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What did you do to your Car today?

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Could try plasti dip unless you wanna keep the original color even then I don't know the paint code unless someone else does.

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danielle15 said:
If you sand blast them, do they need painted or anything after to preserve them? Sorry I don't know anything about sand blasting.
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Sand blasting takes everything off, everything.

You'd be left with a bare rim, likely be grey in color from the color of the aluminum. Then you'd either prime it and paint it or get it powder coated with a new finish.
 


danielle15 said:
If you sand blast them, do they need painted or anything after to preserve them? Sorry I don't know anything about sand blasting.
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Danielle, hey your job sounds pretty cool from here. On those wheels ... I am ignorant about the pregens but- At a glance I would have said they were aluminum. But the rim appears to be steel, so maybe the center is stamped steel too. I'd have to look at the backside to see how they are made. The script is awful sharp for a stamping, looks like a casting from here which would mean aluminum. Steel has to be protected immediately after blasting and cleaning if not also sanding.

Before anybody goes technical on that (I could help you with the OE color but yeah I would use engine paint or something, just silver).

My primary input for you, and mine is not often popular in the wheels department, is why do you want to put those on something that already has torque stars? I don't understand. I don't like them, don't spend another minute on them is my advice. Lets see the Torque Stars again if I missed a pic of problems with them. I'm currently spiffing some of those up one by one for mine.
 
Pregens look funky with a 225/60 tire imo probably because its wider. Running a 225/55 I like the look of then sidewall better but thats me but its an odd size.

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Took one of these off, I had two on the rear. I don't know what happened to these but they look awful.

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The 3 year newer center caps do a tremendous amout for the looks, too. But this one is off my wrecked 40th car- My 99 GTP's front aren't quite this shiny but two of these plus what I have will make a nice set, then I can swap tires around so all the treads are deep.

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As far as what I did to mine this week- thurs dirt, friday wash. I am truly enjoying the corrected handling from all the new parts but did not manage to align it just yet. Drives great though. I'm just looking to enjoy some down time, this week was a flashback to bodyman hell.
 
i spent the day prepping the hell out of my gp. Called some bodyshops for quotes, and the lowest i got for a full front clip respray is $300-$600

woulda been $900-1300 if i would have left half of the prep work up to them. getting kinda excited. soon my car will be all 1 colour... blaaaaaccckkkkkk
 


All one color is good, thats all I try to maintain! I think that price is pretty cheap, go for it! We usually have to completely redo customer prep, just sayin ... normally yep.
 
idrivejunk said:
All one color is good, thats all I try to maintain! I think that price is pretty cheap, go for it! We usually have to completely redo customer prep, just sayin ... normally yep.
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Well, they were clearly told to just paint it. it would be brought in prepped to the ebst of my ability, and i got the 2 different quotes. SO HOPEFULLY! they dont change their mind and re prep everything
 
absoluteley fuming right now because I'm about to throw my new passenger headlight i got off of amazon and it has a F***ing crack it. beyond pissed right now. just my effin luck.
 


Finished putting the top end of the 3800 together at work, LIM, UIM, and all the rest of it. Only to find a huge coolant leak at either the head gasket (better not be), the water pump, or timing cover. I couldn't find it with air and soapy water so I put water in it and pressurized it, squirts out pretty bad. Hard to tell where it's coming from though. I'm thinking it's the water pump, since the LIM was so corroded from dex-crap that a hole was literally eaten through it, and the water pump is aluminum as well. Pretty crazy stuff. But it runs, so I pulled it out and it will get torn down to the timing cover on Tuesday. Lots of other stuff needed to get done today so people could have their cars for the holiday weekend, the GP probably wasn't gonna make it out today anyway so I worked on a bunch of other stuff.
 
I bought an aluminum subframe and cleaned it up, also bought a Sonnax TCC Apply valve to put with the PCS, 4th shaft, and new 4th frictons\steels. Here's the subframe all cleaned up:
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guys should i try and return the light or just keep pressing on. its about a three inch crack... should i just silicone it because honestly this is my only weekend to do this retro.
 
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