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Dan's 1990 TGP Take 2


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It's got a little orange peel to it. I'll wet sand and buff it once the whole car is done. It will be smooth as glass. There's a lot of clear on there. It's a nice, deep shine. I might do another restoration one after this. I'll keep saving them as long as there are buyers for them. As long as I can keep one or two....

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The car had a very slight miss at idle. It was barely even noticeable. I swapped the ICM and coils as a unit a couple weeks ago with no change. I swapped it again to another unit off my other car just to be sure, and still no change. So I figured I would have to check the injectors. I pulled it all apart today. Four injectors came up about 12.3-12.4 ohms. One came up 11.4, and one at 8.0. So I swapped those two out for some good spares I had. Just once it would be nice to no have to do injectors on one of these. Anyway, as always, I cleaned everything up as I went. It's not all together yet because I need to run out and get gaskets after dinner. I cleaned up the lower intake, fuel rails, upper intake and throttle body. They needed it pretty bad. I'll also pick up a new PCV since it's the easiest time to replace it, and it's cheap.

 

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Did you rattle can this? I am thinking not, those are good results I assume you used a spray gun?

 

 

No rattle cans. It's base/clear. With a gun.

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As Nate requested, I shot the entire car. All fresh paint. I'd have preferred to take the car all apart to do it, But I painted behind all the cladding a few months ago when it was off anyway. It was a little bit breezier than I'd like for an outdoor spray today, so it will need a bunch of cutting and polishing in the next couple days, but overall, it's decent. It will smooth out very nicely. As seen in the pics, I started to cut the trunk lid already. More to come.

 

Basically, I figured since I was going to scuff and clear coat anyway, I might as well shoot paint, too, since I had plenty of base. Since I was going to paint it, I might as well fix the two dings in it. So, I sanded, filled, sanded, sealed, painted and cleared.

 

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Thanks, Nate

 

Black is hard, metallic is hard. Black metallic is a huge pain. I'm content with how its coming out. Once it's buffed hopefully there's not much showing through.

 

Your cars are a bit far away to make it worth it. :biggrin:

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Nice! Not often you see a tgp with good paint

 

 

The paint on it was actually mostly good. But painting 3 panels without doing the rest wasn't matching the way I'd like it to. I probably shouldn't have sprayed so many coats of clear. The shine was too deep on the newly painted parts. Now it all matches.

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Great work!!! Making me want to do mine really bad now.

 

DO EEEEEET

 

The paint on it was actually mostly good. But painting 3 panels without doing the rest wasn't matching the way I'd like it to. I probably shouldn't have sprayed so many coats of clear. The shine was too deep on the newly painted parts. Now it all matches.

 

Looks great man!

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On another note, I'm not completely satisfied with the paint job. But it's too cold to do much about it. I haven't decided what I want to do about that. I may just sell it as it is. It's not horrible, but it could be better.

 

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You are kidding? It looks good. Wait a while wet sand and then buff with a rubbing compound and that paint will pop. Especially a black color.

 

I did wet sand and buff. There are a couple areas where it got a little breezy and the clear was a little rough. I sanded it smooth again, and I went over it quite a bit with 100, 1500 and 2000, then compounded and polished. It shines, but it doesn't look right in some spots through the clear. I'm not sure why. It's a little hazy in places, and I can still see sanding marks in it. I'm not sure, but I may scuff it and hit it with one or two more coats of clear on a warm day.

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  • 1 month later...

I've been chasing down a demon in the car. I'm getting a slight miss. I've replaced ICM, Plugs, Wires, FPR and a couple bad injectors. I am thinking at this point that there has to be a dirty or leaking injector. I think I'm going to pull them all and have them rebuilt.

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