I love clubroadster jokes! haha

I'll let you know if I need a hand. So far its all little crap, not worth having extra help

Interior Teaser...
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1332205037

Drove it quite a bit this weekend with no windshield. Good times.

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1332700040

I should be getting the windshield next weekend and then I will start back up on wetsanding. For now I only have 1 stock seat in. Still waiting on my custom brackets to get laser cut at work.

That thing is going to look great once it's all polished up...and not 3" higher than stock height

hey hey its lower than stock.

I ordered some supplies to wetsand her. Going to use 3m's DA sanding products. Foam cushioning pad and 1500 then 3000 grit...should make quick work of it.

Lemme know if you want a hand with polishing that thing

Damn man. Its come a long way.

I'll have to meet up with you guys at some point this spring/summer to check it out.

Hopefully I'll have mine back on the road sometime soon. :hs:

It amazes me how Interior/Exterior "restoration" can make your wallet burn just as fast as turbo & suspension goodies. Just when I thought I was done buying stuff:

-3M 05776 Hookit 6" Disc Pad

- 3M 02088 Trizact Hookit 6" P1500 Grit Clear Coat Sanding Disc, (Box of 25)

-3M 02085 Trizact Hookit 6" P3000 Grit Foam Disc, (Box of 15)

- 3M 05777 Hookit 6" x 1/2" x 3/4" Soft Interface Pad

-MF1 Uber All Purpose Microfiber Bulk 50 Pack (splitting with a friend)

- 650G Uber Blue Pad 6.5 inch final polish pad (bought 3)

- 6515HOG Uber Orange Pad 6.5 inch medium polish pad (bought 3)

- 631G Uber Yellow Pad 6.5 inch cutting compounding pad (bought 3)

- M105 Meguiar's M105 Ultra Cut Compound Size: 1gallon
-M205 Meguiar's M205 Ultra Finishing Polish Size: 32oz (bought 2)

This weekend I plan on doing plugs, oil change, etc... and then back to body work. I want to fix the chip I got while putting her in storage. Next week I will begin wetsanding with the DA. I am pretty excited/nervous about cutting the paint with a DA, but people speak highly about this 3m trizact stuff. I plan on just keeping the DA at a lower PSI and seeing how it goes.

It seems like you bought A LOT of compound.

I barely used 1/4 of my 32oz 105 for my entire car, But I am pretty sure I need a more aggressive pad because the 105 wasn't quite cutting enough.

Yeah I have a feeling 2 qts would have been about what I use...but the difference in cost from 2 qts to a full gallon was minimal. It will probably go to my friend as a thank you for helping me polish. I personally thought it was a lifetime supply. lol.

-Windshield installed
-random cowl trim installed
-front lip installed

- Oil changed. Spark plugs changed. Still need to change the fuel filter

I will be fixing my chip tomorrow and wetsanding all weekend. Maybe buffing next week!

Some "These might actually look nice if my car was done" pics (iphone4):
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1333502103
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1333502103
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1333502103
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1333502103

looks incredibly clean.
good luck with the wet sanding/buffing,
your build thread is an inspiration to make me finish mine

Nice man!

Dude, the truck is lookin sweet

Yeah Yeah ik 4x4 blah blah

Today I learned how much of a ---- it is to spot repair metallic paint. I started by sanding the damaged area with 220. I didn't go crazy because I wanted to minimize the repair area. Next I feathered with 400. I cleaned and prepped the area and masked off using the bent over tape technique to reduce the chance of getting a hard edge. I did 3 coats of color (rattle can base coat), moving the tape back on each pass.

Next I did 3 coats of clear using 2k 2 part rattle can clear (its legit clear that you mix right in the can by pressing a pin). I moved the tape further and further back each time to reduce hard edges. It will all get wetsanded in and blended later anyway though.

This is where I made the mistake. in order for metallic to look good it needs to be sprayed in a complete pass. If you were to "dust" metallic it doesnt look right. In fact back when I had montego blue it would look crazy green (green metallic flakes in it) until you sprayed a nice wet coat. By trying to feather in the edges I created a half assed metallic line along the edge. I should have wetsanded the base coat with 1500 before continuing onto clear coat. What I ended up with was a wrinkle looking line in the base coat where the metallic got built up. Nothing I can do about it now short of sanding it again and re-spraying again but that will be another can of clear ($25) and mean an even larger repair area. Right now the repair area is still only about 1" tall x 4" long and right on the wheel arch so its not too noticeable. Oh well. She still will look good from a few feet away. My car is by no means a show car.

Pics:
220-
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1333582275

400
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1333582275

First coat
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1333582275

Second coat
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1333582275

First clear (you can sorda see the edge)
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1333582275

Second clear
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1333582275

Final clear
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1333582275

https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1333582275

Shoulda let it dry and sanded before the clearcoat.

Yeah, Live and learn. Maybe somewhere down the road I will re-repair it but my fenders could be in better shape anyway and flares may be in its future.

For now... stand 2 feet further back and we will never notice it.

It is a bit darker in that area in the photo's, how does it look in person?

darker. Hard to say until it dries.

when you buy paint in a rattle can or any small quantity its just a crap shoot if you will actually get the same color. 1 drop of a base color will throw it off so much.

I'm sure unless that spot is scrutinized it will be hard to notice. How does the time line look for completion?