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metal repair of hood, question for those who know about bodywork |
914 RZ-1 |
May 17 2017, 10:15 AM
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Porsche Padawan Group: Members Posts: 683 Joined: 17-December 14 From: Santa Clarita, CA Member No.: 18,230 Region Association: Southern California |
I was using a DA sander on my hood. Lots of layers! Wondering if anyone can tell me if the hood was repaired correctly. It looks pretty good, but I'm wondering what the green area in the photo is? Bondo? Primer? Another color hood? There is also what appears to be filled cracks at lower right. I'm wondering if these are dents/creases that were repaired and bondo'd over.
I'd like to paint the car and want to make sure the paint will look good; the paint over the area over the cracks was a little cracked, which is why I sanded it down. BTW, the car was originally silver and is currently white. |
Olympic 914 |
May 18 2017, 11:28 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 1,677 Joined: 7-July 11 From: Pittsburgh PA Member No.: 13,287 Region Association: North East States |
I'm Not a body man by a long shot, But IMHO you will not be able to get it flat, or the nice curvature that it should have by using a DA sander. it might look OK in primer but when you sight across it you will see the slight humps and valleys
Get some long sanding boards, something flexible, like the long dura blocks or the yellow and blue softsanders in these pictures . |
914 RZ-1 |
May 18 2017, 08:16 PM
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Porsche Padawan Group: Members Posts: 683 Joined: 17-December 14 From: Santa Clarita, CA Member No.: 18,230 Region Association: Southern California |
[quote name='Olympic 914' date='May 18 2017, 10:28 AM' post='2487200']
I'm Not a body man by a long shot, But IMHO you will not be able to get it flat, or the nice curvature that it should have by using a DA sander. it might look OK in primer but when you sight across it you will see the slight humps and valleys Get some long sanding boards, something flexible, like the long dura blocks or the yellow and blue softsanders in these pictures . I was looking at those sanding blocks. Guess I'll have to just get some. I was planning on doing the hoods the best, followed by the doors and quarter panels. The trunks and places that don't show I would just do "good enough". I'm thinking I will paint the car glossy gray, which is close to the original color, which is metallic silver. |
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