My Dart is finally in primer!!! YAY! (UPDATE)

[flyboy01]

Yup, finally, in primer, and its all one color! This is where the tease comes in. Unfortunatley Photobucket is down right now, so I cant post any pictures right now. I am going to try to attach one small one.

[tnplumber]

I bet you are ready for the body work to be through, then on to the stroker 383.

Scott
72 Dart

[flyboy01]

OK, here are some better pics.

These are pics of the final masking and how my garage was setup. I made my own filter unit with two furnace filters, a cardboard box, and a 3000 cfm blower fan.

[flyboy01]

More pics.

This is about a coat and a half of Featherfill G2 Primer.

[Ace]

Right on right on!  Cheers to you!

[eldubb440]

i love that look

[mopowers]

Looks like a great job!  Just curious, what kind of compressor are you using?

[flyboy01]

Craftsman Professional 25 Gallon Horizontal with the oiled cylinder. It was able to keep up with the El-cheapo HVLP 1.5 primer gun whick I drilled out to make it a 1.85, It probably won't even break a sweat when I use my new Astro 1.4 LVLP gun for the paint.

[ski]

Nice progress.  Looks great!

[signet]

looks like a well done job and in such a small area.

[doug 371]

looks great...the lines look nice and sharp and straight...good job

[dangerdawg]

  good job.

[demon340v]

awesome job, love the custom paint booth!

[67 dartgts]

Hello:
  HOOORAYYYYY  looking good.  It's amazing how much work goes into that first primer coat on whole car, but when you stand back and look at it, it's worth every second of prep work.   Nice job, what color you going for on finish cooats, you gonna have "Flyboy's cyustom paint do it".


    Maynard

[flyboy01]

I was originally going to paint it black, but I am questioning my ability to spray, so I am probably going to paint it red.

[Duster440]

Cool! I'll bet you're thrilled. One step closer. Seems body work and paint is the single longest, most time consuming, often frustrating, part of a project.

[flyboy01]

Cool! I'll bet you're thrilled. One step closer. Seems body work and paint is the single longest, most time consuming, often frustrating, part of a project.

AMEN!

  When I bought the Dart. 

  I decided to do a brake job, when I said, "as long as I am doing this, I might as well..."

  When I started the bodywork

  2 months into the project

  4 months

  6 months

  8 months

  10 months

  Yesterday when I finished priming 

[68_Val_Sedan]

Looks great ... now on to the block sanding ...

[flyboy01]

Nope, still have to put on another coat, most panels only have 1 coat, some have two. I want to get 3 coats on it before I block sand. I am going to try to do it tomorrow, I took 1/2 a day off Tuesday and Wednesday.

[Duster Five-O]

Very cool. I'm interested to find out how the LVLP gun works for you. I am contemplating getting one.

[doug 371]

black is the easiest color to spray...try painting a white car ...obviously hiding bad bodywork is a different story

[IL.DART340- 4SP]

Looks great ... now on to the block sanding ...

keep pictures coming. We all love pictures.

[flyboy01]

Today I finished up. I gave the whole car 2 coats on every panel, except the rear quarters, they got 4 coats for block sanding. More boring pics.
 

[flyboy01]

while blocking the driver's door, I noticed a series of dimples. I decided to grind down a little to see what it was, this is what I found. A bunch of cheap bondo and a crappy repair job. I did a little more grinding after I took this picture and it was even thicker on the top. I am going to keep grinding away until all the cheap beige bondo is gone. I will have to bang it out a bit, then weld the holes shut, and then lay in some good Evercoat filler.
 

 

 

 

[flyboy01]

I was originally going to paint it black, but I am questioning my ability to spray, so I am probably going to paint it red.

The decision was finally made last weekend and it was the harderst one I made in my entire life, what color to paint my Dart? After I started blocking out the Dart, I realized that the 8 months of body work paid off, its as flat as a board.

I bought the paint and clear Saturday, Dupont Jet Black Basecoat and Matrix MS-42 2:1 Clear. So black it is!

[eldubb440]

black (or any solid color) is the easiest to spray.....its the buffing and polishing(if you choose to sand and buff) that will test your patience

[JoeSwinger69]

Black will be cool!!!
    After seeing your shop you've inspired me, I have been letting the size of my shop keep me from doing body work, I think I will go start sanding on my car right now!!

[flyboy01]

I have 40 inches on each side of the car, plenty of room for me and a roll around seat. Actually, being so small makes it easy to clean and vacuum.

[jamesdart]

looks good. so you gave up on the duplicolor paint?

[flyboy01]

Just because there was no cost advantage. I ended up getting the Base/clear, and all the reducers/hardeners for $230.00. If it was a quickie paint job, I would still use the stuff.

[jamesdart]

wow what is the point might as well go with good stuff. i really dont see the point, its not rocket science to mix paint.  i dont see the advantage over something like imron

[flyboy01]

The point of the Laquer is that it is very low odor, its good for do-it-yourselfers also. The issue with Urethanes is that they stink up the whole neigborhood and are very toxic, Laquers (new type) are very safe, since they are reduced with acetone, which evaporates down, not up, so there is minimal smell associated with it. Another thing, for novices, you dont have to worry about recoat windows, you can stop and restart anytime, and it involes no mixing and ratios. For me, it was the fact that I wanted somethign a little tougher, which is why I went with a BC/CC Urethane system, now I just have to worry about getting evicted for painting it in my garage.