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]

Thats almost exactly what I did. Except, I didn't power-wash. When I did wash, I used laundry detergent.
Before any paint or primer coat, I wiped the car down with the PPG DX-330 oil and grease remover.

When I wet-sanded the 2K primer, I sprayed guide coats to find low and high spots. Just to be specific, a guide coat is a light coat of contrasting paint. I used SEM Guide Coat sprayed out of a can. You can use just a cheap primer also. Sand that off lightly and see where the guide coat color stays behind, thats a low spot.

The links below show the different stages.

Before Primer
After Primer
After Wet-Sand