*sniffs* is there anything that ii can from my factory paint, to keep it from peeling off like this.. i cant even really wash my vert without some of it coming off...

the hood.

the drivers side door.. yes i tryed to do a fix up paint job but it wasnt working (i didnt put clearcoat on it so it got yellow)

driverside backend

drivers side trunk


notice that EVERYTHING paint wise is happening on the DRIVERS side wtf is the deal!!!!!

 

well if you didnt neglect your paint in the first place and keep wax on it, then you wouldnt have this problem..

 

That sucks i dont think there is really anything you can do buy respray, after you sand off the old paint. I know a guy that does awesome work at his shop in north Houston. Good luck with it and hope you can fix it.

 

btw way i took car of my paint.. it just started doing this, i think that the winter killed it, i had to leave it out for the 1st time last winter and when spring came and i want to wash it, it just started peeling off....... obviously that i care about my car other wise do u think that id be on this site.. asking things about it...

 

Yes, poor FC.

 

even a well cared for paint job can sometimes lead to paint flaking, the late 80's primer sucked ***, you will see tons of Ford, Chevy, Chrysler, etc etc etc and even Mazda with paint flaking off in sheets and the **** grey adhesion primer showing....

the only way to fix the problem is sand the whole car to bare metal and reprimer and repaint it. you can strip it down to the primer and repaint but the problem will only resurface again in a few years.

 

I've actually heard of this happening to TONS of FC's with white paint. Seems like mazda did the worst job with the white ones, don't know why. Even though my parts car has a respray it's doing the exact same thing, but oh well.

 

From my experience, Ive only seen white ones flaking like that

 

yes...the 90 and 91 white fc's are prone to flaking..mazda never recalled them because it took years for this to happen...my last white FC had this same problem...

 

you can try to wet sand it or something.

 

its just better to sand to bare metal and then reprimer. because my 10th had a maco paint job and its already flaking. because macco didnt take off the primer and just sprayed over the primer thus bad paint once again.

so best thing to do is get a new paint job.

 

You can not wet sand what is allready flaked away. She has to strip it to metal re primer and use a base white and then clear it. It will cost $850 or so to have it done.

My bf is striping mine when its time and primering it himself. And paint, painting plus perl will be $350

 

i did the wet sandind as u can see in the second pic and it just started repeeling so thats not gonna work.. but man mazda should have recalled it i could have gotten a free paint jpb or something.. but no.. im not that lucky, i just wish that i had the money to get a new paint job & new tires..

 

hey Capn, why do you have a pic of a northstar in your FC?

i hope you studded the block to keep the headgaskets from blowing!

EDIT:

my god, i read your site and now i realize you are serious....

what in god's name made you decide on a northstar? is it the plastic engine cover that made it look like a nice swap to create a beautiful engine bay? sure the Caddy engines look nice but you will need to do some major mods to the engine if you want to see those numbers and keep it semi reliable. you would be much better off finding a used XLR motor(the new performance Caddy that came out in '05) we gave away about 5 core motors to a aluminum recycler about a few months back, i thought about building them but i figured there was no market for stock engines let alone built ones.

common problems:

piston knock, the stock northstar pistons tend to slap.
head bolts pull out the threads, this is even with the stock power output....
case halves puke oil
what do you plan for a rear wheel drive tranny for this project?

sorry for the threadjack btw

 

complete repaint is about all you can do, new primer and everything.