my k20a eg build

[Ukyo8]

lookin awesome

how long are you gonna let the paint cure for before you wetsand and polish?

[derek_k]

I will probably let it cure for about a month, we will see, you can really feel once the paint starts to get hard, If it's not cured yet it almost feel like a latex glove over the car. Who knows when it will be ready, I need to buy some more compounds anyways, I'll have to get that next payday

[famousausten]

fucking PROPS BIG PROPS MAN, like holy shit, good work man i wanna head up there, and check this out now

[eglove]

i think 03ozwhip is gunna eat his words, lol.

[KRyn]

Best build thread on beyond in a long time! Thanks for sharing all of your hard work with us. I can't wait to see the finished product!

[03ozwhip]

Originally posted by eglove
i think 03ozwhip is gunna eat his words, lol.

LOL youre probably right, it does look really good! i did want you to prove me wrong as ive never come across any car that looked good spray painted.

looks great man, keep it up.

[derek_k]

So I finished spraying the rest of the car, it came out pretty decent, I gave the engine bay one more layer last night to kill some of the blur on it

[88CRX]

[Onassis]

Very talented man, can't wait to see the results.

[lison]

Beautiful.

[Twin_Cam_Turbo]

Looking great!

[GOnSHO]

wow!! looks great man!!

this makes me wanna keep going on my car!

[derek_k]

Thanks for the compliments everyone, there are some imperfections in the paintjob as of right now, my quarter panels could have been done a little better, but that was my first time ever really using bondo to that extent, so there are some scratches and a little line where you can see where the bondo ends, and the doors fisheyed on me a little, kinda choked about that but I'm gonna try and put touch up paint in the fisheye before I wetsand it, to atleast put color in the hole versus seeing primer or whatever it is, and if worst comes to worst I guess I'll have to repaint them, but I'll try the touchup first. but other than that the paint turned out just how I expected it to if not a little better, I definently have something I can work with wetsanding and polishing

[GOnSHO]

pictars!!

[derek_k]

Of the imperfections

[sevewone]

Originally posted by GOnSHO
pictars!!

dude hes posted like 8000. Looks good though ricky!

[GOnSHO]

i know hes posted pictures...

i thought maybe he put some of it back together...?

[Modelexis]

Looks awesome, sick rattle can skills.

[derek_k]

So it has been a while since I've had an update, I've slowly been putting some things back together and working on the wiring part, I have the power windows hooked up and working, and most of the panels on minus the front end, I need to respray the fenders cause I was a little light on the top of them for paint, today I started molding my door panel to fit the power window switch for the driver side, anyways here's some pics



Some of the plugs and switches





Pointless plugs tucked away









Driver side door



All the wires ran cleanly

[derek_k]

Passenger door, it was really confusing trying to figure out which wore went to each regulator, because of the reason they are rhd windows and I wanted the driver switch on my side, the problem that occured was that the original driver side had 4 wires to the regulator and the passenger had 2 wires to the regulator, so the passenger switch had 2 wires that go to the regulator but that regulator is supposed to have 4, so if you just wired it "normally and color matched" things would have been backwards, but I got it first try and it all works so im stoked









I started to make the switch in my door panels, I forgot to take pictures I'll try to remember when I do the other side







I still have lots of shaping left to do, I need to build it out a little more, that was the first layer