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Electro Metro; Lotsa pics
Topic Started: Aug 23 2012, 11:40 PM (15,553 Views)
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Mythstae
Nov 23 2013, 10:28 PM
evmetro
Nov 23 2013, 10:26 PM
I get frequent urges to deviate from the factory color and to go with something more exciting, but the extra work is huge. The 93 is getting close as well, and I am set on something exciting for that one. Definitely not factory color or anything close to it. Lotsa pretty jambs, pretty under the hood, the works...
Make it LOUD! We've seen you do black, blue, now another, lighter blue... pick something that SCREAMS!
You read my mind!
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Woodie
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evmetro
Nov 23 2013, 08:24 PM
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I am trying to keep it simple, but these Metros pick up an amazing amount of dings. As I start block up filler on on the bigger ones, more show up. The panels also seem to be crappy stampings, kinda like stuff that comes from China or Taiwan. If you are really picky like I am about how straight the body is before it gets painted, you would think you were working on some kind of economy car or something... Anyway, I ended up filling the whole quarter panel. Now it is straight and up to my standards.

Filler before blocking:

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Here it is after blocking. Yes, by hand with my favorite 9 inch rubber block. Save the air tools for production stuff, not a beautiful Metro.

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Every Metro hood that I have ever done up nice has needed the leading edge filled. I weld up the hood emblem holes on every one since I like the clean look of no moldings or emblems, but there always seems to be a bunch of other waves in the sheetmetal, so I like to get this stuff straight.

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evmetro
Nov 23 2013, 08:55 PM
Update on the paint for this rig... My car no longer has the paint code affixed to it, so I took one of the tail light filler panels to the paint store to see what they could come up with, and I ended up with "Capriblau Metailic", BMW, 1999 to 2003, Code 471. My paint supplier is a Napa paint store and I picked up a gallon of their "vortex" base. It retails for $547 per gallon and $46 for the reducer, but I get it for a little less since I am a shop. Since I am trying to cut costs a little, I decided to try their 2.1 Euro Clear SL for the clear coat. This stuff retails for $148, plus $76 for the hardener. That is pretty reasonable for a profesional paint system. Naturally, I was not getting out of there for that cheap since I also picked up primer... I use their Pro Base 2.1 gray primer which retails for $162 per gallon and $73 for the hardner, then throw in all the tape, tack rags, roloc disks, mixing cups, body filler, filler spreaders, sandpaper, respirator cartridges and such, and it did not take long to rack up a bill.

I sure am glad you're not bothering to do a thorough job on this one. :hmm :drool




Edited by Woodie, Nov 24 2013, 07:33 AM.
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evmetro


I don't know why it is so hard for me to keep it simple...
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t3ragtop
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Turbo3 and Twincam Tweaker

i actually got a job review that said that i couldn't differentiate between a quick and dirty "duct tape" project and a "gold plated" project. i took that as a compliment instead of a bad thing.

if you're like me (and i think you may pass me up :P ) you won't produce anything that doesn't pass your personal expectations.

this car will never be anything but a "special" vehicle. don't keep the paint anything close to factory. do something larger than life with it. ;) metallic chili pepper red, bright safety yellow, fluorescent orange.... make people's mouths fly open! :D
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I got off easy and did not need to skim the entire door. I guess the donor car at Pick n Pull was not as rough as some. Just a couple of dings.

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Here is that same door with primer on it.

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and here it all blocked out with my 9 inch block. One more perfect Metro door in the world.

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Lotsa blocking to be done...

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evmetro


Put some more primer down on the hood and bumpers. The hood looks like it will be good.

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Body filler does not stick very well to these plastic bumpers, so I blow on a coat of primer to create a base that the filler will stick to. Once I block this primer down on the bumpers, I can fill the scratches and blemishes with filler and then re prime. It takes a lot of work to take an old beat to shit raw plastic bumper cover to a nice paint ready surface, but it looks pretty sweet in the end having the bumpers painted.


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I sure like this primer. It blocks out like a dream.

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unplugged5150
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:popcorn reeeally nice work! :drool
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evmetro


Did some "jambing". got to get it blue on the inside before doing the outside. This is just the base coat, clear will come tomorrow.

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I added some reinforcement behind where my 110 charging plug goes

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clarkdw


I wish I had even a small part of your bodywork skills. I don't know if I suck at bodywork because I don't much enjoy it or I don't much enjoy it because I suck at it. Chicken or egg. :shit

I enjoy your threads with every post. :thumb
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evmetro


The bodywork part of what I do is pretty basic, but one of my many careers was being a production line collision tech so this stuff is easy. I also spent a lot of my military career painting aircraft, including a vip aircraft for an admiral. You know that that plane had to look pretty... no haze gray under way color on that one. White cap, blue stripe and gray bottom, all gloss. Wood n velvet inside...
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truckjohn


Do you mind coming over for a weekend and doing mine? I think my Metro would really look sweet in a coat of that beautiful BMW silver....
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evmetro


Everything has a price...
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I put down some clear, so now I can see what the new color is really like. Strange stuff... Here are two shots of the underside of the hood, and I am holding the little filler panel from below the tail lights to show the original color. The color that my paint supplier said would match... Yeah, that's quite a match... Anyway, I think I like it better, so I don't think I will go back for a rematch. This stuff is a mile off, but I will run with it. It seems to be very different shades when you look at it in different light. Here are some pics of the different shades.

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Those two shots above are with clear, and here is a shot from last night of the driver door without clear. Keep in mind that the hood and door were shot last night out of the same cup of base color... I don't know how this thing will look all painted now, but it will be interesting to see how it turns out. I feel pretty spirited, so here we go.


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This color will be too technichal for me to paint in pieces, so I will need to squirt the whole outside with all the panels on the car except the bumpers. There are many colors that can be painted separately and still have them match, but there is no way that this color would match like that.
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