Painting advice

projectmx · Post by **projectmx** » December 20th, 2006, 11:34 am

hey i just picked up a 93 egt for my new daily driver among other things it needs a paintjob pretty bad and i would love to do flat black (primer black) should be easy to do and repair if it gets scratches and dings... I know some magazine did this to a wrx once and they just used spray cans... would this work ok or does anyone know another type of paint i should use?

92blackmx3 · Post by **92blackmx3** » December 20th, 2006, 12:54 pm

i sanded my car done and sprayed it flat black with cans came out prtty good it only took about 4 or 5 cans

projectmx · Post by **projectmx** » December 20th, 2006, 1:34 pm

wow only 4 or 5 cans? was that only one coat? how has it held up and do you have any pics?

92blackmx3 · Post by **92blackmx3** » December 20th, 2006, 9:08 pm

yaa i only did one coat it held up awsome until i went to use the snow brush to push snow off it the other day now it has some scratches for pics of both my cars go to http://www.streetlethalconcepts.com/andrewr

mitmaks · Post by **mitmaks** » December 20th, 2006, 11:12 pm

4 5 cans wont do it. I would just save money and wait till you can get it repainted.

92blackmx3 · Post by **92blackmx3** » December 20th, 2006, 11:52 pm

4 or 5 cans will do it i done it myself i got no job and couldnt afford a paintjob so i did this for the winter and its just a beater for me anyways the black one on the site is flat black the beater the red one is the one im gonna work on

projectmx · Post by **projectmx** » December 21st, 2006, 7:13 am

there is no way i'm going to save up and paint this car professionally.. this is my daily driver/beater... the only car getting a good paintjob is my AWD mx-3, all i want is something that will look better than my smashed up mx-3 i'm driving around

rsroadkilla · Post by **rsroadkilla** » December 21st, 2006, 8:07 am

im currently painting my mini in matt black using rattle cans.

I used 2 cans on the engine bay, so i reckon it will take quite a few more!

Give it a quick sand with a real fine paper just to key the surface, slap on a bit of etched primer and lay on the matt black!

Its looks pretty good, but make sure you key the surface first otherwise it will just flake off!

projectmx · Post by **projectmx** » December 21st, 2006, 8:24 am

key the surface? sorry don't follow?

i was going to use some kind of air powered tool (die grinder maybe?) to sand the car down and use sand paper for small areas the air tool couldn't read

rsroadkilla · Post by **rsroadkilla** » December 22nd, 2006, 8:51 am

key the surface as in sand it...

so basically yeah, do what you were going to do! lol

Silkwyrm · Post by **Silkwyrm** » December 22nd, 2006, 1:16 pm

You dont have to strip the paint, if its just got the original layer of paint on it. Just scuff the surface, I'd use a DA with 600 grit paper. Dont know if they sell this in spray cans, but for extra protection you could spray a layer of flat clear coat over the black.

mitmaks · Post by **mitmaks** » December 22nd, 2006, 2:27 pm

projectmx wrote:hey i just picked up a 93 egt for my new daily driver among other things it needs a paintjob pretty bad and i would love to do flat black (primer black) should be easy to do and repair if it gets scratches and dings... I know some magazine did this to a wrx once and they just used spray cans... would this work ok or does anyone know another type of paint i should use?

Magazine tried to do it cause they wanted it to look like mad max car. Mad max car doesn't look anything close to it. So they dont know wtf they were doing. Personally I'd leave car alone the way it is.

projectmx · Post by **projectmx** » December 22nd, 2006, 11:18 pm

uhm if i leave this car how it is then the rust will finish eating through the car and i'll have huge dents... why would i leave it like that? when for maybe 100 tops i could fix the dents and put a halfway decent paint job on it?

mitmaks · Post by **mitmaks** » December 23rd, 2006, 1:33 am

spraying primer on rust wont help. Primer does NOT stop rust.

projectmx · Post by **projectmx** » December 23rd, 2006, 6:32 pm

so if cleaning, sanding, re-cleaning, spraying a self etching primer then primering the car won't get rid of the rust that was there what will?

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