Painting the CRX

[wa2fastcamaro]

Well the Crx is offically painted red. I will get pictures up in the next couple days. It looks alright but will take a good cut and buff to look nice. It was my dad who shot it for me and well, he didn''t have a good day with the car. The garage heater died a few days ago so he was using the Nipco heater to keep it toasty, but right when he was laying the last few coats of clear the pump on the heater went out and it blew dust all over the garage, I eneded up having to run my heater over to his house, but since paint woun;t dry when its so cold, a few runs had developed.

So I got a fairly diecent paint job that will look nice an last a long time. My body work wasn't very good, because I didn't want to put much effort into a daily driver that will get car door dings and dents anyways. But I hope to have pics up Monday or Tuesday night, when I pick it up.

My new wheels are showing up Wednesday and I ordered tires from Tintmasters so I am all set there, after I got the wheels on the car I will look into lowering springs. I also still need a muffler and since the stock one sucks I will end up going with a tuner one Guess I will be driving a car that sounds like a weed wacker, but I guess that what you get with a honda that has like 1" exhaust, lol.

Mike

[krzydrftr93]

wa2fastcamaro wrote:
So I got a fairly diecent paint job that will look nice an last a long time. My body work wasn't very good, because I didn't want to put much effort into a daily driver that will get car door dings and dents anyways. Mike
First off sweet deal that it is painted. Cant wait to see thes pics of it especially with the wheels on it.

On the other note I think it would of made a little sense to do a good quality job on it so people could see the quality of work you can do since you say you want/have a shop and to automotive work. Just my .02

[PSiedTSi]

but he didnt say he was gonna do paint did he?

[RidinRails]

i think it says his dad painted it...and there are explainations for the not so perfect paintjob.

[wa2fastcamaro]

krzydrftr93 wrote:
First off sweet deal that it is painted. Cant wait to see thes pics of it especially with the wheels on it.

On the other note I think it would of made a little sense to do a good quality job on it so people could see the quality of work you can do since you say you want/have a shop and to automotive work. Just my .02

Yes I could have done a really nice job, but it wasn't very nice car. I am not set upt to do paint and body work now, so that expalins part of it. Next summer my body shop will be done and I will have a proper paint booth, right now we're using a garage.

But this spring we are doing my 79 Trans AM and that will be perfect, so that will be a good example of our work. But I myslef hate body work, my dad was a professional painter once, but because of health problems can no longer handle the body work, so once I am up and running I am going to hire a body guy.

97slowgsx wrote:
i think it says his dad painted it...and there are explainations for the not so perfect paintjob.

Thankyou... plus being its 8 degrees out side and a bad setup for painting, If we had the proper booth and the heat lamps, it would have been perfect.

But you know what, now Kevin will have some business from me, because I was thinking of having him cut and buff the car.

Mike

[krzydrftr93]

I wasnt sure exactly what automotive work you do/are set up to do...I saw motor swaps but i figured you might do more since you were doing this project also. Sorry for the miscommunication...

[wa2fastcamaro]

and paint...

[PSiedTSi]

damn that does look pretty good atleast from the pics...are you gonna be painting for business or just your personal usage...?

[Jim]

ah shit thats pimp!

[wa2fastcamaro]

PSiedTSi wrote:
damn that does look pretty good atleast from the pics...are you gonna be painting for business or just your personal usage...?

Well see, by next fall I will have my own paint booth and my body shop will be done, so we will probally will be doing other peoples cars too.

But ya, I think the crx turned out pretty good.

Mike

[krzydrftr93]

Hey man...That did turn out good...;)

[Bryce]

More pictures please! It looks nice Mike.

[wa2fastcamaro]

WHEELS.... yay... I'm grinning ear to ear now.

[KA-T_240]

wa2fastcamaro wrote:
WHEELS.... yay... I'm grinning ear to ear now.

ooh boy taking pics off rims at work.....

that looks awsome. when you get your paint and body stuff done and up i'll have to bring my car over and get some stuff started on it

[wa2fastcamaro]

Geez I can't stop looking at my car, I just keep grinning

I thanks Tintmasters for the tires and installing everyhting.

[krzydrftr93]

Damn I like it. Want to sell it?? Rims look pretty good for being as crazy looking as they are. Nice work. Now get a bad a$$ motor in it.

[HandoEX]

Damn, looks nice!

[RidinRails]

cant even tell it was jims old CRX....

but yeah...you better get some lowering springs..

them wheels look like snowflakes.

[SmitEvo]

it looks great...........

[wa2fastcamaro]

Thanks for all the comments. The guys at the MNSC said I shouldn't have painted the trim, but I think it looks 10X better all one color. And those wheels really make it look neat. Now all I need is a rear part of the interior, and It will be a lot better. you wouldn't believe all the road noise you get with no rear carpet. I also need new struts, I don't think I am gunna do springs though, it sits really nice now and I hate cars that can't even make it over a speed bump.

So its a project in progress. I decided no rear wing, stock lighting looks great so that won't be replaced.

Next on the list is:
Interior, looks like I am gunna have to custom make something, gunna have to get some of that black carpet from mac's
Exhaust, since the muffler fell off before I got it
Struts
30% tint on the rear windows
Then I dunno

Is there anyone that know Honda's good? I got a funny noise in the driveline that bothers me. Its a humming noise that comes and goes.

Mike