I have the same problem, and the crap being thrown from my tires is wearing my paint, badly. I'm probably just going to get the spray on rock guard from Crappy Tire. Anyone have any luck with that product?

Eric what is rock guard? Is it just a clear coat or something else?

Used VHT and got the front brakes done so far last week. Looks much cleaner now I painted the rusty hub you could see behind the wheel, the outer edge of the disc, the dust sheild, and the caliper. I also put in the other hood pin too a few days later, so I actually have 2 now lol.
Uhhk rust.






No more rust

Very nice car man, looks like a lot of time and hard work went into it.

Now you need to slam the front down. Quite a bit of wheel gap there.

Haha thanks. I have put a fair amount into it. But it was in great shape when I got it. I m going outside in a few actually to work on the brakes some more. I decided to match the calipers bronze like the lip. Then If I have the time I ll start on the rears. I want this baby as clean as possible for cayuga!
Mark I know it needs to be dropped. It eats at me every day
I m getting the CF hatch, a BOV then saving for a good setup or coilovers. I just want it lowered about an inch for now.

The stock wheel gap on a 2g is apparently for sleeping in when your car brakes down lmao. Or so I hear

Hell ya it is, pack a little sleeping bag and can crawl right in there.

On another note, I got one caliper done in the same bronze as the lip today. Looks good
I would have done more but I had to make a fort in the wheel well to block wind and stop overspray. Then it started raining.

ROFLMAO!!!

make a fort in the wheel well out of pillows and bed sheets like back in the day. You could have wars with nerf guns with other peoples forts in their 2Gs!

Ahaha all this wheel gap talk made me bust out ms paint to lower my car for free

Now we ve all heard of electrical gremlins, but thats just rediculous! OMG its a wheel gremlin!!!!
oh yeah I forgot what was wrong between the door and fender. It looks messed because the door is open.

Ok its low now I tried doing an inch but it was hard to judge. That might be a bit more. Um yeah WTF i dunno why it went black and white. Trying again... Ok never mind paint made it black and white after I saved it all that work...

I found it THAT funny.

Lol I was playing with that after, I lowered the car on his head causing him to be crushed and the gun broke. But it looked lame so I didnt save it.

Me and my buddies pulled the hatch off and test fitted the CF one for something to do last weekend. CF hatch still isnt on, but about time I put up some pics of it Some Teasers for ya, cars dirty but besides the dull rims you cant tell;)



Im stumped between going wingless or keeping it. Also think the top half is going to be painted black to match the roof.

Lol This is officially my build thread.

I like that a lot, looks good.

How much lighter is the CF hatch, and what is your plan for the rear glass, just going to transfer it over to the new hatch?

Yeah looks good Mike

I'm not sure about painting the top portion though... Won't you see an edge from where the paint ends and the CF begins? Even with the wing on, there's no real.. line to separate the two to make them look natural. At least that's how it seems to me from the last picture.

Paint the whole thing so people don't mistaken it for a wicker basket.

Bashar I ll weigh it all if I can when I put it on, The glass is being swapped, and with all the other things that are priority at the moment thats why I have to just leave it hanging in the garage till I have that money.
Mike if you look at a stock hatch it has a indented line from the rear quarter window to the hatch glass. It would replace that line I guess you could say. Thought about maybe having it have a subtle fade as a transition, dunno yet.

leave that crappy wing off...

Get a CF oem wing and put it on

I ll probably Lower it first, and then it wont look as funny wingless. I dunno though the wing really adds character.
Brandon, I wouldnt do that, too much money I just cant picture it looking right. Ive seen it on a red 2g and it throws off the roofline.

I mean, if you're not going to put on a CF wing with a CF hatch, I wouldn't put the wing back on at all. IT will just make the wing look out of place. CF hatch with CF wing would at least flow, feel me?

Hmm I perfectly understand what you saying. Ive seen it done both ways on red. It got complimented both. Im thinking I ll paint the top half and go wingless. Then some day I can just paint the whole thing and then put the wing back on when I miss it.
At least its not going to rust

Leave it alone Mike, painted CF sucks.

Wrap the roof in cf

Lol I saw someone who did that on tuners! But I d rather paint it. Went crazy today on MS paint, I think it turned out pretty realistic haha:

I ve also done that on video games alot, I like it.

Well the car is in the body shop untill saturday to get the top half of the hatch painted, and the window put in, pictures to come ASAP!

Car was finished yesterday, pics to come! Did good, window installed, top half painted, and replacement door handle painted for 300 flat.

Heres pics of the hatch, more to come but i ll put them in the car pics page


stock bare skeleton weighed aprox 33 lbs, Cf weighed aprox 13 lbs.
Stock struts still work with the weight of the stock glass, and it actually opens itself. Defroster can be re grounded by extending a wire over to the ground wire in the wiper/brake light harness

Nice, looks pretty slick Mike.

Looks great Mike but I really do like the stock GSX wing.

^^ Maybe he'll donate it to help a fellow member in his 2gb conversion....

He's keeping it

I have some tricks up my sleeve though.

Looks ok, is the trunk just a bit open hence the gap? And That half paint job makes it look like it has a trunk and is not a hatch, not sure how I feel about that.

Hmm, I didn't even notice the top half was painted until you pointed that out.

I'm with Brandon, I'm on the fence with that..

Anthony,

http://www.ca.dsm.org/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Main=46304&Number=315603#Post315603

I think he still has that (if you haven't already found one)

Looks good. When I had my CF Hatch installed, I left the wing off and fell in love with it.

Also, get a little tint on your windows (haha if you want, im not telling you what to do) and that car will look wicked.