Body work/Paint...ugh.

[TheSilentChamber]

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...glance&s=books

Heres the link, This one of the best books I know that shows body work, as well as general painting techniques. Its strait forward and easy to understand with lots of pictures.

[Synthetic_6]

Originally Posted by TheSilentChamber

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...glance&s=books

Heres the link, This one of the best books I know that shows body work, as well as general painting techniques. Its strait forward and easy to understand with lots of pictures.

Excellent. Thanks again man!
Considering how much body work I have to do on this thing I may be pretty good after all this..

[Juicy05]

Holy fuck those related links are out of controL!

[SSJSubgeta]

Well just to let you know from personal experience, I got a CRX like 3 months ago and i had the same question that you did. I got quotes between 400 to 700 at diffrent body paint shops. I then went on my own because of what everyone said "doing your own work is alot cheaper then paying for it". So I did both the sanding down by hand and the chemichal paint stripper. I got half a gallon for 20 bucks of paintstripper plus the sanding papers (it was a set of 6 diffrent kind) for 15 bucks too. Then i bought a gallon of grey primer for 30 bucks by this small mexican car shop. As for the labor hours it took me 2 weekends to have the car sanded down and paint completely removed and 1 weekend to put the primer on it. As for the color of the car i got a quote from a respectable good quality shop for 200 to do the paint job just bring in my CRX.

$20 Half a gallon Paint Stripper (this is enough for a hole CRX)
$15 sanding paper's (to sand down the little tight spots)
$30 Gallon of primer
$200 paint job at shop
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$265 Total

my advice go get the stuff and do it yourself, it was my first time doing this and it turned out great and way cheaper then i expected, its not rocket science. compared to paying 600 - 800 you save like 400 for other stuff.

[SSJSubgeta]

sorry about the double post but i forgot to mention the body work isnt hard either, just buy sanding paper for removing rust, then use bondo its like a form of sticky puddy, so work with it at a good fast pase you dont want to let it harden while working with it. If you mess up dont worrie sand it down and add more bondo to get it right. I got the rust sanding disc for 5 bucks and a medium size little bucket of bondo for 5 bucks also. I bought this at autozone, good luck

[TheSilentChamber]

Originally Posted by SSJSubgeta

If you mess up dont worrie sand it down and add more bondo

[Synthetic_6]

Originally Posted by SSJSubgeta

Well just to let you know from personal experience, I got a CRX like 3 months ago and i had the same question that you did. I got quotes between 400 to 700 at diffrent body paint shops. I then went on my own because of what everyone said "doing your own work is alot cheaper then paying for it". So I did both the sanding down by hand and the chemichal paint stripper. I got half a gallon for 20 bucks of paintstripper plus the sanding papers (it was a set of 6 diffrent kind) for 15 bucks too. Then i bought a gallon of grey primer for 30 bucks by this small mexican car shop. As for the labor hours it took me 2 weekends to have the car sanded down and paint completely removed and 1 weekend to put the primer on it. As for the color of the car i got a quote from a respectable good quality shop for 200 to do the paint job just bring in my CRX.

$20 Half a gallon Paint Stripper (this is enough for a hole CRX)
$15 sanding paper's (to sand down the little tight spots)
$30 Gallon of primer
$200 paint job at shop
-----------------------
$265 Total

my advice go get the stuff and do it yourself, it was my first time doing this and it turned out great and way cheaper then i expected, its not rocket science. compared to paying 600 - 800 you save like 400 for other stuff.

Hey thanks for the info, I think im going to do it on my own. Unless I can find my old mechanic..

[Hilikus Funkin]

I was thinkin about fixing my car up and all but after my accident I just want to save my money for a truck and then buy an EK hatch later on. This car went through hell with me and now I feel sorry for it.

I would just flat black your car unless you want a NICE paint job. BC flat black looks good IMO

[Juicy05]

I wouldnt flat black it till you get it runnin a lil faster, a flat black car is a big neon flag that says "My cars fast, why dont you come rev on me", my car is half black primer and i get plenty of race happy people, its always nice to be able to back it up.....thats my opinion, but you gotta do what you gotta do right. Youll get enough of that guff driving a honda........but i do like flat black! im eventually gonna do it to my car...............

[turtlecrxsi]

I may do my car flat black... still not sure yet. There's this dude that lives down the road that's been hooking up his crx. I offered him my car when it was messed up but he couldn't afford it (thank goodness for that). Anyway, he painted his car flat black from burgundy and it doesn't look too bad except for the big gaudy 17s and the chrome door/rocker panels. But I can still waste his little d15 when he revs on me. LMAO

[Synthetic_6]

Originally Posted by turtlecrxsi

I may do my car flat black... still not sure yet. There's this dude that lives down the road that's been hooking up his crx. I offered him my car when it was messed up but he couldn't afford it (thank goodness for that). Anyway, he painted his car flat black from burgundy and it doesn't look too bad except for the big gaudy 17s and the chrome door/rocker panels. But I can still waste his little d15 when he revs on me. LMAO

I like flat black also, heard it is cheap to get it professionally done also. But that won't be for awhile..I have another $500 I need to drop into it first..maybe a bit more.