JohnEd

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Cody,

The color is really great and you seem to have done an excellent job. The paint seems to have double crossed you a little but I know you will recover. Can you tell me how many hours of labor it will take to color sand a SC? You said you used 3 quarts,I think. How many quarts woud you use if you PLANNED to color sand?

Thanks guy

John

mitsuguy

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Well, I am taking the easy way out with the color sanding... A body shop I do some work with will do it for $150 for me, so I'm just going to do that... It would probably take the good part of a day to do either way however...

I planned on color sanding the entire time - there is almost no way to get a perfect paint job with modern clears (has to do with the low VOC in current paints)

atxishome

Am I the only one that was dying to see finished pics of this?? Did you ever get it wet-sanded and buffed? I wanna see!! I wanna see!!

~Joe

RedPhoenix

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Yeah I want to see asap!!

1JZ300

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ditto...i wanna see this paint!!!

flyspyder5

am i the only one thats sees orange peal basically covering the whole car?

mitsuguy

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pretty much every paint job with todays paints are going to have some sort of orange peel... hell, even the Foose vehicles you see on tv when they paint them have orange peel...

I just haven't had a chance to wet sand mine yet, so no completed pics... It's been wayyyy too hectic at work, and my priorities have shifted a little bit as well... one of these days soon though...

flyspyder5

thats not true at all. fisheye has an excuse to use... contaminants... mainly grease/ oil. orange peal is mainly caused by holding the gun to far away from the car, quit getting so excited, turn the gun down, hold it closer to the car, and spray thin coats. i'll be painting a SC300 202 black onyx this week, i'll get u guys pics straigh out of the gun in primer, base, and 3 coats of clear.

i would blame some of your paint quality on the actuall paint your using. i'll be spraying the SC in valspar. still not to expencive. all material including filter, mixing cups, primer, hardener, reducer, paint, etc all for roughly 350

flyspyder5

and even wax/grease remover, basically everything but tack cloth

JDMes

what kind of gun did you use? orange peel is mainly caused by holding the gun too far away, flyspyder knows what hes talking about

flyspyder5

lol dont blame the guneither, i use a 60 dollar harbor frieght HVLP gun (might be harborfrieght but its still a damn good gun, i prefur it over my buddies matco)

fwynn

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dangit! i wanna see ur car finished! :]

JDMes

Satajet RP 3000 for me, once you use a gun like this you cant use anything else

RX469

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This turned out very nice. Nice job.

19ES250

cmon lets see it buffed and finished, don't leave us hanging