Got a lot of quality work done today on the car. Got everything primered in about 3-4 hours worth of work and only a few little misteps that caused runs in the paint. The real biggest pain in the butt was just getting all the supplies together and getting started but once we got rolling the painting was really smooth. The primer shows a little bit of orange peel so I have to check in with shop supplying the paint to make sure everything is ok or if I need to resand before laying down the base coat.<br />
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A big thanks goes out to Southern Minnesota Auto Supply as they were awesome at walking us through everything.<br />
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Rob and I got the body stripped over the past few days here and also were able to play around with some of the hardware on the car. I cant say it enough. After dealing with my Ferrari and the complexities of putting that thing together and fixings issue on it this little baby is a dream. I also ordered my carbon fiber fender vents yesterday as well as the rest of the parts and fluids I need to get in her to get the car on the track one last time this year. I'll of course update the blog here when I get the parts in house and show off the nice install process. <br />
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I hope to get the primer laid down tomorrow afternoon and then work my way forward from there, first with the silver nose paint and then with the overall black coat on the car finished off by my little detailed McLaren orange on the nose. Should be a lot of work but I think when she is all done it will be well worth it. Pics attached below of the car during disassembly.<br />
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<p>Spent all day tonight working on clearing and stripping the wax off the DSR this morning and then spent the afternoon with Rob W. disassembling the car and sanding down the nose section and the main body. Going to get to the rear of the car tomorrow and fix the few flaws in the paint then its time to lay down the primer on Wednesday. </p><p></p><p>I have to say the car is awesomely simple the more I take apart. Looking at the frame and chassis with everything off the car is just awesome. Everything is so simple and after walking past the pits at the USGP in Indy the cars from a distance look very similar. Now if only there was a way to find out how to get my Yamaha R1 to pump out 900hp. 
Pictures of the adventure of stripping the car down coming soon.</p><br />
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<p>I have to say the Turkey GP circuit is growing on me every time I see it. The flow of the turns and the beautiful layout is just awesome. I watched quali this morning and of course was happy to see the Ferrari's of Schumi and Massa on the front row, even more so for Massa as I think he is becoming one heck of a driver and will be able to go head to head with Kimi next year when he joins Ferrari. </p><p>Can I say Turn 8 is just a killer! 5G lateral is just insane.</p><p><br />Well off to move a friend into a new house today and then hopefully back to sand down the car and get the old orange paint off and get a few of the larger rock chips filled in. Pictures will be coming of progress when I can make some.</p><p></p>
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<p>So I finally have the color scheme and livery picked out for the Stohr but need to do a little bit more thinking on how I want to actually paint some of the body lines. I am going to go with a metallic black for the main body and then silver for the nose. Very much like the McLarens for last year. Rob and I will be sanding the body down this weekend and filling in any rough spots, followed by actually painting the girl this Wednesday/Thursday with the clear coat going on Friday. I am hoping the coat of paint only adds at most a few pounds to the car which I can maybe save by getting my butt outside and running more. <img src="http://www.trackpedia.net/blogs/john/templates/default/img/emoticons/smile.png" alt=":-)" style="display: inline; vertical-align: bottom;" class="emoticon" /></p><p align="baseline"><br />Here is a little picture for reference of how the car looks before all the stickers were stripped off.</p><p><img src="http://www.trackpedia.com/photos/john/stohr/Stohr_Lotus_007_small.jpg" /></p><p></p>
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Welcome everyone. I am just getting my blog setup here but hopefully will be up and running shortly to let everyone know how my life works and my experiences with my Stohr DSR, my old Ferrari 348 as well as pushing it hard on the race track trying to get myself ready for next years SCCA schedule where I hope to run my DSR competitively at the regional level. Check in soon for more enhancements as I get my head around this blogging thing a little more.</p><p>You can see my forum post here about getting the DSR home for the first time. <a href="http://www.trackpedia.com/forums/showthread.php?t=844" target="_blank" title="Trackpedia">http://www.trackpedia.com/forums/showthread.php?t=844</a></p>
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