Your opinion

[Polish Painter]

1965 Mustang , The guy is bringing me the car in pieces. I have the hood, deck lid, doors, fenders. It is going to be painted Metallic blue with silver stripes down the hood,roof and trunk.

The plan is to paint the underside of hood,deck lid, doors . I plan on doing any bodywork on these panels while I have them and apply 2k hi-build to the top sides. He then wants me to give these parts back to him so he can put them back on the car . When everything is back together I will paint the exterior.

He will bring me the car without the doors etc, so I can paint the dash, firewall, and door jambs.
Kind of a dumb question I guess but would you guys go ahead and sand the 2k hi-build on the hood,doors,deck lid, fenders before you return them to be reinnstalled or wait until they are on the car.

I guess my thoughts are the 2k would have longer to cure and shrink if I waited.Sometimes I over think things.
Any advice greatly appreciated.

[Nostalgic Dave]

I'd sand the 2k after you got it all back. If its nearly paint ready during his assembly, hes goona get it all finger-printed, maybe scuffed, etc. Avoid all that by doing your final clean/blocking after you get it back.

[88GT]

yep. what he said

[MARTINSR]

I would sand them later without a doubt. And my thinking is more on the line that more work is going to be needed! If these parts aren't trial fit on the car and repaired on the car before painting you are likely in for big trouble.

I can see in my crystal ball that there are a number of new reproduction or swap meet parts that have never been put on the car. These reproduction and swap meet parts WILL NOT fit. So getting everything looking all pretty and then planning on just bolting them on for you to paint is not realistic.

I would want to hang them during the body work stage to be sure they all fit real well.

Brian

[88GT]

Agreed, but that wasnt the question LOL
I dont paint even the inside of pannels untill I get the fit right. Im doing that right now to a Chevelle. The inside of the doors are primered, but Im still fitting the doors to the fenders. Once that fit is good, I will remove the doors and fenders, final prime the doors, and then paint the inside of the doors. Then during the final blocking I will block off the over spray from the doors :)