1995 White BB4 Si Vtec - starting to update the profile...

[bb1boy]

Looking awesome, Wurly!

It makes me a little sad knowing that my white one has died, but hell, long live the 'Lude!

[Merlin]

The car is looking cracking, nice to be cleaning up the bits that are not normally seen

[wurlycorner]

Thanks people.
lots and lots more progress since I last updated this!

[wurlycorner]

Right, time for another barrage of photo's catching some of the work up from back in April.

After the quick blow over with etch to stop it rusting over the (freezing cold/damp) week, the next weekend I rubbed it all back down again, so that any runs and anythign not properly adhered, would come off. Plus also gave the slam panel loads more attention;





More priming followed. I needed to move on between coats quickly (limited time) so had a word with ratty who said it would be fine if I flash it off with a decent IR heat lamp. Bought a 'pukka' body panel 1k panel lamp but it had limited area coverage, so topped it up with 2k lamp from machine mart

Both of them on the go;



Covering of etch;



I'm anal and like my original stickers so masked over them;


White primer over the top;





Looks great from a distance;



Slam panel really got on my tits. Hate these bits on it, which you couldn't really see until white primering. Shows up everything





So more bloody rubbing down, knifing putty, rubbing down again;


Re-prime;



The U-pol etch primer is way better than Halfords stuff, so I bought some of their hi-build primer to try as well;



Amazing stuff. Absolutely fabulous coverage and sprays so nicely. Brilliant product

So after some of that and then topping up with more white primer, the slam panel looked like this;
A bit better;



Much better

[wurlycorner]

So after that, it was time to start top coating.
I was going for black at the bottom, same as it had before - this is the area visible through the bumper grille at all times though the front of the car, so makes sense;

I used a B&Q satin black - I've tried several different satin blacks (different manufacturers) and this is the one I like the best. Nice decent coverage without overloading while spraying and I prefer the finish over all the others.

Top was done with Holts Frost White;

No need to neatly mask off a clean line - you can't see it from outside the car and tbh, the blended effect is more subtle!


I hadn't gone anal about filling the blisters around the headlight orifices, cause you'll never see this. The drivers side look a bit cack close but all the rust was treated/removed and is now properly protected, so that's what matters.

Same goes lower down;

(you do get some odd reactions in some places between the 2 top coats over each other)

Pax side much better on the blisters front;



Then lacquered over the top of the Frost white;

I used a monofil clear lacquer.





Lots more action from these bad boys;



I could fine wet sand it back to get a spot on finish, but meh, it's a slam panel, it looks good enough just lacquered up;


I topped up the white/black line a bit more neatly in the end (didn't like the slight 'reaction' look from earlier. Topped it over with more satin black.




Overall, not a bad base to work with (massively better than when I started and no rust now! ) now onto all the jobby that gets stuck on it

When I peeled off the masking paper, the nice neat slam panel showed up the paint on the bottom of rad (some had flaked off, showing the copper) so, even though you'll never see it, I gave it a quick blow over

And once I'd done that, I decided the rest of the rad wasn't up to scratch, so did the whole thing

[wurlycorner]

Next up was the treat the body cavities;
Inside the back of the inner sills looked generally good

But not perfect, as you'd expect. Nothing serious that needed any work (it's all completely solid) but needs treating to stop it going;




This is where the repair panel for the arches had been cut in at the bottom on one side;

The white stuff you can see isn't nitin turd (this is a 4 not a 5g, after all), it's the bonding they used in the seam between the inner and outer arch and where the corners of the new/old panels lap over/meet at the other joins, to seal it.
And on the other side;



Some more views looking back, higher up;





Quick clean up inside as best as poss, vacumming out and then whiping over with a damp cloth and treating any visble rust I could see/get at;





Then onto this bad boy;


Inside all the rear box sections too (don't want a repeat of what mart suffered with his )


Then into the arches from the back;





Then the front;






For this job, so long as you don't block the drain holes in the sills, more is definitely more

[damon]

What is dinitrol? And how does it set?

[wurlycorner]

Dinitrol is a brand of rust treatment/preventative products. They do a range of stuff in a range of packages.
https://dinitrol.co.uk/
Sometimes cheaper to buy off their website, sometimes cheaper off their eBay store. Depends what/how much you're buying, so check both.
3125 is the cavity wax. Way better than waxoyl at running into cavities and seams. Dries sort of tacky. Doesn't run again etc and you can't wipe it off without a solvent (white spirit).
Depending on where I'm using it, I then sometimes go over the top with 4941, which is an underbody sealer.

[Drax]

bloody good work wurly

[Merlin]

Very cool. I need to do this.