YAY! I stopped being lazy long enough to finally put paint on the 2 year old primer on my Sol.

When I bought it 2 years ago:

After some OEM body parts:

Two coats:

Right after the sixth coat (still needs to be wet sanded):



Still going to do four to six more coats.

*Edit* Going to be putting in new BLACK door handles and mirrors, as well as stripping the paint from the side skirts.

 

the infamous $50 dollar paint jobs cool

 

Hey, if it works...

 

haha i'm totally diggin the $50 paint job. BTW was that a CF hood that u painted over?

 

$50 paint job? Was this a friend or a shop? That would worry me.

 

dude, if you have a garage, you shoulda sprayed it. goes on much easier. not bad though. props for the DIY. my brother has $50 paint on his sol. he did black, tehn yellow, and now white. the lighter the color, the easier it is to make it look good. you gotta wetsand and buff it to a nice shine!

 

Cf hood, trunk lid, rear garnish and roof panel. And no I don't even care because that much raw cf looks like ass and screams STEAL ME!

Me a weekend and a six pack of Sol. (HA)

I started to spray it but my garage is tiny.

 

It could just be the picture, but for a $50 job it doesn't look too bad :)

 

Sweet man!
It doesnt look to bad at all. Dont forget to post pics of the finished product!

Tyler

 

*UPDATE* stopped painting to strip ALL glass, weather stripping, other non-paintable parts today.

I decided to stop dicking around and actually dive into the full out restoration. The yellow was going to be a temp coating for the summer, but since God decided we needed 13 inches of snow in 22 hours, I'm just going to start now. My projected completion date is NLT May 2011 so I can make Vegas Invasion after I get back from Iraqistan.

 

dang! that's cool that you're going to Vegas Invasion! are you a member of teamsolcal.com by chance?

 

No, teamdelsol. But that site died so i am going to sign up over at teamsolcal eventually.

 

Old project cars are fun aren't they!! I helped my dad with a few years ago. I don't have the space where presently live though for any such fun. We painted a couple in the garage too, it can be done. We constructed a little plastic diy booth...

 

The $50 paint job uses a paint roller to apply the paint. Google it if you want. It has been pretty popular for the last couple of years.

 

props for taking that body kit off and going back to oem. del sols look cleaner that way.

 

Thanks!

I bought from a lieutenant in my unit who bought it from some dumb ass kid. That body kit was installed with 3M tape and drywall screws.

Its actually 2 cars. one was a front end total and the other was a rear end. they were stripped down and the unibodies were braced and welded together in the middle. Then all the panels and glass were put back on. It is perfectly straight and doesn't shimmy, shake or vibrate.

Within the next few months I will have it down at the race shop to have a six point roll cage welded in to help strengthen the chassis and make it race legal. My budget for this build is $10,000. When completed it will be running either an F20B or H22A, whichever I get a better deal on, and will be a straight line and road track monster.

 

heck yeah.. its all about the DUECE DUECE


or why dont you go h22 block with f20 head! hybrid monster.

my entire team works with 2.2 liters.

fast mofos in san diego man.


if i picked up a sol i would rock a f22 block with the h22 head and boost the crap out of that block heh

 

i liked the flat black more... murdered out! haha. but yellow is ok.

 

man looks nice... do you go to sol invasion in vegas... i miss my sol so much... i would pay 25-30g's if honda made a new one..

 

show finished project please.. and what you used for paint.. looking good..