That steering wheel looks soooo good. I have red stitching on my Zanzibar red 996 Turbo, and it looks so sharp. I love that you have the red marker at the top of your steering. I want that on mine....because race car! These 996 turbos are so underrated, such awesome cars! I am dreaming about putting an unobtanium titanium exhaust on mine.

I have 28k Miles on my 2017 WRX. Is stage 1+ Cobb OTS Tune alright in terms of reliability?

Look good after a flat and polish

Use fast reducer and fast activator in colder weather to speed up the flash time.

Take some SEM surfacer in a can and spray on the pinholes and take your finger and smear it in them. Drys decently fast and sands easy.

I’ve had those lines come up on my RS aswell. Maybe it’s not the paint but the hood itself? 🤔

First, you need to increase your painting speed. It also looks like your air pressure is too low. If you increase it, atomization and stroke speed should improve. Apply a base coat on the edges first, then overlap paint strokes, as @illegalLettuce mentioned, and then apply a control coat (keep the gun much higher). In a cold environment, you might need to use a fast solvent.

get more heaters.

Sounds like those was third gear pulls. Was it because my WRX dyno was done in fourth gear? Just curious, by the way, is the transmission still living?

RIP

For the low spot in the left quarter why not build up the fiberglass vs bracing or filler? Also gotta ask…what are your plans for the fuel door? I’d think that area would need to be addressed before getting too far ahead.

Idk how hot it gets in there w your current heater maybe one or more of those plug in radiators to keep close may help cure or preheat panels not sure i diy painted my hood 2 years ago it came out awful

Where's the rest of the build... I'm trying to see everything I need to swap out my fa20dit VA for a 2jz build

don't sell it

use a glazing puddy for the pin holes -

Most importantly, equal length or unequal for this beauty?

The hood problem is it’s showing your work. It wasn’t sanded enough imo. Those lines are literally the primer under the sealing primer.

Epic!! So much Progress!

Are those line on the hood sanding scratches coming through?

Meh, wet sand the piss out of it. To help you need to get your paint area up to 90f. Cold makes it tough

That's gotta be so frustrating spending all that time sanding and whatnot only to have it show pin holes. You'll get it though! Awesome build!

It's the wrong colour for a 22b.22b is sonic blue.. looks nice tho

Are you going to fill the gap in the rear wheel wells between the original fender and the widebody fender with a liner or something to stop the void filling with crud?

An old engine machinist once told me that engines don’t wear in , they wear out!

Great work... Keep it up.

OK so, let me start by saying don't take this as negativity but more constructive advice. Before you lay down the base coat the primer should if been sanded through the grits (the higher the better) then when you layer the base it should of been 1 guide coat , 1 wet coat and finally 1 heavy flow coat with an overlap of 40-50% depending on the psi and paint flow. Then the gun setting - you need to open the needle to allow more paint to flow and turn up the psi as the coats you put down didn't have enough paint hence the orange peel. The grazes your seeing in the paint on the hood are from too heavy grit used for the primer sanding. 90% of a good paint job comes from the prep work before the paint, epoxy primer is harder to sand and should be used under a grey primer for protection not for a prep before basecoat,it's always better as a beginner to lay too much paint and fix a run than it is to not lay enough paint then having to repaint the whole panel. The issue your having are not with the temps but more the process. But all in all your getting there and painting isn't something that comes natural over night. I've been painting for 35 years and even I learn something new most days. We are all on the learning curve buddy

Fish eyes

Paint code? Please

HAM 😂 dame, that was a good 1. Wasn't expecting that. That first blue stripe of paint, I literally held me breathed with excitement. 👍🏽

4:59 What plexiglass material u used? Or what it call so I could make my own white drl.

Awesome you have having a crack but paint i would hand to someone else and in a booth as its going to be such a nice car, if it was a junker then yeah who cares. Stick with the mechanical and learn painting on junkers.. this one is 2 nice to learn on !

18:48 huh 🤔 kind of lost there radium doesn’t install pumps on their hangers ? I’m lost there though is like you buy the hanger and you install them yourself in the hanger ? Or how

sometimes fiberglass panels/hoods need a catalyzed Primer with mekp hardener, before the paint is sprayed...

Damn stock radiator on 700whp 🥴💀 better be a fkn aluminum CSR or mishimoto

I hope you get good money for the fd man. Also... theres a celica gt4 on auction with no reserve thatd made awesome content.

those weird lines look like sanding scratches sometimes these can be hidden by fine dust so you can sand and use guide coat and it wont show up because it full of fine dust and then gets cleaned out either by your prep clean or the paint sinks in as it dry's. very hard to see these in the prep stage best way i have avoided this is to sand clean then apply guide coat again and re sand then prime and check while its wet and still glossy to see if they are still there. sometimes it all good the nit show up once dried and its annoying. shes coming together you may even be able to wet sand those out and re clear and it will hide them enough that you wont notice unless to put your nose on it

Roll cage maybe?🥰

When you measure the mains, are you checking with the micrometer in multiple spots around the main?

Beautiful 🤙 Love ya work !

would also suggest when at the end of a panel, let off the trigger so the gun can breathe. then get back on it. itll help with dry spray on edges. think the other dude in the comments covered everything else

Looks like waves in the hood, and on camera the fenders look darker

Would love to see you get a legacy or outback and build it like ur Hawkeye

It’s looking pretty good.

Hey sir love what you doing with this build iv watched a lot of your stuff over the years and love it. On a unrelated note I currently have a 02 wrx I want to do a full sti drive train swap on what would you recommend for years of sti to do that with thank you for your time in advance. Keep on keeping on with the awesome vids.

Doing a iag fresh build best way to prime the engine

The 22b is turning out awesome i can't wait to see the end result when its running and driving great. It will definitely be a fun as hell daily, and honestly if I had infinite money i would do the same and build my own 22b replica but then go full rally spec on the suspension and wheels, then put in antilag for shits and giggles

I'll like this just for the music choice during the hood priming & painting b-roll alike, it's so much better than the same shit everybody uses like when you transition to that played out beat at about 5:45. I'm assuming the other stuff's from somewhere I suggested but I could be wrong, it sounds like it though. But c'mon dawg, still ain't using masking tape to make a pour lip on the paint can? It's a lot less messy. I'm no body guy and obv the camera isn't quite doing it justice, but it looks like those lines on the hood can be buffed out.

😎👍🏻👍🏻

you building my dream car . i can give everything to see this car in person

Paint and body work keeps me from doing a ground up build. Cant wait to see it fully painted.