Kate and I got to bed around 1am and we slept like a sack of dead babies. The next morning felt like it came too damn soon and around 7am, we were up to start it all over again. Meanwhile, Operation: Poopchute Watch was still going horribly with no movement at all. I called the vet and they told me that if the troops weren't advancing by Sunday we would have to bring Carson in for invasive procedures.

Kate had some homework to do so I lit a candle for Carson's anus and went to Jason's on my own to be later met by my partner in crime. When I first got in the garage we noticed this cool lil dude on the floor who was a casualty of the swap =(


The brake booster was being a pain in the ass so along with Will, Jason and Bubba, we managed to use brute strength to gank it free along with the ABS unit.


I decided to take a breather and take some pics for the MK3 forum to drool over namley being Jason's wife's MK3 cabby with a 20v swap and way too much custom fabbing to list.


After Jason took his time labeling the harness, it was finally out.


Midday, some of the Manassas crew showed up with their homebuilt madness.




One more bunny for good measure...


Roxy was ready to be power washed so we pushed her outside while I bagged and masked everything up.


(Special note to 602 Matt, don't hate on the socks and camo mang, it was my "getting' dirty gear"!)


Fucking hell Bubba is a big boy ;)


This is when Kate's pop's power washer came in wonderfully. He was gracious enough to let kate borrow it for the weekend and if you know any dads set of tools, they are incredibly hard to part with so again, THANKS Poppa H!

Bubbs started washing but the hose was too long to get enough pressure so instead of potentially killing the motor, we stopped it immediately to get closer to the faucet.




Now we were ready to rock.


After all was said and done, we were finally ready to paint. While we were waiting for Scott and Kate to get back with food, we set up the "paintbooth". And by "paintbooth" I mean "totally awesome-yet-highly-not-healthy paintbooth" consisting of a tent, two tarps, a few fans and some filters. I'll tell ya what though, if you see me at a show, you will see that with this booth and Bubba's skill, the paint is FLAWLESS.







At this point it was getting close to 6pm. 7 hours after I told Bubba when the car would be ready to spray. His old lady was certainly going to give it to him if we didn't hurry up so the pressure was really intense at this point. The booth had to be finished, the car had to be masked and scuffed and the paint had to be mixed. All the while, M-Town was in the next bay trying to fix a busted wheel bearing.

A little JKREW history but back in the day I used to throw parties and this was so similar to the last hour before the doors opened that it really reminded me of the butterflies one got getting everything ready for a crowd of unruly ravers outside the warehouse. Bubba was mixing paint, the radio was on and I was rushing to get stuff masked. I overheard Bubba tell one of the guys that he wondered if he could crank the radio and after it was turned to 11, the butterflies all came rushing back.



The music was blaring Janes Addiction and we finally sealed Bubbs in to do his thing. All the while I felt like Kate was inside a delivery room giving birth. I really couldn't help myself from pacing outside and trying to resist the urge to sneak a peak.

This was all the while everyone else was outside without a care in the world. Meanwhile I was having kittens haha



The master coming out for a break in between color and clear.



After all was said and done with, Bubba was finished and rushed home to take a verbal beating from the missus, patch things up and still have a nice dinner so that was a good thing. Kate and I left everything sit for the night while the worklights baked the bay and that was that. We still have a SHITLOAD of work to do but I suppose this was the hardest part of the project. I know putting back together will be a bigger bitch but I am quite confident that Jason can lead the way with this phase of the project.

I had a fucking blast this weekend. Drank some beers, learned how VW's are put together, killed some braincells but most importantly, hung out with friends who really live for this type of lifestyle as mush as kate and I do.

And lastly, the paintjob... I present to ya Roxy's new bay in glorious Tea Green with custom one of a kind eggshell clearcoat finish =)

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