Paint Project 2.0

[beachbum]

yeah I really like using the guide coat especially when painting and installing bodykits on customer cars. Most the time these bodykits need alotta work before installing them. I'm working on one today for a mx-6. but yeah I've used other colors before black is my fav though cause it stands out against the gray primer. I've been doing this for a living for the past prob about 3 years thats how I learned. Started out as a helper and worked my way up. Now I do it all from prep to paint. My favorite thing to do is color changes I get to see cars completely transform. Its good to see somebody else on here though that likes to do their own body/paint work.

[328FTW]

I like doing ALL work from paint to custom headlights and engine builds. Basically if it's car related I've dabbled in it. Just wish I could figure out the goddamn oiling issue with my 3sge on meagsquirt, starting to drive me nuts.


Anyway not much to update I've been busy with family gatherings and the weather has been stormy with earthquakes making this country fall into the sea lol. I wore through quite a thick primer coat in a few places just cause this car has had so many touch up jobs and stuff the sanding ripples and layers have added up to make it quite ripply. Smooth as now by the looks in fact was going to shoot the top coats today but the sky clouded and the temps dropped then it started heading towards evening so I just messed around with my racecars.


















Just for David, MR2s can go this low. Pulled the rear springs out





And I'm going to paint that car to but I'm thinking bright Kawasaki green

[Tjzsin4given]

Why green? Interesting choice!!!

[328FTW]

Originally Posted by Tjzsin4given

Why green? Interesting choice!!!

Look in the background of the springless pic, see the rx7? Yeah that lol. I got given 4 litres of paint for it free cause a friend ordered Kelly Green thinking it was dark green when it is actually that colour and I want to use it on something.

[David]

Lol S13s go lower... with springs still in them.

[328FTW]

Well knowing me I can make it go lower using some trickery but I just left it at that cause I was messing around trying to figure out the setup and travel available to me before I start building it up. Also let me make this troll vid

YouTube - 2JZ mr2

And once I got panels on it the car actually looked pretty good for a hack.







Think that but BRIGHT green. And tomorrow the forecast is good so might see some paint action, we'll see.

[David]

@ that video

Digging the Tom's bumper. You have Tom's sides and rear for it too?

[Tjzsin4given]

Ohhhh that's the green! Nice!

[Archidamus-R]

So, anyone have a particular brand of paint they've had good results with, or feel any particular loyalty to?

[328FTW]

Originally Posted by David

@ that video

Digging the Tom's bumper. You have Tom's sides and rear for it too?

Lol nope this is my beater car imma drive it into the ground and it's Denz's bumper I'm using my frame to get the holes in the right place and stuff. On the surface it's cool but on closer inspection the fitment is rather poor, I like duraflex better than fibreglass tenfold. Here is the right hand guard to bumper and you can see the new bumper misses the body line, thinking about how to fix that or how noticeable it is if I ignore it.

Originally Posted by Tjzsin4given

Ohhhh that's the green! Nice!

More like offensively bright and attention seeking

Originally Posted by Archidamus-R

So, anyone have a particular brand of paint they've had good results with, or feel any particular loyalty to?

not 3M, this paint is reacting like nothing I've used before which is funny cause I've used this stuff with great results......before. Car was crazy overkill clean as well. Left what I've done to dry overnight and will play around a little to see if I salvage this paint or redo. I can vouch for Dulon though I don't have trouble with well mixed Dulon, well I haven't yet anyway there seems to always be a first time.


I fu**ing hate when paint decides to throw a hissy fit it just wastes so much time to fix. Especially when I've used the same type on paint on the same primer and had really good results. I can still get the bright green out though



Looks shiny but has little reaction spots. Luck on my side was just water getting past the watertrap on a dry day somehow. Luck not on my side it is rejecting the primer and being a right PITA and trying to drag out my time, effort and patience. I did a few test panels and they were pretty good. Whatever, higher beings decided to try make me look like a noob cause it's funnier.







So while I was bored I kicked around in the car out back and realised it really smelled so pulled up the carpets and almost died. Been sitting outside with rainwater soaking the carpet which was rotting, it is a really bad smell if you ever wondered what rotting mr2 carpet smells like.

[Denz]

Yeah I figured itd have shit fitment, thats better that I thought tho, I half expected it just just physicaly not fit on.
Oh, and GT40 my old hood, I had to cruise around hamilton bonnet less to get that thing

[328FTW]

^ Maybe I'll hack it up later


Anyway I got some better farging paint now. Went and got some PPG paint and it has much better pigments and colour, thought about 2k for a minute but I don't like that so much even if I can get high gloss straight outa the gun no compound. I'd of been doing more to get this done but there is a massive storm at the moment and it has kinda stopped me dead with painting or anything really it's just been horrible. Although I got the engine back in my racecar so I'm going to spend my time wiring that and then starting it up with the new turbo arrangement.

[beachbum]

Originally Posted by Archidamus-R

So, anyone have a particular brand of paint they've had good results with, or feel any particular loyalty to?

I like chromabase paint its from the dupont line up.

not 3M, this paint is reacting like nothing I've used before which is funny cause I've used this stuff with great results......before. Car was crazy overkill clean as well. Left what I've done to dry overnight and will play around a little to see if I salvage this paint or redo. I can vouch for Dulon though I don't have trouble with well mixed Dulon, well I haven't yet anyway there seems to always be a first time.

that sucks about the primer. I know how you feel when your on the last steps of getting a car finished and something goes wrong.

[328FTW]

I'm optimistic, finished resanding today but we are having a hella storm here. Trees have been blown over, blew my car parts off my rack and threw a mkI bonnet around the field. Sold the old tow truck for my racecars really cheap and just before some guys got there another buyer fronted up with better cash so told them "sorry sold" so they threw stuff around then did skids in my driveway before mowing down some fresh planted trees and driving out the gate mother fu**ing **** sucking worthless whole lotta other things moronic ***s, they were quick to take to the van when I when I ran outside to kick their ass. If they had kicked my paint over or kicked the car I'd of run them off the road for it, not the kind of attitude you bring to someones place.

I dunno why I have so many adventures, for a back country shed a lot of things go down there.

[MR JAS]

the meth lab theory is starting to have abit of backbone to it

[beachbum]

well back country might explain the crazy stuff lol.

[328FTW]

Originally Posted by MR JAS

the meth lab theory is starting to have abit of backbone to it

Originally Posted by beachbum

well back country might explain the crazy stuff lol.

They were Mexican if that counts for anything




I got some painting done today, this new paint is solid and covers so well. I painted some trim bits and got the whole car primed. Finally aftwer waiting who knows how long the argon gas for the welder has been filled so I can MIG the bootlid holes. A tractor I'm working on is parked behind it so I can't back it out to warm the panels ready for paint in the sun so it goes on nice but no matter, hopeful the weather is like it was today. The paint is still 1k acrylic but not crap this time, 2 parts 2 way thinner to 1 part paint thinning ratio but I have a BIG tip gun so what I'm doing is about 3/4 to 1 thinning ratio for the first shot and staying around there or 1 to 1 for the next shot then going 2 to one for the final coats, did a test piece like this and came out glossy from the gun no wetsanding and only minor orange peel prolly on account of the big tip gun and pretty thick paint I was laying down.

























328 is also running again but I can't set the timing right cause of the hopeless timing light so I told my dad what I want for my 21st, a big fu**ing timing light that was designed around a strobe light and causes epileptic fits. I would of forgotten it was my 21st soon but I realised that today was the 26th cause I missed the meet I wanted to do in the RX7




As a side note I'm rebuilding tractors cause my dad dislocated his shoulder and he had some things he needed done for customers, protip don't work on tractors. One he asked me to rebuild was a perkins 3 cylinder with chrome cylinder sleeves. What happens is the sleeves wear and the lip up top breaks and they get dragged into the crank, you have no idea how many hours it took me to pick all the bits out cause being chrome they don't break, it just crushed into this weird shape that was wrapped round the rod, block and crank. The oil has also been left in so long the rocker arms are worn and I have to reface them, 2 badly burned valves and I sent the head out for skimming cause 2 cylinders were leaking into each other and took me 2 days to realise the rocker cover was red cause it was so oily and black. It puts a new meaning on lack of maintainance, my dad rebuilt the engine for him 25 years ago so respect for his skills on doing that cause this thing prolly got its last oil change then.

[MR JAS]

you have a birthday?

i thought that date was just the last time you got retrofitted for modern assault capabilities

[328FTW]

Originally Posted by MR JAS

you have a birthday?

i thought that date was just the last time you got retrofitted for modern assault capabilities

Well it is a maintenance update, requires lots of alcoholic solutions of varying strengths and types to determine tolerance and capabilities.


Anyways I threw some white stuff around today and made a mess kinda like an amateur porno.

















See how much better good paint is? I'm leaving it overnight then I can wet n dry and polish to get a better shine going, although it's not bad now just white isn't that deep looking so the pics kinda don't show it. I installed the mig argon gas but I was gapping piston rings and ran out of time to weld it up out back but I'm almost done with the spoiler now so it can go on once I've welded.

[328FTW]

I looooooove polishing. I go a bit overboard with it at times but this time it's cause it makes it a brazillion times better. People kept coming through the shop and trying to give tips and telling me things I'm doing wrong Yes cause it looks so horrid and unprofessional, most of them kept asking about clearcoat and I kept saying it's single shot paint and white isn't that deep a colour that I'd worry about it anyway, if I felt adventurous I'd of gone pearl white and done extra coats but eh it looks fine and with a good polish it won't need to be touched for a while.



I mixed the buffing compound with water in an old pan, gotta keep with my style of using whatever I have right?







Also all the rubber bits like the side intake scoop rubbers were kinda a weird colour from age so I put tyre black on where it was needed and it makes rubber come up like new








And where I've buffed looks so nice










Car is going back together now and I've welded the bootlid ready for the spoiler to install, just got to bondo and smooth it all then paint them appropriately. Tractor should be ready soon once the head comes back so I'll get that together and take this thing for a good spin Also note I painted the inside of the door and stuff so it looks clean