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I decided to build my own booth out of a tent from wal-mart, drop sides on it, wet the floors and were going to shoot this ************ with paint. Who cares. Why not take risks
Pblocked all the panels, built a booth with evacuation fan, taped and prepped the chassis, and painted the chassis all in 6 days. Paint came out decent but it has some humidity solvent pop. Ended up reaching 99% humidity by time we shot the car with clear and couldn't leave the booth up because of time restraints at the shop on access. Shot it anyways and some of the clear solvent popped from having humidity on surface. Was able to lay 5 coats. Probably around 12mils of urethane clear and today will try to wetsand it with 1500 grit and see if we cant knock the little dimple pops off the surface. A good paint job will require blocking flat to remove orange peel anyhow so if this works I'll consider it a major success. If not, the **** it, I'll knock it back w 600 on an interface pad and flow coat it with another 3 coats for 20 ******* mils.
making progress at light speed but its still not fast enough. I want to go faster and get more **** done. Party hasn't even started yet. Were just warming up
Because i want 100% perfection, i'm unhappy with the surface of the clear coat. Too many imperfections and not worth the time wetsanding for hours and polishing. So i went ahead and said **** it and took it all down with 400 grit, in some areas it knocked through to the base, which would only be possible if there were slight high spots. So now the **** is even smoother than before, and ready for a little base dusting and another 3 clears for ******* thick *** clear in entirety. Going to build a cleaner booth setup, possibly out of a 20x20 tent with weather sides or etc. This is my only chance to **** around with paint on a car like this and spend this kind of time and money on paint equipment so I'm going to take the opportunity to be completely insane, **** average and **** easy. 10am to 4am this morning getting her sanded nice a smooth. She's ready for another shot at it. I'll have to say I'm proud of how well it turned out apart from the few fish eyes from humidity / contamination. Live and learn. The great news is that the chassis is 99% covered now in black base and only 5-10% of it is burned through, so most of the respray will be clear over clear and maybe we'll reach ******* 30 mils. Gives nearly bulletproof clear coat layer for future cut/buff/scratches.
Last edited by Monsterbox; Jun 5, 2018 at 09:55 AM.
I'm not familiar with painting, but if humidity and temperature are important I'd suggest checking the hourly forecast from weather underground. Even if it's not perfectly accurate, it should give an idea for humidity vs time of day.
There is way more than people think that goes into a quality paint job. If I were you I would call around and see if a shop would rent you booth space. Humidity and ambient temp play more into how your paint job will turn out than you think. It also looks like ether poor panel prep or contaminated air supply, you have fish eyes in the paint which are almost impossible to wet sand out without a re-spray.
i like a challenge of shooting it outside, and if it wasn't for the contamination issue the paint would have been perfect, and that means ill have a cheap and effective system to paint stuff later. Going to give it one more shot before resorting to booth.
I'm going to try a oil filtering unit on the compressor and give it another go, i have suspision that oil from compressor was making it to the gun. Eitherway Ill have Fish Eye Eliminator additive on hand this go around.
I really appreciate the time and detail you are putting into this build and the time you are taking to share with us. I wish I had the time and patience to do the same with my build. Best of luck and hope to see that beast some day.
What's more impressive to me than this already amazing car is Zach's work ethic and time management skills. You guys realize he's doing all this while holding down a full-time job, a well-paying job. That to me is the most impressive part of this build. I would venture a guess that most of us would take years if not a decade to get this far in our respective project cars.
What's more impressive to me than this already amazing car is Zach's work ethic and time management skills. You guys realize he's doing all this while holding down a full-time job, a well-paying job. That to me is the most impressive part of this build. I would venture a guess that most of us would take years if not a decade to get this far in our respective project cars.
man ! this is beyond perfect ! is there by any chance that you build me one just like yours ?(or if you ever wanna sell it please let me know for sure) cause with the sources that i have over here and with the shop over here, something like this will never be able to accomplish it ! Im currently building a 3 rotor but damn after seeing your car, just makes me wanna get one just like yours !
man ! this is beyond perfect ! is there by any chance that you build me one just like yours ?(or if you ever wanna sell it please let me know for sure) cause with the sources that i have over here and with the shop over here, something like this will never be able to accomplish it ! Im currently building a 3 rotor but damn after seeing your car, just makes me wanna get one just like yours !
thank you i appreciate that, it is a alot of time and hours but for right deal / price i wouldn't definitely be interested in the idea
please let me know for sure) cause with the sources that i have over here and with the shop over here, something like this will never be able to accomplish it ! Im currently building a 3 rotor but damn after seeing your car, just makes me wanna get one just like yours !