ECKO1980

I am in the process of gutting my TIIs interior and removing all the tar. the car will be getting racing seats, harnesses, cage ect.

I want to paint the interior so it dosent look so nasty. This isnt my daily driver just a project but I still want it to look good. I cant afford to take it to a shop and have the inside profesionaly painted and spray paint will chip off.

I am thinking about using this on the inside: http://www.duplicolor.com/products/truckbed.html

It is made for coating and protecting a truck bed and is a vinyl polymer coating. can be sprayed on or rolled on. What do you guys think of this Idea? I deas from other people that have striped there interiors would be appreciated!

Bob_The_Normal

I'm interested in this also...

Are there any spray paints or just easy to use paints in general that can withstand the heat of the engine bay and the slight chassis flexing that probably goes on?

--Gary

crashdummy

talk to 1fastrx7turbo he did the same thing and it looks pretty good

Bob_The_Normal

Wait, looking around their site those guys make auto-paints, and high-temp engine paint...

Why not use that? Is it really expensive or something?

EDIT: Hah nevermind.. I get it... interior as in the back hatch area without carpet... so you set something down and bye bye paint. I got ya.

--Gary

JDUBrx7

why the hell wold u strip your interior and then spray on a truck bed liner. Its prob heavyer...............

BlaCkPlaGUE

The only way the paint will chip off is if you don't use a primer or you paint on a dirty surface... Heat will melt and burn the paint, not chip it.

There are high heat paints available that have a primer sort of mixed in, you don't have to prime the surface for it to stick properly, but it costs about 8$ a can. Its not that expensive, but the finish is no where near as good as what a regular paint can give.
I use the heat paint from canadian tire on like all my engine parts, it holds up very well, up to 500F. the paint that I use is also duplicolor.

That roll on stuff might look better, it will sort of naturally fill any scratches or small scuffs and dents, giving the interior metal a nice clean look to it. If you can roll it on, im assuming its fairly thick, but that sounds like the best way for a metal interior. Good choice.

digitalsolo

iTrader: (2)

Yeah, that's a good point... that bedliner is quite heavy. It's somewhat ironic to go through the trouble of stripping the tar out, just to spray a rubberized tar back in...

2ndGen.rocket

The bedliner can't be any heavier than the weight of that 2 pound can that it comes in, and that's not much at all. You can make up for that weight by not eating lunch or something, damn. He's not driving F1 in the thing.

ECKO1980

Exactly! It looks like it comes in a 1 gallon can and says that it will cover a pickup bed so im sure I proably wont need the whole thing. at most what 3lbs??? most of you carry more than that around in your cubbys behind the seats. im not building a show car I just dont want the interior to look like **** after I rip all the stuff out. If I dont like it I can laways put my interior back in around the cage.

jprx7

A friend of mine wanted somethign tough for a truck bed but is really cheap so he went to tractor supply company and got some heavy equipment/implement paint and rolled it on really thick in the bed. It's been on there for nearly a year and hasn't scratched yet... just another idea.
Patrick

wickedkin6s44

Ha Ha LMAO!!! Good one fellas...it'll look nice man go for it!

Impreza2RX7

You're in the process of gutting your interior? My friend and I gutted his FC today extremely quickly, a claw hammer will take the sound deadening out extremely quick, and we didnt create one gouge in the metal. The stuff just chips off for the most part..

digitalsolo

iTrader: (2)

actually, it can be heavier then the can is... That stuff undergoes chemical reactions when it dries, may end up heavier then it started.

And you may want to rethink the weight being 3 lbs, how much do you think a gallon of water weighs? More then you think.

Regardless, you're the one scraping out tar to save weight... You think the bedliner is light, and the tar is heavy?

locketine

I'd just get it painted with gloss paint and a couple extra clear coats. it'll look better than a truck bed in my opinion.

ECKO1980

Good thought, I will have to look into that.

Actually a gallon of water dosent weigh more than I think. 1 gallon of water weighs roughly 8.3Lbs and yes I know it weighs more than water.

I am gutting my interior because it is usless now, this will be a "fun car" Drag, AutoX, Curvy back roads. It will have a cage and 2 buckets and harnesses. No its not some daily driven N/A that a 16yr old is pulling the iterior out of to make it run low 16s. If I want comfort I will drive my daily driver which has A/C, CC, PW, PL, PS, PM, full interior ect ect ect. I am just looking for an alternative to having the inside look like **** or spending $100 to bomb can it only to have it chip off and re-do it all the time. If any one has a constructive idea please post it.