The R34 is Finally Fully Painted! | Poor Man's GTR [EP24]

So ladies and gentlemen we are almost there and i'm happy to say that this is going to be the last painting episode for the r34 skyline and from here on episode 25 and onwards we're going to fix the engine and we're going to get this car back on the road so bear with us for a little bit more i know some people are complaining about the painting episodes other people are loving it but it's got to be done and let's get into it you got me no wizard of oz can undo what i'm completely out of luck this time i'm stuck in reverse i gotta get away now but i can't seem to so with the r34 skyline body fully painted and unmasked we pushed it outside for it to chill in the sunlight while we moved on to the last batch of parts we slowly started masking them up in preparation to finally paint them so as you can see by the footage i'm really really laying this paint down thick and believe it or not we ended up getting some stripes come through once again but sam is going to show you how to rectify the issue in a second yeah so when i see stripes turn the pressure down because you've already been this way i go this way now so for the drop call just because it's an important panel you're just watching it fall off using the drop coat or control coat method in the opposite direction with lower air pressure means that we can have these metallics sit nice and upright once again meaning we don't have any zebra stripes once the paint is exposed to any form of light all righty so the actual doors were sprayed off the car this time if you remember the first time around i explained that i was scared that there was going to be a difference in colors if the panels are sprayed separately because on some panels you might go a little bit heavier compared to others but sam did mention that this paint system along with this specific color is very forgiving and we can actually spray it each panel individually off the car and not having any not having any troubles in differences in color so with that in mind we actually sprayed everything off the car as i mentioned meaning we are left with a beautiful seamless finish between the door jamb and the actual quarter panel this here is perfect there's no masking lines and same goes with here there is it is all it is all beautiful and even so very happy about that that's all i'd say all righty so now i'm going to spend a couple of minutes talking about the r34 gtr rear spoiler how you can build one on a bit of a budget instead of paying drug money for a real one if you're just here for the painting side of things skip to a minute whatever it says on the screen so let's get into it the last 12 months i've been keeping an eye out to find as many second-hand parts that are original or brand new parts that come up for a good price and it's getting very very hard to find any form of japanese car parts that are affordable especially anything that has the letters gtr on it this includes the wing so in the last 12 months i think three or four spoilers have come up for sale and they've been two and a half thousand australian dollars or more which is an absolutely ridiculous amount in my opinion considering i paid eighteen hundred dollars for an entire r34 gtt rolling shell and i paid even less for a entire supra yes they weren't in the best condition to start off with but we're talking buying an entire car that can possibly drive one day compared to just an accessory that is going to sit on the back of the boot okay so with that in mind obviously i didn't really want to spend that sort of money so i already had a spoiler that came with the car now i'm pretty sure it's just an ebay one i don't think it's any flashy brand i'd tell you the brand if i knew what it was but i don't know what the brand is so i paid 150 for the rear spoiler when it came with the with the rolling shell and i was looking at it and i wasn't really happy with the wing for a few reasons reason number one is the end caps the end caps aren't like the original ones an original spoiler has some very nice i think countersunk allen keys it's a nice plastic piece and it just looks factory like it should while the replica ones are a very thin layer of fiberglass with pretty much like a wooden tech screw through it it looks disgusting so we had to rectify that issue the next problem is right under here see that part there on an original one that is actually a part where the wing rises bolt to they have one two three four six five six seven eight so they've got an extra eight mounting positions for it to be nice and steady instead of just one and two m6 bolts so they are your main differences then we've got the wing riser originally obviously you get a fiberglass one what i did as you can see this one is carbon fiber we'll get to in a minute so the first thing i had to do is i wanted to fix the waviness of the wing so the wing from factory or the china ones they are quite ripply so are the original ones so i did get some body filler i took a whole skim across the thing a big a big speed file or sanding block to try keep it nice and even and i sanded it relatively flat for it to look nice so after that what i did is i found myself the wing spoiler or the wing blade i wanted now this is actually an original r34 gtr wing blade which are aluminium and somebody has wrapped it in carbon fiber when i say carbon fiber i don't mean the cheap carbon fiber vinyl wrap that you want to put in your bonnet because you're an absolute mad dog i'm talking about real carbon fiber and you can see the joint goes along the bottom the thing is you can't see it that's how good they've done it which is awesome so once it's on the car you will never see the join line that runs across the entire thing and obviously they've put some form of resin over it to seal it in so once i found the wing blade i liked i paid $500 for the wing blade and an original mines bootlip split the cost in two to two and we've got a $250 wing blade and a $250 mines bootlip so right now we are at $400 with the second hand china spoiler and a second hand frankenstein wing blade as i mentioned it is aluminium with real carbon fiber wrapped so what i did next is i got some loctite and i loctited this wing blade in position i got the angle i wanted of the wing blade and i use loctite on all the mounting bolts to make sure that this never moves or hopefully never moves because we're never going to be able to take this off because of our next step as i mentioned the end caps of the china wing blade i was not happy with so what i did is i grabbed some epoxy and i epoxy the caps on both sides in place 24 hours went by i sanded it smooth and obviously we had to put a little bit of a skimmer filler here and flatten it out after that we put high fill primer over the entire spoiler sanded it and it was ready for paint and as you can see the spoiler actually appeared twice in the spray booth in the first episode of the painting we painted this blue and we clear coated it and then what we did in the second day is we scuffed the the fresh clear coat and we clear coated the entire wing with the wing blade now why we did that in two sections is once this was in blue base coat we didn't really want to play around with wrapping taking the masking tape off this because we could have potentially damaged the fresh base the blue base coat so we just figured we'd do it in two days and get it done so as i said four hundred dollar replica wing that you literally could not tell a difference except the end caps and if you look very closely of how it is mounted underneath so that was very very lengthy but for the guys that are building these cars on a bit of a budget probably gave them a bit of an idea i've already been through this on instagram a couple of months ago but all the youtube videos do come out a lot later that is it people and the bigger panels once they were freshly baked sam and jayden very very carefully put them back onto the car making sure there is no contact between panels when doors open when bonnets open and close what they said is we're better off putting the majority of the panels back onto the body of the car securely instead of having them float around in the back of the tray of the ute or in the actual skyline because we do risk damaging them so that's what they did with everything slowly packed up it was time to push the car into the trailer and the weekend was an absolutely massive success we smashed out a lot of work in about a day and a half's worth of work and i couldn't thank sam and jayden from donnie book accidents a bit repair center enough if you need any sort of paint work done there's a link in the description below as i said before they won't rent out the but they are more than happy to take on any restoration work the attention to detail is pretty next level there were a few sections of the car that i wasn't happy with and i was just prepared to bomb paint over the top but once the boys had a further look at it they were like well we've come this far let's do it properly and i'll do a bit of a walk around the car obviously we are still missing some proper wheels and the spoiler and badges and line up the panel gaps just a tiny little bit more but for the majority it is all there it's nice and blue the color is even i am absolutely stoked so with the painting out of the way i think it is time to get some drone footage of sam's beautiful property finish up the video and get back into the engine stuff engine side of things on this car so we can get it back on the road as soon as possible if you like this sort of content consider subscribing share it with your mates and we'll see you soon