Girlfriends, 87 Coupe, Paint Build. Sanding Has Begun (Page 1/12)
JimmyS JAN 05, 03:43 PM
First a little history of this car. I don't know a whole lot about it but let me tell you how it came to become my Girfriends car.

When I was having problems getting kitcarman to complete my swap, I had no other option but to buy another car cause work made me return the work truck that they were letting me use while my swap was being done.

CoolBlue87GT sold me this car for $900.00. I drove it for awhile till my car was completed. My girlfriend (Danielle) really took an interest in my Fiero and even starting going to a lot of car shows with me. On Christmas of 2006 I gave her the title as a Christmas gift. Since then, we have not done a whole lot to the car other than general maintenance and a few repairs as things broke.

The paint on this car was trashed to say the least. It had been repainted at one time (prior to my buying it) and whoever painted it, did a horrible job.

I have pretty much given up on relying on other people to work on our cars and decided that from that point on (kitcarman fiasco) that I would do everything to our cars myself. I kept reading and reading and reading up on how to paint cars.

I had been pricing air compressors and stuff for the past 3 or so months.

This Christmas, Danielle and I went up to Ohio to spend Christmas with my family. We go every other year. When we returned from Ohio on Dec. 27th, her mom came over so we could exchange our gifts with her. Her mom really went overboard this year. She got danielle a WII with a bunch of games and accessaries. She also got her a home theatre sorround sound system for the 37" flat screen LCD TV that she bought her last year.

What I got from her mom, blew my mind! She bought me a 60gal. 135psi Campbell Housfeld air compressor with all the trimmings! 50' of hose, water seperator, pressure regulator, 2 spray guns (1 full size and 1 small size), die grinder, fittings and a bunch of other stuff. Danielle gave me $250.00 worth of gift cards so I could buy anything that her mom did not get. I used that money to buy a 6" sander, plumbing to pipe the drain out from underneath the tank, wiring to wire it up for 220 and some other things.




Last Friday, her mom took us to our local auto paint supply store (Finishmasters) to buy all the stuff we would need to paint Danielle's car! She is also paying for Mr Mikes leatherette seats for Danielle's car.

So with all these new toys, I began to start sanding Danielles car down.

Here are some pics of all her body panels and their condition...






























The hood all sanded down to the factory primer and ready for new primer...




I also sanded the underside of the hood so it can be repainted also. The plan is to sand and prime each panel off the car and then lay each panel on the car in the perspective places and then paint. This is going to be quite a long process but I hope to have it completed by the end of Feb.

I will update this thread as work progresses.

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My best advice when it comes to your Fiero is to "NOT" do any dealings with www.kitcarman.com
http://www.fiero.nl/forum/A...070315-1-061575.html <~ The drama with kitcarman
http://www.fiero.nl/forum/Forum2/HTML/078336.html <~ finishing and fixing kitcarmans mess
http://www.fiero.nl/forum/Forum2/HTML/079860.html <~ re-do after kitcarmans motor blew up.

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Newbfiero JAN 05, 05:43 PM
I,ll be here time to time to see to where you stand on your paint job ! Nice gift

..Rob
Jake_Dragon JAN 05, 05:48 PM
Nice where does the line start?
JimmyS JAN 05, 06:14 PM
Well after making the first post, I went ouside and removed the drivers side front fender and started sanding. It appears that the car has been in a small fender bender at some point in time. The front fender has a bunch of body work done to it near the front by the bumper. Instead of trying to repair it, I am going to look for a replacement fender.

As for "where does the line start"? No where. I have no intention on painting someone elses car. I don't mind doing it for myself/girlfriend but I don't want the headache of someone else picking out little flaws and wanting me to repair them. I have never painted a car before so this is will be a major learning experience for me.

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Jake_Dragon JAN 05, 06:34 PM

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Originally posted by JimmyS:

Well after making the first post, I went ouside and removed the drivers side front fender and started sanding. It appears that the car has been in a small fender bender at some point in time. The front fender has a bunch of body work done to it near the front by the bumper. Instead of trying to repair it, I am going to look for a replacement fender.

As for "where does the line start"? No where. I have no intention on painting someone elses car. I don't mind doing it for myself/girlfriend but I don't want the headache of someone else picking out little flaws and wanting me to repair them. I have never painted a car before so this is will be a major learning experience for me.




Look don't make me wine, so you steel my hood scoop design then you wont splash some paint on my car LOL
I have been thinking about doing the same thing. I have painted before just not cars, I wonder what the neighbors will think about that
Good luck hope it comes out nice.
30+mpg JAN 05, 07:21 PM
Convince your wife that the car needs a new engine/tranny combo and have your mother-in-law pop for the 3800SC/4t65e swap.
JimmyS JAN 05, 08:03 PM

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Originally posted by 30+mpg:

Convince your wife that the car needs a new engine/tranny combo and have your mother-in-law pop for the 3800SC/4t65e swap.



She's my girlfriend not my wife. I already had 2 of those and don't want another.

My car already has a 3800 and hers is going to get a 3.4 sometime in the future.
CoolBlue87GT JAN 05, 09:39 PM
Hi Jimmy,

Nice new equipment you got there. Looking forward to the results. Good luck.

Here's a few shots when the paint was a bit better. Darn that Florida sun.

The day I brought it home


After the new shoes
JimmyS JAN 05, 10:58 PM
Well, I now have the whole front end off the car...




I found a little bit of rust on the metal bracket that the front bumper connects to. Its nothing major but I will blast it and re-paint it so the rust will go no further...


Its also neat to find things you never knew was there. I found this attached to the bottom of the bumper with velcro...
JimmyS JAN 05, 11:14 PM
Here is a general idea of the paint scheme we are going for. We did this with colored pencils so the colors arent right but it will give you a general idea...