hi all

[Undies91]

hey hows it goin

got my first car about a year and a half ago its a 1986 GN sigma

it is fuel injected with K&N intake, exhaust done, lowered on king springs and
has a little bit of the interior done.

i am currently trying to save up so i can get it re-sprayed and all the dents out of it (wasn't me it was like that when i got it) but apprentice wages are givin me the shits especially being a first year.

i went on the last S.A. cruise only hours after finding this forum and ever since have been on every time im on the computer.

Hope to catch up with a few of you sometime u never know.

[75wagon]

Welcome mate.
How about some shots?

[Undies91]

yea i will try and get some pics of the beast up asap
i thought i had some but i looked last night and couldn't find any so yea

ill give her a wash aswell special treet

engine bay is a lil dirty which annoys me every time i look at it
i unsucessfully tried to degrease it ill try again soon

saw your post before very nice very jealous (75wagon)

[75wagon]

Apprentice money does suck.
I know i was there once.
Stick with it, there's no rush. Do it once and do it right.

[Undies91]

yea i kno head down arse up

i think im in the right trade being a diesel mechanic

i love ur paint there is just something about that green
so how hard is it to paint it urself???

[Cottees]

Looking forward to seeing some pics. I wouldn't worry about the dirtiness of your engine bay, it can't be worse than mine. I need to get out the paint scraper out when I have some free time.

[Undies91]

yea i have been reading your post and have been very intrigued by what you are doing gives me plenty of ideas and goals for my car can't wait to see how your car works out

cheers
Undies91

[EVL076]

painting is not overly hard...

its the prep work that is the killer
your finish is only as good as whats underneath ;)

get a spray gun, a gallon of gmh black (cos its cheap and ya dont need thinners, you use it straight from the tin)
find an old panel, and go nuts

thats how i started off, cheap $99 gravity feed gun, some cheap as chips paint, and an old commy bonnet

welcome to the site too

[75wagon]

I use a suction feed Iwata W87 spray gun.(bought it in 1993, cost $400 then)
Good quality gear makes life a bit easier.

If you haven't sprayed a car before I recommend staying away from metallics and opting for a solid colour.
There is nothing special about how to put on that green, other then it's a metallic.
So you need to apply clear as well.

I use Acryllic Lacquers as I don't have access to a spray booth.
My car was sprayed on the driveway in front of my garage.
The hardest part as EVL076 said is the prep.

I've sprayed about 15 or so cars now, so I've got my method pretty much down.
I strip them back to bare metal to first see what I'm dealing with and then file finish.
You can fill dents but you cant fill humps.
One panel at a time and take your time.

If you try to take on too much at once you'll stuff it up.
I learned years ago to take them off the road and do it in one go.
Having to pull them apart and put them back together again sucks.
But not everyone has the luxury of having another car to drive whilst it's happening.

[panda]

Welcome to the forum. Great to see another South Aussie.

Love your user name, please explain !!!

[crystalmeths]

welcome to sg mate now pics or ban

[Undies91]

here is a shitty mobile phone pic i took just before the S.A. cruise.

[img]http://i153.photobucket.com/albums ... .jpg[/img]

cheers 75wagon all info about spray painting is all going to help me and after doin a lil work experience a a paint and pannel shop last year i think ill try tackling the beast myself oneday nah should be end of the year if all goes well. thanks again very helpful.


now panda u asked about my user name Undies91 well good question ill give you the story now gather around peeps

well at school ( ha school ) i decided it would be good to be a student leader regrettin it now and being a student leader we had to meet some of the lil kids and read library books to them. Well this one little tacker decided that my last name which is underwood sounded like underpants ???? who knows disturbed child ???? and yea everytime he saw me he would yell underpants and wave to me. :x

now thats halfway

well me being me a sports nut i was playing footy and this particular day this kid just happened to be walking past and then yelled Underpants! Underpants! and waved to me, well my footy coach just happened to hear this and found it funny and decided to call me undies so yea thats the story longer than i thought

and 91 was the year i was born

but yea after one game i was filthy dirty covered in mud and shit probably and my coach decided to call me dirty undies hmmm

[Cottees]

lol. Interesting story about your nick. Mine was this guy in first year of high school thought I looked like the kid on the Cottee's Chocolate Topping TV ad. They would always call me 'Cottees'. Hated it, but ended up just going with the flow, and still use that nick today.

[Undies91]

hmmm yer gotta love the nick names

hey guys if you want to see some better pics there are some posted on the meet and cruise S.A. topic under events

[woops]

Also for spray painting the car make sure you get a compressor which can flow enough for the spray gun. The best i found to suit the job at a decent price was the belt drive supercheap compressor but make sure you get it when it's on special. Prob cost about $500 but it will save so much hassle rather then waiting for an underpowered compressor to get up to pressure.

There are plenty of tips that people can give to get a nice finish but the prep is where all the work is. Finding the low spots on the surface can be found easily with some cheap fast drying darker colour spray can paint. Only spray a very fine mist onto the surface you are preping and sand the surface and sand away to show where the high and low spots are.

Nice to see you have a set of starion mags on the sigma too. I know it may not mean much to people but those mags from memory are a few kg's lighter then any of the sigma 14"s i've measured. Nice reducing unsprung weight.

[Undies91]

ah yea thanks for that i gotta start savin now (bloody slave rates :x )

yea love the starion mags i havn't seen that many around though i was concidering getting some different ones but im happy with em so y change em

[panda]

Hey, my Starion has Sigma mags on it. Wanna swap ? ( only joking ! ! )

[75wagon]

Also for spray painting the car make sure you get a compressor which can flow enough for the spray gun. The best i found to suit the job at a decent price was the belt drive supercheap compressor but make sure you get it when it's on special. Prob cost about $500 but it will save so much hassle rather then waiting for an underpowered compressor to get up to pressure.

For a compressor you need a 12cfm minimum.
That's 12 cubic feet per minute....
(can anybody help me out with a metric conversion?)

With air supply any lower, you run low on pressure halfway through large panels like bonnets and wagon roofs.

[Superscan811]

For a compressor you need a 12cfm minimum.
That's 12 cubic feet per minute....
(can anybody help me out with a metric conversion?)

With air supply any lower, you run low on pressure halfway through large panels like bonnets and wagon roofs.

12CF is about 340L

Cheers.

[Undies91]

yea i was thinkin about buying another sigma

one on car sales its a blue sigma supersaloon in S.A.
Salsbury i think but then id have to run 2 cars. Unless i let the rego run out on one while painting it but yea i have to way up my options and see how much money i got to burn

[Blue82]

Welcome Undies , wish I had of thought of that. That supersaloon you're talking about, I've been eyeballing that one myself, it's a bargain. If I was in SA I'd grab it. Pity the guy did a bit of a dodgy paint job though, he sprayed over the door handles, that's just slack. ;)

[Undies91]

yea i noticed that he painted the door handles coz i drove past a supersaloon today
same colour and everything and noticed something different about the one on carsales.

i think that ill have to pass on this one though because i want to save about 5 grand or around abouts to spend on the sigma i have now.

**** what i will do to it ****

get a sprayjob
new tyres
clean up and maybe paint engine bay
fix interior and speaker pods ( keep falling off my doors )

***** long term ideas *****

turbo
airbrushed graphic ( from one of my mates after he finishes his course )

!!open for suggestions and opinions all will be taken onboard!!

[Undies91]

hey guys

a while back i was lookin at a car its been on carsales for a long time
i called the guy up about 3 months ago and he said he sold it
but its still on carsales so t think he didn't want to sell it to me coz i must still sound like a kid :x

here is the link see what u think

http://www.carsales.com.au/all-cars/pri ... 2BD9BC497F

[Cottees]

I think they don't know what they are talking about in the first place. That is a GH, not a GJ.

And they are dreamin' if they want to sell it at that price.

[Undies91]

I kno hey but i do like the colour

i think that colour would be good coz it seems everyone is trying to hit me or something :x

but it was an idea at the time just thought id have a look at it and get some ideas but he was askin a hell of alot!

[Undies91]

Finally got pics of the beast

poor thing got egged the other day ( bastards :x )











so yea thats my beast and i tell ya wat i don't think i could have picked up a better car as my first car

[Undies91]

Cheers TUFSIG

i might get a boot off of you if no one in S.A. has one.

i bought the car pretty much as is for a grand off a mate.

Cheers Undies

[panda]

Hi, I will be in Adelaide on August 19th for a few days, & can bring a boot lid for you.
I'm pretty sure GJ & GK are the same.
I have a delivery van, so no problems.
Let me know what colour you want, you might get lucky !

[Undies91]

Alright well if i could get one the same colour as my siggy atm that'd be great
coz i don't know how long its going to take me to get it painted

and the fact that i found a GSR Sigma in a car yard today for $2,850
it has pepperpots a new head because he was driving it around a bit after he bought it from a grandma and it decided to go on him the only problems i can see with it is that it has a pretty deep scratch on the rear 1/4 pannel and the dash has a small split in it near the clock. apart from that a good deal i recon shit all km's time to talk to the old folks and see if they will let me have 2 cars

wish me luck


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Turns out that dad thinks i won't be able to afford it and that we don't have room which we do so i am going to be a pesky little son and keep persisting till maybe i get it then i would be surprised coz he never gives in easily.

[panda]

Alright well if i could get one the same colour as my siggy atm that'd be great
coz i don't know how long its going to take me to get it painted

Your lucky day, I've found a silver boot lid in good condition for you.

I will be in Adelaide on the evening of the 19th if you still want it. (free delivery to your door)

panda