Very nice. The finish looks great.

Daniel

Very nice!! That deep, rich blue looks sick.

Wow!Sweet! I love the color

Fantastic color choice!

Can you expand on how you used a guide coat on clear, please? Do you mean like using a guide coat when blocking primer?

Thank you all!

A little further on wetsanding clear with guidecoat. I first knock down the clear flat with 600 grit, once thats broke open the guidecoat will stick like it would just for primer. Only use it up to 2000, after that the finer grits wont take it off. I use to struggle really bad with buffing, Id always see heavier scratches that would always need more attention after compounding. By using the guidecoat it gaurantees me that every inch of that panel is eliminated of heavier scratches before I move on. It makes the compounding step much quicker and I'm not going back over areas time and time again.

If you have time, check out this link. I go back to these tips time and time again, and my work has improved 100 percent.

https://www.trueblox.com/blogs/wet-sanding-buffing

That's awesome. I had no idea you could guide coat clear. It makes sense but it sounds scary that you're putting paint on top of clear.

he's not using crappy spray can guide coat. he is using powdered guidecoat. since the car is so dark I'm going to guess he used mirka white powder guidecoat

Oh! That explains it. Thanks, Mike.

i actually used black, because its what i had. took alot of light in the shop to see it all. but yes, mirka guidecoat. actually using it right now on a car im painting for a friend and it makes buffing so much easier. no chasing heavier scratches with compound or going back with wetsanding again.

After the buffing was wrapped up it was time to put the drivetrain in. This is about the only area of the car that didnt get completely changed from previous versions. The engine is a 468 with edelbrock performer rpm heads and a lunati voodoo cam, all forged gm rotating assembly and pistons. Transmission is an old Richmond R.O.D. six speed, which is basically a doug nash five speed that they added an overdrive. Its proven, so it stayed. The engine was painted VW Habenero Orange, the valve covers are just 39.99 summit cheapies that I painted the Chevy script on. Trans was painted in Sterling gray metallic and mated up to the Lakewood bellhousing and Centerforce clutch. One major change is I bought an Edelbrock Toker 2 intake that I welded injector bungs into so I could run EFI. For an ecu I used a holley hp, with a dual sync distributor to run coil on plug. Coils are 585 truck coils and injectors are zl1 injectors, easily available in case an issue would arise. The accufab throttle body and torker intake keep it LOW, because hood clearance is at a premium. Headers are actually the same Hookers I had on the car with the stock frame, i just had to move a tube to clear the steering.