Spray can painting

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Ok as some of you guys know my brother got into a crash and we finally got all the parts together and will put it back together this weekend. Since we dont know any car painter yet and not ready to shell out 2K for a new paint job, Does anyone know how to get good results from just spray can painting?

I don't remember his name but I know someone here did that to their hood on their black gen II Mark VIII and it looked great for just spray painting.
 
I saw an amazing spray can job on a Taurus SHO. It's the prep work that REALLY matters.
 
Its all in the prep work. Sand it good, prime, sand again, few coats of base, sand again, clear, sand again, buff, buff, buff.

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Yep thats the guy I was looking for. BTW it looks really really good. Could you tell be what grid sand paper you used for each sanding step and what primer/products did you use?

If I can get it half as good as you did, I think it would look ok for awhile.
 
I started of with sanding. I used 120 grit to take off all the clear coat and actually went down to bare metal in some places, but I didnt intend to.

I then used Duplicolor sandable filler primer. A couple thin coats followed by 1 thick coat.

Next I wet sanded with 800 grit.

Followed that with Duplicolor acrylic enamal, 2 thin coats and 2 thick coats. I just followed the directions on the can for drying time etc.

Next I wet sanded that with 800 grit and then used duplicolor acrylic clear coat. Again I did 2 thin coats followed by 1 thick coat.

Then I wet sanded with 1000, 1500, and 2000 grit. After the sanding I used my 10" random orbit buffer. I started with turtle wax rubbing compound. Not the stuff in a round bowl but the "liquid" stuff that comes in what looks like a big tube of toothpaste. For this I used a bonnett that is like fluffy cotton or something, dont remember what its called but its the yellow fluffy one. I just put some compound on the car and buffed it in until it got kinda shiny and used a microfiber towel to remove the excess. I used water from a spray bottle here and there to keep it from swirling the paint while buffing.

Did the same thing with turtle wax polishing compound that comes in a tube, but this time the bonnet I used was made of microfiber. Removed the excess with microfiber towel and changed bonnets again for the final step. Used another microfiber bonnet to put on the final 2 coats of wax which was Eagle One Nano wax. Let it dry to a haze and buffed it by hand and you see what it ended up like.

I got all of this at my local autozone for around $50 total. It was a lot of work but it sorta re-lit the flame.
 
Nice work.
Maybe I will do my own hood.
I got a black one I want to paint to match my car.
 
i won't really have to worry about the color match because it need a full paint job anyways.
 
Took off old paint with sander, everything else was by hand. Like I said it was a lot of work. Next time I will use a sander for sure.

All I had was a black & decker mouse sander and couldnt find any fine pads for it, so I did it by hand.
 

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