Paint shizzzz

[wretched73]

My camaro is currently mostly white with a mix of orange and silver (rust and bare metal lol) In the near future i plan on putting it in my buddy's barn to drop in a 350 and figured while it was there i might as well paint it. The paint has to be completely re done cuz it looks terrible. At first i was thinking flat black, then thought it might look unfinished so thought about going glossy black. Does anyone have any suggestions on color? Paint to use? Primer to use? How to strip the paint?(thats left)

Its also an '83 so it doesnt have the IROC body kit

[EVIL90SS]

good luck if u wanna paint a nice gloss black in a barn.

[wretched73]

Uh thanks, but the barn actually has a paint booth inside, thanks for being a wise *****

[qwikz28]

lets keep it civil guys and reply only to the question at hand.

[wretched73]

Granted, but could someone give me some actual advice on any of the questions i asked?

[qwikz28]

i can't help you any, but i'm sure someone will chime in.

[Ian]

try PMing HardcoreZ28. he's a great guy to deal with and very knowledgeable when it comes to painting

[bad64chevelle]

Your best bet is to media blast the car since there is rust on it. It also gets anything that could be cratered up in there out. After that If there are no patch panels that need to be made, the next thing to do would to be put the whole vehicle in etching primer to prevent rust.Next, thing to do is lay a skim coat of filler over the whole vehicle, then sand it. Any low spots (or high for that matter) will be found when you use a long block sander over the whole car. The spots that go back to metal will either be the right height, or maybe they are dinged out for any reason, you just have to judge it. Anything low you will need to keep going over until its smooth with the filler, (you dont want to be doing much more than a skim coat of filler here) if you go more than that you will have problems, and you should really fix it the correct way with a body hammer, and a block. After that, you would want to look into a good primer, and eventually a good paint and clear. Visit your local body shops, see what they use, and try to find a local automotive paint distributor to find their better paints (if you cant find any, I will talk to my dad and see what he paints primers, and clears we have been using). Talk to those guys and they usually can point you in the right directions as to using paint. As for painting cars in barns (even though you have a booth accessible) I know someone who does it all the time, and all of his cars have been class winners at not only Super Chevy, but other large shows the cars have been to. And no there is no spray booth in his barn.

[EVIL90SS]

Originally Posted by wretched73

Uh thanks, but the barn actually has a paint booth inside, thanks for being a wise *****

no prob

[wretched73]

Thanks for the help, i really appreciate it

[EVIL90SS]

to strip the paint use a product called aircraft stripper,plastic use evercoat rage then a putty coat on top of that, sand blast out all rusty spots and sand the **** out of them with a 220 grit on a da sander, primer over bare metal use and etch or epoxy, 1 coat, then a nice high build primer over everything, about 3 coats, wet block primer with 600 grit paper. we use glasurit products are my shop and thats the best ive ever used its the same product used on all high end german cars from the factory.

[wretched73]

thanks alot, sounds good