Subframe rebuilding pics

[crazyfireman]

I Picked up a nice subframe from a buddy of c130fe here locally. He had already sandblasted it. I cleaned it thoroughly with POR15 Marine clean and used POR15s gray. I absolutely love the way it turned out, hopefully it will be as durable as they say it is!!! ( once this stuff dries on your hands, it is there to stay!!)

[Damn True]

Wow, that is impressive.

[fathomgreen69SS]

I thought that I was the only one with a gray subframe and was starting to feel kind of dumb. Here are some pics of mine. I have since gotten some GW upper control arms and am about to get the matching lowers too.

[crazyfireman]

Looks like that is POR 15 also, is it??Is it pretty durable?

[ilovefirstgens]

that stuff is STRONG ive used it on a few places on my car and no problems, also ive got some pants (i happen to be wearing them now) that have a stripe on them when i bumped the wet sub, i painted it over a year ago and wash the pants once a week and its as black as ever!

[crazyfireman]

I just took a hammer form 3 foot away and smacked the @#$@~ out of it and it didnt phase it. I think this might be the trick!!!

[130fe]

That subframe looks like it turned out pretty good. We are doing that show tomorrow in Destin (at Baytown's wharf), give me a call.

[crazyfireman]

I am at Choctaw beach FD, if you get bored on the way home take the sceneic drive and stop by!!

[67Steven]

Crazyfireman-
Did you spray that on or brush/roller it on? How did you get inside the frame rails?

Thanks,
Steven

[crazyfireman]

I used those cheap little sponge brushes, and stood it on end and poured some in and just did the best I could. I covered atleast 10" in on all ends with a paint stir stick taped to the brush.

[fathomgreen69SS]

Looks like that is POR 15 also, is it??Is it pretty durable?

No I didn't use POR, I used an industrial coating called ALK 200 it was about $30 for a gallon. I laid down an epoxy primer and then sprayed 4 coats. It is tough too, I gave it the old hammer whack test a few times and it has also experienced a pretty good bit of unintentional abuse also. All in all that paint job cost me about $45. Of course I saved money on the sandblasting because I have access to a blaster at a friend of mine's machine shop; So I blasted it myself free of charge.

[crazyfireman]

Looks awesome, when you plan on putting it back in the car??

[fathomgreen69SS]

It's actually back in the car now and the body man started body work this weekend. He aligned the front clip and will begin the quarter panel replacement this coming weekend. When all of that is done in a couple of weeks, I am pulling the subframe back out and doing my firewall the weekend before it goes to the paint booth. I'll post some pics of the body work in progress after this coming weekend.

[crazyfireman]

sounds great, what color are you doing the firewall??

[fathomgreen69SS]

I'm going with a semi-gloss black on the firewall.

[BuddyP]

Awsome! I started rebuilding mine with the subframe. I almost went POR but decided to powder coat instead.... also went with a dark grey with a hint of metallic. Here's a couple pics....

[crazyfireman]

Do you have the subframe in your house??? Or is that the coolest gargae ever??

[trapin]

I had bad luck with POR-15. Turns out I didn't use the Metal Ready first on my frame and now there is rust coming through the paint. I did 2 coats and handled that stuff like nitroglycerine. Funny thing is...they don't stipulate that you absolutely MUST use the Metal Ready on the frame no matter what. All they say is to use it to etch the metal so that the paint sticks. Well...my frame was already rough when I had it stripped so I didn't see the point. I wish they would have had a disclaimer or something on their site (or hell, on the can) that said to use the Metal Ready first.

Now I gotta take the damn thing apart and have it bead blasted again.

I coated the inside of mine with an undercoat sprayer from Eastwood. Worked great. I just hope the paint in there holds up because I'm not blasting it out.

[BuddyP]

Do you have the subframe in your house??? Or is that the coolest gargae ever??

LOL! Yeah it's in the house while the garage get's redone and finished off.

Tony, that sucks... that POR must be a byatch to blast clean too.

[JMarsa]

Tony,

Why not dip it? I just paid $35 for a jumbo sized quarter (door jam to trunk w/ complete wheelhouse) at Intl.

--JMarsa