03MachMe's 2013 DIB 5.0 progress thread

[03MachMe]

Originally Posted by DirtyD That is supposed to be DIB matching, right? Look slike they missed it by a few shades.... How is the finished supposed to end up? Still "brushy"?

Yea it is. I put three coats but should have stopped at 2. And not brushy at all, smooth as can be

[El_Tortuga]

Originally Posted by 03MachMe Yea boooyyyy!

Got my first chance to Auto-x the Konis last weekend. Good stuff. Been there, done that, got the T-shirt.

Combined with the Maximum Motorsport plates camber plates (maxed out on caster and 2.5 degrees camber, its definitely handling a lot better and feels a lot better. I was really struggling to stay in place, even with the Recaros. Might be harness time.

For now, I mostly need to work on the nut behind the wheel. SCCA in Crandall this Sunday. I'd like to give it a go on a concrete surface.

[El_Tortuga]

Oh yeah. Felt really weird painting the "yellows" black, but from certain angles they kind of stood out. Other than the rims and the faux filler, I'm ready to run moonshine.

[03MachMe]

Originally Posted by El_Tortuga Oh yeah. Felt really weird painting the "yellows" black, but from certain angles they kind of stood out. Other than the rims and the faux filler, I'm ready to run moonshine.

The calipers didn't come out as I was wanting so thinking about painting them yellow to match...

[DirtyD]

Originally Posted by 03MachMe The calipers didn't come out as I was wanting so thinking about painting them yellow to match...

That sucks. Yellow would be different. But it would be a good contrast with the struts behind the black wheels.

[El_Tortuga]

Originally Posted by 03MachMe The calipers didn't come out as I was wanting so thinking about painting them yellow to match...

LOL. To each his own I guess.

[03MachMe]

with the time off I got for my son being born I decided to get a good detail.

car was pretty dusty from the sawdust from the wood floors we had installed..


first was a bath with dish soap to get everything off. and off come the stripes.





Next was Clay bar, Used the Meguiars clay bar kit. (sorry no pics, its clay bar nothing exciting)

next all taped off so I dont get any of the product on the plastic or vinyl.


the product I used this time. I was out of the polish and all the autozones around me were sold out of the professional polish so I had to use the consumer level product.


yes I know these are not the best products out there but they were what I had on hand and worked well for what I was trying to do.

It took me 3 days and my hands are killing me from the porter cable but I finally finished and it looks like glass!




Koni's, Brembos, and Whiteline bushing will be installed on sat so will update after that. Then goes back to bigworm on monday for the stripes to be put back on. Then Autocross in Crandall on teh 24th.

[Grandpa]

Looks great, ryan!

[DirtyD]

Looks great!

I really need to get mine done.

[Midnight11]

Originally Posted by DirtyD Looks great! I really need to get mine done.

ill make you a good deal

and looks good ryan

[DirtyD]

Originally Posted by Midnight11 ill make you a good deal and looks good ryan

Yeah, I just need to get up there to you. Lol

If I didn't have a mod day next Saturday with Patrick, I'd do it before the AutoX.

[Midnight11]

Originally Posted by DirtyD Yeah, I just need to get up there to you. Lol If I didn't have a mod day next Saturday with Patrick, I'd do it before the AutoX.

i can come to you. off monday next week then the week after dont work till friday

[DirtyD]

Originally Posted by Midnight11 i can come to you. off monday next week then the week after dont work till friday

Let me take the fiesta to work and you can have the car? Lol

[Dan12GT]

The polishing came out great! I'll be starting mine soon as well

[maxpayne]

That looks freaking awesome! The hard work paid off.