Ok, I want to paint my RX7, nothing fancy, just a flat black from a rattle can, any tips?
Primer? Brands? Links to other threads or users who have done it?

 

i wanted to do that to my truck, let me know how it goes and i would at least sand it a little

 

goto wallmart and get the 1 doller cans of flat black. Make sure u sand the ruff edges. We did 3 of my friends cars and it came out hella good

 

mad hella good, yo.

 

lol i did this to my mx-3. but i didnt want a FLAT black.. i wanted the satin black .. i bought bumper paint... matte black and i sanded the whole car in 5 steps.... 180 240 320 400 500... then primer then paint... but fixed dings as well

 

post pics asap if you do it

 

If you pick up the latest issue of Modified Magazine Oct 09 I believe, there's an article where one of the tuners actually rattle-cans his entire integra, the results were pretty impressive. They might even be on the website.

p.s. it also doubles as a write-up, not just a "look at this" article

 

I've heard of several people having great turn-outs using duplicolor paint and a roller.

No joke. Roll the paint on. You'll be amazed.

 

flat black on a modern car is never cool.. just looks poor. unless its something old like a 1920's hot rod

if you must, go semi black krylon.

 

def. do satin. my FC used to be painted with the wal-mart stuff. it looked like **** cause the sun would make it chalky lookin after awhile.

 

To be a little more specific, I am going for something like this...




How would I get something anywhere close to this... and can it be done with a rattle can?

 

get some sand paper sand and start sandin away man then wet sandin then go to advance oreilys anywere and dupli color flat black man i done it to mine man and it turned out fine

 

vinyl? ive seen a flat black vinyl'd m3 csl i think it looks soo much better than rattle can.

 

flat black vinyl. soooooo much better than rattle can and less work also.

 

I'll look into the vinyl, but really I'm looking to do something on the cheap cheap, like less than $200... I dont care so much if it comes out great or fantastic, cuz its a track day car not a DD... plus I got alot of younger cousins who I can get to do the hand sanding for free.

 

Take the hood off and set it up against something so you're straight on with it. That way you don't have to lean over it and get shitty spray strokes, i've done it to one of my sevens back in the day and the only thing that turned out shitty was the hood. It was a 86 base with dial wheels, i spray bombed the whole thing including the wheels, and it turned out ****, just make sure you sand her down nice and good, and spray away.

 

That's a hella nice paint job bro

 

I just painted my '87 Sport with the walmart cans, think it was like $.84 a can or something of the sort. I think we ended up dumping about 12 cans worth into it. It looks like ***, but it's about 2000x better than what it used to be. I'll try to get a few pictures when the sun comes out if it's not raining, the ones I took with my phone came out pretty terribad.

 

dont let anyone with greezy hands get around it after if flat black man you cant get them out lol

 

my car still looks like $hit with flat black
its not an easy color to pull off / keep clean

 

thats because the .84$ cans are mostly compressed air. buy the 5$ rustoleum cans and do the whole car with 4 cans and have it look good.

you have obviously never put vinyl on a car

a car created in 1985 is not a modern car.

 

sounds like you've tried it stevensimon... got some pics to share?

 

got any bigger pics of your car? I've always admired it in your avatar

 

i recently painted my 510 flat black cause i was tired of all the colors but i dont have a pic of it.

here is an s13 i rattled while waiting for my front end to come in



this is the fc with the front bumper, fenders and rear over fenders rattle canned



again.. just till paint comes in. also note that nothing is fitted yet. so yeah horrible fender bumper fitment in this shot

 

that reminds me, go flat white! we did a friends s14 in flat white, he bought the car fairly cheap with no front end, sourced parts here and there



after a lil body filler here and there




this was back in 04-05.. car did look a shiton better lol