i finally decided that it was time for my baby to get a facelift. the car is a second owner 94 with up untill now original paint and no collision history.

problem is, that ive put sings and dents into her over the years while working on it and doing other stupid stuff.

after an 8 month deliberation, i decided on a body shop. maximum auto body in ronkonkima new york (long island) did the work and i am very pleased. the owner billy is a rotorhead with a sick fd show car and he and his guys treated my car as if it were thiers while it was there. this is how a paint job is supposed to be done.

ill finish raving about the quality of work and attention to detail later, i'm picking up the car in the morning so i thought i should go ahead and post some of the in progress pics i took.
here they go

 

 

removing stone guard at bottom of rockers

 

 

i didnt have time to get pics of the last few days of prep, but the doors, hood, hatch were removed along with body glass to do a full, propper repaint. the only part of the car that didnt get paint was the interior floorpan and the engine bay. this winter the motor is getting pulled and bill will be spraying the bay as well before the 20B goes in.

the car is now a 2008 porche white named carerra white. its brighter than the fd chaste white and had a slight hint of blue to it.

finished pics should be up tomorow.
thanks for looking

 

im retiring the villans too, got some 18 inch kinesis going on next week

 

the car is looking sick roan, i gotta make my way over 2 billy's to get a quote on getting my 7 respray'd, lemme know when your around id love to swing by and see the car

 

looks great. they're doing a great job it looks!

i LOVE a white FD.

 

Nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Looks good Roan, I'm due for new paint also.

 

DJ im gonna have the car at the NYRA meet TODAY in quenns?

 

better clean that air filter roan..
looks like they did their prep work while the hood was up...
give me dibs once you get rid of that motor.turbo setup..

 

gio, bill and the guys cleaned the air filter and pressure washed the engine bay before spraying the car. thanks for the heads up tho.

ill trade you this setup for your 3 rotor set up

 

just checking the thread now lolz whoops... ill catch ya another time..you have my # so jus give me a call next time ur headin out somewhere..dpa/runs w.e

 

Looks BEEEEAAASSSTTT! Can't wait to see her at Summerslam!

 

was the entire car primed after that first coat of primer over the bodywork only?

 

Is that Bondo on your FD??

 

yeah rob they primed the entire car twice after all the body work was done

sloasfk there was a small skin coat of bondo on the 2 quarters where i had some dents. all the metal work was done without putting any holes in the body and then a skin of filler was put on to smoothen it out. trust me when i tell you thier metal work was on point, before any bondo went on it was like the dents never happened

 

only way to get a car razor straight is to skin coat the whole car, there is nothing wrong with properly done plastic filler

 

looks great so far!
is this the car the old E6K was in?

 

she looked awesome at the meet roan, send me your guys number, i will def be painting one of my cars in the oncoming year.



Hook a brotha up!

 

Looks Awesome Roan. Only thing thats missing is some 18" Volk GTC's!



They would look PIMP on white

 

^^ i concur

 

hey how much did the bill run you?

looks damn good!!! cant wait to see it!

 

ernie i would have bought those off you if i knew about them before i bought my 18 inch kinesis K58's

i should have the kinesis on the car by the MD BBQ.

jason, the guy that painted my car is bill from Maximum auto body. thats his FD show car in the background next to my car.

tom that is the car that the e6k was in. did you get yours running yet?

thanks for all the compliments guys, pictures really dont do it justice, i would recomend billy to anybody without a second thought, the man does excelent work
his # is
631-588-0619

tell him Roan with the white FD sent you. and feel free to ask him for a price quote when you see him, he goes to most all of the NYRA meets.