Daniel Richards

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^^^ where you pricing plasti-dip cans at? they're 6 bucks a can at the home depots around me, but it doesn't matter because you don't want to do a whole car with cans, you want a sprayer setup for that, cans are for small things like wheels and CETA mods.

95Transamkid

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At the home depot here in jersey. Yeah I know that's why it's coming off in the spring I was just bored and figured I would give it a shot. Turned out decent enough compared to where it started at. I knew what I was getting into before but I like to try something's first so I have a better understanding. But if anyone has any tips I'll give you my address so you can send me money to paint it

EuroGeorge

doesnt look too bad

nascarnate326

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looks great given the budget and what you started with.

95Transamkid

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Thanks guys I know it's not perfect. It doesn't compare to real Automotive Paint but the previous way looked even worse. I'm always honest with people when they ask I never tell them otherwise. Come spring I'm upgrading to a wsq hood and 6or splitter. But for today it's time to change the plugs and wires..................

cguth

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when i was younger and broke i painted a new to me cowl hood to match the car as best as possible with cans of spray paint. 6 months later i prepped the hood for paint. everywhere the spray paint was the paint fisheyed. i had to stop at that point let the paint dry and then take it back down to the original base. i hope you have better luck than i did.

witelife

well it def shows you have passion for the car. and I would take that paint job any day over a three colored car. overall I would say doesn't look soo bad and good job*

moderate Z28

What you did is just going to make it way harder for the professional painter to do a good job. Real automotive grade paint does not like cheap spray paint. Its going to cost you more in the end. It was a bad choice, you live you learn. I've painted cars for 16 years.

bad_408_vert

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+10000?

HotWhipT/A

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Leave the GTS blue pearl to me...

I pretty much have to agree. You have zero clue how much hell you'll go through because you wanted to temporarily spray paint it. Take it from me, in my high school years my car needed a full paint job and did it myself. My mistake was listening to some idiot painter that said primer in a spray can was a good idea. That ruined an otherwise decent fresh paint job. The new paint didn't bond well to the primer.

Moral of my little story? I spent over 4 years and hundreds of hours sanding off everything I applied and then some to start fresh the proper way after learning a VERY hard lesson.

wabmorgan

All considered.... it doesn't look bad.

95Transamkid

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Thanks guys. Yeah fir some reason it never crossed my mine at the time to plastic dip the whole car? Oh well I only put two and a half coats. After the second one it was covered well enough so I just did touch ups. There wasn't any need to put like 6 coats on because I'm taking it off in 3months anyway. Plus the hood and rear bumper are getting replaced anyway. I bought two electric sanders and other stuff for stripping the paint down. I plan on taking a day or two to remove it. When I say day I mean taking vacation days from work. Starting at 7:00am and finishing at 9:00pm taking two 1hour breaks. Now that I have access to a garage and air compressor I might just paint this car myself. But we will see how good I feel about it.

ajzcamaro

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This ^. Granted it looks better than a three colored car but its going to cost you a lot more in the long run. Never use cheap spray paint when you're going to have it professionally painted anyways. Going to be a lot of labor hours involved to get it right.

z28SSilvest

This is really impressive I was expecting a lot worse

Orange Juice

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Yeah it doesn't look too bad, I hope it works out when you do the final paint.

BirdsSince16

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Not nearly as bad as I expected. I was actually pleasantly surprised. Wondering how it looks close up though.