Finally the car is back!
 

Hi guys, got my car back from the painter. What do you think?

Any closeups in direct sunlight (or is #3 that?)? From what I can tell it looks beautiful with no orange peel (unlike my Mazda 6... ugh...).

A new day is dwaning
 

Yeah, they did an excellent job of painting it. They used what was called a glamour clear for this job. Wet sanded and polished etc. Looks better than new. I will see if I can get some more pics in direct sunlight.

Airbrush
 

If you notice in the 3rd picture. The emblems are airbrushed on. Makes polishing alot easier.

JKL Engineering Carbon Front Lip
 

I attached the JKL Engineering carbon fiber front lip tonight. It was installed on a pre 99 spec bumper cover. The only modification will be to drill 2 holes in the cover to support where the brake cooling air enters. Other than that it fits very well. Next task is the installation of the rear bumper brackets and bumper.

Rear Bumper Install
 

Finally moved to installing the rear bumper. I'm leaving the cover til after I've installed my rear view camera and remote radar receiver. Here are some pictures of installing it. The biggest pain was running the wires through the bumper.

Rear Hatch
 

OK now that the rear bumper is on I went ahead and put the rear hatch trim back on. The only issue here is just making sure you put the main hatch piece with the light on first, then the side plastics and finally the rear cross piece. Everything just clips into place.

that looks good

hatch trim
 

Thanks for the words. It's getting a little more exciting everyday. Can't wait til the day she is complete and I can run the beast. My plan is to finish putting her back together this year minus the engine. Then next year the engine build begins.

What the name of the place that painted your FD? Was it insanely pricey? Overall that looks great!!!

paint
 

Yeah the paint came out nice. It's not a 100 point paint job. But much better than factory. Plus I had the engine bay done, the front crossmember and steering rack as well. I brought the car to them pretty much as you see it. They took the doors, hood, fenders and rear hatch off. They used what they called a Glamour clear. The body shop was Nissens in Palm Bay, FL. The total including all the extras was right around 6K. But it really does lok nice.

Updated dashboard
 

Well it's been a little while since I updated this. Not much of real interest. Installing the interior, some under hood stuff. Brakes, wire harness etc. Boy are there alot of connectors at the driver side footwell. Still cant find the connector for the flashers.

Anyway here is what my dashboard will look like. Where the radio goes is going to be a 7" touch screen.