Photos from Dads visit

Getting ready for Halloween.

Stereo

Just installed a stereo for dad in his truck. $80 JVC from best buy.
Sounds pretty damn good for only one speaker working.

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More sanding and prep work

Today I took the rocker panels off, front bumper off, rear bumper from the garage and the trim pieces and sanded them down. It took a lot longer then I anticipated so I wasn't able to prep the garage any nor was I able to do the bumper paint as I had planned. As it was 20 min ago the plastic was still wet. It just isn't warm enough out right now for it to evaporate quickly. Hopefully tomorrow will be a tad warmer and I will get every thing I need to done.

Oh yeah, and it only got 30 mpg this tank. I'm rather upset about that. 40 mpg should be no issue for this car. The only issue left to figure out is the o2 sensor and I'll just have to buy a new one and see if it makes that much of a difference. I doubt it, but I've never dealt with an OBD0 car before so it may.

more sanding

Got the passenger side sanded down today. The bottom 4 inches are supposed to be black plastic, and they will be once again. At first I was afraid that I would have to paint black over the junk white paint they put on it but as luck has it, it sand off quite well. Get the paint off of it with the sander and then scrub it with soap and water and it should be willing to accept trim/bumper paint quite well.

Sanding

Today I ordered paint for the crx.





Its Arctic White, which you can find on the new corvettes, some BMW's etc.




This is far from that quality but its the same color. Justin dropped off his compressor and paint guns yesterday and sometime in the next or so we will paint it. I will make a paint booth in the garage with drop cloths, box fans and shop lights. Today I started back up sanding it. I had sanded the roof a few weeks ago using the finishing sander that dad and mom got me a few years ago. It's working surprisingly well. This car was painted cheaply, very cheaply before so I am just sanding through the bad paint and into the good Honda undercoat. Some spots are down to bare metal but no biggie. It only took 30 min to do the first 120 grit sanding on half of the car. Gotta do the other half and then go get some 400 grit and do it all over.