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Paintballaa5
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Beautiful car, keep us up to date.
Nice clean build
Appreciate it guys!
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Beautiful car, keep us up to date.
Nice clean build
It was made by Joshua Callahan out of Pennsylvania i believe. He's primarily on Facebook. Very, very nice guy but his customer service is extremely lacking. He's just overwhelmed by the work he's got I think. I'm still waiting on the tubular crossmember with the front motor mount.who made that front sub-frame for you????
Thanks man!Wow, this car is gorgeous. Keep up the great work!
Nice I've owned a few since 94 I'm sure I'll grab another thinking a evo 8 too.
This car's older than I am haha. This would be my second DSM. I had a 97 GST Spyder as a daily in highschool/early college. Was my pretty much my first car.
I too have been it the game since around 95 and I think it's pretty cool to have older guys as well as some younger guys keeping these cars going. Good luck with the car Paintballaa5! It's looking really nice!
Oh cool, I am doing somewhat the same thing while I'm in school. It pays my bills, and keeps me available for all my school stuff.I used to have a small powder coating business. Prep is 90% of the finished product.
I was just looking over the pictures and your valve cover wasnt the right shade so you changed it. I assume you stripped it and used a different powder?
.I tell you what, I miss my 1gb from my avatar like nothing else... and this build is serious inspiration man. I have 3 2ga Talon TSI AWD's I'm flipping so I can grab myself a super clean 1gb Talon shell to do something like this with... Can't wait! Keep it up man!
Oh cool, I am doing somewhat the same thing while I'm in school. It pays my bills, and keeps me available for all my school stuff.
Actually, I (embarrassingly) sprayed over it with a paint match rattle can. It's the orange from newer nissans, but the cars actual color is Lemans Sunset, from the 350z. So it's pretty close, but I think I've decided on having a paint shop paint it with the actual paint that's on the car. That or I'll strip it down and try again.
Man, Ive had that happen before. A friend wanted his valve cover in a candy cherry red, which I had. I decided to do a chrome under to make it pop a bit more and the powder went on too thick at some points and turned it pink in some areas and blood red in others. An adjustable powder coating gun would have really helped. Lower voltage helps get into tighter spots, higher voltage helps with multiple coats. It was a garage job, not done at the shop so I was using the powder gun I use for smaller parts.
Anyway, this build is awesome. I had a customer abandon a 2Ga GST in that same color at my shop once. I should have kept it >_<