What Lorin's been up to (56K Warning!)

Lorin has been working on his friends car these days...prior to Lorin arriving, the car owner prepped the car. 
 
 
 
Started with his old R32, bought a NA cefiro 
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v289/Thrillz/cefiro/DSC01093.jpg[/IMG]
 
swapped over brakes, suspension, etc. 
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v289/Thrillz/cefiro/Picture003-1.jpg[/IMG]
 
bought this car
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v289/Thrillz/cefiro/DSC01391.jpg[/IMG]
 
combined the cars and the owner pulled out the old 150hp Rb and dropped in a S14 SR20DET
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v289/Thrillz/cefiro/DSC01621.jpg[/IMG]
 
Invited Lorin over for help
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v289/Thrillz/cefiro/DSC01841.jpg[/IMG]
 
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v289/Thrillz/cefiro/DSC01852.jpg[/IMG]
 
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v289/Thrillz/cefiro/DSC01868.jpg[/IMG]
Car is prepped and ready to shoot
 
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v289/Thrillz/cefiro/DSC01871.jpg[/IMG]
Black base
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v289/Thrillz/cefiro/DSC01880.jpg[/IMG]
 
Candy flake

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Time for 800 wet grit sanding to cut down the flake and add more clear
 
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v289/Thrillz/cefiro/DSC01905.jpg[/IMG]
 
 
Lorin spraying the clear
 
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v289/Thrillz/cefiro/DSC01909.jpg[/IMG]
Paint the door jams
 
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v289/Thrillz/DSC01917.jpg[/IMG]
With the final konnexion aero on
 
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v289/Thrillz/cefiro/DSC01954.jpg[/IMG]
[URL="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v289/Thrillz/DSC01917.jpg"][/URL]Lorin giving the bird...looks like a mirror
 
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v289/Thrillz/cefiro/DSC01958.jpg[/IMG]
Silky smooth
 
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v289/Thrillz/cefiro/DSC02045.jpg[/IMG]
 
New mirrors on and the body work is finished for now.

Awesome, that's a pretty ballerific paint job..looks good
What are the plans for the car? Show car?

pffffttt... show car is lame o. ;) 
 
It's a daily driver/drift car. not my car, but he's a mutual friend.

Nice paint/body work... Where did he find the car?

[QUOTE=swifty949;45364]pffffttt... show car is lame o. ;) 
 
It's a daily driver/drift car. not my car, but he's a mutual friend.[/QUOTE]

who is this btw?

like you, not scotty

More Pics Now!!!

its not done
let him get the s14 engine in first damn

Very nice,
Was it taken down to the metal before paint?
How many coats did they use before wet sanding?

:shrug: either lorin can comment, or other dude, but if they dont, ill ask scotty

My name is Ray. I've been good friends with Lorin since 01 or 02, I've also known Mike Craig and Ranzo for just as long.
 
I don't have anything to do with the build, so I can't answer questions. I'm just showing the pictures.

Wow that looks good, don't forget to post pics when it's finished!!! :smiley:

that is a totally amazing color! i love it.

the car was just sanded and then painted over after fixing blemishes

not a fan of flakes... but that is a sweet build regardless.

would like to see more pics up close....what materials did he use?

WOW  How did this get here.  Ray must have been bored, so  guess Ill spill on the work.

As you can see in the pix it was just a respray over factory paint and them damned orange parts.  I did this in 3 days.  the car was pretty much stripped down and scotch brighted.

The rear fenders had been rooled and they were pretty good but needed a little putty.  There was a few nicks and scratches here and there and I sanded them out and primed them up to.

Now te paint was jap Alasco base coat black.  I out down three coats of that then I mixed up 4 quarts of clear with 6 grams of flake and sprayed that on with 2 coats of straight clear to help burry the flake.

We let that dry over night then flatened it with 800# and shot 2 more coats of clear on that.  A week later i was able to go back and really it only need some dirt nibs rubbed out but I was bored and this was on its way being the best paint job out of the hobby shop at yokota base so I went all out and flatened it with 1500 and buffed it out to the mirror shine.  

I would normaly get 4500 for this paint job and up to 6000 if it had graffics or paterns ( viva la low rider).

Its the flake that gives it its red hues I used just HOK red mini flake.  I have done a ton of flake jobs so to me this was nothing special.  But it turned out just after TAS and there were alot of shit flake jobs there so the guys that had gone with me were really suprized at total night and day differance between skill leveles.  I guess I have skills I won the mothers award at SEMA for paint without even knowing they had such a prize.  But for me its the one thing I can do really good.  Allot of people really exelle at many things my thing just happens to be cars.

By the way Im back in Saudi and am just starting on the Kia project I will post some build pix as I go.

Lorin, you are scary but you're my hero and I want to be like you when I grow up.

I dunno if that's normal or not, but 3 days for that awesomesauce is impressive to me!

lorinw hen you comming back?

Lorin you definitely put it down your skill level is A+ I guess thats why you get the big jobs keep it going and good luck with the Kia projects cant wait to see the pics.

Good paint job!!! SWEEEETTTTTT!!!

mean paint job..

shiny paint mmmm...