Minnesota.......

Here i come.  Got it all loaded up today, will leave early in the morning!  I'm anticipating this drive to most definitely suck, bad!  I ended having to raise the car a LOT to get it on the trailer.

Off Season

Ah, the boring off season.  I've been itching to go out and mess around lately but haven't been able to.  School work has literally consumed my life this past month or so.  It's coming close to the end finally!  This coming week is finals week so after that it's off to Minnesota for my break to hang out with the friends and family i love and hardly get to see.

Also check this, i remember when i used to go out and do this stuff.  I miss it!!!


Fun in the Snow from Angled Lines on Vimeo.


MINNESOTA I MISS YOU

A REAL alignment?

Got hooked up with an alignment at Western Dakota Tech!


Nice brand new alignment machine..  and hey guess what,  It works AWESOME!  One that actually takes into account different offsets.  Or maybe it's just the people using it know what they're doing haha.  Was pretty sweet getting in and doing the alignment with them. It was especially nice being to see all the changes on a screen instead of doing it all by hand with strings, a vernier calipers, and a calculator!

Was suprised i actually got the on the machine. The exhaust was hitting the jacks in the center of the lift and to jack up the car with a tranny jack so we could move them.  Now for pictures.

I think my phone's camera lens is messed up as all of these pictures look like garbage.  v Especially this one...
These are the ramps we made to get the car up on the lift.

Event Media

Event was super fun. Started out being cold and wet as it was raining off and on throughout most of the day. Eventually towards the end it dried out quite nicely and thats when the REAL fun began. Here's some video's and pictures from the day.

 

 

Flyer pt. 3

Limit on number of cars is 25 so be there first if you want to drive!  Otherwise hang out and watch the fun for FREE!!

Flyer pt. 2

I Forgot to add - more information about this WDT event on the local forum www.HotTubParty.net

Or even just check it out!

Flyer

WDT 2

Well it's about that time again!  In less than a week there is another even tbeing held at Western Dakota Tech here in Rapid City, SD.  I sure hope to see a larger turn out than last time! We've got prizes!

Anyways, here's some more pictures/footage of yours truly from last event.

 

 

WDT 1

Holy crap! Has it really been a month since i've updated this thing???? School has REALLY been eating up all my time lately!

Here's a couple video's from an event we had sep. 19th to tide you over till i post a storm of photo's.

Stay tuned!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stupeyfied/5015571588/in/contacts/

And

Painted Parts

So glad it's the weekend, school is absolutely killing me and i need a little break.  Today i got the bumper, fender, sideskirts, and trunk lip on the car!  I definitely need to paint the rest of the car..  The color isn't incredibly off that it's unbearable but it annoys me.  I'm just going to rock it like this and we'll see how things go through the winter. 

Paint does need a good wetsanding so once the paint hardens a bit i'll get that done.  Other than that I'm just enjoying not having an insanely faded front bumper.

Paint Continued

Got the rest of the panels painted today.  The gun was acting up or something..  paint was not laying out nearly as nice as a few days ago.  Seemed to be spraying out really thick and splattering on the panels.. tweaked some settings and it seemed to help.  Paint ended up turning out alright in the end.  Got a couple runs in the clear coat but i'll fix that with wet sanding.  Here's pics from the day!


My buddy Clint ended up showing up for a bit to help prep (again) real quick.  Thanks!

More sanding...

Eyyyyy

This is our addition to the makeshift paint booth.  It got real foggy in there last time so we got some air filters from menards, duct taped them to a couple of box fans we had.  Put one up on top the left to suck air out, and the one on bottom pushes air in.  The bottom fan is on a higher speed than the one on top to push the plastic outwards so it would stay away from the panels.  Worked AWESOME!! Thanks Trevor!

Look from the outside.... white balance must have been off a bit lol. Brady's car is looking a weird color.

Panels up in the booth! Trevor putting some finishing touches on it.

Adding more light.

BASE COAT

Yo

Trevor looking super cool

"He was in my face -- I'M IN YO FACE!"

Gettin ready to be done with this!

In yo FACE!

Brady and Trevor decided to spray some clear with flake on Trevors front bumper hah!  It actually doesn't look half bad for doing zero prep whatsoever.

Done!

The Paint Begins.

I decided to get a couple things painted.  Only the necessities right now as i happen to have some paint lying around.  I really wanted to paint my front bumper as it is super faded and i also decided to paint a less-dented fender, sideskirts, and trunk lip as well.

Long story short, i messed up on the fender and bumper and the trunk lip fell in the booth.  So i get to re-do those either tomorrow or Wednesday..

Sideskirts came out pretty rad tho.

Loading all the stuff up to go paint it!

Primed it!

Setting all the stuff up in the booth we made after sanding all the primer.

No painting is complete without taking a drink beforehand.

Sideskirts: