need a cheap, but decent paint job

[nova1313]

yeah id say it's doable in 8 days if you did the following. This assumes you already have all body work to where you want it. Remember cover your garage floor with the brown painters paper!

sunday: wash car, clean garage, leave car outside to dry.
monday: disassemble car (3-4 hours) sand whole car and all parts to be painted (5 hours?), wash car and all parts to get sanding dust off (1 hour)
tuesday: pull car in garage, tape up car windows and anywhere you don't want paint. (1 hour), roll first base coat on entire car and all parts (1.5 hours)
wednesday: roll second coat after it's dry (1.5 hours)
thursday: car out of garage, sand out peel (not through paint!), wash car to remove sanding dust.
thursday night: after car is dry roll 3rd coat.
friday: retape car: if you had good coverage after second coat then just goto saturday's stuff, if not roll your 4th and final coat. (may need 3rd can of paint to do a final coat)
saturday: sand that baby smooth all over wetsanded going from 1000->2000 grit (5 hours). Wash (1 hour), have a beer (assuming you are over 21), reassemble car, rewash any finger prints off crap)
sunday: spend the day polishing! Yes the whole day. A good 8 hours with the orbital then when it's shiney wax it up!

So it's work intensive but go for it. Definately get all your parts you want to put on the car first no need to do the work twice. If you do it right it can look excellent. The spyder because I never finish sanded it is about a 10ft job. Any closer and you can see peel all over. MY friends after polishing and sanding is about .5ft job. You are straining your eye to tell it was rolled or repainted. We spent the time on his. It was worth it. It cost him 80 in paint, 30 in sand paper, drop clothes and sponges. I owned a polisher but that runs about 100 for a good one and everyone should own one anyway it will get more use then just here! +20 bucks for beer/soda

[JScharF]

Did you cover up ALL of the orginal color with yours? Like under the hood etc..? I would really like to do this, I'm poor so it fits me haha.. Any way to get like a carbonfiber lookalike vinyl for my hood? if so that would probably be pretty much amazing.. if that were possible i could probably do everything i want to this summer if i dont make advanced payments

[gthompson97]

I don't think the vinyl would hold up on the hood. The hood takes alot of beating from the sun, rocks/gravel, rain, and the heat from the engine. I think vinyl would end up looking like shit once you got it on. Just stick with what you got. Rolling paint in the engine bay, door/hatch jams would be hard as hell because of all the curves, plus it would be a bitch to sand all of that down...and you'd have to pull off the doors, hatch, hood, and everything out of the engine bay. Not worth it IMO unless it's a $25k show car.

[JScharF]

Originally Posted by nova1313

I think my friends 240 actually looks way better then mine did solely on color choice. Black is crazy reflective even before sanding.

The new blue I picked is much darker. It's called saphire blue. I did my mirrors in it and I think the car will look awesome like that. possibly thinking about spraying my stock wheels black because that would look hot on a dark blue car.

Lots and Lots of man hours though.. But it's a good project when you are bored. I can change the color every year if I had the time and 40 bucks laying around.

I had alot of people I know who have now done it to jeeps they were building for mudding because it's so cheap and durable.

Plus if it gets chipped or nicked I brush over that part 3 times. then sand flat and you can't tell work was done. I had a ding so I bondo'ed and re rolled that part of the door. It took me 2 hours total time and cost me nothing because I had paint laying around. You can't do that with a real bc/cc paint job.

any chance we could see the black car? I'm thinking about black because I got some black headlight housings to match now, and i think if i were to get a CF hood down the road it would look the best with the black.

[nova1313]

I'll try and get pics from him to put up. The last batch he wouldn't let me because his girlfriend was in them. Meh she's good looking

Anyhow I def wouldn't do vinyl on the hood it would shrink and look like crap. I did my door jams. I took off the doors for that, I also did the trunk and the underside of it (but my trunk isn't huge!)

I did semi under the hood as in down the cracks so essentially the entire from fender outside is done... You can't see the red and I'm the only one that pops the hood. I still take it to local meets and show it and I don't really care that it's red...

I know for certain colors there is matching spray high temp rustoleum.. Some people sprayed out door jams and stuff with that and then used the matching brightside paint. But I think that was only for red. Black should match though if it's gloss... You could do the parts of the engine you could get to then but it's still going to be a big pain.

[JScharF]

Originally Posted by nova1313

I'll try and get pics from him to put up. The last batch he wouldn't let me because his girlfriend was in them. Meh she's good looking

Anyhow I def wouldn't do vinyl on the hood it would shrink and look like crap. I did my door jams. I took off the doors for that, I also did the trunk and the underside of it (but my trunk isn't huge!)

I did semi under the hood as in down the cracks so essentially the entire from fender outside is done... You can't see the red and I'm the only one that pops the hood. I still take it to local meets and show it and I don't really care that it's red...

I know for certain colors there is matching spray high temp rustoleum.. Some people sprayed out door jams and stuff with that and then used the matching brightside paint. But I think that was only for red. Black should match though if it's gloss... You could do the parts of the engine you could get to then but it's still going to be a big pain.

Ask him if you can go in paint or something and cover up his girlfriend :P

[nova1313]

http://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/...&fpart=70&vc=1

pictures of black on a trunk and spoiler on this page half way down. It looks great. Very very very shiny. It's almost mirror like.

[JScharF]

Wow...

[JScharF]

I showed my dad... Heres his response:

"You're a FUCKING IDIOT! You and your goofy ideas."

Thats directed at me of course.

[nova1313]

Cost so far: 70 bucks
Time: 35 hours (so far)
Color: Sapphire Blue
Brand: Interlux Brightside TopCoat

1st Coat:
http://novaslp.net/pics/painting/car1.JPG

2nd Coat:
http://novaslp.net/pics/painting/card2-1.JPG

4th Coat:
http://novaslp.net/pics/painting/img_0900small.JPG

Needs 2 more coats plus wetsanding to get rid of peel/roller marks that are left. Then polish this coming weekend. Looks much better then the smurfish color it was before...