't be a jackass. you don't go into a thread with a guy asking for advice on making chairs and call him and idiot and tell him to make tables.

>>871221
>>871258

fucking watch me pull off a pro-quality paint job first time around. i've painted 5000 square foot roofs and painted 110 foot tall grain bins with gasoline powered paint sprayers. this will be an enjoyable piece of cake for a methodical and talented person like me.
>>871271

he's not me. i am.

and i've determined the correct technique for applying curved stripes, after consulting with the house of kolors, a pro paint provider.

its as i suspected, you pretty much take a marker and a guide and mark out your curves and stripes, then paint the black all around the stripes area. after it dries, you carefully measure and tape the stripes off and paint pink over everything. then pull the tape once its sat for 15 minutes or so to prevent runs. (after prime coat). then you'd sand and caramel wheel, and then you'd apply clear coat. this will ensure that the "shimrin pearl" basecoat will have the same quality on both the black and the pink, and the clearcoat will be buffed to a gloss with a angle grinder buffing wheel.

remember this thread, all you negative, clumsy, can't-do-shit critics. i'm going to post a pic of my car when i've painted it.

[Anonymous No.871296]

>>871290
>. i'm going to post a pic of my car when i've painted it.

and no matter how well you paint it, youll still look like a fucking retard.

[op No.871298]

i think i might do black car, with pink stripes instead. the pink will stand out more brilliantly from the black than the black would from the pink.

>>871296

how does it feel to think someone is retarded for painting their car pink?

[Anonymous No.871301]

>>870991
Use 3m fine line. Make sure you use normal tape on top of the fine line so the only blue edge is the one that will come into contact with your coat.

Make sure you prime and sand with about 320 after sanding it back.

Don't cheap out on your gun or it'll look terrible.

Can't think of any more specifics but i was a spraypainter for ~4yrs so if you have any questions hit me up

[Anonymous No.871304]

>>871298
>how does it feel to think someone is retarded for painting their car pink?

It feels pretty ok actually. I have a feeling the majority of people who see it will feel the same. Pretty normal reaction i think

[op No.871305]

>>871301
thanks man.

http://www.kolorhouse.com/ttc-19113.html

is this a good gun? its the one i've put on my shopping list. i have an air compressor about the size of me, that isn't too big is it?

would you recommend a self-etching primer, or a polyester contour primer?

what do you think of water-based paints in between the prime and the clear?

i'm thinking 'porn star pink' stripes on black.

what would you recommend for maximum gloss? i want that black to be like... a mirror made of space, to contrast the sparkling metallic hot pink stripe.

[op No.871308]

>>871304

how does it feel to be firmly mediocre in your affections?

[op No.871311]

>>871301

also, do you think i can rip those plastic strip things on the sides of the car off, and just fill it with filler and sand, to get flat sides?

[Anonymous No.871312]

>>871305
I personally wouldn't use that gun, but i did it for my job and my gun is ~600 dollars.

If you sand back to bare metal (which you shouldn't, other than in small patches) use a dust coat of etch.

Prime it with something like the cheapest dupont series, it's cheap and hard to fuck up. Then use a high gloss paint for your colour and don't worry about clear because it's not going to look super pretty anyway, especially if you're mentally set on using black.

I really would not recommend painting black as a beginner it is by far the bardest colour to make look perfect.

Also use test panels to get a feel for your gun.

[Anonymous No.871314]

>>871311
I really wouldn't do stuff like this either.

[op No.871316]

>>871312

is there a gun under 200 dollars that you would recommend for a significant increase in quality?

like i've said, i've professionally painted structures for some time, and am good at spraying paint. it'll go on evenly.

it's going to look super pretty. that much i will make certain of. so i'm definitely going bc/cc.

[Anonymous No.871320]

>>871316
Honestly man look for a chink copy of sata guns or something. All brands of paint and types of gun make the paint hold differently, just because you have experience with painting some machinery doesn't mean she'll look schmick and if you had much experience you would know this.

Your questions about whether your compressor is too big or not also point to you not knowing anything about what you're doing.

Paint high pressure if you want it to be flat man, and post results when you're done.

[op No.871324]

>>871320

its not like i'm going to load the gun and start shooting the car... i've got metal and a trash truck to experiment with and get a feel before i start on my metro.

i'll post pics in a month or so, i guess. be on the lookout.

[Anonymous No.871325]

>>871324
I'll be on the lookout man, remember higher the pressure the flatter the paint. And check your fan and clean out your gun with thinners every coat.

[Anonymous No.871326]

>>871325
Every job* I just woke up.

But seriously check your fan is even before painting

[Anonymous No.871327]

>>871326
alright man. thanks for the advice. i'll see if i can find a lightly used sata on ebay. and practice on stuff. and keep it clean. and do a lot more reading on the technical points.

[Anonymous No.871328]

>>871327
Good man.

Quick last words: keep your job as CLEAN AS POSSIBLE. A clean job's a good job.

[Anonymous No.871330]

>>871328

i'm going to erect a plastic tent with a plastic floor to do the painting in, quarantine it from wind and dust, clean it thoroughly and move it into the tent as soon as dry and then wipe it all down with rags before removing the doors and fenders for the plastic primer.

garage is too full of shop machines.

[Anonymous No.871331]

>>871330
Make sure you have ventilation mate. You need a fan set up

[Anonymous No.871471]

>>870991
Don't ruin your car with an amateur paint job.

Most stripes and numbers are vinyl, not paint. It's easier to cut vinyl than paint numbers, so it will look less amateurish. And when you get sick of it, you can peel it off.

[Anonymous No.871474]

>>871471
vinyl stripes are *the* amateur move.

professional paint jobs are just that, paint.

vinyl looks awful up close.

its not that hard to just do a two-tone paintjob and then clear coat it.

[Anonymous No.871710]

don't skimp on your gun and get a air drier. get a high cfm compressor. psi is irrelevant.

[Anonymous No.871820]

>>871290
>i'm also 25

Holy hell, 25 and you come across as 15. Fuck you OP you rude ass kid. Buy a black duster coat to go with the car, it'll suit.

[kg No.871877]

>>871316
You can't go wrong with DeVilbiss guns. You should be able to pick up a good one for <$200. HoC is a paint brand. Didn't know they sold guns.

You seem intent on base/clear coat. I'm going to suggest that you use a catalyzed, single stage paint from a quality mass producer like PPG instead, to simplify and lower cost of the project. Single stage paints look great after color sand and buff.

In terms of paint prep... if you've painted things before you should know prep is 90% of the work. Rather than sand to metal, I'd sand down existing paint to smooth, starting with 320 and work to 600. This allows you to avoid primer, or at least an etching primer. Make spot repairs on scratches and dents with fill primer as needed. If the car is really scratched up, at some point you may end up primering it all anyway.

Obv you'll need to paint door jambs, underside of all closure surfaces first, then close it up and paint, since color will not match original.

I would paint the car body first, then mask car and paint stripes. They make a striping tape that's 1/4" wide intent for this work. Use regular masking tape + paper to shield rest.

[Anonymous No.871886]

Please just buy some nice rims and it will look good, dont rice it

[Anonymous No.871911]

>>871820
its not rude to disagree with people telling you that you should buy a bicycle instead of a computer when you ask for help buying a computer.

[Anonymous No.871912]

>>871877

ok, devilbiss, i'll look into it. hoc was selling titan guns, not their own brand.

i'm thinking of using contour poly primer, and doing some serious sanding and layering to get a sleek flat... since i'm going to rip off that fucking plastic strip on the sides of the car and fill that anyways and just space the panel gap by hand.

and yeah, my plan was to remove the doors and stuff and paint the obverse first before going to the car.

i shouldn't have a problem using a dry erase marker to rough outline where my stripes are gonna go, and then coating that area with the strip color, right? then taping the stripes off inside the colored swath and blacking the rest of the car.

>>871886

i've decided against turbocharging it and installing nos. i'm just going to clean the engine bay and tune it up and replace the leads and filters and stuff, get it to like new if possible. also a gatorback timing belt. will probably do some cool rims though, as well as bass.

[Kg No.871944]

>>871912
Use pencil for any marking. Pen will bleed in ways you won't like.

[Anonymous No.871945]

>>871944
gotcha

[Anonymous No.872050]

And the last thing to remember OP is after you've sanded down the first coat, go over it slowly for the second and then successive coats, it will lead to a cleaner look in the end.

After all that the only advice I can give you to really make the paint look good, take the car down to your local interstate, get in on the wrong side and try and hit 100mph into on coming traffic so you'll never shit up this board again you fucking autistic no taste cunt.

[Anonymous No.872184]

>>872050
i've decided to do a red-white-and-blue star spangled car instead of blacknpink.

[Anonymous No.872200]

mask and sand the areas you want to paint, hit it with some primer, lightly sand just to give texture, hit that with 2 layers of black.
For the number stencil you just make one using printouts to scale, manilla paper, and an exacto knife. Don't go full dangerous dave with the paint.

[Anonymous No.872294]

>>872184
That honestly would be a better look OP.

[Anonymous No.872308]

>>872294
i'm going to mostly keep the original design, except the car will be base pearl white, and the trim around the edges of the body will be a thin strip of red and blue, leading to the hood, where the red and blue become a stripe.

on the sides of the car the decal, instead of a pink stripe doing that stutter-finish thing you see on the autozone logo and the chargers in orange-on-black would be like pic related

trying to think of how to incorporate the cross of 13 stars to vaguely trigger people about the confederate flag

[Anonymous No.872309]

kinda like this

[Anonymous No.872313]

>>872294
>>flgship

just saw that. kek.

[Anonymous No.872333]

How Mexican are you? Because right now, I'm thinking pretty goddamn Mexican.

Are you also going to put little chrome trims all over the place and those little oval vents on the fenders, maybe?

[Anonymous No.872335]

By the way, this is not really an American car. It's a Suzuki Swift, badge-engineered as a GM product and built at CAMI. All the Geo cars were Japanese of some description.

CAMI did such a shitty job at building their cars that Suzuki pulled out a few years ago.

[Anonymous No.872364]

Okay I'm gonna lay some shit out for you OP

1: Don't do anything to this car, any money you put into it will not come back, especially if you want to do shit like this

2: You will get laughed at and posted on /o/ for driving a metro that's riced out

3: If you repaint this car pink, your chances of dumping it once you get a better car will be nonexistent.

4: Don't ever number a car unless it's a period correct restoration detail or you're tracking it

5: For the love of god don't put a 21 inch sub in that shitbox, you clearly don't know a thing about cars so putting a sub inside that thing will cost you a lot of money and time.

OP, keep it stock and drive it until you don't need it anymore. This car isn't worth modifying to your tastes, and even if it was a nice car I have to say your taste in vehicle aesthetics is shit.

[Anonymous No.872381]

>>872333

Dude, I love when guys like that drive by blaring the polka-ish hispanic music with the tuba. Every once and a while I drive down the main street of little Mexico and just it makes my day see all the dudes cruising the street.

[Anonymous No.872385]

>>872364

>OP, keep it stock and drive it until you don't need it anymore.

Not OP but

My 02 Pontiac just hit 150k. Im debating whether or not to fix the paint thats starting to go bad. Will the body survive before the engine goes? Probably, I'm expecting the worst in the next few years.

[Anonymous No.872388]

>>872385
It's not paint you need to worry about, its rust. As long as its not rusted you'll be okay

[Anonymous No.872389]

>>872385
>. Will the body survive before the engine goes?

150k is nothing if you keep up on maintenance, unless its an inherently bad engine.
But the fact that you are in this thread, and asking dumb questions like this... not a good sign

[Anonymous No.872454]

>>872364


It really just seems like OP picked up this car cheap as a project car to play with and doesn't expect any return; probably just a demolition derby at it's end

[Anonymous No.872460]

>>872454
Thats too bad, because its a decent car that he is ruining.

[op No.872553]

>>872364

i am flatly ignoring and refusing your advice, all of it, completely.

its not gonna be black and pink though, as an update. its gonna be red white and blue. with stars.still working on the design.

i'm really in a financial sweet spot for the next two years and so i'm going to enjoy the shit out of playing with this car.

as for speakers?

nigger you don't even understand.

i'm probably going to do a 21 in the trunk if i can find one sensitive and low power enough. gonna put two 10s in the back deck with a highpass filter. probably gonna do two 2 inch tweets in the front. black widows from peavey, i'm thinking.

i'm going to put my Baltic-Latvian Universal Electronics microphone inside the car, and sum a spectral convolution image of the inside of the car and send it away to the steinberg techs at sweetwaters headquaters in michigan, where for a few bucks they'll give you an analysis with an EQ chart matched to my car and speakers, so i can set the filters on the tweets/mids/sub perfectly to the speakers Q and the interiors FsC. gonna be some motherfucking fidelity in this rice rat.

[Anonymous No.872558]

>>872553
I understand negative attention is still attention, but do you really need attention this bad?

Like, does it make you happy to make troll threads?

[Anonymous No.872560]

>>872558
i like talking about things i like. i'm not a troll. i just happen to be a person who attracts attention. not everyone has to try. for me, not attracting attention requires a significant effort and actions out of the ordinary.

its unfortunate that you are unwell with this arrangement. you just have to understand that i couldn't not paint this car if i tried.

[Anonymous No.872647]

>>870991
Buy vinyl and hand-cut your striping. Unless you're deliberately going for the ghetto-nigger look, then just use some damn frog tape and a spray can.

[Anonymous No.872690]

>>872647

after research, the clear answer is that masking and painting will make the best look.

i will remove the plastic side strips and the ornament and logo. sand the paint off the car with a sanding disk for my angle grinder. down to bare metal. fill the things i removed so they're flat. block sand to even.

then i will remove the doors and anything else the needs to go, and tape and seal the car off.

then i will apply 3-4 coats of contour polyester primer, sanding in between each coat, to get the flattest, nicest paneling.

then i will spray a coat of white, when it dries sand with 1200, and spray with another coat of white. then another.

then i will spray with a transparent midcoat, and immediately spray with a bit of silver flake.

then i will mask off the parts of the car that will be red, and spray the red. not a lot. i want the pearl flake sparkle to come through a little.

then i will mask off the parts of the car that will be blue, and spray the blue. not a lot. i want the pearl flake sparkle to come through a little.

then i will spray 3-4 coats of premium show clear.

[Anonymous No.872803]

>>870991
I guess there is something that applies to most posts and all boards of 4chan.

OP is a faggot.

Especially this one.

For the love of god man leave the fucker alone. You so clearly have no clue what you're talking about.

[Anonymous No.872880]

>>871015
Your bar for "smart ass" must be pretty low if you take someone outright telling you no to be smart assery

[Anonymous No.872984]

>>872803
talking about what???

[Anonymous No.873001]

LOL

You dumb fucking faggot. that car is ugly as shit nigger and you want to fuck it up even more with some teenager retarded fucking 'racing' rather ricing stripes.

Fuck off nigger. Go to reddit they'll help you make your car ugly as shit you fucking faggot.

[Anonymous No.873107]

>>873001

get fucked faggot

you're just mad that i'm happy about it all and there's nothing you can do to steal my happiness. there's nothing you can do to make me think its not cool. that's why you're mad.

i bet your faggot ass can't even paint a car anyways. wouldn't be able to figure it out.

[Anonymous No.873111]

Not going to read the thread, but I put racing stripes and other paint projects on my cars. It's just careful measurement, painter's tape, and a few cans of spray paint. Clear coat and good weather helps a lot.

[Anonymous No.873114]

>>873111

that's pretty much what i'm going to do, though i'll probably go to the local jobby and get a partial can of red and blue for the effects, since i have to buy a gun for the white and clear and primer and possibly midcoat anyways.

i live near dallas so clear weather is pretty much guaranteed, but since i probably can't clear the garage out enough to paint in there, i'll probably construct a PVC tent with plastic, tapes and pipes, and roll the car into that once i've sanded and washed and dried it.

[Anonymous No.873124]

>>873107
>there's nothing you can do to steal my happiness. there's nothing you can do to make me think its not cool

We are trying to save you from yourself, having a typical teenager phase.

A year from now youll have a car you dumped all your free time and money into. You wont want to drive it, and nobody will want to buy it from you.

We get these threads every few months

[Anonymous No.873128]

>>873124
the internet is truly dead when people give retarded potato 'hurr don't be dumb and do interesting things' advice rather then enthusiastically encouraging something even if they think its a bad idea. especially if its a bad idea.

it is now flooded with people that 10 years ago didn't know how to use a cell phone or people born less then 12 years ago and whose idea of social interaction is playing call of duty all day after learning about diversity and tolerance in school for eight hours.

and now when they see someone doing something fun, if its not what they think that people think is a good idea, they try to tear it down.

the internet is truly dead.

five years ago we would have had people offering really good designs to spraypaint giant dicks on the car or something.

its not like anyone believes that you're actually 'concerned' about me regretting painting my car like the american flag, no, obviously. no one is. that'd be ridiculous. whats not ridiculous is that you browse DIY fancying yourself some sort of creative, talented individual, based solely on your experience telling people that their ideas suck and should not be done, because the truth you hide from yourself, but not others, is that you're jealous. you're jealous of someone who can be totally comfortable in an american flag painted metro with enormous bass. i can understand why. life hasn't given you the experience to know that you really oughtta just do what you want, enjoy yourself, and just smile when people hate on it. you haven't learned that yet. so you see someone with a car painted like a giant dick, and you get angry, and you start judging them, you let them know that you, "and by extension everyone else through implication" think its gay, and that they should feel bad, and regret is inevitable.

you don't understand what its like to live without bad feelings. i could do anything and still feel cool. and that makes you hate me.

[Anonymous No.873132]

>>873128
>ill write a bunch of drivel littered with a victim complex, and then go on incoherent tangents
>thatll get my point across!

This post does nothing except confirm what everyone else is saying.

[Anonymous No.873142]

>>873128
>Remember when 4chan was good?

[Anonymous No.873147]

>>871065
Just paint the car pink, but do the stripes with foil.
>Can be easily and cheaply printed by pretty much any company that does ads
>Easily put on your car
>No worries about symmetry
>Easy to get good results
>Can be removed if you ever get sick of it or want to try a new design

Also,if you want to go for maximum rice, get them in neon green and wrap your hood and trunk in carbon-style foil.

[Anonymous No.873165]

>>870991

When I was 16 I spent my whole savings on an Escort. I lowered it, put rims/tires, ground effects, header, spoiler, catback exhaust, tinted windows, had a custom roll bar made, racing seats, 5 point harnesses, god knows how many stereo set ups, and the final touch.. "DRIVE FAST, TAKE CHANCES" on the windsheild.

When I think about all the money I sunk into it, it makes me cringe. I could have had a way nicer car if I had just saved it.

That being said, I owned the car for 7 years and had so many great times in it. I'm sad I sold it. I can see both sides of everyones argument here - yes, you will look like a douche with a metro "all did up with fancy racin' stripes"....but then again, I did everything myself on my car, I learned a lot, and even though I was super douchey most of the time - I wouldnt trade that for having a nicer, newer car.

[Anonymous No.873174]

>>873165
The difference between you and OP is that you actually did work on your car, OP want's to make a pimp my ride reject by putting racing stripes on it, painting it pink and dropping a sub in it.

[Anonymous No.873179]

>>870991

Just don't, it will look like shit I promise

[Anonymous No.873182]

>>873142

I dunno, even when I started coming here in 06 I had already lost faith in humanity as a whole. /mu/ wasn't a shit hole back then, but /diy/ totally makes up for it. /g/ is still the same though...

[Anonymous No.873218]

>>873174
that sounds like pimp my ride UK. drop a 50$ head unit in it RIDE PIMPED.

[Anonymous No.873219]

>>873165
>catback exhaust
if your car was loud and you annoyed people with it you should probably kill yourself

[Anonymous No.873220]

>>873219
I remember cutting off a honda civics resonator and muffler, and replacing it with a thrush glasspack.

We thought we were hilarious

I look back in disdain at how awful it was.

[Anonymous No.873256]

>>872364
>You will get laughed at and posted on /o/ for driving a metro that's riced out

I think this guy already posted on /o/, and was laughed at.

[Anonymous No.873321]

>>873256
i can confirm that for having happened. i did post on o and was laffed at.

i can construct a painting tent pretty economically with thin clear plastic tarps and a large pvc rectangle frame, and ducttape. already have two box fans for ventilation and a air conditioner filter panel to tape over the tents intake.

still researching options for taping and masking the stars accurately with negative trim.

[Anonymous No.873388]

>>871082
fucking mess

[Anonymous No.873400]

>>871082
that's pretty normal. like if you had a damaged wiring harness and wanted to diagnose and repair int before bundling it again. it's clearly in pieces though I dont know why they would have put the intake manifold back on when it would make it fucking annoying to repair. the distributor cap isnt even on yet.

>hurrdurr coolant lines arn't even connected
>durr wiring is messy
they're obviously installing a turbo in that ancient POS for some reason. the one thing that does annoy me is the shitty PCV filter on there that will make their stochiometry impossible to calculate.

[Anonymous No.873493]

>>870991
Thin flexible masking tape and a good eye to layout your stripes, kraft paper and the wide masking tape for the rest... I've had luck in the past applying masking tape to parchment paper then printing the letters or numbers I wanted with my desktop to make custom lettering... I wouldn't worry about taking it to bare metal but I wold sand the whole thing down some so you get good paint adhesion. Going down to metal is only important if you plan on using plastic filler to smooth out imperfections b4 painting

[Anonymous No.873751]

Somewhat related question (rather than making my own thread): If I were looking to paint a helmet with a light colored base coat and a pearl outer coat, could I do that with canned spray paint, or would I need an airbrush?

[Anonymous No.873753]

>>873751
>pearl
Not even sure if I have the terminology right, so...
Like a two tone car though.

[Anonymous No.873760]

>>873751
is it even possible to reach the handlebars?

[Anonymous No.873767]

>>873760
It's a shop I did of a real bike that looks (imo) equally fucking stupid.

[Anonymous No.873772]

>>871912
Hi I'm a master mechanic of over 10yrs. And I find your posts adorable. Thank you for this thread.

cheers

this is my car, I painted my rims and added carbon fiber accent. can you paint like this?

[Anonymous No.873773]

>>873772
pic related

[Anonymous No.873779]

>>873772
Post pics of something better. I want your machine porn

[Anonymous No.873815]

>>873493
i might have to do that, actually, using an aluminum-polyester filler on some areas (where i'm removing the retarded plastic strips on the sides of the door which presumably are defense against shopping carts and other peoples doors opening), and then an etch coat followed by spray-on contour polyester. i'll just use a gallon of contour coat i guess, for the base, sand between each layer until the panels are nice and flat. that will make it look better in the end.

>>873751

from what i've learned, you actually want the pearl underneath the color. the color will be translucent and the pearl will shine through. if it was say, red, you'd do a silver/white pearl coat, and then spray red over it until it was a good balance between red saturation and pearlescent shimmer. alternatively you could mix pearl into the red and do one coat.

if you want to use rattle cans, its just a question of if they have the color you want. it'd probably look better with the spray gun. or maybe not.

>>873772

ha ha thanks.

that car looks nice but uh for a moment i thought that the reflections of the parking lot stripes were actual painted decals on the car, and i kinda thought that looked cool.

but that's a beautiful gloss you have there.

[Anonymous No.873816]

>>873772

as for can i do it, i know how to pressure-paint, loooots of experience under dangerous conditions, so taking my time on the ground with a small gun - the stroking/coverage is gonna be perfect.

it'll surely take me a lot longer then you, and i'll proceed with more caution and research between steps and i'm still studying every guide i can find to construct a list of steps to perform to get that perfect coating, but, if you visit diy often in a month or month and a half you'll see pics of my car painted red white and blue, with stars and stripes, let the eating be proof of the pudding i guess.

[Anonymous No.873819]

>>873815
So if I wanted to do a baby blue helmet with hot pink shining through, I'd start with pink then spray the baby blue?

Most I've done paint wise is just primer and paint, so I'm a bit out of my element here.

[Anonymous No.873823]

> ITT, People so immature that they will launch personal attacks on OP because they don't like thing, call OP juvenile.

When you finish this OP, make sure you post a thread. The tears I have been witnessing here have been fueling me all weekend, I look forward to more. Godspeed you glorious bastard.

[Anonymous No.873828]

>>873823
yes sir, i will sir, glad to see some other folks out there with a sense of amusement at style.

[Anonymous No.873829]

>>873819
hmm, i'd spray it white first of all, white with pearl, and then you'd have to tape off the pink part, spray it, then tape OVER the pink part (once thoroughly dry) and spray the rest blue.

just consider it a white primer, then masking and spraying the two colors.

[Anonymous No.873945]

>>871912
>i've decided against turbocharging it and installing nos

If you can't even paint your shitbox how do you expect to turbo and nos it? You didn't decide against it, you just can't do it and you'd rather make it look fast than actually learn.

>>873823
People aren't attacking OP because they don't like what he does, people are attacking OP because when we give him good advice (i.e don't rice out your car and waste your money) he fires back and insists it's a cool thing and a good idea. All we're trying to do is snap OP out of his stupid fantasy land to tell him that ricing a shitty metro is a horrible idea and a waste of money.

[Anonymous No.874009]

>>873945


>>If you can't even paint your shitbox how do you expect to turbo and nos it? You didn't decide against it, you just can't do it and you'd rather make it look fast than actually learn.

i CAN paint my shitbox, and i CAN turbocharge and NOS it up.

i can do ANYTHING i put my mind to; of that, i have the deepest, most unshakeable conviction.

i pity the fool who for a single second imagines that he 'can't' do something as simple as installing the correct components into a vehicle correctly. you set some low bars for yourself, anon.

not that i have to justify my reasoning or explain myself, but i've decided against upgrading the internals beyond premium filters/leads/plugs/etc because it will impact the efficiency and because reasonably, i wish to first keep an engine factory-new before i learn to modify it. furthermore, my resources, while vast, are not unlimited XD and i've also got other things i want to do, i'm building a recording PC, and RME audio interfaces cost more than it would to buy, turbo, nos, speaker, paint, and install a machinegun on a used metro.

your advice is literally, LITERALLY AND NOT METAPHORICALLY homosexual and cowardly, and yes, it IS a good fucking idea. NO, my fantasy is not stupid, my metro is not shitty, and my money is NOT wasted.

[Anonymous No.874017]

>>874009
Yes it is

[Anonymous No.874024]

>>874009
No. I bet you can't do anything you said just there. You've had your teachers and after school specials and movies and animu blowing smoke up your ass about love and belief and trying hard and magical thinking.

I can do that but I don't want to.

No. You can't. You are failure anon and ricing out your car proves it to any man or woman of value.

[Anonymous No.874029]

>>874009
> i'm building a recording PC, and RME audio interfaces cost more than it would to buy, turbo, nos, speaker, paint, and install a machinegun on a used metro

>Using RME

Wow your taste in audio equipment is just as shitty as your taste in cars. Also turboing a vehicle that is not mean to be turbocharged is no walk in the park anon, you'd probably have to remove your AC to make room for it.

You're fucking stupid, you don't know shit about cars and you can't simply believe in yourself and hope that will give you knowledge. Everyone here has given you pretty solid advice and input. You're a fool, by the end of your ricing expedition your call will only be evidence of that. Also yes, your metro is shitty. It's a 90's econobox that was built for being beat on and nothing more, it's an beginner car so get over yourself.

[Anonymous No.874032]

>>874024
>>874029

give me a pair of gloves; i'm going to have to perform an impromptu colonoscopy because you miserable fucks are certifiably anally annihilated.

i can do anything because i'm smart and resourceful, and that's the bottom line.

>>874029

>>bashing RME

i'd say you're a clueless moron, but we knew that.

everything is a walk in the park, when you think like i do; for me, existence is a stroll through the daisies.

it appears that you schmucks find things difficult. i guess lifes not fair, huh?

you're probably the same person pretending to be two people in your desperate attempt to inflict some sort of damage to my esteem, conviction, or purpose; remember, truth isn't for everyone, its for those who seek it, and its not so much what you do that matters, but what you learn from doing it, because who you are is what you do with what you learn, and that if you always do what you always did you'll always get what you always got, and there's no point in running if you're on the wrong road, but in the long run, there's still time to change the road you're on.

in conclusion, consider considering consideration.

[Anonymous No.874035]

>>874032

[Anonymous No.874039]

>>874035

1. insult someone from liking things you don't like

2. insist they're stupid for not changing what they like

3. insist that they don't obtain things that they like

4. insist that they CAN'T obtain things that they don't like

5. insist that nobody likes them, and if they do, its because they're worthless

6. if all else fails, accuse them of trolling, and claim that they're not sincere in their persistence

7. commit suicide upon realizing that you are a mental midget

8. be born as a faggot again

9. OP's children enslave you upon reincarnation

10. take drugs

11. realize that OP has probably been oppressing you for millions of years and will continue to oppress you for millions of years

[Anonymous No.874043]

>>874039
Hurt I can do anything I put my mind to. Yeah I mostly play dota and post on 4chan and jack off.


I'm totally gonna start my music career as soon as I get some cash though.

[Anonymous No.874046]

>>874043
you're projecting. bad guessing. i don't play video games, i don't masturbate, and music is just something i enjoy.

why are you insulting me and calling me bad and telling me i should feel bad again?

[Anonymous No.874057]

>>874046
You're the guy that can't figure out how to apply decals or paint your car pink and then you're going to install an obnoxious oversized subwoofer.

You type cast yourself not me.

I don't picture you going to the law office you're a partner in with your shitbox.

[Anonymous No.874061]

>>874057
>>can't figure out

but i have figured it out, and now know how, no thanks to most of the envious little worms in this thread.

>>car with stripes? a sub? why aren't you a lawyer?

seriously, how insecure do you have to be...

[Anonymous No.874117]

>>874061
>no thanks to most of the envious little worms in this thread

Nobody in this thread is envious over your shitty metro and your stupid idea. We're all laughing at you because you think you're smart. You claim you can know how to turbo a shitty econobox yet you come to /diy/ for help with painting and decaling it. I would call you a troll but you seem way too stupid to be one. You need to accept the fact that you don't know what you're doing and you're turning away good advice that is being repeated to you multiple times. You aren't a master mechanic and no matter how many times you tell yourself "if I put my mind to it, I will be!" won't change anything. Stick to MS paint for ricing your ride, because if you even attempt to touch it, it will come out like this.

[Anonymous No.874120]

>>874024
butthurt much?
>/diy/
>paint is shit
>i could paint if I wanted to but it doesnt interest me
>this topic doesnt interest me
stop posting faggot

>>871912
what is good about gatorback? google tells me you meant to spell it good year. good year is a trusted brand in tyres so I guess they make quality rubber products. personally I would not use anything other than gates because of their availability here and because it's extremely difficult to pick imitation no quality control rubber from a quality manufactured brand. and I havn't looked into good year. do they just rebrand their belts or are they super high quality?

[Anonymous No.874174]

>>870991
Stance it

[Anonymous No.874460]

>>874117

what you are envious of is the amount of pleasure i can get out of a 'shitty metro' when you probably have a nicer car and get less pleasure out of it. that's the issue here. you're upset that i'm happy.

and yes, i did come asking for advice on masking decals, and any general useful info. i've received enough and done research and i'm set. as for turbo, i never claimed that i could give you a step by step instruction list off the top of my head, but, i have done my research and know the general procedure and requirements and goals of turbocharging, such that i am confident that it is within my ability provided i expend the resources needed and go slowly, with care, looking up information i don't have or researching things that i don't understand.

are you really going to maintain that in this day and age of the internet, that ANYONE is incapable of ANYTHING???

and my paintjob is gonna be fucking gleaming that car was handled by faggots.

>>874120

ehhh, the one thing about this car is that it squeals for a moment when it starts, upon research, turns out that all metros have a weird alternator belt gear that makes it squeal until it warms up.

the gatorback alternator belt is just thick and very 'pliable' and flexible even when cold. i couldn't tell you about quality or branding. i just know that everyone on the internet with a metro on the metro forums will tell you that the gatorback alternator belt is the only one that doesn't whine.

>>874174

maybe someday when i'm a richer man with a nicer car, i will XD

[Anonymous No.874466]

>>874460


The world isn't against you my dear, it just doesn't care.

[Anonymous No.874470]

>this thread literally getting bumped everyday
>more and more people still falling for it

Jesus christ /diy/, i thought you were smarter than that.
I guess in the off chance that op is not a troll but actually autistic, you shouldn't be making fun of 16 year old going through their blunder years. They learn soon enough.

[Anonymous No.874513]

>>874460
>what you are envious of is the amount of pleasure i can get out of a 'shitty metro' when you probably have a nicer car and get less pleasure out of it. that's the issue here. you're upset that i'm happy.

I drive a beat to shit '93 Chevy Pickup. I get immense pleasure from it because it's my truck. I do all the work, I keep it running, and it's fun to drive. But above all I didn't rice it out and look like a retard.

>and yes, i did come asking for advice on masking decals, and any general useful info. i've received enough and done research and i'm set. as for turbo, i never claimed that i could give you a step by step instruction list off the top of my head, but, i have done my research and know the general procedure and requirements and goals of turbocharging, such that i am confident that it is within my ability provided i expend the resources needed and go slowly, with care, looking up information i don't have or researching things that i don't understand.

are you really going to maintain that in this day and age of the internet, that ANYONE is incapable of ANYTHING???

I hate to break your spirits, but the internet serves as a good place to get your foot in the door for things. You will not install a turbocharger in a vehicle not meant to have on installed correctly on your first try. You will take hours upon hours to do it, blow up your turbo when you test it, and waste your money. It doesn't matter how slow you go or how careful you are, you need guidance in person from someone who has this kind of experience. You can't use wikihow to install turbo.

>and my paintjob is gonna be fucking gleaming that car was handled by faggots.

And what is OP?
>I guess in the off chance that op is not a troll but actually autistic

I'm convinced this is a full blown retard, even a troll can't be this stupid. Most /diy/ trolls usually ask stupid shit like how to make a fleshlight or if X will make mustard gas. This person sounds delusional as fuck.

[Anonymous No.874670]

>>874513
>>874513
>>874470
>>874466


i'll show you

i'll show you all

when you see my car all painted up you're going to be sorry you made fun of me

i'm going to pick it up tomorrow since i got some payroll issues straightened out at my job.

[Anonymous No.874699]

>>874670
Trust me, everyone has pretty much turned on you.
Instead of wanting to help you, we want to see what kind of abomination youll end up with.

[Anonymous No.874704]

>>874670
Are you also the 21 year old with 2 kids from 2 baby mommas with a 3rd on the way?

And therefore a truck driver as well?

Are you also that truck driver that refused to believe that there are self driving cars on the roads?

[Anonymous No.874706]

>>874704

nope. not that guy. i'm the guy who made the desk.

[Anonymous No.874716]

Bump

[Anonymous No.874779]

>>873945
>People aren't attacking OP blah blah fucking blah i do not have the self control to ignore a thread that has things i don't like, and I am so used to people being polite, smiling and pretending to put up with my negative shit to avoid a confrontation that I feel like I can get away with it anywhere.

>>874017
>>874024
>>874029
>>874057
>>874117
>>874466
>>874470
>>874513
>>874699

Fuck off back to /b/, all of you. OP did not ask if he should, OP asked HOW. Tell him how to do the paint job, or get the fuck out of the thread. How fucking hard is it to understand you cancerous cunts? It is his time and money to waste, and frankly if I were going to embark on a project like this where a fuckup could result in a wrecked paintjob, I would want to be doing it on the cheapest, shittiest car I could lay my fucking hands on.

Fuck.

[Anonymous No.874803]

>>874779
Ops still a faggot, even if you think we're butt hurt and nor just telling it like it is.

[Anonymous No.874837]

>>874803
>>like it is
>>meaning "stop doing DIY stuff"

[Anonymous No.874838]

>>874837
there's no virtue in doing random stupid shit just because you used a tool and didn't pay anyone to do the labor for you. DIY isn't a god we all worship by arbitrarily fucking up our surroundings.

[Anonymous No.874845]

>>874779
We're all trying to tell OP that he's wasting money and time, it's not simply "HURRR WE DON'T LIKE IT". Yeah, the fact he's going to rice a car is stupid but the shity part is OP is paying money to destroy his shitbox. And what's even worse is he's clearly delusional and thinks he knows anything about cars because of the internet.

[Anonymous No.874852]

>>874845
He's not discussing time and money, he's discussing painting a car.

[Anonymous No.874856]

>>874852
unless he lives in a utopia of immortal communists pretty much everything he will ever discuss is time and money.

[Anonymous No.874859]

>>874460
Sounds like it's just an old belt or the tensioner needs adjustment. Post pics of your current belt.

I did more reading and the gatorback belts are neoprene but the faggots at Goodyear call it "wingprene" which is a major red flag for me. Using faggot names for industrial products to stand out when all it should do is make any mechanic worth his salt laugh his ass off.

I would advise against neoprene belts also due to their longevity. Epdm belts are better. So I will shill for gates now who make OEM belts which means they are as good as or better than the original belt installed in the car when it was brand new.
http://www.gates.com/products/automotive/tools-and-sales-aids/belt-wear-diagnosis/neoprene-vs-epdm-belts

If a belt is misaligned it won't squeal, it will jump teeth, chew out the belt and then squeal. Try cleaning your pulleys(careful alternators die if you get solvents on them) check your tensioner and replace it. I don't buy this misaligned pulley line crap on those forums. I have owned many shit tier old cars and none of them have had alternators vibrate out of alignment.

[Anonymous No.874884]

op here. sorted out the payroll issue at work and went and picked the car up today.

>>874859

yeah, after looking at it, i think you're right. pics follow.

[Anonymous No.874885]

>>874884
engine bay

[Anonymous No.874886]

>>874885
>>874859

i think this is the alternator belt

[Anonymous No.874888]

>>874886
god damnit

[Anonymous No.874896]

>>874888
>>874886
I can tell you are ready to NOS and turbocharge the engine.
And im sure all the internal engine work will certainly get you to your million mile mark.

Just gotta do the real tough stuff first, like diagnosing a squealing alternator belt.
Im glad you have taken the first step, which is quite difficult... locating the alternator belt itself!

[Anonymous No.874901]

>>874896
that's how it works. first you have to name the parts.

[Anonymous No.874902]

>>874859
Serpentine belts dont have teeth.
They squeal from slippage, or from failed pulleys.
Simple as that.

[Anonymous No.874907]

side view of what i'm thinking i'm gonna do.

[Anonymous No.874909]

and the front view.

[Anonymous No.874914]

>>874907
>>874909
Youll be like Bshoc before you know it.
Godspeed friend

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7cAYV_lVNI

[Anonymous No.874917]

Yo, op. I'm going to suggest that you use plasti dip, so then if (I'm not saying that you will) ever regret it or (not saying that this will happen either) you grow up or it gets scratched, you can just peel it off.

[Anonymous No.874922]

>>874917
>trying to steal OPs happiness

Shame on you

[Anonymous No.874924]

>>874061
OP, don't listen to these nay-sayers. Listen to this guy>>874779
And get your shit done, then post pics for all of us to see. I'm the one who shooped the flagship earlier, and I believe in you!

[Anonymous No.874927]

>>874924
He isnt the first person to feel insecure about his first car
He isnt the first person to get the bright idea of drawing massive attention to himself.

He wont be the last person to fuck up and regret what he did to his car, especially when he decides he wants to sell it and nobody wants it.

The worst part is, there is nothing wrong about OPs car. There is no reason to be insecure about it. Usually when you rice the fuck out of your car is because its an utter piece of garbage thats been wrecked and looks like shit. Thats not OPs car, its actually a decent and respectable looking car.

Its probably the main reason people are shitting on him.

[Anonymous No.874931]

>>874917
i've looked at plasti dip paint. i kinda wonder if its a cheap gimmick well advertised? its easy, since you don't have to mask so much, but i'm undsure of the quality of it... and i want the red/blue to really sparkle from the white+flake.

still have a lot of research to do on the paint, and will definitely visit a local jobber before deciding.

>>874924

i will definitely be making another thread documenting the painting and finished product.

thanks for the support guys.

>>874927

ya know, once i have the gun and plastic and tape it'll be a simple matter to strip and spray it a normal color if for some reason i did decide to sell it.

[Anonymous No.875021]

>>874888
Yeah that belt looks like brand new. No wear on the top. Can still see the writing. Just tighten it.

[Anonymous No.875024]

>>874931
Yeah don't strip it bro. There is so much rubber trim and plastic all over the place. I don't think you're quite ready For that. Just give it a light sanding and spray on primer then pick a color from there.q

[Anonymous No.875176]

>>875024

:(

i have an intense, almost sexual urge to sand every bit of paint off it first. i have to remove the doors and fenders anyways. my heart is crying out to me, "david... david... bare metal. take it down to bare metal. strip it naked."

:(

[Anonymous No.875180]

>>875176
I think you should buy a frame from a wreckers and do that. then just do an engine swap. but hey, refinishing an entire chassis before touching the engine that is leaking oil is dumb as fuck anyway.

you dont sand something that big. you use MEK to strip it. then sand any rust patches. i guess if you must do it right then take a look at how much cold galv paint costs. should only be like 200$ to coat the entire thing in it for your base layer.

[Anonymous No.875181]

>>875180

ok! thanks for the advice, will look up MEK.

there's this stuff called etch primer that has acid in it that bites onto metal and is meant for base coating on metal.

there ain't no oil leaks though. am gonna do a compression test however, and replace the oil and air filters, and all the leads. after degreasing and cleaning the engine bay.

[Anonymous No.875191]

>>872309
>ohgodwhy.jpg

[Anonymous No.875193]

>>873142
>>Remember when 4chan was good?
eh,... no.

[Anonymous No.875297]

>>875191
>>874907

[Anonymous No.875398]

>>875176
Naw, no need to strip everything down to the bare metal unless you have severe rust or paint issues to take care of. Just light sand, prime, and finish as you like. No need to make extra work for yourself, right?

[Anonymous No.875984]

>>870991

Do something like this:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Quality-Adhesive-Black-Sticker-Bubble/dp/B006AAVJFY

No sticker will make your car not look gay.

[Anonymous No.876059]

>>875176
Do it pussy
Nobody here thinks you have the guff to do it.

I dont think youll be able to do it

[Anonymous No.876060]

>>875398
>No need to make extra work for yourself, right?

He has to go all out on his work
Quit trying to steal his happiness.

[Anonymous No.877080]

>>870991
How is the stripping going?

Post pics

[Anonymous No.877093]

>>873945
>Wah people are wasting money doing stupid projects
>Let me whine about it on a board about doing stupid projects

[Anonymous No.877265]

Damn, leave the fucking kid alone. Just because you cocksuckers don't like the god-damned idea, you bitch. He wants advice, give him fucking advice. Don't run him down just because you either A- think everybody should do what you want, or B- you just want to knock him down because you are either too lazy or stupid or poorfag to do it yourself. Yeah, certain parts of the US will beat him like a bruised dick for driving a pink car, but let him learn that himself. Just because you are too fucking cynical and jaded to do stupid shit and enjoy the fuck out of it doesn't mean anyone else is. DIY used to be one of the decent boards on 4chan. Not anymore. I used to enjoy the posts that had somebody doing some bizarre shit and we would actually help him figure it out.

Just ignore the trolls OP. Acknowledging them just makes it worse.

[Anonymous No.877282]

>>877265
Stop bumping your thread you insufferable faggot. We finally lost interest

[Anonymous No.877681]

>>870991
Your idea will make you look like an imbecile. The ugly ass POS car cannot be made more or less attractive by any means other than a car crusher, but the dump probably wouldn't even pay you for the scrap metal, because having it on the property would devalue the dump.

[Anonymous No.877700]

[Anonymous No.879066]

>>870991
We need progress pics OP, dont let people steal your happiness

[Anonymous No.879067]

>>871043

>He gave someone ONE THOUSAND DOLLARYDOOS, 4/5's OF THE FUCKING ASKING PRICE
>IN
>ADVANCE

Holy fucking shit this idea is terrible and you can't even buy a car from someone right. That thing is going to sold off to some chop shop and when you go back to give him that 250 it'll be gone and so will he, and I wouldn't blame him after pulling that impossible scam off.

[Anonymous No.879068]

>>879067
as fucking retarded OP is, he did in fact get the vehicle

>>874884

Now we just need to see some progress.

[Anonymous No.880084]

>>879068
Seconding this, OP.
Show us something.

[Anonymous No.881520]

>>874931
Plastidip works wonders

[Anonymous No.882859]

>>877700
He should copy this