Daewooluvr's 2000 Lanos SX

daewooluvr · Post by **daewooluvr** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 5:24 pm

lanos2001 wrote:now thats one hell of a teaser.

got a question though about the paint. i know you can use powder coating on engine parts and they won't flake or peal. will regular auto paint work b/c i got like half a gallon of paint still and i was wanting to paint my SRI and the metal valve cover i got from daftmajin. maybe a few other parts like the caps on the reservoirs and stuff. i'm really just wondering on the parts that would get really hot. thanks

nick

If it's anywhere that'll get hot, there's a good chance it will get messed up. Another thing is paint doesn't wash off as nicely as powder so that's another advantage.

lanos2001 · Post by **lanos2001** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 5:28 pm

If it's anywhere that'll get hot, there's a good chance it will get messed up

so the valve cover is out.

Another thing is paint doesn't wash off as nicely as powder so that's another advantage.

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daewooluvr · Post by **daewooluvr** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 5:50 pm

lanos2001 wrote:
If it's anywhere that'll get hot, there's a good chance it will get messed up
so the valve cover is out.

Another thing is paint doesn't wash off as nicely as powder so that's another advantage.
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Sorry what I meant was, dirt and grim don't wash off paint as easily as powdercoating. With powder you can just wipe it away, with paint ya need special cleaners and hope that it hasn't stained the paint.

Another huge advantage we just learned is powdercoating is ALOT lighter than paint.
We weighed one of my rims before we stripped it back down to metal. It is a 17"x7" aluminum rim with automotive color matched paint. It weighed 23.4lbs (yes I know they're heavy). Last night we finished powdercoating the rims and polishing the lip, they weighed 21lbs even. So that's 2.4lbs less at each rim.

I can't wait to see the rest but those pics will come in time...

lanos2001 · Post by **lanos2001** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 5:52 pm

oh okay. well i think i'll just paint the caps on all the stuff in the engine bay then and just polish up the valve cover and have that nice and shiny thanks shaun. can't wait until you have more pics man.

nick

daewooluvr · Post by **daewooluvr** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 4:52 am

ugh, it may not be running by this weekend.

delphis · Post by **delphis** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 3:52 pm

Get icy blue woo up and running!

daewooluvr · Post by **daewooluvr** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 4:57 pm

delphis wrote:Get icy blue woo up and running!

It's coming...

but not this weekend, we ran out of blue powder last week and the distributer forgot to ship it until yesterday. GRRRR

Next week I'll hit a show.

daewooluvr · Post by **daewooluvr** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 1:02 pm

Slowly but surely getting there...

New shimmering candy blue parts. The rims are finished and tires mounted. Brakes are almost finished (waiting on rear drums)

Audacity Racing · Post by **Audacity Racing** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 1:09 pm

daewooluvr · Post by **daewooluvr** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 1:22 pm

Audacityracing wrote:nice

Oh you guys might also find this interesting. If you ever have the chance to get your rims either powdercoated or painted, choose powdercoating.
Here's why. I had my rims professionally blasted and painted with PPG paint to color match the car about 2 years ago. These rims are HEAVY. Before we decided to powdercoat them we weighed the rims. Rim only (no tire) they weighed 23.4lbs. Ok, yeah I know that's a heavy pig. We sent the rims out to be blasted and they came back 20.75lbs. Now here's the good part. After powdercoating they only weighed 21lbs. That's right, it only took 1lb of powder to coat all 4 rims. Whereas with paint it would've taken about 12lbs of paint to do all four. That's a savings of almost 2.5lbs per wheel.

DomWoo · Post by **DomWoo** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 3:34 pm

what is that blue called... i like it alot

daewooluvr · Post by **daewooluvr** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 5:23 pm

WooHoo wrote:what is that blue called... i like it alot

Shimmering Candy Blue. These pics don't do it justice at all. You've got to see it in the sunlight. It'll make you melt.

SCOOTTER · Post by **SCOOTTER** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 4:44 pm

Can't wait to see it all done and back together!!

daewooluvr · Post by **daewooluvr** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 4:53 pm

SCOOTTER wrote:Can't wait to see it all done and back together!!

Yeah you and me both. I'll be able to dedicate most of my nights this week in the garage so it'll live again real soon.

daewooluvr · Post by **daewooluvr** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 3:18 am

Some updated pics...

Edit: resized