So, this is my other 4i.
This was started about three (ish) years ago. Fact is, my blue car was found when I was searching for parts for this one.
The car was originally Medium Canyon Red. It was stripped to a shell and then worked on.
I don't have any early pictures of it to show. The earliest one I have was with the body in bondo.
Every panel has been worked on it. I found a nos front bumper at the salvage yard i found my blue car at. The car had hail damage and it had been driven into a barrier at a mall that had that heavy duty cable strung between poles. The damage from that went over the hood, fenders and up front across the windshield pillars and the front of the roof.
My brother was the one that convinced me to take this car on. He had done most of the exterior bodywork. My brother can be the biggest butthead to me, but he's a fantastic bodyman.
So I hauled it home to my garage. I was of the mind to block the body out and paint it and put it back together and drive. Yep, that's what I was of the mind to do, but since I had it tore down......
The new color for the car is called Barcelona Red. A toyota paint color (pc: 3R1). It's a beautiful red that i've really liked since toyota had introduced it. It's as close to a three stage as I can get and still be a base coat/clear coat paint job.
Just so you can see the color and how it looks on fox body parts I'll include an early completion picture of the doors
Ive done so much to this car, I'll try to be selective on the order of what I've done. It's almost completely painted already, I just have to shoot the top of the hatch and the bodyside mouldings.
This will be a slow thread once I get you caught up to date. It's going on the back burner so I can finish the blue car. Not off the fire, just towards the back for a year or so. I think you'll understand why once you see what I've done to it. It kind of demands a different drivetrain than what I originally planned. Fact is, the original drivetrain will be going in the blue car. It is a relatively mild .030 over 5.0 with GT40X heads, long tubes, etc....with a T5 transmission. The engine has all new internals except for the crank that was just turned to make everything nice again. It has a mild 9.5-1 compression ratio.
One more picture of already long painted parts, the fenders
Trying to pick what's next will be interesting. Maybe I'll just start at the front and work my way towards the rear. So my next post will be the front bumper, then maybe to the hood or the engine bay.
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