[Heron SSVParticipant Central Coast NSW2009 Pajero Exceed 84 VK SL LS3 View build HERE Member since: May 5, 2015 Posts: 585]

I wish I found that out years ago… So much easier!

[Heron SSVParticipant Central Coast NSW2009 Pajero Exceed 84 VK SL LS3 View build HERE Member since: May 5, 2015 Posts: 585]

On a side note to the above, you cant right click on the image when viewing the pic folder, you have to click on  the pic to make it full screen (so to speak) and then right click otherwise you look like a noob like me 

[Heron SSVParticipant Central Coast NSW2009 Pajero Exceed 84 VK SL LS3 View build HERE Member since: May 5, 2015 Posts: 585]

Great success! ok time for some pics:

So you can just see the runs on the passenger side in these pics, was a lot worse that you can see:

Roof and other parts turned out pretty good:

And here’s what I ended up with after two days sanding:

It’s smooth as running my hand over it, cant tell where the runs were.

Let me know if any of the pics dont work.

[Heron SSVParticipant Central Coast NSW2009 Pajero Exceed 84 VK SL LS3 View build HERE Member since: May 5, 2015 Posts: 585]

Test run with FB pic:

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[Heron SSVParticipant Central Coast NSW2009 Pajero Exceed 84 VK SL LS3 View build HERE Member since: May 5, 2015 Posts: 585]

VRSenator065 wrote:

^wow that’s pretty easy!! What the catch, there is always a catch…..

Seems to good to be true doesn’t it haha. I might try that, I put most of my pics on FB anyway for mates to see my updates who don’t use forums.

[Heron SSVParticipant Central Coast NSW2009 Pajero Exceed 84 VK SL LS3 View build HERE Member since: May 5, 2015 Posts: 585]

Less banging, more building 

Congrats mate, need to get some matching booster seats trimmed now

[Heron SSVParticipant Central Coast NSW2009 Pajero Exceed 84 VK SL LS3 View build HERE Member since: May 5, 2015 Posts: 585]

SLE355 wrote:

Sounds good, pics?!

I’ll stick some up when I sort out an alternative to Photobucket haha

[Heron SSVParticipant Central Coast NSW2009 Pajero Exceed 84 VK SL LS3 View build HERE Member since: May 5, 2015 Posts: 585]

Spent the weekend sanding. And sanding. And more sanding. Got just under half the car done, started on the side with the runs so that was always going to take longer. Hit it with some 600 grit, then some 1500. Came up great, can’t see or even feel where the runs were, it’s silky smooth. Going to go over it with some 2000 to get it as smooth as possible before buffing.

Next weekend I’m taking the guards and boot lid to my mates work to paint. Also taking the k frame and tank to clean and paint black.

Getting there slowly. Also, sanding sucks balls.

[Heron SSVParticipant Central Coast NSW2009 Pajero Exceed 84 VK SL LS3 View build HERE Member since: May 5, 2015 Posts: 585]

Cheers Georgie and Gary, definitely agree it’s not a forum issue, and the way Photobucket have done it is similar to the viruses that have encrypted PC’s and asked for a payment to unlock them, PB have just basically issued a ransom demand, wonder how long till they lock user accounts so you can’t even access your pics unless a payment is made.

All my pics are on my phone/PC so I wont really lose the pics all together, it’s all the posts I’ve put online that will turn to crap, and I’m a minor poster compared to some. Take IJ for example, his thread has hundreds if not thousands of pics across multiple forums, not sure what he uses for pics but there’d be others just the same.

[Heron SSVParticipant Central Coast NSW2009 Pajero Exceed 84 VK SL LS3 View build HERE Member since: May 5, 2015 Posts: 585]

^^^^ and thats the f*cked part. Gary already went through and transferred his thread from SC to here, and now he’ll probably have to go through and modify each post to replace the pics with the same one but from a different source.

I’ve read a few comments that Photobucket was recently purchased by another company who have more than likely had this plan all along. But to go from it being free to $399 a year is ridiculous, fair enough if they changed it so you had to be a paying member and all their plans could do it, but to only allow the top one is just mental.

[Heron SSVParticipant Central Coast NSW2009 Pajero Exceed 84 VK SL LS3 View build HERE Member since: May 5, 2015 Posts: 585]

https://www.facebook.com/photobucket

Yep, $5 a month thereabouts wouldn’t be too bad, but from all accounts you need a Plus 500 account to be able to link images to be shown in forums

[Heron SSVParticipant Central Coast NSW2009 Pajero Exceed 84 VK SL LS3 View build HERE Member since: May 5, 2015 Posts: 585]

All my pics are gone, they just show a message about upgrading my subscription to allow 3rd party hosting. What a joke, their Facebook page is exploding with complaints. It’s gone from a free service to $399, shitloads of build threads will  be affected, and a thread without pics is almost useless and will reduce forum users and visitors

[Heron SSVParticipant Central Coast NSW2009 Pajero Exceed 84 VK SL LS3 View build HERE Member since: May 5, 2015 Posts: 585]

VRSenator065 wrote:

Yea right, had no idea that’s possible. So in theory I could do that and say email it to Pete and he could tweak the fan settings?

Thats the same way OzTrack do their tuning. You could do something similar with yours, as long as he knows how to.

[Heron SSVParticipant Central Coast NSW2009 Pajero Exceed 84 VK SL LS3 View build HERE Member since: May 5, 2015 Posts: 585]

I’ve got a bender and double flaring kit (ebay special but should still work), I thought you’d form the lines on the car and bend as you went, but you’d recommend using a small guage wire to work out the bends first and then start forming the line before putting the whole lot on in one go?

[Heron SSVParticipant Central Coast NSW2009 Pajero Exceed 84 VK SL LS3 View build HERE Member since: May 5, 2015 Posts: 585]

Brake lines look neat as. Any tips? I have to do mine soon

[Heron SSVParticipant Central Coast NSW2009 Pajero Exceed 84 VK SL LS3 View build HERE Member since: May 5, 2015 Posts: 585]

Sprayed the car over the weekend with mixed results. Rubbed everything back on Friday night and all the orange peel smoothed of really well and without too much effort. There were a couple of runs from the other weekend and they flattened out perfectly. Cleaned it all down with wax and grease remover, same as the first time, sprayed the first coat on and the passenger doors and rear quarter ran like a mofo within 15-20 seconds of spraying. The roof and drivers side came out great, smoother than last time, and my mate who was spraying was spewing. Swore at it several times and let it sit before the next coat. The next coat went on fine, didn’t run at all. Ended up doing two coats all over, and another two on the doors and rear quarter. The additional coats blended the runs in pretty well, I think they can be rubbed out but my mate wants to rub them back and throw another coat or two over that side just to be sure.

Will let it sit for another two weeks and see how it goes when I start rubbing it back again. It’s got plenty of paint on it now, 8 fresh coats over 2 or 3 from the previous owner, and I reckon a bit of time spent with some fine sandpaper will get rid of the runs. Also looks like a little bit of over spray has come up from underneath the car and landed in the engine bay so there’ll be some more rubbing back in there.

[Heron SSVParticipant Central Coast NSW2009 Pajero Exceed 84 VK SL LS3 View build HERE Member since: May 5, 2015 Posts: 585]

This weekends plan is to rub it back Friday and Saturday morning to get it flat and throw a couple more coats over the outside (door jams have 3 coats and will be fine the way they are). Then pull the masking off and see how it looks. it’ll sit for another three weeks to cure properly before it gets sanded again and start to get it smooth. In between will be prepping and painting the guards and boot lid, mounting the cowl and bog/sand/bog/sand/bog/sand/swear/cry/drink/sand/sand/paint the bonnet, paint rear bar and remove and re-mount the front bar Group A extension and paint that.

I’ll get around to the actual conversion at some point haha, as usual the small job of a quick engine bay tidy up has turned into a full respray. Fun times!

Found a guy in Syd that does repo decals in black as the original ones from HDT etc. are silver unless I get the Group 3 set which come in black. $350 for the kit

[Heron SSVParticipant Central Coast NSW2009 Pajero Exceed 84 VK SL LS3 View build HERE Member since: May 5, 2015 Posts: 585]

VRSenator065 wrote:

I think we are all pretty much saying the same thing.

We are Gary, what we’re saying is where are the vids of you laying some elevensies on a “private road”

[Heron SSVParticipant Central Coast NSW2009 Pajero Exceed 84 VK SL LS3 View build HERE Member since: May 5, 2015 Posts: 585]

cava454 wrote:

Power over looks for me. I hardly ever pop the bonnet. But I’ll still smooth it and shit to make me happy. Wish I wasn’t that anal

Immortality wrote:

Function over form for me. Make it go as hard as possible and if it looks good doing it all the better.

I had the same mindset and was going to concentrate on getting my VK on the road first and do the cosmetic stuff later but the more I looked into things it was easier to do it now as the car was already in pieces, plus I could do it on the cheap.

Hows the to-do list looking at the moment Cava?

[Heron SSVParticipant Central Coast NSW2009 Pajero Exceed 84 VK SL LS3 View build HERE Member since: May 5, 2015 Posts: 585]

dave wrote:

Good to to see you are getting a fair amount of progress on the car. You asked me about what i did regarding air box on my thread I had regarding cam and tune on L98. I posted a couple of pics on there of what I did. Just a reminder in case you didnt see it.

Cheers mate. Seen the pics, only had a quick look the other day and forgot all about it. Did you fab it yourself? Looks pretty neat, I need to do something similar but on the opposite side to cover where the battery tray was. Been looking at the air boxes from Mace, they look like something that will work with what I want to do

vlsv88 wrote:

Good job for the price. Bad paint is worse than bad bodywork! What paint type and brand did you use and what compressor? Looking at painting my VL myself too to keep costs down

I got the Paint from Colortec at Tuggerah. Its Unicolour 660 2k, plain old white. Compressor is a basic one from Bunnings my old man bought over 10 years ago. The guy who last owned the VK stripped it back and did a heap of bodywork on it before he painted it so I had a good base to start from. All the hard work is in the preparation, sanding, masking, and cleaning the surface before painting. If that is done properly, the paint will go on easier and you’ll get a better finish. Garage jobs will always end up with a bit of peel and dirt/bugs/dust etc in the paint, but doing a few extra coats will leave you with plenty of thickness to rub the imperfections out. The end result will be fine for me, white is a very forgiving colour and you’ll only notice the imperfections if you’re looking closely at it.

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