Titan85

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No, its not another thread asking how to paint a car or what to use . My problem is that I am doing a complete color change and I can't figure out the best way to paint the car. What I mean by best way is the best way to have the body parts when I paint it.

I want to get color on every part of the car (door jams, inside edge of doors, fender edges, etc). I have been going round and round with different ideas. So far I have come up with painting the car with the doors, hood, hatch, and ground effects off and having the bumpers loose, but on the car.

I am trying to have as much of the car together as I can for paint. The reason is that my boss is letting me use his paint booth for around four hours and I have to get everything painted in that time frame. The booth isn't big enough to have the car in there with everything off, so you see my dilemma.

Hopefully some of you guys with more experience on doing complete repaints can point me in the right direction. Thanks

greatpumpkin_68

i am changing the color of my car also. i am pretty sure that i am going to remove the doors, hood, fenders, and hatch.. then paint all the jambs on those pieces. then i will reassemble, mask the freshly painted jambs and shoot the whole car at once. i will paint the front and rear bumpers off of the car but at the same time as the car. doing it this way i should have an even color all the way around.. i am doing silver with a fair amount of metallic in it and do not want inconsistencies. if you are doing a solid black or white you could get away with painting everything off of the car and it should all match up perfectly.

Titan85

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That sounds like a good idea. I thought about doing that a while back but came to another problem. How do you get the jams to match up with the rest of the car? My concern was that there would be a line between the areas done when you jamb the car and the areas done when painting the car.

I think the only areas where that would really be a concern is on the door striker area and tops of the fenders. Is there a way to avoid that? Possibly bringing the paint out onto the body of the car when you do the jambs and then scuff and paint over that section?

gtanut

after you jamb everything you will want to use foam app tape in the jambs of every thing to keep from getting a hard line or over spray you can get it at any paint supply store

kittca

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Titan85

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I was thinking about using that 3M foam tape a while back. Seems like it should work pretty good.

I would never have a car painted by macco . My family has a car painted by them almost two years ago. Needless to say its peeling like crazy, the bumpers are spider cracking, and they painted the drivers door handle and no other ones. I give macco a 0.5 out of 10.

irockid86

if this is your first time painting and you are doing paint and clear you may want to ask for more then 4 hours in the booth. I could be wrong here. as far as painting jams I did mine completely different than what you are describing but feel free to check out the link in my signature, it may give you some ideas.

CYARS92

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madhatter

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autobody101forums.com
lots of info

howy03

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If u "jam in" everything as described above u can also paint the car with the front and rear bumpers on just install some small spacer blocks and snug up the speed nuts.My buddy did this on his 79 ta and it worked out great.I will be doing the same on my ta.with these cars u end up with too many parts of the car to paint as is.Good luck

bsporty

Four hours is enough time to do a solid color.As long as you are ready to go.It took me 8 hours to paint my BFs Chevelle but I did a tri coat and a Chevelle is a big *** car.I also painted his hood and deck lid off the car.I had already painted all the jambs too.
I would remove the bumpers,trim,gfx,and doors and do everything seperately.Unfortunately I dont think you have that kind of time.Your boss wont let you use the booth 2 times?haha!
If you can jamb everything and tape it all up before you get to the booth.Unless you have to drive there?
The actual painting process doesnt take that long its all the other stuff.
Are you using a single stage paint?That would cut down on your time.
I used that foam tape on the Chevelle and it worked great.....

Good luck to you!

Titan85

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I am planning to have everything taped off and ready except for the drivers side so I can get the car in the booth. I am going to trailer it in so I can have most everything ready to go.

I am doing a base/clear so its going to take some extra time. It looks like I am going to have to try to get some more time in the booth. Shouldn't be too hard since I was figuring four hours because we are only open 8-12 on Saturdays. I'll come in at 4am if I have to lol.

Thanks for all the help!

96LT4c4

I have been thinking about how i am going to paint my car as well. I was thinking about doing the bumbers on the car like mentioned just having them spaced out. How do you guys paint the front spoiler/ground effect? That thing is really flimsy. I might just base everything off the car then reasemble and clear, accept for the ground effects, they will get based and cleared off the car.

steve87ta

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I did one bumper on and one off. I had three tables of parts and the spoiler also.
It is allot of parts when you lay it all out! (on a GTA)
I agree to many parts you will have to do, as it is. ( mirrors, door guards, hood louvers, etc.)
My next car will not have gfx but some custom stripes. I like gfx but not on all cars.

paveuk

I'm doing the same thing but my confusion is if you say prime the whole car and then tape it off so you can jamb in then you will have a hard paint line. I understand the foam tape after you get the jambs painted and car back together but the original jamb in you'd have a hard paint line. How do you fix this? Don't tape off the exterior then sand the overspray?

totalchaos

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bsporty

Prime the entire car including jambs.Cut in the jambs before painting the car.To do this you should sand the jamb and the area just outside the jamb so that any overspray from the cut in is easy to sand off.The foam should be applied to a painted jamb to soften the line of the overpray from painting the car.No lines when done this way.

chevydrvr

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Not trying tot ake over the thread, but why do you have to take off the bumpers when you paint the car?Can't you just paint with them on? Ihave no ideahowto paint a car, but hope to learn someday. Gotta start somewhere!

Titan85

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You can paint the bumpers on the car, but you do not want them tight. If you have them tight, the clear coat will lay across the gap between the two panels. This will cause possible pealing or cracking as the bumper or fender/quarter move independently of each other.

howy03

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Thats why I suggested cutting them in and thenn using spacer blocks.IT works great.

chevydrvr

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Oh i get it.thanks for clearing that up!

Titan85

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Yeah, I have heard of a lot of good results doing that. I plan to do the same.