04-18-2008, 02:11 PM
**Date will be weekend of May 17th!!!**
This is an "out there" idea but most of us are a little "out there" anyhow.
I need to paint the XR. Several of us need to paint our pieces. So why don't we combine resources and get our stuff painted?
I know nothing about painting so feel free to shoot holes in my theories.
Goal: Paint our rides as cheaply as possible while learning and having fun.
Anti-Goal: Have a 100% Perfect, flawless, $5000 paint job.
The way I see it, we have two options.
1. I'll build a shower-curtain booth (with Dave's ideas and help - poke) at my house for a weekend. I already have a 30gal compressor, a basic air-line dryer, two paintbooth-rated masks, and a big HVLP gun. What's left is the booth, and I have enough construction skills to make something last a weekend.
2. We all go together and rent a booth for a weekend. Don't know where, don't know how much, but I would think it'd be possible?
Challenges that I see:
Timing. We'd have to have our car's bodywork done in advance. We'd then spray it, let it tack, spray it again, let it dry enough, and then get it out of the "booth" where it could cure, wetsand, or whatever is next.
Quality. It will likely be an outside paint job and our first itme painting. All I Can promise is that my car will be 99% black :-).
My logic is that I can paint my car with single stage black for UNDER $150 for paint. That beats a $400 Maaco job, and it sure as hell beats a $1000+ job elsewhere. Plus I like doing my own work.
Keep in mind that for me, it's for my racecar and I don't need it to be beautiful.
Anyone else interested?
This is an "out there" idea but most of us are a little "out there" anyhow.
I need to paint the XR. Several of us need to paint our pieces. So why don't we combine resources and get our stuff painted?
I know nothing about painting so feel free to shoot holes in my theories.
Goal: Paint our rides as cheaply as possible while learning and having fun.
Anti-Goal: Have a 100% Perfect, flawless, $5000 paint job.
The way I see it, we have two options.
1. I'll build a shower-curtain booth (with Dave's ideas and help - poke) at my house for a weekend. I already have a 30gal compressor, a basic air-line dryer, two paintbooth-rated masks, and a big HVLP gun. What's left is the booth, and I have enough construction skills to make something last a weekend.
2. We all go together and rent a booth for a weekend. Don't know where, don't know how much, but I would think it'd be possible?
Challenges that I see:
Timing. We'd have to have our car's bodywork done in advance. We'd then spray it, let it tack, spray it again, let it dry enough, and then get it out of the "booth" where it could cure, wetsand, or whatever is next.
Quality. It will likely be an outside paint job and our first itme painting. All I Can promise is that my car will be 99% black :-).
My logic is that I can paint my car with single stage black for UNDER $150 for paint. That beats a $400 Maaco job, and it sure as hell beats a $1000+ job elsewhere. Plus I like doing my own work.
Keep in mind that for me, it's for my racecar and I don't need it to be beautiful.
Anyone else interested?
http://www.85xr.com
1985 Merkur XR4Ti Track Car
2013 Ford F-150 FX4 Ecoboost
E46 BMW 330Ci Sport 5spd
1973 Honda CL125S
1985 Honda CX500
2013 Arctic Cat 700 ATV
2017 Onewheel +
1985 Merkur XR4Ti Track Car
2013 Ford F-150 FX4 Ecoboost
E46 BMW 330Ci Sport 5spd
1973 Honda CL125S
1985 Honda CX500
2013 Arctic Cat 700 ATV
2017 Onewheel +