Paint
This is just the top coat...the interesting bit when it starts to look like a car again.
For anyone intereted in spraying there own car heres some info for you.
I used two pack. Its awful stuff, repeated use will kill you, but since I'm nearly 40 and I haven't used it before I took my chances. I used a disposable overall suit with a hood, latex gloves, pro-quality respiratory filter and goggles. I had two compressors and an air mask, but to be perfectly honest, it was too noisy and I caught the airlines when trying to walk around the car spraying. This with the make shift spray booth I threw up allowed me to keep over spray to a minimum, and not to annoy the neighbours, who aren't that close anyway. I wouldn't advise spraying it in a typical housing estate like a semi detached etc.. I live in a fairly well spaced out place so it was ok, even then though, I sprayed during the week when most were at work and the place was quiet. No one even knows the car's in there and Iv'e nearly finished the build.. My garage will just fit 3 cars in it, even then I'm not sure I'd want to spray anything bigger than a mini in there, and to be honest I'm not sure I'd do it again...but I never say never..
The prep work is here on a different page. The gear I used for painting was as follows.
Compressor: 50 litre, 7.5 cfm 3hp Airmate by SIP
Gun: a £36 Kestrel gravity fed HVLP gun. 1.6 nozzel and uses 7cfm
This was fine and I got good results. I wouldn't go smaller with the compressor though.
Paint: 1 litre of Etch highbuilt primer £7.95
1 Litre of Barcoat £12.95
5 litres of cheap thinners for cleaning the gun and thinning the etch £?
3 Litres of paint £74.85
two pack hardner £22
two pack thinners £5.50
Totalled £141.74 on paint by the time you add the vat.
To paint it I sprayed the door inner where the hinges are, and the inner fitch where the hinge bolts on to. When dry I re-hung the doors and then sprayed the inner of the door and the door shut, then closed the doors then sprayed the whole outside. I also sprayed the boot and bonet inner surface and arches off the car. First with a mist coat over the whole car, then worked around with a coat trying to avoid runs. I let this dry off for 10-minutes then repeated the process until I ran out of paint.
The lat photo above is on its side, its if you look from where the front wheel is up to the scuttle, you see the door hinge bolts.
I sprayed it and got a couple of runs. Can't complain for my first full one though! I managed to polish the run above out though the next day.
After about 5 hours tidying up....
I could look at the roof the next day.... This was white origonally, whoever fitted the previous wing managed to get a load of grinding debris on the roof, these had turned brown when it was in storage and the paint was all chalky looking. I was going to spray it black....but the boss said no...so I tried rubbing it down with some 1500 wet & dry with some water & soap, then cutting it back with G3......the result was brilliant so I decided not to paint it and just restore it.
I'm pretty happy with it. Now to refit........