Painted it yesterday Options

[1bad914]

I took the afternoon off yesterday and painted the car. It turned out well, the color is Saturn Yellow, L13M. I made one major screw-up, let's see if you can find it. This car is slated for a 327-300 SBC conversion. Every time I paint I learn something. I am living proof that anyone can paint a car, 90% prep, 5% paint and 5% luck! Since I live in Michigan, any part that is covered, gets a coat or two of Por-15, that's why the door sills and firewall are not painted. The car was white!

Randy

[jasons]

Air pressure depends on the gun you use. My gun required 23 psi at the inlet. Thats was measured with the trigger pulled. I had 2 regulators, a main one at the end of my cooling loop, and a "cheater" on my gun. I set the first one to around 60 psi, then dialed the pressure in with the one on the gun.

You can tell in my previous pic, I painted mine in my carport. I cleaned the carport the day before, then wet everything down at about 5:30 am, then fired the compressor up at 6:00 am. Shot it in the morning for calm air. It had some dust nibs, but I planned on color-sanding it anyway. After coloring-sanding, no more dust nibs or orange peel.

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