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First of all welcome. Short and sweet there's a couple different ways to strip wash. You can add a few ounces of Adams car wash shampoo to your normal wash bucket (what I normally do), or some people will do a wash using original blue dawn dish soap to strip. My only reserve with dawn is that it can be tough on unpainted plastics and rubber seals after a while. After the strip wash, clay, polish(if you please), seal and/or wax. I really recommend the new Adams liquid sealant followed by some Americana wax.

Welcome, you'll be addicted before you know it.

Quality line-x job is high dollar but will outlast the life of the truck.

I've done this for a friend of mine, I did quick sealant actually. Mind you this was a show truck only so the bed doesn't get used. For a bed that gets used, color matched line-x is the cleanest look.

Thanks Dylan, for all of your dedication, and words of wisdom you've shared in the couple years I've been on here and using Adams. Wish you and your family the best of luck in all your future endeavors.

Sorry to see that, do what you can to total it. I've worked on to many swamped cars. They make look great but when you pull the door panels and everything electrical is green it turns in to a nightmare. Good luck

I agree, not going to happen at least not in any of our life times. I'm a heavy truck and Mercedes van tech and we get so many delivery vans and trucks from all the big companies this time of year trying to keep them running it's unreal.

I've been eyeing similar ones on craigslist and Ebay. This may be just what I need to purchase them. Looks great.

Truck looks killer, and it's definitely protected now.

A little sarcasm not to bad, they had a strong team this year. I follow them and my hometown Reds but they seem to let me down more often than not.

Great looking car, the calipers jump out from behind those wheels.

Great work on the DD mustang. Not nearly as bad looking as some of the driven ones with that mileage.

There's a few money shots in the mix, great looking tbss.

I started off with two cars. The first one was a running and driving 1998 trans am. It had several go fast goodies, such as, ls6 intake, huge cam (don't know the specs), built 4l60, 9 inch w/4.11s, and suspension goodies. The previous owner wrecked the car beyond repair. The floor is wrinkled and the left frame rail is kinked. The second car is a complete shell minus some misc interior pieces and suspension. The goal is to build the roller using everything from the wrecked car. In the process of this, we are reprinting every little piece or bolt to make it look brand new.    The old car.   Exhaust Video   We started off by painting the engine bay of the roller. We decided on sonic blue as the color.    Next we swapped everything on the core support over to the roller.   The nest weekend we swapped rear ends. This is usually an easy task, but like I said I wanted to clean everything up.    Had to add a little flair... So we painted the springs and sway bar. Springs are already replaced with lowering springs.   This was the reason of the death of the wrecked car.  Apparently he went through a culvert, and I'm assuming the torque arm mount caught something and bent the floor and bracket.    Projects     After we swapped rear ends, the motor had to come out of the wrecked car. This was the first time my father and I pulled a ls1. We had it out in about 3-4 hours.     Once the motor was out, we found out the "little" fire that had happened after the accident was much worse than what we had thought.      Fast forward a couple weekends, we swapped the interiors over. Before we laid the carpet down I had to make a patch panel for the 6 speed hole. I also drilled the a4 shifter bracket out of the wrecked car and transferred it to the roller. I put seam sealer between the patch panel and the floor. I made it removable just in case I want to do a t56 swap later down the road.   Before   Sealed   Me laying down base   Then came the dash swap.... I don't think I will ever do a dash again!   A sign of relief was seeing the dash lit up.   95% complete.    On the dashi wanted to something different, but not ricey lol. I decided to paint the ac vent surround body color.      The interior isn't in perfect shape, but I rather spend money on the engine/suspension first.   My dad and I then painted the intake. When the car caught fire, the intake melted some.    Since I'm trying to put the car back together as cheaply as possible (remember I'm on a college budget) my dad took a grinder to the melted part of the intake.    After he did this, I Thoroughly inspected the last two runners for any cracks, holes, distortion, etc. The runners were perfectly smooth on the inside. Next my dad smoothed the whole intake out.    Add some sealer, base, and clear, a voila a chiny intake.     [url=http://s680.photobucket.com/user/xbozox/media/4b881d9d568f176793c21fd4fc4c1852.jpg.html]  
Then I did something I never wanted to do, I sold my Tbss.   Fast forward a couple of weekends, I pulled the k-member and broke it down. Cleaned everything up and painted it with Por-15. Cleaned both sets of calipers up. One set I mounted on the car, the other set I broke down for powder coating. I also pulled the motor and trans off of the old k-member and started to clean all the gunk off of it and got it pretty much ready for paint.    Threw the bumper on just to see what it's going to look like.   Up she goes.   Old nasty front suspension.   Cleaned and painted. Don't mind the sway bar, that will get painted.   Looking all purdy.   I don't have an engine hoist, so I had to improvise.    I ordered all new gaskets, knock sensors, knock sensor harness, plugs, plug wires, balancer, balancer bolt, ARP intake bolts, cam position sensor, injectors, harness, and a few other misc items. I'm also getting the headers coated at polydyn located here in Houston. It's crazy how fast all the little stuff adds up.   Then last weekend. I painted the motor, and reassembled some of it. Put new knock sensors and harness, oil pressure sensor, cam position sensor, map sensor, plugs, wires, gaskets, and injectors. Pushing to have the motor installed by next weekend. 
      That's were it sits today. Once the motor is installed, then comes the fun part, PAINT!

I'm with lf Fairbanks take it to the dealer if not a reputable body shop and at least get a couple opinions and another estimate. I work at a dealer(not in the body shop) and I've seen this many times. Short cutted you because they have done this to others and got away with it to comp their bottom line from underbid jobs.

Fantastic results as always. Dramatic turn arounds always show the true power of Adams. Look forward to more updates.

Looking great, have to love plastidip

^^^this espcially if you have tinted windows

Had them on my cherokee when I first got it (only drive off road), they didn't do bad in the snow wouldn't use them on my daily driver. I've heard they wear pretty decent, fairly hard compound. I traded mine for some nitto mud terrains. Little bit of a small tire company but I have hercules terra trac a/t on my silverado and they are pretty solid in snow and a little bit of mud.

Completed this 100th Anniversary Harley Fatboy on Sunday.  2003 bike with 3100 miles on it, has been covered in storage since 2005, overall in pretty good shape some small spots of coating failure started on the wheels.  Bike is owned by a good friend of mine, it was his fathers bike he rode regularly until he lost his battle with cancer.  Only time it was uncovered was once a year to change oil and gas in it.  Got it running last month with only a new battery and fresh fluids, Mostly stock bike except for backrest, rear foot pegs and screaming eagle pipes.  My first clean up and polish on a bike, chrome came out pretty well.  Used all Adams products on bike, lots of metal polish, revive, and quick sealant. Some of the pics are cell pics, my apologies.
 
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Didnt get any during due to time restrictions but got a few completed:
 

 

The air cleaner picture is probably my favorite of the day.

 

 

 

 
Thanks for looking
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Completed this 100th Anniversary Harley Fatboy on Sunday.  2003 bike with 3100 miles on it, has been covered in storage since 2005, overall in pretty good shape some small spots of coating failure started on the wheels.  Bike is owned by a good friend of mine, it was his fathers bike he rode regularly until he lost his battle with cancer.  Only time it was uncovered was once a year to change oil and gas in it.  Got it running last month with only a new battery and fresh fluids, Mostly stock bike except for backrest, rear foot pegs and screaming eagle pipes.  My first clean up and polish on a bike, chrome came out pretty well.  Used all Adams products on bike, lots of metal polish, revive, and quick sealant. Some of the pics are cell pics, my apologies.
 
Before:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Didnt get any during due to time restrictions but got a few completed:
 

 

The air cleaner picture is probably my favorite of the day.

 

 

 

 
Thanks for looking
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Sounds like the right place to start being at headquarters. Welcome

Nice group of cars at the show, variety.  Three things jumped out 1. Hopefully those towels were not used on anything but one of the rat rods, 2. The slam factor of the 49 merc, 3. Is that apache covered by linex?...thanks for sharing and sucks about the display

Thanks man!  Definitely not trying to "rewrite" any history books.  Just want people to be able to "meet" me & hear my convictions.  Period.  I appreciate that buddy.
 
LOL.....??  6' on the nose.  But I know what you mean....sometimes you "picture" people a different way....lol.