Starting The $50 Paint Job...

[Catnip]

Looking good. I should've sanded my BMW down and done this when I had it. lol.


I can't believe there are people giving you a hard time about making the paint look better... especially on a track car.

[santacruz77]

buttsecks?

[VickNotic]

i wanna see the results after .. i have one car i'd like to do myself. and see how it turns out.. and j/w how many sand paper grits stages you go through to get it to smooth out.. 600grits and gradually go up to the highest gritts ? newbie to the sand papers,

[Catnip]

i wanna see the results after .. i have one car i'd like to do myself. and see how it turns out.. and j/w how many sand paper grits stages you go through to get it to smooth out.. 600grits and gradually go up to the highest gritts ? newbie to the sand papers,

I personally wouldn't go any lower of a number as 1000

[Frög]

I personally wouldn't go any lower of a number as 1000

I agree..

[Elbow]

Ok will post updated pics soon, hood is about done, rest of the car is sanded and will be completed asap. For some reason I keep having issues when thinning the paint with mineral spirits now. No idea why. But it's not working lol, so I am going to try acetone or something (on the paint can it SAYS to use acetone but...)

[Elbow]

UPDATE









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Will do another coat later, looks a lot better then it did, so I am pretty happy with it. Here it was a while back (before sway bar too lolol):

[Echonova]

Definitely looks better. Good job mang.

[Elbow]

Thanks homie

[WalkS]

Looks good.

[mushroom_toy]

I think it looks great....if you spend a little more time doing some finishing sanding and buffing im sure it would look a lot better than some of the paint jobs ive seen floating around that are on cars off of here.

[OnURleft]

I think it looks great....if you spend a little more time doing some finishing sanding and buffing im sure it would look a lot better than some of the paint jobs ive seen floating around that are on cars off of here.

+1 Simone. You got the easy part done, now do to the tricky part and make it shine and last.

[BKgen®]

looks pretty good for what you've got to work with, man.

[Frög]

Looks good!

Improvement indeed.

[KillTheCrow]

Great improvement!

[Elbow]

Looks good!

Improvement indeed.

Thanks.

BTW your car sounds sexyyyyyyyyyyy

[alpine_aw11]

I want to do this, but I'm painting my car black and I don't think it would even be worth trying it. Looks great for 50 bucks.

[eg mike]

looks good bro

[Evil Goat]

vast improvement!

[UpSideDownDesi]

it's pink no more. Looking good bro, bout time to make a diffuser for it.

[primespark22]

+1 for the headlight conversion makes the car sexay

[Elbow]

What headlight conversion?

[primespark22]

shyt wrong thread lol but i was going to rep you anywayz lol for having the balls to do it and doing a good job at it

[Elbow]

haha it's all good, thanks!

[RutRoe]

Looks like a great start so far man.

I'm actually going to attempt something similar on my 53 plymouth wagon, sort of like a temporary paint job until I can pay some to put a really killer paint job on there. I basically want to stop the surface rust and look better in my eyes than riding around in primer.

I want to find out if you could change the color of rustoleum, like making a custom color, and although I found you couldn't, you can get an oil based paint just like it at Lowe's and they can tint it basically any color that they make it in.

So in a few weeks I'm going to be trying an almost seafoam color with a white roof on my wagon, so I'll keep you posted on that just so we can compare notes.

I'm really curious to see what different mixing ratios of spirits or acetone to paint do.

And don't let kids who ride around on hubcaps give you crap about it... I know you won't though.

And hey, who's your friend with the killer toyota truck in the background ? I think that's the one I saw on craigslist and I loved it.

[Elbow]

^Cool, I look forward to seeing how it turns out!

As for the truck, my brother just bought it off CL. It should be a fun project.

[rmeyer114]

looks good man i give u props on that 50 dollar paint job of yours..hope it works well and lasts for u

[Elbow]

Thanks^