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I sanded with 120 the entire car. Should I sand with a higher grit before painting now? Or will the paint cover it up? I'm not sure how this will work. With rustoleum that process was fine and worked quite well.

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I'll try that for the next round. Of course, my truck's a working-class sort of guy, and anything that shows off the dings and imperfections may be counter-productive.
But that's a great finish you've worked up. If I can't find a flagged brush, would foam work tolerably? Or should I go with a high-end brush?

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Thanks Rev. Yeah, I'd leave the dings and imperfections on a working truck. It's what gives it "character."
When applying base coats I just used the regular foam brushes. The ones at Dixieline have a plastic back bone that goes almost to the tip. It gave me the most control. I'd only use the flagged brush if you're going for a final, polished finish. The disadvantage of the flagged brush is that ya gotta clean it later. The beauty of Charger's method is that once you've done a few coatings, you can throw away your equipment.

Your primered truck inspired me. I see so many like them. There's no reason they should go on with only primer. Over a weekend, one could give those vehicles a decent covering ... character dings and brush marks included, and it would still look better than it did before. (There's a profit making idea for you guys.)

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I plan on priming before my first coat of brightside to guarentee a consistant coat/ finish since we are looking at less coats the first to me would be the most important.
just my 2 cents
Bryan
My test will tell me later

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I have some primer thats spray on. I used it over my bondo work and those area's look good. But they weren't sanded down.

Is this how I should go about fixing the scratching? I was thinking of going over the scratchy area's hood, rear fenders and trunk lid then going and sanding it flat again and painting. But will the primer do the same thing and settle into the cracks? Am I completely screwed?

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hey guys, awesome topic here
im from honda-tech, and have read all 40+ pages of it. my civic is coming along really nicely.

But, i am having an adhesion problem on one part. On my brand new bumper (polyurethane), i used the rustoleum auto primer spray, wetsand that then rattle-canned it. did 1 light coat, and left it alone for a week while i worked on the rest of the car. today, while i was hosing down the driveway, i decided to hose off the car, and the pressure from the hose completely stripped the paint off the bumper, and i can peel the paint off like a banana peel.

so the rustoleum primer doesnt stick to polyurethane. what should i do now?

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hey guys, awesome topic here
im from honda-tech, and have read all 40+ pages of it. my civic is coming along really nicely.

But, i am having an adhesion problem on one part. On my brand new bumper (polyurethane), i used the rustoleum auto primer spray, wetsand that then rattle-canned it. did 1 light coat, and left it alone for a week while i worked on the rest of the car. today, while i was hosing down the driveway, i decided to hose off the car, and the pressure from the hose completely stripped the paint off the bumper, and i can peel the paint off like a banana peel.

so the rustoleum primer doesnt stick to polyurethane. what should i do now?

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quite often the new bumpers still have the release agent from the mold, no paint would stick to it, you should clean any new plastic parts with mineral spirits, or some solvent, acetone might eat it, but you really should clean it first. i played that game too once, but only once, good thing is that the paint comes off easy

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and the pressure from the hose completely stripped the paint off the bumper, and i can peel the paint off like a banana peel.

so the rustoleum primer doesnt stick to polyurethane. what should i do now?

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another pic just to show how nice and glossy it is
using menzerna intensive polish by hand

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that looks great, you definetly have a issue with some residue on that bumper, the only time that will happen if there is something like a release agent that they use so that the bumper does'nt stick to the mold when it's molded, they injection mould those bumpers, and you need to get all traces of that stuff off, like by sanding with 600, then washing with soap and water, then mineral spirits. like i said i had that EXACT thing happen to me with a new skirt for my old mustang, using single stage paint, at least i figured it out before i put it back on, plus i just sanded it and repainted it, no issues.