Unpredictableacts Posted February 12, 2007 Posted February 12, 2007 Well I have been wanting to paint it for some time. I was wanting to go different from you run of a mill civic in my area. I was also torn between putting my money towards the B20 swap, but about a month ago some random lady made that decision for me. I was traveling about 55-60 mph(speedlimit 40) down a local access road, headed to see my motyher in law who was freshly out of back surgery....when I lady ,who said she did not see me, Tboned me trying to go from a parking lot and go across the access road to go under the underpass of the freeway....not a hard manuvers except I was in between her and her goal....so I was watching here and then when she pulled out I figure she seen me, I was in the middle lane, so I though" ok she is going to turn a hard right putting her into the far right hand lane.....WRONG!!!"she pulls right out and hits my as i come to a screeching hault.....So after here insurance agent looked at my car and a couple of visits to local collision repairs shops, they cut me a $1400 check. I expect alot more damage but after the dust settled my ride suffered a slight dent in the rear quaterpanel flair, right above the rear passenger side wheel. scratch side molding, and a cracked passenger side window bazel. Any ways to make a longs story whort here is the time line from when I bought it from a local guy on ebay.....to the rims and then the present look.....enjoy and comments and opinions are welcomed. ebay rims and wheels the before pics
Unpredictableacts Posted February 12, 2007 Author Posted February 12, 2007 and now the painting process begins..... no more honda emblems or honda hole embles in the front or back.
Unpredictableacts Posted February 12, 2007 Author Posted February 12, 2007 parts and pieces of the hatch scattered around the shop. 2.5" catless exhaust w/ 30" resonantor to the paint booth and taped and papered up! paint mix room
Unpredictableacts Posted February 12, 2007 Author Posted February 12, 2007 painting the drip rails and side moldings....etc. and then it baked for 30 minutes at 180 degrees....and then followed by 1.5 hours of reassmebling parts.
CleanGSR Posted February 13, 2007 Posted February 13, 2007 Maybe it's just me, but the second from last picture looks flat black and the last picture looks like a matte silver. What color did you paint it?...and are you putting clear on it?
airjordan223 Posted February 13, 2007 Posted February 13, 2007 looks sweet man. i just did the same thing to my car. so funny how your pics are the exact same as mine, but obviously a different car. are you doin any of the work? good luck with the rest of it
Unpredictableacts Posted February 13, 2007 Author Posted February 13, 2007 I was having problems the last couple of days accessing this site for some reason.....so some how I made duplicates of this thread....oh welll and then when trying to put the finished pics upI lost this site completely......leaving you guys in the dark....but here it goes. now for the finished pics, it was cloudy outside so sunny pics will come when the weather allows. ***NOTE*** I had a neighbors family member across the road think that it was a good idea to park directly behind my driveway this last thanksgiving.....so after being up all night smoking the turkey and driving 3.5 hours to my mothers house i was exhausted. So inbetween my runiing back to the house at 8pm to go to my in lwas house i in a hurry backed right into his explore and cracked my rear bumper and the driverside tail light.....so after a vist to the junk yard those items were replaced.....but the tailights have not been painted to match yet, and i will end up just respraying all four OEM lights so that they match......anys here goes the finished pics. yes it is finsihed and not primer , it is a MATTE BLACK....i got the idea from James Hetfield 2004 F150 MTX truck and yes i know i know the hatch needs to be dropped....soon to come.....long woth cr-vtec! Me and my wifes cousin husband(if you can follow that?) Did all the work, he works at the BMW shp that we did the work at and was able to get the shop for a few days(IT was freezing outside!) It still has not been washed and still has some dust on window seals and such, I will wait until it warms up a bit before I give it a good washing.
90IntegraC1 Posted February 13, 2007 Posted February 13, 2007 that's sick....where did you get matte black paint from? i want to do it....
Chris 32 Posted February 13, 2007 Posted February 13, 2007 It looks real good.. How much did the whole paint job run you?
TS John Posted February 13, 2007 Posted February 13, 2007 Looks nice, man. I was toying with going matte black before I decided to sell my sol.
Unpredictableacts Posted February 13, 2007 Author Posted February 13, 2007 The guy that helped me used to work at a caddilac/Lexus collision repair center, They have a few venders and supplies and the brand we went with was R-M paint. cost--- 2 qts of matte black ,hardner, reducer $207 misc. supplies(tape,paper,body filler,putty,base coat, primer) $130ish paying him for helping a brother out and getting the BMW shop to get out of the cold $150 Used bumper/taillights from junk yard $120 thanks for the compliments guys i am glad that all the little dings and dent are gone.
CleanGSR Posted February 13, 2007 Posted February 13, 2007 You should have cleared it with a matte clearcoat to help it hold up. It looks great now, but with only a basecoat, it's not going to last. That's unless your matte black is a single stage with matte clear in it already. It definately looks awesome though. to you for being different.
Unpredictableacts Posted February 13, 2007 Author Posted February 13, 2007 yeah it is a single stage....with the clear in it. Good call though.....I could have just went the spray can way but to me this is a little more tastful.
airjordan223 Posted February 14, 2007 Posted February 14, 2007 i like gloss better, but props for bein original
Unpredictableacts Posted February 15, 2007 Author Posted February 15, 2007 that's sick....where did you get matte black paint from? i want to do it.... Sorry I missed your post....I got the matte black through him, He still has connects with the caddy dealership and the collision shop. The brand i got was R-M paint which is off of BASF. It actually is a good quality paint even for being single stage.....If you are serious about picking some up and have somewhere to paint it I can set you up with the person to order it from and if they are not willing to sell it to you(being that is a paint supplier so they may ask for a tax ID number) we can order it for you.......here is the R-M website. http://www.rmpaint.net/ So who on this site is THE MAN when it comes to maing SIGS? I could use a new sig or even a revamp on my existing one.
airjordan223 Posted February 15, 2007 Posted February 15, 2007 hung has done a few. marcarsux did mine.
CleanGSR Posted February 15, 2007 Posted February 15, 2007 I don't have time to do sigs anymore, so check with mycarsux.
Unpredictableacts Posted February 16, 2007 Author Posted February 16, 2007 I don't have time to do sigs anymore, so check with mycarsux. not a problem.....I am sure he will eventually read this post and maybe kick my a PM, its not something I will lose sleep over or need other memebr to do so.....just glad to have a new look for the hatch it deserves it.
Ben. Posted February 16, 2007 Posted February 16, 2007 Lawlz, yay for wet black primer looking paint! Just kidding though, looks good enough. I'd definitely have re-cleared it.
Pyrorocketeer Posted February 16, 2007 Posted February 16, 2007 single stage paint doesn't require clear
Ben. Posted February 16, 2007 Posted February 16, 2007 single stage paint doesn't require clear It can however have clear sprayed over it again and again.. That's what my dumbass friend did after Maaco painted one of the cars he was selling.. Got the cheap 225 dollar paint job..then had them re-clear over it twice.. Looked like absolute ass in a can.
Humphries Posted February 16, 2007 Posted February 16, 2007 i lovvveee that color.. power to the 4x4 civics me and you
Ben. Posted February 16, 2007 Posted February 16, 2007 I think he has the same amount of wheel gap as my truck.
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