M5150

how could i go about learning how to repaint my car? it was recently keyed, and i would like to repaint it since im very crazy about how paint looks, any books u recomend, or are any of you possibly in the southern california area that could help me out?

1FooknTiteFD

First you need to sand it down, then you need an air gun with a ventilated room and some other stuff. Sorry don't know too much. I sanded down my datsun before painting it and saved a lot of money. I used jasco speedomatic paint remover and then got an electric sander and sanded the car down the the metal and told the body shop to repaint it. An easier way is to just sand it down to the primer, and then bring it to the bodyshop but either way you can save money. hope this helps...

riffraff

i have no idea how to, but want to get my seven repainted to.. depending on how long it would take, it could be cool to get some people together and do a few at the same time...

M5150

id surely be up for that, all we need now is a pro haha

lovemyseven

iTrader: (2)

I want to paint mine as well, and have been contemplating it for a while, maybe doing the hood and wing, then the front end, and then the rest of the car. doing it in stages may be the best idea.

Sharmack

I am in the process of re-painting my white FD at the moment. Attempt re-painting it if you have *****. My car has been out of commission for a few months now. It all started out with a scratch about 1/2 inch long on my rear bumper. After trying to repaint the area with the scratch and realizing how fuc*ing hard it is to get an accurate color match and blend, the whole bumper was repainted and then did not mach the rest of the car. Now I am in the process of re-painting the whole damn thing myself. A word of advice, if you are going to do it, do it right or don't do it at all, once you get the car prepped, spraying (if you have a decent gun and a good paint system) is not that hard. But you will sand, and sand again, and then guess what? You will sand some more. And remember if you have and FD it has that anti-chip **** on the rocker panel area that needs to be addressed. Anyhow, if you car has the original paint and it is adhereing well, you may only need to scuff the surface with either a scotchbrite pad and a cleanser like comet, or 400 grit wet or dry sandpaper. I used a Makita Dual action sander with 220 grit disks followed by 360 and 400 wet sanding. Then I used a primer that was thinned down with a reducer to promote adhesion and provide a unform color to spray over. Use all compatible products from the same maunfacturer, I prefer PPG myself and you can get nice results using some single stage (no clearcoat required for gloss) especially if it is a solid color and not metallic. I am using PPG's concept line of single stage paints. I have had much better results with PPG over Dupont. After you get done with everything, guess what, it will look like ****. The reason for this being that with today's urethane paints spaying without orangepeel is hard to avoid, so then you will have to wet-sand or color sand (as it's commonly refferred to) the surface to get rid of orangepeel and specs of dust or dirt that may be on the surface of the paint. So you may have to sand with 1000 grit then 1500 grit and then 2000 grit till you get a nice smooth even surface, then you will have to use a 7 or 9 inch buffer (like a dewalt 849) and buff the surface to perfection. Ahhh, I can almost smell the meguiars heavy cut compound as I write this. Anyhow, you will have to buff in probally about 3 different stages using 3 different, compound and pad combinations. So in a nutshell, it is a shitload of work, but, it can be done with a lot of patience and *****.