well where to start about a month and a half ago i started to paint my bird heres what has been acomplished

#1 car dissasembled
#2 car DAed with 80 grit to factory primmer
#3 all dents and factory waves removed from the car (even the one that goes accross the tbar in the back)
#4 car DAed with 120 grit to bare steel
#5 6 coats of high bild direct to metal primmer on the plastic work and 3 on the rest the car
#6 WET SANDED with 400 grit wet on wetblock (I love that thing it hook up to the garden hose and keeps it wet and cleen wonderfull tool i recomend it)
#7 jams and under the hood and deck lid red scotch brited with warm water and "commet"
#8 JAMED (painted the jams under hood and deck lid 2 coats of sealer 2 coats of base and 3 coats of clear)
#9 door in primmer (got new doors to take care of the only rust my car had)

whats left
#1 wet sand doors
#2 jam the doors
#3 fit the doors to the car (Alinement)
#4 wet sand whole car one last time to take off over spray and a little bit of orange peel here and there (t was just a light wet sand the first time to knock off the high spots and make sure the plastic work was right)
#5 PAINT WOO HOO

i will post what pics i have soon as i develop my film
im getting so antious to get it back together i miss my car and its t-top weather outside

well thanks for taking the time to let me vent let me know how the others are comming on there paint project

 

update

got the doors all primmed up and ready to be jamed tomorrow morning then by the afternoon i should have them alined and ready for the the fenders to be hung and the car to be wet sanded one last time (Im tired of sanding) well wish me luck guys i have waited a long time to do this been working on the bird in stages first motor then tranny then rear end then suspention now paint and body and next come the interior (ANOUTER THIRD GEN SAVED)

 

another update
got the doors jammed finally they get to go on the car tomorrow we decided to sand blast the jams of the doors and re seam seal them to make sure i wont have a rust problem in the near future (since they were used doors it was a good idea) so they have been jamed now and on the car they will go hopefully its smooth sailing from here on out i plan to develop some film tomorrow and post some pics i know you guys wouldnt mind seeing some so far it just has been me rambling on about what im doing but you have no proof to go off of tonight i will post the befor and start pics of the car
enjoy!!!

 

5 years ago when i first got my thirdgen

 

1 year ago or so but how it looked befor i started paint and body on it

 

and the first night i started on it

 

well got the doors on and them alined today allso got about half of the car wet sanded will finish that in the morning and then all thats left is mask it off seal it and spray it (we will be painting the bumpers and small parts seperatly so they will get painted the day after the car does hopefully i will have it done by the weekend) I MISS MY BIRD

 

wow 154 views but no replys but me anyways for thouse of you that "might" be following my project i have the whole car back together (minus bumpers and small parts and lights and trim ect.) its all wet sanded with 400wet straight as an arrow (2 gallons of high build primmer later) it will get its paint tomorrow night an then i will have some pics to post i cant wait wish the bird luck guys :hail:

 

looking good

 

Hey Mav, a lot of those views are guys who are coming back each time they get an email update about the thread and are looking for more details.

Anyway, congrats on the project!

Be sure to post plenty of the 'in progress' pics. Especially ones where the car is partly stripped etc and being welded/sanded/filled etc. When you are doing the jams at the engine do you do the jams and then the outside of the car? As in how do you ensure that when the hood/hatch/doors are open that things match up well. Forgive my ignorance, my spraying experience so far is very limited.

Keep up the good work!

 

in order to really jam a car you will need to take off the doors front fenders hatch and hood
then you will get the car ready for paint in other words make sure the outer body is straight filled welded ect as long as it is ready for primmer you will prime the out side of the car first then you will scuff with red scotch bright the jams once you do that you will seal the jams and then paint them now you will have over spray on the out side of the car dont worrie about that you will be wet sanding the car anyways to get out the orage peel and make the primmer straight anyways just make sure you get it all off of it might wrinkle the paint heres what the car will look like after jamming it

click this link www.titanclashers.com/downloads/firebird.wmv

 

the body is painted now on to the small parts i will post pic tomorrow of what it looks like befor paint and after paint along with some wile painting hope you guys will enjoy i know i do

 

ok here is the painting process
primmer pic what the car looked like when we pulled it in to paint
primmer is a 5 star product its a high build 2k DTM (Direct to metal) urathane primer sealer (if we didnt wet block the primmer we wouldnt of had to seal the car but since i wanted it straight and there was a ton of orange peel in the primmer (STUFF IS THICK Great primmer you just have to reduce the heck out of it to spray it with out a primmer head)

 

back half in primmer

 

ok here is the sealer we used a martin senior 5500 poly satin sealer we did 2 coats of it

 

more sealer pics

 

ok on to the color this is base coat and this is the 2nd coat of it, we put on 3 coats total of base
it is sherwin willams base

 

ok on to the clear we use the same sherwin willams line of cleer as we did the base (not good to mis different systems unless you know they are compatable) 3 coats total of clear

 

and the driver side

 

i will get some pic of it when i am done i think you guys will like it i know i really do its no longer poop brown so im happy

 

so what do you think so far?

 

looks pretty durn good GREAT WORK after you get it reassembled you plan on wetsanding it and buffing it or just leave it as it is? also what color is that it looks nice.

thomas

 

i dont think i will wet sand and buff there not any real reason too the paint shrunkup and took most allmost all the texture out of the paint so im probably not going to do that THE COLOR "Mystic Metellic Blue" allso known as "Fugi Matellic Blue" its a factory collor off a 92 crysler product i can get you the paint code if you would like it

 

i would like that paint code.

 

ILL POST THE PAINT CODE TOMORROW NIGHT

 

well here it is out of paint put back together minus interior and its dirty but this is what she looks like with out rubbing her enjoy

 

I would definatly rub her! Had to butt in. Great paint job too!

 

y would you rub her?
just curious

 

color look good

 

Nicely done - nothing better than a job thoroughly done Good job, man.

 

THNAKS MAN the color is awesome it changes shades as to where the sun hits her and at night it allmost has a purpuleish tint to it im really happy with the color i chose it only took me 3 month to pick it out but alot of work later and i look at it everyday when i get in it and go YEAH IT WAS WORTH IT