My 944 turbo 1990 Guards Red Project FINISHED :D Pics Inside

p.bestie · **Posted:** Mon Feb 10, 2014 4:54 pm

Afternoon all,

I thought i would start a little project thread so you can all follow the progress of the 944 Turbo i recently purchased , i will be giving her a full respray over the next few weeks with some subtle upgrades. I own a body shop so will be carrying out all the work, The car is pretty mint as it stands the front end has a few stone chips and some of panels are a slightly faded shade of red

Already made quite alot of progress so far ...

She is currently standard .. bar the Cup 1 alloys which i am changing for the original wheels ( i have these )

Heres some pictures of her when i got her home :

p.bestie · **Posted:** Mon Feb 10, 2014 4:57 pm

starting to strip her down ..

p.bestie · **Posted:** Mon Feb 10, 2014 5:04 pm

Came across this on one of the wings

More bits off

p.bestie · **Posted:** Mon Feb 10, 2014 5:05 pm

Bits prepped and ready for paint

Bit in the oven

p.bestie · **Posted:** Mon Feb 10, 2014 5:08 pm

Me Painting and clearcoating , Using a basecoat and clearcoat so the paint will no fade in the future

Althejazzman · **Posted:** Mon Feb 10, 2014 6:03 pm

Good work. I wish I knew the first thing about bodywork and painting.

mikec · **Posted:** Mon Feb 10, 2014 6:49 pm

Nice one. You fancy doing my S2 when you're done

Richair · **Posted:** Mon Feb 10, 2014 9:35 pm

Nice! Definitely the best colour for a 944 but the fading put me off (my Rallye is red and keeping on top of it is a nightmare), but a full repaint with clear coat would be great. I guess being a painter helps

I look forward to the final pics!

Hairyarse · **Posted:** Mon Feb 10, 2014 10:28 pm

944's in fresh red paint look unbeatable - looking forward to seeing the final pics too

t3rra · **Posted:** Mon Feb 10, 2014 10:56 pm

Nice, where's your body shop based. Once all my upgrades are done MIT let you give your girl a blow over

Pink piggy · **Posted:** Mon Feb 10, 2014 11:12 pm

Thats looking good.
I know if it was me in the spray shop with everything hanging I would crash into one of them.

However I dont know why you showed the finished car first :wink:

Hallsy · **Posted:** Tue Feb 11, 2014 11:58 am

Good stuff, nothing like a freshly painted car!!

My Guards Red 944 isn't bad overall, but I'm quite picky, and have a friend with a spray booth - so will probably end up giving mine a respray at some point.

I was planning on using 2K direct gloss though but I see you are using base & clear. Are the modern basecoats and lacquers UV resistant? My feeling is at least with direct gloss if it does ever fade you can always cut it back, but with base coat you're stuck with faded base.

I'm very much an amateur in this respect, so ask more out of interest

Toby944 · **Posted:** Wed Feb 12, 2014 12:19 pm

Very nice, and the fastest colour too

Porkaparts · **Posted:** Wed Feb 12, 2014 3:30 pm

AAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHHHHH

my cars in bits!!!!!!!!!

Phil hope you love her as much as I did - just didn't get the chance to drive her.

cheers Elliot

Hairyarse · **Posted:** Wed Feb 12, 2014 8:33 pm

Thought that car looked familiar but didn't realise it was yours Elliot!

That's a nice car you have your self there

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