Here's my current fun.... I just thought I'd let you see before, so when I'm done, you'll see the bombastic after shot!

I'm pulling the engine tomorrow for a whole redo and repaint, along with redoing the engine bay totally,,, then the windows come out and onto the body repair and car respray in it's stock color, BLAZE orange... with black hood stripes, black roof, and all powdercoated black wheels and accessories, along with getting on the tint bandwagon with the tails/turns and fun...

It'll be pretty soon enough... just a whole lot of scrubbing/cleaning/painting/filling/welding to come

 

I thought you already had the windows tinted?

 

Ahh.... yes, but I'm a tint freak... the tail lamps, the turns, and other items are getting tinted as well like the scion to get all unique...

 

Very cool!

 

I'm digging the vintage pepsi machine in the back too- when did you get that installed? hehe

 

LoL.... Yeah, I got a full fledged machine back there...

I got it from the tint place, as there was a sign on it saying "Free", you take away, change maker doesn't work...

We took it, overrode the change thingy, and now it's stocked with Pepsi, Dew, Dr. Pepper, Costco Protein shakes, and COORS light... LoL...

And an added bonus... when we opened it up, there way 30 dollars in change inside it! so we got paid 30 bucks to take a fully operational and totally awesome machine!

BTW - here's updated pics now with the engine and subframe out!

 

Isn't that already the factory orange? Or are you just getting it a shiny new coat of the same one?

 

I'm not going to be able to change the color, as it'd require me to strip the car down to NOTHING to full cover all the old color, so I'm going to do my best to strip it down as far as I convieniently car and put a nice new and modern coat of Blaze Orange on her, with a few "tweaks" here and there to make her look all pretty and unique. like the black hood stripes, roof and such.

In all, it's a lovely huge project and right up my alley for my next challenge...

 

Are you painting this weekend?

 

Maybe while the engine is out, you can clean shine that little guy up, too?

 

LoL.... I'm waiting on some awesome engine paint and special stripping/etching material to do the engine (probably next week it'll be fully stripped down and painted)

The subframe is going to be degreased and stripped down tomarrow, maybe repainted if I feel up to it.

Ultimately the engine bay will be stripped and coated with a special material to keep it all nice and nifty. The engine won't be back in for a while though, as I'll clean it up perfect and repaint it, along with all the engine components, and then let it sit in the corner. I'll put the subframe back in, (to make it a rolling chassis)

The engine will stay out till the car gets repainted, as it's so much easier to keep everything all clean and purdy that way.

Right now it's just attacking each part piece by piece, then putting all those pieces together to make a nifty result.

 

Today....

BEFORE


AFTER



Nothing like a good days work

 

Sweet! let us know how it turns out.

I just got my own truely vintage stype pepsi vending machine, but it is not as cool as yours!


http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=11027612&whse=BC&Ne=4000000&eCat=BC|103|50674&N=4015093&Mo=10&No=8&Nr=P_CatalogName:BC&cat=50674&Ns=P_Price|1||P_SignDesc1&lang=en-US&Sp=C&topnav=

 

And I thought my motor was small ha ha ha

Looking good Tim

 

Looks good buddy! Can't wait to see the finished product.

 

The Good Ol' Pops has been working on the engine bay and dremel testing on the engine today while I'm here at work... Trying to find the best dremel heads to take care of our issues.

tomorrow I should be able to finish the engine bay coating and hopefully clean the remainder of the engine in preparation for paint... It'll get there...

 

Looking good Tim, man that is going to be nice when it's done!

 

Exciting! :D

 

A BIT MORE...

Before


After

 

looking good