Someone I recently met is willing to teach me how to paint my own car, while helping me do it. He has been painting cars for like 30 years, and so this is a pretty good deal for me. My paint is terrible right now, and I really want it to be done so I won't be as embarrassed to show it to people, especially other Rx7 people. The people who owned it before me f*cked it up majorly. I just need to know what I should order, like from a paint store. I'm going to go with Montego Blue again, but I was thinking maybe more blue this time than green. I hate green cars. Well, any suggestions would be helpful...I probably won't get around to doing this any time soon.

Thanks,
Tyler

 

I am a fair amateur painter, I've done a lot of small projects but nothing as big as a car. I used to build and race high performance radio controlled boats and would paint them, I preferred IMRON polyurethane enamel.

Painting a car is no small deal. To do it right you really need a paint booth. Believe me, every gnat and other small insect in the world seems to LOVE fresh paint!

Proper preparation is the key, get all your body work PERFECT, do all your priming and sanding until the car looks PERFECT in primer. We are talking wet-sanding down to at least a 600 grit if not finer!

Now you get to decide on your paint. There are enamels and lacquers, to be very basic. Any good paint shop can show you a variety of colors and offer advice.

When I get the chance to repaint my car, I will have it done by a shop I trust, and I will likely use a paint by DuPont called CHROMALLUSION, it is an awesome color shifting paint. Of course at $300 a I will have a few grand just in paint alone!

 

I actually will have a booth - and am getting a free paint job by an experienced painter. He is a friend of my mom's and promised me if I get good grades this semester (piece of cake) I will get a free paint job

 

By the way, I don't know if this color is the stock Montego Blue, but it's exactly what I am looking for:

How do I get that color?

 

damn those wheels are sweet

 

If I understand this correctly you are going to create your own Montego Blue from scratch? Wow. Would it still change to green (but not as much) or just stay blue? Just blue (with no green) should not be too hard to achieve.

I believe that mazda sells the MB paint but it is all premixed so more blue would probably not be duable, because you have to get the right shade of blue to add. Remember thaat they are mixed colors, so the shade of blue is actually different from what it looks like once it's mixed.

 

Oh, see I didn't know it came pre-mixed....for some reason I thought that the paint code just corresponded to a formula...oh well. I guess that'll be fine, then. It'll probably look 10000x better with a new paint job in regular MB than it does right now, anyway.

 

I've read about Supra owners painting their cars RSP (Royal Saphire Pearl) without the "Purple" and more blue (Similiar story to yours...).

I'd simply explain your story to a paint shop, I believe you'll be able to sample different amounts of blue.

That blue Rx7 looks like the Supra color "Baltic Blue":

 

Baltic Blue is almost the exact same color as Montego Blue:

 

A MB to Chromalusion respray actually works out pretty well...

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My painter didn't want to unleash the electrical gremlins in the engine bay, so he did as much as he could. The remaining MB is almost unnoticeable on a quick peek into the engine bay.

-E

 

Chromallusion gets old fast IMO, to me it's not exactly a sports car thing.

Whats more tastefull *IMO* is 2 similiar colors, like MB is from the factory, or RSP is on Supra's. Any opposite colors that make the car shine like a rainbow in an oil puddle isn't in my favor.

 

lol.

Well...*to me* it has yet to get old, even after 18 months.

Why not a sport car thing, out of curiosity? Is there a formula for what a sports car should be painted like?

It's actually pretty cool. There are days (depending on sunlight) that the car really just looks plain purple. Other days it retains almost a Corvette dark blue color.

To each his/her own though. That's why they make different paint colors.

In any case, my initial point was to let bajaman know that an MB to Chromalusion (True Blasberry) respray should convert very well if he ever wants to do it on his car.

-E

 

Agreed, it's more of a stereo show car color than a sports car color.