I thought it would be less time...?

i'm ganna mix it and see what you mean.

hey Marq: It's still raining!!!!! 4 days so far; maybe the car'll be painted in October (I hate NY)

so...

"technically" I am finished my 3rd coat. I "plan" to wetsand tomorrow with 800grit. Do I "need" to sand the whole car down?

Or can I "get away" with sanding "parts" of the car that look bad and has lines?

Sorry for using those " ", I found it funny for some reason...

Hey folks, I've been following this bad boy for a while now and planning the whole time to apply this technique to the ugly $750 Dart I bought. I've finally gotten around to starting and I'm doing just the trunk as a test. I've been working on the prep for a few weeks now and hopefully tonight will be the last coat of primer before final wetsanding and then paint.

I'm going with Rustoleum Professional in Gloss Black on top of Rustoleum Clean Metal Primer. I took the trunk down to bare metal to deal with dents and horribly checked paint (a repaint, I believe) but I'm hoping to avoid that on as much of the rest of the car as possible. When they say prep is 90% of a paint job they most certainly are not kidding... Black is unforgiving in what it will reveal of a prep job and for that reason I am being patient and meticulous. Nevertheless, I'm prepared to live with whatever imperfections may survive. I mean, for only a a hundred bucks...

Here are a few pics of the process so far. I was totally amazed when I thinned the primer out the first time, went to bed with it looking orange peely, and came back in the morning to find it looking just like it had been sprayed on. Hopefully the paint will act the same for me.

So... Summer is quickly approaching and as a first year teacher I'm looking forward to my first REAL summer vacation.. (one where I have enough money saved to not be eating Top Ramen for weeks at a time).. I'm thinking about rolling my car and my question is regarding mixing paints..

I've seen that Brightside (and Trem and Rusto) can be mixed to produce various colors.. Since my car is an original 881 Bright Blue METALLIC car I'm not going to be able to repaint it in its full glory until a few years down the line when I have cash saved up.. but in the meantime it's in need of something other than Krylon Ultra-Flat Black ($4.99 a can!) and rust.. For pictures and a really out of date description check out members.cox.net/~67barracuda .. And, although my fellow Barracuda Owners Group guys want to see it remain in primer (Satin Black a la the mustang that was posted here IS a possibility) I'm thinking of going obnoxious.. I'm hoping for a rollerized version of Sublime or Panther Pink.. I SUCK at visualization, though (the only guy lacking direction sense...) and I'm imagining Sublime would be a mix of yellow and blue.. Which blue from Brightside would be the best to start from? I'm a trial and error kind of guy when it comes to stuff like color mixing.. I just need to know what the best shade of blue would be since I don't want to buy all the multiple shades of blue Interlux has

Loving you in advance,

Raj
67 beatercuda
hoping to be a rollercuda this summer..

I just wetsanded my car down today for the 4th coat.

Applied the 4th coat just an hour ago, its drying in the garage...

Looks really good! Not like Aussie Drivers Miata, but still darn good, we are making strides!

The current paint process is looking soo much better than the 1st, 2nd and 3rd coat. More glossy, little orange peel/bubbles and the whole car has more coverage (less patches of un-even color) meaning the paint is probably filling in gaps that need to be filled. Half of my hood that previously had cracking has no more. There is still more cracking on the roof, but we need to apply more coats! Finished 1quart of Brightside today as well. So if it takes 4 or more coats with only 1 quart, then I should technically end with 8 coats total. This is minus wetsanding factor.

Will take pictures once it dries properly.

Hello folks of Mopar...

Just wanted to check in and give you some images of my 4th coat that I applied today. Here you go. You can see the gloss it has which is really nice and is still thinned! It has a little bit of orange peel but nothing too bad, I can tolerate it.

Looks and went out way better today! Hopefully I can get away with applying 2 more coats before I wetsand again.

looks good 93civic. I guess I'll share some pics of my paint so far. Using brightside exclusively now, since I found out about carb cleaner being the life ender of rustoleum. I am only rolling the top parts of my car, then will paint one side at a time.











it is windy as heck where I live, so I get alot of crap on the paint surface with every layer. Very poor painting conditions. I may just have to settle with a 10 foot paint job.

worldcrafter, darn that looks nice!! got it really smooth on your first try, I guess not really first try since you used rustoleum before.

very shiny and little orange peel! nice

BTW: Poor conditions here too, but painting in a garage helps decrease the amount of dust that sits on the paint. Painting outside is horrible, it picks up dust FAST! In the garage dust is there but the amount is less.

Well... here is a status update on my paint job for long term durability and appearance.

As you folks know... my paint job officially ended back in August 2006. From Aug 2006 to Nov 2006 the car enjoyed the luxury of being parked in the garage. With winter coming the car had to be left outside for the winter and exposed to all the sun, snow, ice and rain that Canada's winter could throw at it.

When spring arrived the sweet little car remained outside and unprotected from the elements. The sun beat down on it and the rains were ridiculous.

Today I was puttering around in the garage and I found my Porter & Cable. Next I found my 3m Perfection and my McGuiars Pure Carnuba Wax ( banana scented yummmm ).

I washed down the car and then I polished and waxed my way around the entire body. The car looked so friggin amazing that I proudly hopped in it and drove all over the place with the rag top down.

BUT here is the real reason I am writing this. During the course of polishing and then waxing the car I noticed a slight difference in the color of the body - between where I was polishing and where I had not done yet.

There was a slight cloud over the untouched paint. And you would not have been able to spot it if you didn't have a freshly polished and waxed panel immediately next to it to compare it to.

So I don't know at this point if it was an oxidation on the original Brightside paint... or if that was the stage I had left it at when I finished my original polishing and waxing back in August 2006.

And as I said... I had not noticed anything odd about the paint job. It had looked great. BUT after doing this polishing and waxing today the puppy shines like a high gloss polyurathane and looks EVEN BETTER. AND it does appear to have become a deeper and darker red after this polishing and waxing.

So the point to this story is that if you think the car looks good after you do your final wetsanding, polishing and waxing... well wait until you see how it looks after you do the polishing and waxing months later.

I am absolutely thrilled how it looks even better today then back in August 2006.

I think what may have generated such favorable results today are two things :

a ) the weather : when I finished the paint job off back in August 2006 we were into cooler temperatures and high humidity from the rains. The weather today was in the 26 degrees celcius range. I did my polishing out in the driveway in the sun hehehehh. The overall temperature of the car's body was much warmer today when I did the polishing and waxing back in August.

b ) the additional curing time : I suspect that with all the months that have passed since August, the paint had reached a much higher level of curing and hardness.

I don't know if this is 'news' but I thought it might give some insight on how things are working out with the Brightside after TEN MONTHS of real world exposure to the harsh elements of the Canadian climate... and hopefully it will give the rollers something to look forward to months after they finish... that things will probably be looking even better as it gets older...


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Sounds great Marq =) I hope in a year I'll say the same.. hehe btw, i decided on gloss black as Im loving everybody else's jobs. And I read your post a while back on automakers making flat paint jobs in 2009-11. I still love the idea... but hate the cleaning part of it. Especially 'cause i have no garage =(

worldcrafter... nice tsuru man! Love those kits. I got stuck with a b14... but im waiting on the n15 bumper to come in =)

93civic.... your car is looking excellent... i love how brightside black looks- i am defiantly sticking with it

good info Marq, gives me confidence that this will look sweet in the end.

BTW: Just curious, how does Brightside hold up to rust? For example if you painted on top some rust, would it seal the rust from spreading like POR15 or rustoleum?