That's just restored Brilliant Black.

 

im going the cheap way too but im doing it ina booth with single stage paint, my freind just did it on his civic and after you wetsand it looks pretty awesome...paints and materials is like 200 but thats alot better than say 500-700

 

7 months and many many washes later and it's still smooth. Plus the wax still shines. Z5 is their regular wax with some way of concealing swirl marks. Maybe filler, idk. I don't think it contains any cleaner. A magazine reviewed a bunch of waxes and found that Zaino looked best after a long time had past. I got 5 coats on my car (3 Z5 + 2 Z2), but even when I did 1 coat on a friend's Beamer it lasted just as long. I had to convince her that it was time to put on a 2nd coat b/c Zaino recommends every 3-6 months. She didn't want me to waste my time when it was still shiny.

My paint looked far better after claying. It went from papery to totally smooth like plastic or new paint. The Zaino just hid the swirl marks and added shine. That's why it's harder to tell where the clearcoat is missing. And my car was a horrible mess before that. Maybe claying the beamer was faster than a machine-polish, but with all the unwashable crud in my paint it took 2 days to clay. I don't think clay contains any abrasives, it seems to just pull the contaminents out. Otherwise I don't see how it could be so much faster than using rubbing compound by hand yet without scratching/swirling nor removing scratches/swirls. I mean, who knows, it might by slightly abrasive like any rag/etc. but it's not significant. I'd prefer clay only because I don't have to bother with a machine ($, learning, etc.) and it won't eat away at your clear every time you do it. That's why repeated buffing is a bad idea. But if you want to smooth a brand new paint job I'd definately machine buff. At the same time I don't see why your friend or anyone would clay (or buff) so often either.

In short, I'd try clay and Zaino before you pony up for a new paint job.

 

that **** came out nice.....i no how u feel iv done all the same steps involved in spray painting cars including my rx7 i had

 

For a DIY paint-job I'd suggest (at a minimum) these things:

~Knowledge of the correct "order of operations" IE, when to do each step
~Knowledge of how to use a gun (or be prepared for a steep learning-curve)
~Large, clean garage with at least basic tools, a workbench and a hose would be nice
~Decent air-compressor with all accessories/hoses/fittings/regulator(s)/water-trap(s)
~Decent gun, suitable for the specs of your compressor, plus all cleaning accessories and a stand for refills
~Wax and grease remover
~Clean rags/towels
~Tack-cloths
~Good lighting
~Several box-fans
~Plastic drop-cloths
~Assorted sand-paper with several different sized sanding-blocks
~Suitable body-filler for dings
~Suitable primer for body-filler and paint
~Dust-masks
~Paint/chemical filtration-respirator
~Eye-protection (or not)
~Lightweight paint-suit (fairly cheap)
~Single-stage paint with reducer/activator/fish-eye etc.
~Several large painting/measuring buckets
~Several smaller measuring cups
~Several pouring (style) cups
~Stirring-sticks
~Paint-strainers

Something to that effect would be pretty close to the DIY mandatory-minimum IMO... I did my first DIY "real" paint-job without knowing what was necessary and it was NOT FUN AT ALL, lol. Don't get me wrong--it turned out just fine when ALL was said and done, but "painting day" was basically a nightmare... Poor lighting, poor, 'undersized' equipment (think air-compressor), "on the job" learning, messy/sticky work-station. I spent several days cleaning up my mess with various wet-sanding sessions. I had tiger-stripes, HUGE sags and runs, tons of general orange-peel texture, dry "fuzzy" sections... Yeah, this was when I started appreciating "finishing and restoration" techniques.

I think my first job was around $400 for paint/supplies/air-compressor rental etc. I would not recommend doing it the hard-way though. I spent well over 10 hours researching and agonizing over the pre-painting details and it was STILL a PITA.

Great forum resource:

http://www.autobody101.com/forums/

 

Ah! So THATS what it was! Boro FC!!!! I'm doing that now that the secret is out, thanks!

And the paintjob is perfect! It's flat, but not TOO flat, I think this would work great on a rally project car!

 

HOLY ****!


Me wants!

 

oops.

 

wow, damn fine for a rattle can. not bad at all for 30 bucks.

 

I'd rather pay someone else to do a proper job with the right tools in a workshop cos if they stuff it up they have to redo it at their expense.

I can understand people wanting to try it themselves and save money, but its not worth the time it takes to do it properly.

Thats just my opinion. I can do without the stress of worrying about the thickness of coats or the temperature or if i sanded it properly or i'm just rushing it to get it finished. And not having the right tools or patience.

 

anyone have this evo mr paint on FC http://home.comcast.net/~sahmto3/Evo..._Evo_IX_MR.jpg

 

Yeah it looks good if your a fan of matt black but i would be keen too see what the finish looks like 6 months down the track

 

Nice work guys, bang:buck ratio looks pretty good.

I've done some "garage body-man" stuff myself, though I did a bare metal strip + bodywork + full "proper" paint system. It's a ton of work and a lot of chemical exposure. I'll be doing it again this summer, and applying what I learned on the last paint job. Luckily I prepped well and just need to knock off a little of the color/clear coats and respray them. My prime/body work was very good.

Nice part about the paint on that car, is it's rather easy to fix any chips/scratches/dings when you have a Rustoleum paint job.

 

Man, where the hell is "michaeli" at? He should chime in on this, with his private heated/ventilated paintbooth, plus teh "l33t sKi11z" and all.

Come on, someone post a likn to that thread! i'm too lazy..

 

Thats cool but not everyone cares to dump $2000+ on a "proper" paint job on a 3000 dollar car, especially if the car will see track days and theres thousands of other performance mods that can be done with the money instead.

Great job to the OP, I'd much rather see rattle canned FC's than crappy chipped/faded/rusted ones. Looks like you took the extra time and effort to make it perfect and it turned out great

 

Well thats great, most of us are weekend worriors.
I could see that if mabey my car was for show.
I'm down with primer paint jobs and zip tied bumpers 4 life.
To many little miss hap's to worry about if you spend more money on a paint job then the car.
Specialy drifting you can't be "MY PAINT JOB!"
I'd want know my car is just protected from rust cause it's like cancer, it nearly imposible to stop it. Primer = Buddy
Keep in mind this is just OPION of mine and quote above. AND I DO see what your saying. You just might have a show car I don't know.

 

^ wtf you took my other screen name, I thought I posted here my self. But then I forgot I have myself super old one for rx7club, that hurts

Sorry for the useless post, but my name: rotoree got jacked. People know me by that name on other forums and I don't want em to get confused.

 

that last pic is so photochoped! LoL

 

huh. i really hope that as sarcasm..............

peace

 

I'm doing this ASAP.

 

no its not look at the side skirt! it looks like a over lay

 

Falt paint will do that... and that pic is so NOT photoshoped!

Except the little logo on the bottom at least!

 

I would say it is..look at the left muffler and the wheel wells.

 

Just looks like he lowered it in photoshop from the wheel wells and left muffler. w/e I used to do it all the time to my old cars when they had stock suspension, just was a little more tidy with the work

-metal

 

i like the flat black