BlackHawk T/A

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Before I found this thread, I would have thought this idea to be ridiculous.

http://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/...0&fpart=1&vc=1

It's a lot of reading, but leave your comments here. I want to see where this goes.

JDP

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thats insane

scrmnws6

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Thats insane. I wonder who else here has tried that.

transambandit

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thats been posted on here before

texasreb18

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thats pretty cool

GM Muscle

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lol, alot of those guys are actually considering rolling $30 paint on there high dollar vehicles.

Hats off to them for trying something new, but I wonder if anybody mentioned to them that you can actually buy decent spray guns for under $150. For the amount of time and money spent on wet sanding that nasty orange peel, and the time building so many coats to achieve coverage, I can't see it being worth it. Plus after all that work your still just left with a SS acrylic enamel. I think I would try it on a law mower like that one guy did. But you wouldn't catch me rolling paint onto that 3rd gen or charger in the middle of a parking lot. lol.

BlackHawk T/A

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Yeah well apparently the trick is this:

-Use mineral spirits to thin it down
-Don't get the paint shaken, instead stir it
-Wetsand between coats
-Work fast because it dries fast

I don't see why it wouldn't work. However I would clear over it.

Cobra2WS6

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Why the hell doesnt he just get it painted... It cant look good up close.. Anything looks good in pics

GM Muscle

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Yes it will work. However, the man time put into it is pretty crazy, from the pics I saw the orange peel is nuts. It's pretty labor intensive wet sanding that every 1-2 coats. How many coats was on that red car 4-5? and he still had to lay down more for coverage. And if you want it to look decent you'll be looking at 3 coats of clear?

I would spray a budget BC/CC and wet sand once before ever doing that. But that's just me.

The best looking car I saw in that whole thread was the integra, and that was factory paint. To each his own.

DirtyBird222

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whatever works for people. looks good through the pictures, i would love to see a high res up close shot tho. I'd rather spend the money to paint my car anyways, although my dad is a painter so I never really ahve to worry about high cost of labor just the paint! I'll have to send this to him, he'll get a good kick out of it!

Sgt. Spuds

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If I had a beater with a bad paint job, I'd do it, but no way on my baby

97PredatorTA

I read that and was going to do my whole beater Blazer like that. I ended up half-*** prepping one side of the car and I rolled on some gray rustoleum, but I didn't have the foam rollers. It didn't turn out very good, but I didn't put to much time into it because I bought the car for $400 bucks to beat on offroad and pretty much just wanted it to be one color.

If you prepped it pretty good, did a couple coats with the right roller, and didn't spend the huge amount of time I would think it would take to wetsand it so many times, I think it would be worthy of a beater car. Its nice that its pretty tough too.

Maybe if you did all the steps he did, it would turn out good, but I would rather buy a cheap spray gun and some cheap automotive paint before I dove into that job and all that wetsanding. Just seems like a lot of work.

All in all, I think I would rattle can the car with some automotive paint before I painted it all with rustoleum. Its not that much more money, a lot easier, and the rustoleum just looked wrong on the car, too dull (I didn't put any clear on, just used the gloss gray). But again, I didn't put too much work into it.

komik

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A guy I work with painted his truck with a regular old paint brush and then sanded it smooth. I have not personally seen it, but have heard from others that it looks great.

Xx01CamaroZ28xX

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WOW!! I think that is the only word that comes to mind when I see that. Simply amazing, that guy has obviously nothing better with his life.

1SicV8

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would that paint work as good on our cars....being the only thing metal is rear quaters and some hoods?

i wont be doin this to my SS, but maybe the beater car in the future. but thats all pastic/fiberglass etc. no metal....

1QUIKWS6

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Everyone now days wants to do/but things that they don't have the money for RIGHT NOW - if they learned to SAVE their $$ for things they want - they could have them done correctly - instead of half-assed at best...

Sprayed1998

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what a joke

Z28-CTYHNTR

Thats actually pretty cool, if I had an old rusty beater I wouldnt mind trying it just to see how it works.

For me, it was never the cost of the spray gun, it was the cost of the damn compressors. Those things are expensive as hell.

steveo346

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Wow Thats Weird

slick1851

Alot of people who do this are Drifters, or Track cars


Just to make the car look decent and presentable since it will get dinged and scratched up