kumiko44

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I'm trying to find a colour that I can temporarily paint my gsl. I'm not thrilled with the 2-tone paint atm, and would like it to be one solid colour. Is there anything that will be easily painted over?

I wanted to do satin white, but a friend and fellow rotary owner suggested metallic gray instead since gray is easier to cover than white. Will metallic be hard to cover up when I get the actual paint job done? Or should I not worry about it and deal with it when the time comes?

Also, I'm planning on spray-bombing the car (properly, not half-assed. I'm meticulous about things like this, it has to look even and proper), about how long should I expect to take doing this?

TIA!

Red95FD

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Paint it black

kumiko44

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There are too many black rx-7's in the area, it may be temporary paint, but I want it to be different.

Manntis

flat black then

84stock

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Cheaper to buy a duplicolor kit, cheap spray gun and borrow a compressor. Spray bomb jobs are not that cheap and look like ****. Check them out please http://www.duplicolor.com/index.html . I know of 2 "garage" paint jobs done with cheap paint and followup up with wet sanding and polishing that look awesome. It doesn't take much to learn how to spray either. Really worth it! You can buy the paint at autovalue or something similar at CanadianTire.


Oh and sorry Rich, don't know if Napa has the good stuff for this.

kumiko44

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haha noooo no flat black! it looks horrible one of the local guys painted his fc flat black, looked horrid.

hmmm, I'll look into that, might see if my brother would want to go half's on it.

84stock

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Watch the whole video, I had a fb that I matched the paint on the door (big rust circle) and touched up some bondo filled rust holes too. I got the paint mixed after a shop scanned my color and did it in the "driveway", then added a pinstripe to take the focus away from the very slight color difference. Anyone who didn't know couldn't tell. It was a $500 purchase, add a used bra that I had, Kijiji stereo for $30, hubcaps from picknpull for $20 set, $500 in other misc expenses and it promptly sold for $2300. Excuse the poor pic quality, but they are all I have.

Manntis

it can look all right if done carefully.

kumiko44

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True. but I've no experience, so it'll probably look horrible no matter what color I do it lol

GaryHoffmann

Ok say you want to do a spray bomb job that looks allright. You could probably get this done for 150-175 and it will look good.

So do this either get duplicolor wheel paint in the spray cans or get rustoleum automotive metallic.

Start by sanding the car down with 400 grit to get a good mechanical bond.

After the car is sanded down get clean it and prep it with a cleaner specifically for this.

WORK 1 PANEL AT A TIME!

Start with one of the fron fenders as it is the smallest and easiest to sand down untill you get your technique/results where you want them.

Do light mist coats untill you get the coverage you want. Then do one slight wet coat to smooth it out and get it to flow

If you like the panel when it's done, move onto the next one.

I would clear it with the appropritae clear but it all depends on what youe going for. It's simple and you'll probably be surprised by the results.

If you get rough spots or spray lines just sand those back down with 400 grit and wet coat over them. The paint will belnd itslef if sprayed wet.

You can chase out runs with spray cans but I don't recommend this to someone that doesn't know how. Good luck

Deblin

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Neon green ftw.

Just kidding, I do like the gray idea your friend came up with, but I don't know if I'd go for metallic, just not my thing.

84stock

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Go with a straight color, with no experience it will be tough to make metallic look right.