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Old Apr 5, 2011 | 08:38 PM
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well usually i can nail details pretty well on a color scheme but i cant make up my mind on this one. i got the wrong silver before and it came out this color and with my amazing welds

i just painted this straight purple. NO one has my color purple ANY WHERE!! im sure i could get it online but thats for another day. let me know what you think of this shade. its 3 or 4 shades off from mine 2 tone now but ehh what ever. its either this(or if someone knows where i can get ford purple) or the silver by color code at the store.
( the orange boots ruined my mood




i experiemnted with bondo today, grinded the welds down and the high and low spots and the divits you get get when it doesnt go flush were driving me nuts


my state of the art hanging booth LOL


and this is the best way i can project the true purple i have on my truck
 
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Old Apr 5, 2011 | 09:30 PM
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Thank god you shaved down those welds!!!! LOL The purple looks alright... Think I'd like to see how a real silver looks.. Looks like LSU got ahold of your truck. haha. Looks much better than before though
 
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Old Apr 5, 2011 | 09:44 PM
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Yeah, looks way better
I'm so glad you fixed those welds.
 
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Old Apr 6, 2011 | 08:48 AM
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TURD. Steve, buy a can of the johnson/evinrude silver! I guess its 13$ a can..thought it was more.
 
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Old Apr 6, 2011 | 08:48 AM
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Awesome idea with the boost fitting. Did you weld a nut in there?
 
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Old Apr 6, 2011 | 08:58 AM
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I feel compelled to inform you that your truck is very cool, Steve.
 
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Old Apr 6, 2011 | 05:15 PM
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yeah the welds were on the list to fix among many things haha i might try the real silver and see how that looks. eat it kris lol but that was a fun adventure to homedepot LOL
thanks alot joe!
 
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Old Apr 6, 2011 | 05:56 PM
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I think the purple looks real good Steve. I painted mine dark ford blue, bought the spyder chromed already. I wrapped the hot side pipe, had extra wrap from the downpipe and it's protected where its close to the bracket. Here's a couple pics of mine, kinda dirty from sitting all winter, just brought it home from the shop tonite for something to do. Gotta burn off the winter fuel in there yet.



 
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Old Apr 6, 2011 | 08:55 PM
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Looks good! the bondo make it loook a lot better
 
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Old Apr 6, 2011 | 09:30 PM
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IIRC, Steve took his stock Spider and made his IC spider.
 
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Old Apr 7, 2011 | 06:29 AM
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You're a brave man.
I know in my house/shop if I used a door **** for that the wife or daughter would come through the door, the part would fall, get purple paint on the wall, the floor, the door, and the bottom of their shoes when they stepped on it to ask what that noise was.

Looks good.
I've never used bondo to hide my crappy weld, just disk grind and spray with bedliner.
 
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Old Apr 7, 2011 | 08:12 AM
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Some day I'll have an intercooler and I can be in the cool crowd.

Until then.
I got lots of room to work on my truck without removing the IC pipes. hahahaha.
 
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Old Apr 7, 2011 | 09:33 AM
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If you try silver again give the hammered paint a shot. I covers bad welds like that and even rust real good. It is a thicker paint and on a horizontal surface it makes a cool hammered design. I usually lay it on thick. In more ways than one. LOL.

P.S. I like the purple
 
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Old Apr 7, 2011 | 10:00 AM
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lol that was the rear exit of the garage that's locked so that was my only door i could use safely! after the bondo you'd never tell its welded! its completely smooth all around. I recommend to any one, a little palm sander goes a long way with 80 and 120 grit. but heres a picture of it in the day time.




thanks for the opinions and advice guys
 
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Old Apr 7, 2011 | 11:17 AM
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Any problems with blowing boots since your intake pipe and Y pipe aren't bolted together?
 
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