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    DIY Car Painting??

    in Tech Talk

    Posted

    OK So I would love to paint the Anglia this summer.

    Budget says DIY

    So I read the paint thread article etc but have the following questions

    1) Is a 40L compressor big enough

    2) HVLP gun ok? How much should I spend?

    3) I plan to use enamel laquer as 2k is a bit scary sounding, am i being a pussy?

    4) How much paint will I need?

    5) Does someone in chch have a booth I could hire? (or shall I plastic line my double garage?)

    6) Do I need to clearcoat?

    Cheers for reading

    Try and clear this up.

    1 Probably not unless it can flow at least 12cfm/min. Hire one for a day if you need to.

    2 Yup. I bought a half decent one on sale for about $120. The really cheap ones are horribly inconsistent.

    3 Use Acrylic Lacquer. If you can prep a car with primer you should be able to manage the colour. The reason it's easy is that it is half dry when it hits the panel. Because 2k is a chemical reaction to dry, it stays 'thin' untill it starts to cure. This gives it far more time to form runs.

    4 4lts of colour and 6 ltrs (+a ltr for clean up) thinners should do a little car like an Anglebox.

    5 ?

    6 Only need a clear coat for metallics. The reason is that you cant polish a metallic paint because you will polish through different layers of metal flakes and it will end up blotchy. Hence, give it clear and then polish through a paint (clear) that has the same consistency through out. Applies to both 2k and single pack.

    Tips (acrylic lacquer)

    Orange peel is better than runs. It flat sands out if you think you have too much. Runs are very difficult to sand out entirely.

    Work from the top down kinda like cleaning a car. Roof first/boot/bonnet around car. Try to avoid overspray settling on already painted surfaces. Tricky.

    Take your time getting the paint on and you should be able to continue to paint till you've almost run out (save some for touch ups).

    Allow it to dry for at least 7 days before touching it with polish.

    If it ha too much orange peel (likely) wet sand with 2000 wet&dry before buffing. Hand polish ridges/corners ect to avoid polishing through the paint.

    Acrylic lacquer is a bit softer than 2 pack paints, so it's easier to scratch but seems a bit better for stone chips, and is softer under a hot sun.

    But it's easy to work with, you can pull up a great shine from it and it served as the dominant paint for years among manufactures. One of the main reasons it's not used anymore is that the fumes released are a bit crook for the old air quality. Environmentals ect. It's banned in many cuntry's.

    Have a go(maybe on an old panel?).

    Touring Car Extravaganza

    in General Car Chat

    Posted

    Hey Conrad.

    They're a bit rough round the edges here, but they seem a decent bunch ha.

    Raymond? :?:

    Tony.

    We met some time ago, when I was trying to sort the flywheel on an E36 man conversion, and since have had to sit through Josh regaling me with tales of awe and wonderment over the M3 ha.

    You also outbid me on that rolled and bowled E36 M3 at Turners, but dont worry, I got over that (and E36s, shitfull things) even though you didnt use.

    Touring Car Extravaganza

    in General Car Chat

    Posted

    By about '97 the V8's were lapping faster around Bathurst than the GT-R. I don't know much about the spec changes, but this suggests if the V8 guys had of stuck to their guns, they might have been able to catch up to the Nissans? Intake restrictors, boost restrictors, limiting it to 2wd only. There are any number of other avenues they could have taken also, like every other series in the world other than just banning everything except Ford and Holden.

    Motorsport is a proving ground where manufacturers develop their cars. I bet Ford and Holdens would have gotten to where they are now far quicker than the long winded development process that has occured over the years.

    All those restrictions may have saved Group A, would have been orsum if it worked or they at least tried.

    Nowdays with super computers designing cars, motorsport plays almost zero role in the development of new models.

    Only thing we miss out on are the specials like the RS500s ect.

    Probably half the reason new cars are so dull.

    Touring Car Extravaganza

    in General Car Chat

    Posted

    So you're blaming the GTR and 1991 on the change, are you forgetting that in 1988, 11/13 were won by the RS500, in 1989, 10/12 were won by the RS500 and in 1990, 7/12 were won by the RS500.

    :lol:

    It was a destruction BEGUN by the Sierra and ended by the Skyline. Why would an Aussie buy something domestic when a shit-box 4cylinder or 6cylinder could RAPE it on track. They didn't mind being beaten by the motherland but by the Japanese?! WELL THAT DOG/FOX WON'T HUNT!

    Thats the point though. The Aussie crowds are so parochial that a Jap 4wd coupe was never going to be accepted.

    They could probably accept the Sierra over the Falcon, it's a Ford after all. But a Nissan? They were never going to have it.

    And as stupid as that attitude is, it was the reality.

    Perhaps blaming the car itself is wrong, point the finger at the regulators who didn't see the writing on the wall.

    Either way, in pro motorsport, alienating your fan base will kill your formula.

    Touring Car Extravaganza

    in General Car Chat

    Posted

    This was 1991

    ATCC Round 1 Sandown International Raceway Melbourne, Victoria Jim Richards Gibson Motor Sport Nissan Skyline R32 GT-R

    ATCC Round 2 Symmons Plains Raceway Launceston, Tasmania Jim Richards Nissan Motorsport Australia Nissan Skyline R32 GT-R

    ATCC Round 3 Barbagallo Raceway Perth, Western Australia Mark Skaife Nissan Motorsport Australia Nissan Skyline R32 GT-R

    ATCC Round 4 Lakeside International Raceway Brisbane, Queensland Jim Richards Nissan Motorsport Australia Nissan Skyline R32 GT-R

    ATCC Round 5 Winton Motor Raceway Benalla, Victoria Jim Richards Nissan Motorsport Australia Nissan Skyline R32 GT-R

    ATCC Round 6 Amaroo Park Sydney, New South Wales Tony Longhurst Benson & Hedges Racing BMW M3 Evolution II

    ATCC Round 7 Mallala Motor Sport Park Mallala, South Australia Mark Skaife Nissan Motorsport Australia Nissan Skyline R32 GT-R

    ATCC Round 8 Lakeside International Raceway Brisbane, Queensland Tony Longhurst Benson & Hedges Racing BMW M3 Evolution II

    ATCC Round 9 Oran Park Raceway Sydney, Mark Skaife Nissan Motorsport Australia Nissan Skyline R32 GT-R

    Sandown 500 Sandown International Raceway Mark Gibbs, Rohan Onslow Nissan Skyline R32 GT-R

    Tooheys 1000 Mount Panorama Circuit Bathurst, Jim Richards, Mark Skaife Nissan Skyline R32 GT-R

    Olympic Group A Challenge Adelaide Street Circuit Jim Richards Nissan Skyline R32 GTR

    This is what killed Group A. The joke was that the teams knew the spectaters by first name.

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