ok so i painted the camaro myself, had a bit of elp from some friends but not to much, im goin to post finished pics of it in apearance and detailing later, but here are the freshly dried, NON_SANDED or BUFFED pics with dirty wheels. there's no overspray ANYWHERE, its just dust not paint. the white spots are from razorblading the few imperfections in the clear off, and the hood alignment is not finished, but its good enough to not rub untill i sand the car and align it. let me know what you think











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did you do it in a garage or a paint booth

looks good

 

i built a booth in my garage, had a fan and filter, ppg primer, ppg sealer, omni base (mixed wrong, has WAY more gold flec in it than it was supposed to), ppg deltron clear, all sprayed with a 1.34mm hvlp gun from home depot

thanks!

 

looks good, kind of like SOM
what does it run in the 1/4?

 

SOM? um, its best was a 13.1 @105 on street tires (old time slip from previous owner), since then its gotten underdrive pullies, true dual exhaust, a WAY WAY better tune, better/new ignition, a CIA, and has lost some weight, SO i dont know, mid/high12's with traction

oh, SOM = sunset oragne metallic?, yeah its acually flame red metallic, but when we id the final color coat/blend, we forgot to stir the cup, so its all gold flake on top, in the sun its the color you see, inside or at night its maroon

 

Looks good!!

 

How hard was it to spray the flake evenly? I want to do a red metallic flake over black base with mine and everyone tells me its almost impossible to have the flake look even and not striped or streaked.

 

Looks good man, i want to paint the 89 one day...maybe.

Flake isnt bad if you have experience.

 

Props! Much better than what I could have done myself (I don't paint)...!

Here's my ........

I would paint headlight buckets satin black, replace park lamp housings with new GM housings, use a 4thgen stick-on nose emblem, then make air screens for the back of the grill holes.

Just food for thought.

 

thanks! yeah if your patient flake is no big deal
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thanks!

i left the bucked body color to see how i like them, and sating black over clear is easy, so i may or may not paint them. i think i may get the carbon fiber emblem from hawks not sure yet i may leave it shaved, or paint one like neils, but i dont wanna be a copy cat... and screens are coming along with a new CIA using the cow, or ram air from the hood scoop (< but ram air from hood = lots of problems...)

 

I like the color, subtle yet catchy! I'd like to see it after it's finished....Very nice...

 

Looks good! I like that color.

I thought that first pic looked familiar. Posted that on TAMSCC, huh? (I'm Alien on those forums)

I'm hoping to make it to CS for AX1 in Knocker. Hope to see your car there in person.

 

yeah im whoring my car out on the intrawebs, i put in so many hours painting it im a bit proud lol. on tamscc im Tx91z28. im going to be at all the auto x's this semester test scedule permitting, but after this summer the car is gonna be a straight line car, so no more auto x's for me, turning corners is too expensive lol

 

I would have deleted the front emblem, but that is something I do to all my 3rd gen maros.

 

i did? or do you mean the emblem on the z28 grille?

 

do you happen to have any pictures before you painted it? It looks really good. Just wait till you buff it also, they always come out so nice looking.

 

http://s272.photobucket.com/albums/j...iltexas186548/

those are from before, when i was trying to salvage the old paint, yeah im excited to do a cut and buff on it, but i may leave it till summer, then lightly scuff the clear and spray 3 more coats on, then REALLY sand and buff it to a perfect shine

 

those are your dirty wheels huh lol. i actually love those wheels.. they just look nice on a 90-92 camaro i think. if their just dirty wheels then ill take them off your hands!

 

Looks Good.

 

im actually looking to sell them this summer if your interested...

 

Hell, dont know what i was thinking

 

Sweet paint job man. Did it by your self what gun did you use?

 

looks nice
do you want to paint my bird? lol

 

i used an hvlp gun, made by husky, with a 1.34mm tip, same gun for primer, sealer, color and clear, i could have used a bigger one for the clear tho.... the gun was $49.99 at home depot lol, i have friends who have used it for cars b4, so i tried it and it worked well
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thanks! ill help you, but i NEVER want to do an entire paint job alone again, unless its for big $, but i dont paint well enough for that...

 

Just curious but what did i cost you for the paint exct and to finish the whole thing. Im thinking a 50$$ paint job is a good idea. I have a paint booth at the race car shop so i could prollt do it in a weekend or somthing.

 

well the paint was 600 or 650, that was for ppg shopline epoxy primer (2 quarts), ppg shopline primer sealer(2 quarts), and 3 quarts of omni base, with 3 quarts of ppg deltron clear which was $$$$. IMO DONT do a 50$ paint job, i spent 1000 bucks on this one, EVERYTHING included, gun, booth, supplies, paint, and ALOT of man hours, it was worth it, and it feels good to do it right, and do it yourself

 

ok thank you for the info. My bad about the 50$$ paint job. but i need to paint my car soon. But i need to go hit the sand blaster shop first. I think there is one down town. but Ya i need to get it painted soon. thank you

 

no prob, just know htat even when your car looks 99% perfect and SEEMS to not need bodywork, you'll spend oh.... about 10, 8-10 hr days doing it anyways. dont ask me how i know.... stupid door dings....

 

Amen I'm doing my car by myself also now and boy those door dings and pings and even chips are a PITA. My paint had at least 30 chips and they all had rust in them. So what I had to do was sand them to metal and feather edge them in. Primer will be going on soon enough. Also Like I said before good job it looks sick.

 

a word of advice on that, when you sand down to metal, dont feather edge the old paint to the metal, you WILL see the low spot, after its sanded, scuff it with 80 grit or so, and bondo the spot (skim coat of bondo), then get a long sanding block (long enough to reach the original paint on either side of the bare metal and sand it flat. i have spots where i sanded to metal, feather the old paint, and now i have low spots

and thanks again, if you need help or equipment for spraying i may be able to help you out if im in town, im at school at A&M in college station right now

 

No problem I know about the feather edging, I have to ask though Did you use alot of primer to fill it in and block it down? I just used a block of 320 where i feather edged them to further block them down, then filled them with primer. Ive done this before and its worked pretty well. Also if the car has many built up layers of paint, it will also affect it, Mine doesnt b/c its the original previous paint. Yea thanks on the equipment though man, Ive pretty much got my hands on everything though, I personally bought a sata jet 3000 and my dad has alot of equipment. I also have at my high school my auto body classes which has $'s of equipment.

 

with one layer of previous paint you should be ok, i have 2 layers, both were primered before painting as well. cool, you should be set then with tools, and it should come out well, just make sure you have an air/water separator between the compressor and gun, i painted on the dryest day you'll ever see in houston and i still was getting water out, even after i drained the tanks

 

here are some better pics, still needs a cut and buff, but it's better now that its clean(er)