New S13 Rebuild

Ok we have finally reached the stage where the car gets painted. I had the painfull task of picking a colour. I have a wall with colour chips, there are about 5000 chips plus the shades and pearls that change the chips. So the choice makes you go mad. I finally got a blue I liked and selected a blue pearl to go over it. It has a nice effect.

Fillay got a chance to post some pics of the car in the spray booth.

I REALLY like the colour bru, its gonna look super-hot when its done hey 😀

Thanks Warren

I will post more pics today.

That is such a nice shade of blue, I've always had a thing for blue cars 🙂 That shade almost reminds me of the Astra OPC blue, or S3 (new) blue, which is hot! I'm glad u decided to be different, it'll pay off. U don't see a lot of blue s13's around! 😀
Are u going 2 fit any kind of body kit, or staying with the original cars design?

Hey that's Preshan in the pics! What's happened to his car?

Hey that's Preshan in the pics! What's happened to his car?

This was his car 😂 .

With the car in the state was in before painting I would have done few things different...

* Seem weld chassis
* Roll cage
* Body kit
* Bonnet vent
* prepare valance for V-Mount
* partly smooth engine bay... remove all the ugly brackets
* Black roof 😉

Very cool anyhow you look at it... Can't wait for finished product.

Project is taking very good shape.
I must ask this tho'
Why didn't you remove the door handles?

Because there is a piece of rubber by the key hole & a piece around the whole handle, this means it also gets painted.

which means it flakes off later & looks untidy......

Hey guys,

The door handles were not removed but the rubbers that surround them were taken off. Dont know about a kit Warren I did not want to do anything until I saw what the natural lines looked like in this colour. I did not want to go into so much detail with the car. I have done that with other cars and I want something different with this one. I want to use this car as a road race car. Plus I have three project cars being done so I cant put all my resources into one car. Good thoughts though Vlade thanks for the comments.

There is one picture from the side were you can really see the peal I used on the car. It flips from a light blue to a really dark blue.

Fly200 wrote:

There is one picture from the side were you can really see the peal I used on the car. It flips from a light blue to a really dark blue.

Yes I can see what you mean, and it looks really great! 😀 I know I've already said it, but now that the whole car is sprayed, I just got 2 say what a great and unique colour you've chosen, it looks simply fantastic! Even with the "standard" body, it'll look great 🙂

thanks Warren.

I wont keep the body standard for to long. But I will wait till I find a kit I like. Will post more pics soon

really looks great, how much would a total respray like that cost!