5.0MX5
06-09-2011, 10:31 PM
Hello all, I had a thread a few weeks ago "New guy help" and received great advice from Len and others on painting my Monster Miata (5.0 Ford engine).
Well, last Saturday I was ready to shoot color. The car was almost ready to paint, only thing I had to do was mask the the door sills, jambs, and seal off the interior so I could open the doors and, well you know.
I hit the shop at 6 AM, but between draining the compressor tank, fiddling with the new gun, jacking the Miata up and putting on jack stands, pulling the wheels, mixing paint, it was 10:00 when I started to paint outside in front of the shop.
I had bought supplys several weeks eairler and had medium reducer for the PPG Omin MTK 2k urethane Viper Red paint. Reducer was good to 85 degs. By the time I started it was 85 degrees.
I'm thinking "it'll be OK". Started painting and had more orange peel than I wanted so I started laying the paint on, it's looking better. Work my way back to the hood and see lots of textured paint, shoot wetter, go slower with more overlap. To make a long story long, when I finished it looked like a 50' paint job, I would have been happy with a 10 footer.
Get the IR thermoter and check temp on the new paint. IT's 135F. Man no wonder I had texture. Well my 50' paint job dryed to a 1/4 mile paint job. A couple of days later I put the car back together and drove to a detail shop with a good reputation for cutting and buffing, gave em $100 to cut with 800 to 1000 to 1200 and buff.
My car now looks like glass, I could not be happier.
Question, anyone have advice on sanding with 1000 again and shooting Omin clear. Even with sanding will I have to worry about the clear peeling at some future date? As good as it looks now I can't image how it'll look with clear, but I don't want deal with clear coming off in a few years either.
Lessions learned, if you paint outside consider temp of car,not just air temps. Also get ready the night prior to painting.
Well, last Saturday I was ready to shoot color. The car was almost ready to paint, only thing I had to do was mask the the door sills, jambs, and seal off the interior so I could open the doors and, well you know.
I hit the shop at 6 AM, but between draining the compressor tank, fiddling with the new gun, jacking the Miata up and putting on jack stands, pulling the wheels, mixing paint, it was 10:00 when I started to paint outside in front of the shop.
I had bought supplys several weeks eairler and had medium reducer for the PPG Omin MTK 2k urethane Viper Red paint. Reducer was good to 85 degs. By the time I started it was 85 degrees.
I'm thinking "it'll be OK". Started painting and had more orange peel than I wanted so I started laying the paint on, it's looking better. Work my way back to the hood and see lots of textured paint, shoot wetter, go slower with more overlap. To make a long story long, when I finished it looked like a 50' paint job, I would have been happy with a 10 footer.
Get the IR thermoter and check temp on the new paint. IT's 135F. Man no wonder I had texture. Well my 50' paint job dryed to a 1/4 mile paint job. A couple of days later I put the car back together and drove to a detail shop with a good reputation for cutting and buffing, gave em $100 to cut with 800 to 1000 to 1200 and buff.
My car now looks like glass, I could not be happier.
Question, anyone have advice on sanding with 1000 again and shooting Omin clear. Even with sanding will I have to worry about the clear peeling at some future date? As good as it looks now I can't image how it'll look with clear, but I don't want deal with clear coming off in a few years either.
Lessions learned, if you paint outside consider temp of car,not just air temps. Also get ready the night prior to painting.