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already gone, did it have a buy now option?

i use a black ground coat and just paint over that, easy as to paint and get away with 2 coats but at 1500ish per L for PPG brand it aint cheap

i assumed it was you that got all them parts, was keeping a eye on them for weeks haha.

also you can hit anything with soda and it wont damage it, pretty good for cleaning motors and g/boxs. unsure what i'm upto on cleaning up next haha

what else needs finishing?

only downside of soda blasting is it keeps the surface smooth so it needs standing with 80/180 before priming

tri coats vary alot, in australia most mazda/toyota/ nissan consist of a solid base with a pearl topcoat but does vary alot pending colour. Some times the base is metalic along with the topcoat to add more vibrance and cleanliness because it was unachievable by just doin a 2 layer job.

nice, are they they 9.5 version? also did you get a Z radiator in there? ps. wish i had your shed space

Sand blasting is a tricky one. We have had a few cars from various blaster pretty much desrtroyed over the years. What i have been doin is paint stripping the panels first and highlight the areas with pink spray can to show where to hit. This seems by far the best method but you still have to find a good blaster as well which is hard . The guy i have been using uses garnet which is pretty fine and works well, i use the same stuff in my cabinet. I have thought about soda blasting but i think i will just keep doin is this way, atm it's only cost be about 50 for stripper and includeing the price of the blaster to get this stuff done. Still got the wooden hand brake, just trying to replicate a gtr.

yeh first set i have seen that are new, usually 2nd hands are 100k plus

you can pick up 4L kit for around 200 these days. easy to spray but alittle more toxic but you can get mask and overalls to wear. still looks good though

small update. got parts back from sand blaster got some epoxy on dash cluster cleaned and set to zero cleaned up my new handbrake polished rear quarter trims cleared my lenses. come up pretty good i think

looks good, how come you went with acrylic and not 2k?

once cambered it should be fine. wheels look to big for my liking but will still match up well. i will have to have a look at these window guides and see if i got any spares.

nice, how did you go finding them parts. what colour are you goin

http://page5.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/e129044422

oo rims, keen to see

hope their not all treated like this

looks pretty good.

i would if you can get them and have the money

yeh, would be hard todo. you would have to chrome the whole piece and mask and paint

just done a kit on a xy falcon, good to start with but once fitted we had alot of problems with been short or shrinking.

unsure if you have noticed but some skyline dash badges have the skyline in chrome. Dont know if it's a early/late model thing or what?

hard to tell,least you got a new rear panel haha.