Loud & Low 8th Gen Civic - Time to say good bye to her.

[scooter99]

I can't tell you guys how many time's I've stepped back yesterday while working and said, Damn this worked out well.

I'm very excited about how things are going to be able to flow in this build now. Space to work, organized areas, organized bins, etc. It makes life VEEERRRRRYYYYY easy! Especially in my life where I have to be organized when i only have a little bit of time to work. I can't spend 20 minutes of my hour that I have to work, looking for tools and material etc. Should make things much easier to work now.

[goodvibez]

Agreed! Soooo how soon till we are back to project civic?

[scooter99]

Ok ok hang on. I'll be back in a minute!

[scooter99]

So this weekend I went out and got everything finished up with the shop. Actually Friday I got most of it wrapped up, but finished on Saturday. I'm not going to take time to show you all the pics here, but you're welcome to visit my facebook page and view them here. After all that was done, I was able to finally get this build restarted. Once you take a look at what was done to the shop, you'll begin to understand why I had to do what I did with it.

Understand that this is going to make my life so much easier than what I was doing before. I'm very excited about it, and it's already begun to prove itself to me as to how important it was to get it done.

Enough of that, let's get on to the pics.

Now, what are we going to do with this!!

Hung the hose for the new compressor in here for now. Still have to get some pipe ran for air outlets all around the shop as well as outside. I want to run a reel outside for air tools.

Ok let's get to work with some sanding. First I had to cut the wings of the corners here. They were buggin me!

And gone!

Other side gone

Sanded a little bit

These corners are gonna be a biotch!

Just a little knock down.

Found a 12 x 12 ceramic tile in my garage that I thought would be great for doing filler. I used to use cutting boards but the one I had warped and was all scratched up and just wasn't good anymore. I think this will hold up well! Also about to use Rage for the first time ever. We'll see about the Hype on it!

I should've shown the amount of hardener I used for it. I had about a 5" round blob of filler and used about a marble sized or just bigger than a dime sized amount of hardener. So right off the bat I can say the Hype is real! Love this stuff. The way it goes on, the ease of workability. It's awesome! I did this in a couple stages. I mixed enough for the back and one side and ran out. Actually found out I could've used a touch less hardener, cause by the time I was done with this part, it was starting to stiffen up.

Just another view. Also a look at the corner. Filled ok, but gonna take some work!

Mixed a little too much on this one too, so I just went down the middle a bit. I thought about doing the whole rack at this point, but I said nevermind. It's been done, and I just need to level out what I added on.

Just a look at the other side and corner. How it laid down. Nicely!

I was a little rough with this corner. I actually forgot about it when I did the back. So it ended up rougher than I wanted. OOPS! Just means more sanding!

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Speaking of sanding! Here we go! This stuff sands very well also! I think I waited a little longer than I should've, but even still, it sanded nicely.

Alot of this is being done by hand at this point. The corners and edges are being done by hand.

Starting to get there

Pretty flat now. The back is not going to take much to get clean!

I'm pretty happy with it. This again, has all been by hand.

After about a half hour or 45 minutes on the back, by hand, I decided to get out the palm sander and get this thing moving along.

Pretty happy with it at this point, but I know there are some low points. So I'm going to go ahead and prime it and see what's left to deal with and where.

I used a cloth and wet it a little bit, just damp, and wiped it all down.

[scooter99]

Rust-Oleum filler primer.

done

Here you can see some spots that need to be filled

more spots

and the corner.

Spot filling

Alot of the bottom edge needed to be addressed. So I just filled it all over again.

I got it all sanded down, but I had a hard time. I don't know if I didn't add enough hardener on it, or the primer wasn't dry or what was going on. I gave it about 45 minutes and had a fan blowing on it, and it was pretty warm today. So I figured that was good enough time.

As you can see here, it wasn't really sanding, it was more rubbing off. This corner sin't so terrible

the edge isn't great

but this was the worst one. I just wasn't getting any better either so I left it alone after a bit.

This is the top part. It was ok, but mostly the same thing.

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After sanding it all down, I decided to go ahead and prime it over again, only using regular primer this time instead of filler primer.

It covered ok, still not so good on the look. But I think it'll be ok.

This corner is by far the ugliest.

And this is the top. Some high spots that could be addressed.

After some time I decided to see what some black would reveal. I didn't have any black primer, so I went with this satin stuff.

Really brought out the look of it. Changed the dynamics. Here you can really see the difference in the symetrics of it. Different angles etc.

Here we are in the staging area. I was getting a little ahead of myself here. I still have some other work to do before I cover it. This is getting covered so the filler etc doesn't have to be perfect paint grade sanded smooth or anything. Just decent. I don't think it's going to show in the final product.

While inside the house I ran across the gift from LeAndre Davis and Billy Rust and I was holding off on it until the shop was operational. So I decided to get it hung up! Thanks guys!

Then I couldn't stand it, so I decided to get the amps out and do a little test fit! It's gonna look so good! I'm happy with it so far!

How you would see it from standing at the trunk. Have to admit I got a little excited here!

So that's about it. Still quite a bit to do, but it's getting closer to being finished. The amp rack anyway.

I don't think I've said it yet, but I absolutely love the new set up in the shop. Lighting is great, fans are good, although I need to change one out. Electrical is perfect. Loving it. Makes life so much easier.

So what's left to do. Here's a little list:

* Spot sand a few places

* Drill out and install threaded inserts for the amps

* Figure out cooling system

* Finish work (covering)

* Modify the amps looks

* Mount the amps

* Install in the car

So there's still quite a list of things to deal with and take care of. But I think most of that will go quickly. So I'm hoping by the end of this week it'll be ready to be put in the car.

I do leave for Washington on Friday and don't get back to Monday afternoon. So this weekend is out for working. But I'm hoping that the next few weeks will bring at least an hour or so a night in working on this. But we'll see how that works out.

Here's a little video of the work as well.

Also, for faster updates and more information, check out my facebook page, linked in my signature, and like the page. I'm still trying to get to the 100 likes mark so I can give some stuff away!

UBL is also in the link for all pictures and less talk.

More to come very soon! Thanks for checking in!

[dog24fret]

Looking good man. I'm going to have to get some of that rage. Fav quote

Git R Dun

Cookiepuss

Hahahahaahahahahahahahaa

[Wicks]

Good to see ya back at it.

Bring on them updates...Woot!

[scooter99]

Thanks guys.

Yes Billy, Rage is that good. Get some asap!

I'm hoping I can get more up soon. Wanted to tonight but it just didn't work out. We'll see what tomorrow holds. Lots to do, and I don't want to take forever more to do it either!