1 million bajillion fafillion hp upgrade

[WayFast84]

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a286/Wayfast84/Picture220.jpg

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a286/Wayfast84/Picture217.jpg

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a286/Wayfast84/Picture215.jpg

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a286/Wayfast84/Picture219.jpg

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a286/Wayfast84/Picture221.jpg

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a286/Wayfast84/Picture216.jpg

Told you my spark plug wires were sexy! :rofl:

[Tsar]

any one has a write up on how to paint your wheels properly so it doesnt peel over time?

[enRo]

PEDAL BICYCLE FTW

That LG4 looks very tired. Matter of fact, I think it got tired after 500 miles after it was placed in there in 1984 :-)

[qwikz28]

any one has a write up on how to paint your wheels properly so it doesnt peel over time?
powdercoating... talk to paul hardcorez28

PEDAL BICYCLE FTW

That LG4 looks very tired. Matter of fact, I think it got tired after 500 miles after it was placed in there in 1984 :-)
:rofl:

[BonzoHansen]

What is this thread about, sitckers & rattle can paint?

[WayFast84]

well I didnt get a chance to put on my erector set spoiler...


jake: ive talked to him he doesnt have a oven or something like that big enough for wheels and wanted 300 to paint the wheels, not that its a bad price but Id rather to it for 15 to see if I even like them first.

[unstable bob gable]

well I didnt get a chance to put on my erector set spoiler...


lol

[2001orangess]

any one has a write up on how to paint your wheels properly so it doesnt peel over time?
they last for awhile..... let me try to dig up a pic of my friends car.

[2001orangess]

http://mysite.verizon.net/vze2dcjy/meet008.jpg

pic of my friends sentra with painted gold rims. looks really nice and its been painted for about a year

here is the write up
http://forums.thevboard.com/viewtopic.php?t=15104

[Rob WS6]

Lose the cheesy ass stickers, and strip the paint off those poor rims, and youll be good to go!

[BigAls87Z28]

Oh boy...you painted the calipers red!! Did anyone help you?

[maroman88]

wow u need to clean ur car before doing anything else, the headers make everything else look dirtyyy

why in gods name did u paint those beautiful wheels??????????

u will hardly see the calipers through those wheels

tacky place for stickers

other then that looks good :wink:

[Savage_Messiah]

I feel bad for those rims... :lol:

[2001orangess]

whos rims are bad, my friends gold rims...they look so nice in person

[Savage_Messiah]

I meant wayfast's blue rims... didnt click the link to your friend's

[Untamed]

Sell the 84. Work a few years before you get your license. Take the money off the car sale, plus what you worked for, and buy a 4th gen. They'll be nice and cheap by that time, still run, and only need a rebuilt and polish. :nod:

If you want the experience of working on cars, make your friends by the parts and help them bolt the stuff on their own cars. :)

[WayFast84]

How do you guys want me to take the paint off? just the lip? or the whole wheel? How do I get it off with out striping the gold off?

[trashman01]

take it off the lips, use paint stripper then u can polish the lips, hell u might be able to just sand the lips to polish them. also, take an old rag, cover the carb and dizzy(with a plastic bag), hose down the motor bay, take the rag and dunk it in some carwash soap, was down all the paint in the motor bay, rinse it, let it dry. the engine bay will look so much better

[WayFast84]

how do I polish the lips. what grit sand paper what else should I use? dont give me links to the thirdgen crap that stuffs mad confusing cause im a dumb ass

[90FormulaWS6]

how do I polish the lips. what grit sand paper what else should I use? dont give me links to the thirdgen crap that stuffs mad confusing cause im a dumb ass

start w/ 250 or 400 grit, then move to 600, then 600 wet, then to like 1000 wet then to like 2000 wet, then use steel wool, and then use polish

if your gonna lose the ac... lose it all IMO and get a delete box make the bay look cleaner

and dont overestimate the brake caliper paint mod... its put like 100 hp into my lo3 LOL

[ar0ck]

and dont overestimate the brake caliper paint mod... its put like 100 hp into my lo3 LOL

So what do gloss black calipers get me?

[Teds89IROC]

red FTW!

~Ted

[Teds89IROC]

btw, you can make your wheels look better by buying my stock gold iroc rims..88-90 dual stripe, with tires! :-D

~Ted

[Koll]

Oh boy...you painted the calipers red!! Did anyone help you?

Yes.




















No.






















Maybe.

[Teds89IROC]

all 4 calipers are red, I def. felt more power once I did this mod :-D

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b241/teddyhello2/DSCN1329.jpg

~Ted

[deadtrend1]

I thought the rims looked better Gold. I wouldn't have painted them though, GTA rims are ment to be gold. But since you went black polish the lip like everyone said.

And invest in a real jack to avoid using the foctory one....

[V]

GTA rims are known for being gold like deadtrend said, you could have traded them for plain trans am rims which are black stock and wont chip/peel, but :shrug:

[trashman01]

my 16" crosslace wheels(GTAs basically) are black adn they look alot better on my black car then the golds were. but o well im sellin it for a maro

[Savage_Messiah]

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a286/Wayfast84/Picture219.jpg



Am I the only one who sees that these are blue, not black???

[Tsar]

Am I the only one who sees that these are blue, not black???
i thought they were blue too, but then i thought maybe there was something wrong with my eyes :shrug:

[Tru2Chevy]

It could just be a combination of the light they are in and crappy paint.

- Justin

[deadtrend1]

i still cant believe you wasted those GTA rims. Any future car mods that you do, must not be done unless you consult with me....... :)

[Tru2Chevy]

i still cant believe you wasted those GTA rims. Any future car mods that you do, must not be done unless you consult with me....... :)

Is that directed to me or Matt?

- Justin

[WayFast84]

me

I should really be striping the paint off the wheels now but im just so tired from work.

[deadtrend1]

Is that directed to me or Matt?

- Justin

it was matt actually. Why? what did you do with the rims I sold you ... haha

matt,
As long as you get the paint off the lip at least, that would be fine pending you prepared the crosslace surface well enough that the paint will last on it.

[maroman88]

before u do anything else you should consult someone, anyone, you seem to always be un-doing things that were bad ideas from the begining

[BonzoHansen]

before u do anything else you should consult someone, anyone, you seem to always be un-doing things that were bad ideas from the begining
Don't tell him that. You'll kill all the drama. :)

[Tru2Chevy]

it was matt actually. Why? what did you do with the rims I sold you ... haha

Well, they are on the car, sitting there. I just thought maybe it had something to do with them not being utilized well. I haven't done anything to them....

- Justin

[WayFast84]

Relax guys, its not the end of the world, like all of you seem to make of it, its just paint..and the wheels were nothing so even If they were fed up that bad its not like id take a big hit. ... alot of you need to lighten up..

[WayFast84]

black? or gold?

[trashman01]

black but for ur paint go gold

[WayFast84]

i think im going to go graphite, it almost matches my car color exzactly in the shade its dead on in the sun its a little dark, if I dont like it on one whell Ill just respray it black, or if theirs any wheel paint thats gold.

[BobonaStick]

Heh... and you were mocking my headlight set up? Someone should take that car from you before you ruin it anymore... I think my 88 GTA looks better then that... yukk... and clean that damn engine bay out...

[WayFast84]

IDK what the **** your talking about!! youve never ever seen the car in person, like i said you all need to lighten the **** up...phsshh Ill ruin my car more.. you never seen pics from what it looked like from the begining have you? Never knew the problems it had, and what is exzactly done to it....I never mocked your headlights, i just simply said I dont like them.

[trashman01]

matt calm down man. u have 2 years b4 u get ur license to kill, i mean drive. get some stripper on the lips, take off the paint and polish. it isnt hard, my rims werent bad so i just used #0000 steel wool and hit em with mothers and then put a coat of wax on em. and they shine real nice. also be4 u paint a surface(like the spokes) scuff them up a lil bit, throw down a primer then scuff the primer up and throw down the coat of paint. i've done enough rim restore(between dusters, 79 trans ams, etc) this **** is mind numbing

[maroman88]

try a power washer if the paint really sucks itll all come right off and hopefully u can be back to where u started with a NIIICEEEEEE set of gold GTA rims