I think you're forgetting how immature I am Pigdog, hehe. I'd be quite happy to sit in the car with the engine dummied up making engine noises for the next few months.

Basically the car is a present to my Dad so I'll ask him what colour he wants on it although I already know exactly what he'll say; same thing he says whenever he paints anything - British racing green with white stripes. I think he would have had me born British racing green with white stripes if it was possible. So I'll have to work on that. I might just go get some samples and spray them on an old panel and see what looks nice.

Having looked though the albums here the coupes seem to look quite nice in bright colours like danger yellow or vitamic c orange. I don't really want red or blue, but again, it will be up to my old man.

Thanks WhiteSedan,
That's good to know. I know extremely little about painting though so I was going to get someone else to do it. I suppose I could practice on my 200B and see how it turns out. Think I'd rather get it done nicely though.

I've been photoshopping a lot too trying out different things, two tone doesn't seem to work very well on the coupe. Too square. Might give the Mopar/Hemi colours a go. Curious Yellow, Plum crazy..... there are some nice colours there.

I need an ecu if you have one.

Thanks guys,
I agree totally. At tafe one of the guys gave his car to the paint and panel department for the students to practice on (he was happy because he got a cheap whole vehicle respray out of it)...... wasn't too happy when it was done though.

I'll do all the prep and panel work myself then get it painted. I'm a bit scared though about what I'll find under the paint.

Yeah Converted, it's not my daily thank goodness. My daily is a Ford ute that just got defected for being basically a big piece of junk. Thanks Ford.

I think I'll stay away from the stock colours though. If it's my car I want it to be mine and custom, but I want it to plain and simple. But I don't think it will be painted until next year, unless I give it to Burke_a_lot

I should get a photo album at some point and put up pics. Especially if I two tone my GX bonnet *drool*

Well, I want to keep the car for good. It's not my daily, and I've put a lot of work into it so far so I think I should do it properly. It's something that I want to have for a long time and keep working on.

So looks like it's time to pull the panels off and slowly start taking it back to bare metal. I'd be happy to spend the rest of the year if not longer getting it prepped.

Think I'll try for a nice old school silver and black two tone, Chip Foose style

Hey All,
My coupe was painted a nice Purple colour by the guy that had it before me but I'm a bit worried. Since I've started stripping the car for my new CA18Det, I have found a number of different colours. It seems that the new paint was just sprayed directly onto the old paint/bare metal/patches of rust.

What's happening now is that if I even sneeze on the car the paint falls off. So now rather than being purple it's purple, red, white, black, orange and silver.

The majority of the paint is fine but if anything bumps it, it all falls off. The paint is a custom colour and really nice, and I know the guy before me loved it, but whilst the shell is totally bare, should I sand it all off and paint it properly?

I also found out that it had been hit in the front and was rather annoyed.

Can anyone tell me any sneaky reasons why all the paint is falling off (although I think it's obvious why it's happening) and should I repaint it or just keep it?

(Basically someone give me an excuse to give my baby a nice shiny new colour).

Cheers.

Better delete this too

Hahaha,
You can still buy it no worries, I just better make sure it's safe first. I have 2 different L series turbo setups anyway, a nice one and a dodgy one so maybe I'll just use the dodgy one.

Hey guys,
How good do our cars have to be/what are the track requirements? My 1200 is no where near finished but I have a 200B that could do with a fanging. Has a $10 reconditioned gearbox, $5 worth of spray paint and 2 1/2 seats and 1/2 a boot.

Can put a suck through T25 on it though, see if it goes bang? Or is this a fancy meet and I should just keep this for bush bashing?

T-piece is a great idea. I was thinking of that too but just went with this option to try and avoid any engineering hassles in the future. I thought that if I left the stock lines alone it may not provoke the engineer as much. A dirty big pipe jammed in the top of it though..... have to wait and see.

Oh, and subs fit in with this setup BigD That's what I spent the other half of my weekend doing. A nice mdf parcel shelf and speaker boxes in the back where the back seat used to be. Nice and plain.

Hmmm, isn't that Carter black going to make a heck of a racket in the box? Hehehe..... D'OH! So is my facet pump...... I made myself sad.