Detailing the chassis...

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Mon May 19, 2003 9:11 am

Custom painted my PCB cover. Now I'm representin' even when the body's off.

It really spices the chassis up. I'm thinking of painting the whole chassis Charcoal, so it'll have a nice custom car look.

Be even cooler if I get some decal paper, and make little pinstripes to put in the corners and stuff.

Stoli · Post by **Stoli** » Mon May 19, 2003 9:30 am

Tthats pretty phat Pimp.

how did ya do it? Just masked and prayed?

Post by **CaboWabo** » Mon May 19, 2003 9:57 am

phat flames like always crazydave!

I like the added touch.

mpbiv · Post by **mpbiv** » Mon May 19, 2003 9:57 am

Thats sweet!

Was thinking the other day it would be cool to make a little driver and navigator helmets and glue them to the cover to make the cars look like someone is driving. Would look good in my Lancer Evo

hogjowlz · Post by **hogjowlz** » Mon May 19, 2003 10:05 am

well i commend you on the nice flame job but i see no use for a pcb cover in the first place.

Buzzbait · Post by **Buzzbait** » Mon May 19, 2003 10:26 am

mpbiv wrote:Thats sweet!

Was thinking the other day it would be cool to make a little driver and navigator helmets and glue them to the cover to make the cars look like someone is driving. Would look good in my Lancer Evo

I did that this weekend, to a Toyota bB. I used the driver from some special edition HotWheels. The car came with a dude inside, and a whole pit crew outside. I ended up using just the driver and steering wheel. I tried to use the seats and all, but it was just too tight a squeeze.

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Mon May 19, 2003 12:27 pm

Stoli wrote:Tthats pretty phat Pimp.

how did ya do it? Just masked and prayed?

I layed the Blue fade on the White, then masked and sprayed the Charcoal

hogjowls wrote:well i commend you on the nice flame job but i see no use for a pcb cover in the first place.

90% of my cars are held together with tape, I wanted to build a dual cell sleeper, and the cover is hiding the goods.

See the idea here is to trick the competition into thinking that I'm so busy detailing, that I couldn't possibly have anything going on under the hood. Of course that's pretending I had freinds to use as competition.

I decided to go ahead and paint the chassis. I've got nothing else to do today, so I'll keep you guys updated with pics.

I masked the internals, and areas where there will be moving parts making contact. I sanded it down so the paint will stick, but mostly to remove my super glue blobs. I also took out the "Made in China" while I was at it. After the time I put into it, I say it's Made in USA now!

I'm painting right now, so more shots soon.

hogjowlz · Post by **hogjowlz** » Mon May 19, 2003 12:48 pm

righto.

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Mon May 19, 2003 2:00 pm

It's not that drastic of a color change, it's mostly just metallic, but I'm having trouble capturing the metallic in pictures. This one is the best I can do, and it sorta just looks dusty, but trust me it looks good.

I also painted some parts blue to accent it.

I'll give a couple hours to dry thoroughly, and try to get it together to get pics before sunset. i need to take pictures in the sun to show off the metallic, or it just looks black. Charcoal is basically like an extra metallic black.

hogjowlz · Post by **hogjowlz** » Mon May 19, 2003 2:13 pm

well as long as everything still works fine when you put it back together i say dope job dave.

hogjowlz · Post by **hogjowlz** » Mon May 19, 2003 2:31 pm

dont forget the most important mod.

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Mon May 19, 2003 2:46 pm

Yeah I was going to try that since, as you might see I cut out the tube that was holding it in.

Probably should have done that before I painted, but oh well I have more paint.

hogjowlz · Post by **hogjowlz** » Mon May 19, 2003 2:55 pm

just remember to shove something between the chassis and the gear. and remember to keep running it while the stuff dries. i suggest getting jb kwik since its done in under 20mins.

and once its dry it takes about a week to get to the point where it runs like a precision machine. keep working it in and lubing it.

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Mon May 19, 2003 10:44 pm

Before I post the finished pics I want to show what it looked like a couple weeks ago, before it burned.

Tri-cell Beast:

Now here's my dual cell booster, back from the dead, all painted up. I swapped rims with my other Zip Zap so I could sport the muscle car rims.

Post by **CaboWabo** » Mon May 19, 2003 10:47 pm

killer man, now that's attention to detail, even the steering adjuster! good job dude.