kremske20

ok, she is all finished, well as far as I'm going with the car, it still needs a few things, front drivers indicator, the brakes will need some attention and there are brand new front strut inserts ready to go in (while the new owner is doing the brakes they can pop them in while its all apart) andi t has a very small exhaust leak, other than that, its basically ready for rego inspection. krem

lol, I will if you buy it!! actually I thought of painting the whole section where its horizontal on the top of the door return (where the rubber piece goes on the outside of the window) and follow that line around the rear side windows, up under the stainless trim on the gutter, but that's as far as I got!! I didn't really think of just painting the b pillar, might look into it, I should paint the bit on the bootlid black as it was aswell but I thought that looked pretty shit so might just leave it white!! I got my new rubbr gearboot surround in on wed, just the taillights, rear bumper and a few bits and pieces to go and she all ready for a wash and get up for sale!! krem

ok, its nearly done and dusted, new carpet and rear seat back in new door rubbers and bailey channel and just a couple to show how she is looking!! I have resealed the front and rear screens with some non hardening sealant, so all I have now is to wait for the gear boot rubber to arrive, paint taillight surrounds and install them, new wiper blades and install wiper arms, put some finishing touches around the handbrake, polish and install the stainless trim along the bottom of the sill panels, clean it all up and sell it to some lucky person with some cash!! krem

ok, just a quick update, no pics as camera was flat but its so close to being finished (well as far as I plan to go with the car) so will just wait and put up the finished pics new carpet has arrived, all the glass is in, new bailey channel in doors, waiting on new door rubbers and a few other bits to turn up so can finish putting interior back in, I painted the grill and all the front trims in satin black, it looks great from front on but looks a bit "off" from the side where the garnish bits come around the guards so I got some "titanium" looking paint mixed up and will do the headlight surrounds, garnish pieces, the air dams at the bottom of the windscreen and taillights in this color, hopefully it will look a treat!! put in a new antenna and repainted the corolla badges for the front guards, polished up the gutter trims and put them on, its all starting to look great!! so hopefully in the next week or so, it will be all back together and up for sale, so get ya cash out fellas!! krem

any early stuff?? at the moment I need a rear seat belt, a passenger side indicator garnish and indicator, drivers side indicator (my garnish is good), both head light surrounds, the little plastic side reflectors that go in the taillights (early model)and so far that's all for now til I find more while I'm reassembling krem

cheers, I have so far managed to get it all buffed out and waxed, all the front trims painted and reinstalled on the car, however, since no1 wants to ship anything they are selling on here, some of the trims will be either missing or broken, the new owner of the vehicle when I sell it can organise that, it will most likely goto the mainland anyways andparts are easier to find over there, if I do manage to find what I need I will be replacing the broken bits, but I'm just about at the end of my budget, on the hunt for some new carpet and a few rubbers that were no good and I think that will be pretty much it!! krem

I used to be a windscreen installer and tinter for tintacar around 15yrs ago, lol, still doing cashies in my spare time, great money spinner!! epoxy is the go, make sure you get an easy to sand 1 tho, I used an industrial epoxy and it set hard as nails!! krem

hey, nice project, just a few tips with your paint and body. i have found that an orbital sander hooked up with a cheap karcher (branded) garage vac works a treat for paint removal, get some 36g discs to remove most of the paint and then 80g for the rest and then go over the whole lot with some 120g discs, the vac will keep dust down to a minimum, then use a 2part epoxy primer to seal it up, etch is a thing of the past and only creates a bond to the metal, it is still very porus and moisture can seep thru to the metal, epoxy actually seals it up so no moisture can get thru, you then do all your bog work on top (after sanding it a little 1st!!) check out my ke20 build, i have given a little more indepth description in there. keep up the great work mate, can't wait for more pics!! krem

ok, well I had a bit of a go over this xmas and got the car painted, it looks sweet, did get a few bits of dust and a few runs but lm not a pro in a booth and it will buff out anyways, here are the pics off the gun and the next day out in the sun before I started sanding!! I went over all the rub thru's and bits that looked a bit iffy with some epoxy 3 coats of the original peak white in 2k with 10% reducer on 2bar with my new devilbiss gti prolite, te10 cap, 1.3mm tip, wide open fan, fluid tip all the way out, got a few runs but white is just so hard to see, I did have another 4 twin fluros put in shed so now have 8 in total!! krem

thanks guys, but hit a snag, I wasn't happy with the way the shell came out, bit hard to see but the swage line in the drivers 1/4 panel was a tiny bit wavy and it was giving me the shits, the mrs and some mates couldn't see what I was on about but I could, so I found the need to reblock it so it was straight, lol, and the finish was a bit peely, it would have blocked out and buffed up but since I blocked out the drivers 1/4, I just decided to reblock the rest too!! I now only have the inside of doors and guards to paint, hang the panels and final sand in 600 and she all good to go, gonna get the dash retrimmed, new carpet, install the new front strut inserts, polish up the trims and put it all back together, hopefully for sale and sold real soon!! some1 is gonna edn up with a real nice car, ive spent many hrs on this car!! krem

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ok,so ive been a bit slack again for last few months, but I managed to get a few weeks with no work so finally got the rest of the car in primer last week, and then the shell painted today, I got a new gun a few weks ago and have been busting to try it out, 1st coat went on awesome, but then the 2nd coat I had a few issues with, the gun was splattering and carrying on, so cleaned it out and it sprayed thinners thru it, went awesome, thinned paint down a little more but still had issues, figured out the cap lid was blocked, lol, then juat as I started the roof the power cut out, no light and ran short on air but power came on just as I got to the end of the roof, its a little peely but will block out and buff up nice, the main thing is, the 1/4 panels are straight as a die!! anyways, here are some pics, 1st up, the last of the primer then the shell painted!! krem

chasing a 4 5 or 7k engine and either 4 or 5 sp, and also a manual pedal box for a ke30 to convert from a auto, motor don't need to be going but need to be complete, box needs to be good!! krem

hi all, ive been a bit slack working on the ke20 lately, and more slack keeping updates, so here goes, all the body except for the front guards and stonetray are in primer, here are some pics, wont put up too many but you will get the general idea where the car is at here is the passenger rear 1/4, there were a ton of tiny ripples and dents in both the 1/4 panels, and just fillin them separately would have been a headach, I could have just put on 5 or 6 coats of high fill primer and blocked them out, but that would lead to paint probs later on, I wanted something that willlook good for a long time to come masking up the body line and using diff colored hardners in my filler allowed an easy way of getting the swage line nice and straight, guide coat helped too nice and straight, did this for both sides the wheel arches were a pain, I spent around 6hrs for both the rears, not looking forward to the fronts!! little bit of work to the boot lid the bonnet was pretty good, only a few small dints and the line up the centre needed a bit of attention I put on a over reduced coat of epoxy to seal up the bare metal and bodyfiller to stop moisture from seeping into it and casuing problems, here are some more in blocking primer, I didn't get any pics of the doors prior to primer, camera went flat, but they did get a skim coat of filler too, all the panels except the roof were filled with ripples and small dints that it was just easier to skim the whole panel in filler, at the thickest point the filler would be around 1/4-1/2mm thick epoxy primer 2k blocking primer I'm hoping to have the front guards and stonetray in primer soon, will keep some more updates coming krem

you can get cheap hammers and dollies from supercheap mate, they will do the job, or check ebay, just be cautios tho, good tools weigh a bit and the postage will add up. krem

holy shit that's a lot of paint, looks good tho, love the rotors, sounds awesome, who built the engine?? we have 2 rotors here awaiting some time and money, seem to have plenty of time, but no money, lol nice work champ, krem

thanks, I got a few hrs on sunday in the shed, got a few more little bits of rust plated up arounbd the rear screen, hoping to get the rest done this weekend coming krem

yeah no worries, might have to wait a little tho, I have the ke20 to finish, rx4 engine bay and the a full resto on a hr ute which is covered in around 5-10mm of bog that's all cracking out, so this yr is nearly stuffed, oh, and a couple of the mrs bikes to paint she is restoring and still a s2 rx7 that's still sitting in the driveway!! but I'm sure I can fit it in sometime, lol krem

thanks people, I just want to say that I'm not in the bodywork trade, I'm actually a T/A plasterer but have a trade in window tinting, the work I have done to this car has been learned by reading lots of books, watching dvd's, searchin on the net and asking heaps and heaps of questions, oh, and getting in and having a try and learning from my mistakes, it just goes to show that any1 can do this kind of work if their heart is in it and they really want to accomplish something, just pays to look at heaps of different ideas and options as there are some hacks out there, some of them even famous, and if you want a good job you need to suss out your options, not just use 1 persons view. I have been blessed with a very understanding and beautiful partner who understands that for certain jobs you need certain tools, and that her father used to run panel shop and we inherited his tools when he sadly passed away a few yrs ago so that helped out a lot, as there are a lot of tools needed to do this kind of work, that's why its so expensive to get a paint job done, but with some ingenuity you can get by on the cheap. so any1 who is taking interest in this build thread and wanting to do the same, just take the time to research and look at what your doing and just take your time, if people are interested I will get together my collection of dvd's, books and websites and list them for others to learn, the satisfaction and confidence you get in doing your own work is priceless!! thanks again for reading, will post more updates when I get some more time in the shed krem

heres the main section being trial fitted, I used the same methods to cut and fold this as I did the 1st piece and all welded in, still needs a little plenishing but other wise came out well finally some epoxy to seal it up, the only filler used so far in the whole car has been in the lower parts of the 1/4 panels where the rust was and passenger side wheel arch, was easier to skim some on now so I could see if I had the flow and shape right, the rest of the panels came out nice and straight with no filler so far, will be even smoother with a skim of filler!! drivers side, was a mess before as shown in previous post now I need to finish the rust around the front and rear screens and epoxy the rest of the car (beaver panel, door jams and sills,) and the bog work begins, oh the reason the car is in 2 different colors, I ran out of the green epoxy, krem

ok, been slow in the shed, too bloody hot and finally have some work but that will only last another few weeks (building industry is stuffed down here!!) so will be able to get back into it full tilt, got the 1/4 panels all sorted and finally got the roof and 1/4 panels into epoxy to seal them up also got a small rust section fixed around the back window and some pics of my home made folder and guillotine, lol, heres some pics, heres the pass side 1/4 panel, a few small holes soon turned into bigger 1s when I hit it with the die grinder, wont bore with heaps of pics, just before and after of 1 side, the drivers side was pretty much the same!! all welded up and ground back this is the section of rust around the rear screen I attacked luckily it was 2 pieces, made it easier to fabricate, cut out the pinch where the rubber grips onto the new piece heres my nice guillotine, lol, 2 bits of angle and a brickies bolster and hammer, works a treat, also used the angle to fold the panel heres my ebay shrinker / stretcher, works ok, needed a few mods as they are pretty cheaply made, heres the pinch piece in place krem

need the plastic strap type, passenger side front and rear but they should be the same for both sides, going fender mirrors aint an option, this thing is extremely neat and I'm not welding up holes nor cutting new 1s in the guards, and hes on his L's and has very limited driving experience hence why the need for pass mirror to aid in parking etc, might just go with some aftermarket items, they are only around $40 delivered a pr!! krem

hey guys, my mrs son just bought a ke 30 sedan and needs a couple of bits, bootlock with key and 2 inside door pull handles (not the 1's that open the door) and a passenger side mirror, any1 help out?? were in Devonport krem

thanks champ, got the passenger side 1/4 panel mostly straightened out tonight, just a little bit of work arounf the wheel arch, pretty hard when its dbl skinned to get it nice, it was all pushed in around 20-30mm like it had been slid along something, was a b***h to get out and still couldn't get it as good as I have the rest of the car but I just can't get to some of the damage till I get the welder out to fix the rust, only have the roof to buzz back, rust to repair and the rear beaver panel to straighten out and then seal the rest of the bare metal up into epoxy, then I get to play in the bog dust!! will get some more pics up this week krem

ok, as promised, more pics of the door and other progress I have made, the small crease you can see in the 1st pic will be pulled out, couldn't get access to the rear of it and the stud welder I borrowed shat itself, I had mess everywhere so I didn't get the welder out, it will be done before the bog work, here the door is in epoxy, far cry from the before I started, it has no bog in it at all yet!! here is the passenger side door after panel beating and the drivers side guard part way thru and about finished, just gotta tidy up the return where the garnish and bumper sit this is the drivers side 1/4 panel, guide coated it and blocked it to see how bad it was, and so its easier to show on camera bit of beating all finished except for some tiny rust holes down low, will get them when I tackle the rest of the rust!! the mrs kindly made some room for me under the house so I could store the parts from the car so I stripped it out and found some rust around the rear screen this is the only bit in the front under windscreen I have started on the passenger side 1/4 but will leave that for another post, it was the worst and needed heaps of work, when that is done its just fixing the rust and all the panel beating is all done, then time for the bodywork which shouldntake long as the panelbeating has come up pretty good, hope you guys enjoy!! krem