just finished a 2 week side project, 94 MK8 repaint

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i just finished a project i promised my buddy for his wife's 94 garnett red mark VIII. i have been picking at it for the past 2 weeks, but as of yesterday morning, i started prepping it finally for primer, i got to my shop around 10 am and worked until around 7, i came home for dinner and went back to the shop, i had no intention on painting the car last night, just prime it, but one thing led to another and i opened my shop doors at 9 am this morning to see daylight, i could barely stand up anymore, i felt like i had been in a gang fight. every inch of me was in pain, it felt like heaven to open the doors and smell fresh morning florida air! needless to say i went home at 9 am and slept till 1 today, i got back up and went back for another 6 hours to unmask and re-assemble the car. tomorroe i have to swap on another set of clean snowflakes with some brand new cooper 245-50-16's and clean up the wheel well over spray and give it an oil change and she gets her car back for christmas with some shiny new garnett red glaze paint! check out my project, it was a blast lol, NOT. i dont know why the pics came out so out of focus, but you get the idea!


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Looks good Jamie. I know thats a lot of work I have done some body work in the past, prepping and such. I repainted my 94's front bumper. If you can feel it your going to see it.... Not to bad :shifty: sanding is so much of the work!!

Happy Holidays:) :)
 
Looks real good Jamie. One question tho, why did you paint over the chrome strips?
 
I personally like the paint over the chrome strips. The car looks great!!!
 
the biggest reason why is because the owner asked me too, second is because they werent chrome anymore, they were shot and looked horrible, so no better time to do something about them!!!
 
Looks great. My chrome strips are fading too. I'd been looking for a solution to that issue as well.
 
wow youre good! what are you doing next weekend? Im coming over!! hehe
 
Looks great what a long day.
You made your buddy and his wife happy on christmas.
 
finished it up today for the owners to come get it, yes even on christmas day im in the shop. i put the keyless pad back in the door, put the door panel back on, swapped over new tires on it, and dressed up the tires and cleaned the wheel well overspray out. car looks great, they are coming to get it in a little bit im excited to see her face when she sees it. i wish i had a huge bow to put on it lol. here are nice clear pics i took today. one down, another one to go!
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looks great man! My dad paints for a livin...so i know a good job when i see one. just curious,what kind of spray gun do you use?
 
i have two high end devilbiss gravity guns from granger. i use one for primer, and the other for base and clear.they use baggies inside the cans, so the paint never touches the can, and they zip loc, so you can spray upside down and not one drip will leak out, pretty cool!
 
Any color sanding/polishing or are you just that good at spraying the paint? The car looks beautiful!
 
i will get the car back in about a month so i can wet sand and buff it. it does look good, but there is some orange peel, unless its factory, you'll never paint car without some orange peel. it will look like glass when im finished, but i'm letting it get nice and hard first.
 
yeah i know what your talking about with the baggies...but what about the high end? are they high end in pressure and volume,or high end in cash? and the needle size also. Just tryin to small talk :D

My dad just got an Iwata 400,he said its one of the best guns he's ever used,the way the paint atoms lay down is in a turbine pattern inside of its own fan. Its really nice. He also has an Sata digital 3000 HVLP,HVHP. He has a quite a few of them,but those are his nicest.
Also he said he'd give ya a good price on one since we are "Lincoln Brothers" lol. If your interested in gettin another one.
Anyway,nice lookin car.
 
how did you set up you booth in your shop, what did you use for ventalation, I might be doing it in my gerage here in a few weeks?
 
i just staple up 3 mil plastic sheeting to cover everything in there, then i have a fan way up at the ceiling in the back of the shop that pulls fresh air in from the back of the building through a 6 inch gap between the back wall and roof, and i have two 20 inch box fans under the garage door plus one of them industrial orange fans from home depot that sucks everything near it up!!! i get almost no fumes lingering in my shop when i paint, they go right out the door almost instantly. a few guys in my complex paint cars, no one has a real booth, but my buddy matt pulls off some amazing paint jobs in the same type of set up as me. i also soak my floor with water before i spray anything, keeps dust down. i also put a steel chain on the cars chassis and lay it on the floor under the car. some old school guys say this is an extra ground keeps dust and crap off the car, like a de-magnetizer.
 
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