Quick update on progress made on the Nova over the last few weeks. Kurt was able to finish wet sanding the exterior and has buffed the body. Doors, front fenders, hood and trunk are wet sanded, but still finishing the buffing process. Due to scheduling issues in the shop, Kurt wanted to focus on getting the interior painted, sound deadener sprayed, and firewall painted before finishing the final buffing on other panels. Attached are some pictures of the body that I took when I visited last week. He does three levels of buffing/polishing (each with a successively finer polishing compound and pad). These pictures were taken after the first level of polishing.
After completing the polishing on the shell, Kurt masked the body off to paint the interior. We ended up using Nightfall Gray Metallic, a color that’s a middle ground between the Shark Gray Metallic body color and the Carbon Black Metallc that the trim, bumpers, etc will be painted in. I’m a big fan of the Nightfall Gray Metallc... almost ordered my 2017 ZL-1 in that color. We wanted a little contrast to the body color and the darker color goes better with the color of the leather for my seats. Kurt also painted the steering wheel column, steering wheel, steering column mount, glove box, etc. Some photos below.
As a reminder, here are my Recaros I had custom done...
After we got the interior painted, Kurt masked off the freshly painted interior areas and we sprayed sound deadener on the floors, roof, inside the doors, inside firewall, inside rear quarters, trunk, etc. We used a product from Second Skin audio called Spectrum. Really helps to eliminate resonance and noise from vibrations inside the car. Sprays on a bit like a bed liner. Kurt has never used it before, but was excited to try it and thought it went on really well. We did three coats, approximately 1 mil thickness each.
Finally, after finishing the interior, he was able to get the shell off the rotisserie and on a cart where he was able to spray the firewall in a satin black. Inner fender panels, underside of the hood, core support, etc. will be painted in the same color.
Next week, the guys will be installing suspension back under the car, as well as the engine. It’s really exciting to see the progress and can’t wait for assembly to start! Hope all is well,
Brian
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