What a ton of work...

[sperry]

...6:30 pm to 2:30 am, with an hour off for dinner:

Prep work, take out the seats, remove all the rollbar padding:
http://www.seccs.org/gallery/Car Pictures/Doink WRX/Cage Painting/IMG_0144 (Small).JPG

http://www.seccs.org/gallery/Car Pictures/Doink WRX/Cage Painting/IMG_0145 (Small).JPG

http://www.seccs.org/gallery/Car Pictures/Doink WRX/Cage Painting/IMG_0147 (Small).JPG

Mask off the whole interior, then clean the rust off with mineral spirits:
http://www.seccs.org/gallery/Car Pictures/Doink WRX/Cage Painting/IMG_0149 (Small).JPG

http://www.seccs.org/gallery/Car Pictures/Doink WRX/Cage Painting/IMG_0151 (Small).JPG

http://www.seccs.org/gallery/Car Pictures/Doink WRX/Cage Painting/IMG_0153 (Small).JPG

Paint this bitch (well, I was busy painting, so here are the post painting pictures):
http://www.seccs.org/gallery/Car Pictures/Doink WRX/Cage Painting/IMG_0158 (Small).JPG

http://www.seccs.org/gallery/Car Pictures/Doink WRX/Cage Painting/IMG_0162 (Small).JPG

http://www.seccs.org/gallery/Car Pictures/Doink WRX/Cage Painting/IMG_0163 (Small).JPG

http://www.seccs.org/gallery/Car Pictures/Doink WRX/Cage Painting/IMG_0168 (Small).JPG

Time to dry overnight:
http://www.seccs.org/gallery/Car Pictures/Doink WRX/Cage Painting/IMG_0178 (Small).JPG

Better in the mask than the lungs:
http://www.seccs.org/gallery/Car Pictures/Doink WRX/Cage Painting/IMG_0177 (Small).JPG

I'm beat:
http://www.seccs.org/gallery/Car Pictures/Doink WRX/Cage Painting/IMG_0165 (Small).JPG

Hopefully it doesn't look like ass in the morning... It may need a second coat. And it'll be interesting to see how well my masking job was... I know there are a few spots in the roof where I painted the headliner, and I know the area between the windshield and top/front bar is probably a mess. But at least the car's not a rust bucket anymore.

[AtomicLabMonkey]

2nd coats always seem to make any assy-looking paint job look better. What kind did you use?

[Double Phister]

I'd love to have a cage but my recent wreck makes me question how the insurance co would respond to it.

Nice work.

[MPREZIV]

I love the last pic... That's the happiest I've ever seen you dude! :lol:


That looks like some shitty work, but at least you won't have to worry so about the rust. No offense, but it was beginning to look like ass...

[JonnydaJibba]

SaWEET face! Man that must have been teeeedious.

[sperry]

2nd coats always seem to make any assy-looking paint job look better. What kind did you use?
Flat dark gray rust inhibiting primer. I was hoping to get away with just leaving it primer, but after checking it this morning, I'm afraid I'm going to have paint it for real, since the dry primer seems to rub off on clothing and stuff.

At least it's all masked still. I think I'll have to hit up WalBogs for some flat or semi-gloss black tonight, put on a new breather mask and paint it for real.

[100_Percent_Juice]

as this slow internet loaded the pics I was thinking to myself *damn he needs to paint that cage*. Looks good!

[MikeK]

What happened to the glorious plans to make it red?

[cody]

What a pain in the keester.

[Dean]

What happened to the glorious plans to make it red?I agree.. If you are going to Walbogs to get paint, I'd go red...

[MikeK]

You just moved red to the bottom of his list of possible colours :lol:

[Dean]

You just moved red to the bottom of his list of possible colours :lol:Did I say red, I meant blue... ;)

[MattR]

If you're going to use black still, I really like the finish "Satin Black" It falls between flat and semi, looks nice.

[sperry]

After realizing that the cage is right in my face while I'm driving, I want a flat or semi gloss, dark color. A shiny red cage would look cool, but would be distracting while driving. Plus, flat black overspray is far less noticeable than red on the carpet and headliner.

[sybir]

Get the Krylon camo ultra-flat black. It goes on even and doesn't stripe, and it's durable enough to hold up on the outside of the car, so it should be rock-solid on the inside. Primer is water-permeable anyways, so you need a finish coat.

You know me and flat black, I've tried a ton of different paints and that one holds up the best.

[sperry]

Cool. I'll look for that stuff.

[tysonK]

how do you do it man, so much effort, but it looks much better!

you can at least paint the back part of the cage red!!:P

[JC]

I know I'm out of the loop so forgive me, what happened to your fender?

[Kevin M]

Rubbin's racin'.

[sybir]

Darlington stripe.

[Nick Koan]

Racing incident with a fence

[100_Percent_Juice]

mailbox

[Dean]

Bird Strike

[van]

hit an svx making an illegal u-turn?

[Double Phister]

playground full of kids got in the way.

[NevadaSTi]

Hit a deer?

[MattR]

He went fast in teh slow part.

[tysonK]

turn 3 in the south meadows grand prix

[cody]

Nitrogen struck again.

[100_Percent_Juice]

change the name of this thread to "what did scott hit"

[M3n2c3]

Dean

[sperry]

Cage padding is in, both window nets are re-installed... car is pretty damn close to ready for the weekend at RFR...

http://www.seccs.org/gallery/Car Pictures/Doink WRX/Cage Painting/IMG_0212 (Small).JPG

http://www.seccs.org/gallery/Car Pictures/Doink WRX/Cage Painting/IMG_0214 (Small).JPG

http://www.seccs.org/gallery/Car Pictures/Doink WRX/Cage Painting/IMG_0215 (Small).JPG

I just need to plug in my repaired DCCD controller. I'm glad I paid $100 for for overnight shipping from Canada last Thursday, since it's Tuesday and still not delivered. :mad: DHL is the fucking WORST.

[cody]

Sweet pedals.

[AtomicLabMonkey]

Looking good dude. IMO you should put SFI padding on every bar even remotely close to your head though, not that pipe insulation looking stuff.

[sperry]

Looking good dude. IMO you should put SFI padding on every bar even remotely close to your head though, not that pipe insulation looking stuff.
The SFI stuff is *expensive*... 10 times the cost of the soft stuff... $10/ft vs. $1/ft. Plus the soft stuff works better for the small bumps you get just riding around in the car, granted it's not as friendly in a big wreck.

The only reason I went with the good shit on the upper X bar was because getting in and out of the car was tearing up the cheap stuff easily.

But, I do have some more of the SFI padding, I guess I could stick that on the overhead bars as well.

[AtomicLabMonkey]

You know the saying about safety gear; if you gotta $10 head...

[sperry]

Sweet pedals.
1st mod I ever did to the WRX. They came off my friend's RS that he rolled like the week after I got my car.

[sperry]

You know the saying about safety gear; if you gotta $10 head...
I am wearing a helmet! :P

[MPREZIV]

NICE! I assume you figured out what was wrong with the DCCD too, by your waiting for the repaired controller. Good shit! (sorry if you posted this somewhere else, and I just missed it...)

[sperry]

NICE! I assume you figured out what was wrong with the DCCD too, by your waiting for the repaired controller. Good shit! (sorry if you posted this somewhere else, and I just missed it...)
I don't remember if I mentioned it.

Basically, I hooked up a light bulb to the DCCD controller output at the request of the manufacturer, and got no light. So it seemed like the problem was internal to the controller, and sent the unit back to Neetronics.

They kick major ass, and repaired the unit for free (even though it's out of warranty) since I was paying them for a firmware upgrade that will give me finer control over the lock-up percentage for road-racing. Hopefully the problem was isolated to the controller, which would have explained the blown fuse. But if the fuse blew (and took the controller with it) for some other reason, I may likely see another failure. Since everything worked in the past, I'm betting that the issue is sorted, but I won't know for sure until I get the repaired controller back and into the car. Something that should have happened last Friday, but DHL can't tell the difference between "overnight" shipping and "fuck it, we'll take a week" shipping. :roll:

[cody]

Nice to hear Neetronics kicks ass. I recommend their DCCD controllers from time to time.

[MPREZIV]

I'm just glad to hear that is doesn't seem to be a mechanical failure! Cool that they were glad to help out!