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Update to my last post in Jan....car is now about 75% done. Pictures are on the XKE Data website at XKE Data - Keeping track of every Jaguar E-Type - Jaguar E-Type (XKE) information, articles, photos and register. Type in 1E35691 in the 'Car Search' block.
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Update to my last post in Jan....car is now about 75% done. Pictures are on the XKE Data website at XKE Data - Keeping track of every Jaguar E-Type - Jaguar E-Type (XKE) information, articles, photos and register. Type in 1E35691 in the 'Car Search' block.
nice photos on xke data site- very cool that you painted this one in the garage- did tha work out well for you? very, very tempted to paint body myself after engine bay is done and engine re-installed
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Thanks.....yes the garage worked great as a paint booth. Biggest hassle was removing everything and getting it sealed with plastic and cleaning and cleaning and cleaning. I sealed all of the joints with house wrap tape. I used furnace filters along the bottom of the garage door and at the other end for cross ventilation with a small fan outside pushing air into the garage thru the filters creating positive pressure.. I used a low pressure gun and had almost no over spray. I shot 4 coats of base and three of clear so that I'd have lots of room for color sanding but it came out so good that I've not had to do much. It will never be a Pebble Beach car but that was never my intention....this one's a driver.
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Yes, I painted all of the sub frame separately with a single stage paint. Not sure if that would have any effect on the grounding but I learned long ago to add lots of additional grounds to British cars....so I added a ground strap from each side of the subframe to the body...as for paint, I used Sherwin-Williams 2nd Dimension system. Really like how it went on and the depth and gloss....time will tell the rest of the story.
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Yes, I painted all of the sub frame separately with a single stage paint. Not sure if that would have any effect on the grounding but I learned long ago to add lots of additional grounds to British cars....so I added a ground strap from each side of the subframe to the body...as for paint, I used Sherwin-Williams 2nd Dimension system. Really like how it went on and the depth and gloss....time will tell the rest of the story.
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I'll be the first to admit that I go overboard with grounding. That being said, you're right, all that you need is clean bare metal at the connection points and a strap between the two points....DO NOT drill any holes in the subframe!! I used the motor mount attachment bolts...not the engine to mount bolt...and zip tied the strap back to the torsion bar mounts on the body tub. Be sure to use additional ground straps from the engine block to the frame when you get to that point. Hope that helps and good luck with the painting.
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and one othe thing, just to get to the depth of my inexperience on this one....why positive pressure into the garage instead of negative- i always assumed i would be exhausting fumes but i am obviously missig something here- thanks- and btw, when you say small fan, box fan or what?
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