Factory finish spiderwebbing

Very nice work! I want to come back as a painter in my next life. It has to be very satisfying to get your paint just the way you want it. Thanks for posting all the pictures. I appreciate work well done.
 
xtremekustomz said:
I get 40% off Sherwin Williams paint because of a brother-in-law who works there so that is what I`m using. I have a 60 gallon air compressor so it`s all air. Honestly with the hvlp turbine you probably won`t get the best finish out of it. It tends to heat the paint up and doesn`t atomize as well as an air powered setup. You will end up with more orange peel texture which can be fixed with color sanding and buffing. I know having compressors and dryers costs a lot more and you actually use more paint but it does yield a better finish.
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I have a Fuji Q3 system that I picked up for a good price that I plan on using. From what I can tell, it has very fine atomization and with 6.5 psi at the tip, should have enough to spray automotive paint well. I was considering the unit from TP Tools as I saw many glowing remarks about it from restorers and painters (not as many FT painters used a turbine though because their shop already had a great air compressor system). The Fuji should be as good as the TP Tools one - maybe better - since the TP one only puts out around 4-5psi at the tip. I plan on extending the hose on the Fuji to help reduce the temp of incoming air to closer to a conventional setup so that it will be easier to get the paint ratios correct. We will see though! I first will be using it to stain & seal a wooden fence that I just finished putting up.

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Well this was fun. After 8 years of bug etching, rock chips, parking curbs, 1` metal fence pole my wife hit and 1 unlucky opossum I had my work cut out for me. The fence pole dug a gouge out of it and the opossum broke it on the lower end. I filled the gouge with evercoat polyflex and repaired the break with some 2 part plastic repair and smoothed it out with polyflex. Since it had so many chips and etchings I sanded the whole thing down with some 320 almost all the way through, applied 3 coats of high build, blocked with 220-320-600 and painted. Turned out good though







 
Arrow said:
I have a Fuji Q3 system that I picked up for a good price that I plan on using. From what I can tell, it has very fine atomization and with 6.5 psi at the tip, should have enough to spray automotive paint well. I was considering the unit from TP Tools as I saw many glowing remarks about it from restorers and painters (not as many FT painters used a turbine though because their shop already had a great air compressor system). The Fuji should be as good as the TP Tools one - maybe better - since the TP one only puts out around 4-5psi at the tip. I plan on extending the hose on the Fuji to help reduce the temp of incoming air to closer to a conventional setup so that it will be easier to get the paint ratios correct. We will see though! I first will be using it to stain & seal a wooden fence that I just finished putting up.

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Cool! Let me know how it works out! I use more than just a spray gun so I have the need for a compressor.
 
It`s done for the most part. I`m probably going to pull the billet and paint the area of the bumper behind the grille black so it doesn`t stand out so much. That, tint the windows and some wheels later on down the road.








 
Paint looks great!

The tinted headlights aren`t my thing (at least not that dark on a white car).

Will you be keeping it unbadged?

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Arrow said:
Paint looks great!

The tinted headlights aren`t my thing (at least not that dark on a white car).

Will you be keeping it unbadged?

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Yeah I actually ordered the headlights because I had an issue with the factory ones. I don`t know that I will end up keeping them on there though. They are really dark compared to the back and at night there isn`t much light. I will probably strip mine completely down and try to smoke them the same as the back. I took the badges off when I bought the car so they won`t be going back on.
 
xtremekustomz said:
Yeah I actually ordered the headlights because I had an issue with the factory ones. I don`t know that I will end up keeping them on there though. They are really dark compared to the back and at night there isn`t much light. I will probably strip mine completely down and try to smoke them the same as the back. I took the badges off when I bought the car so they won`t be going back on.
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I had thought / assumed the light output would be diminished but I thought some might compensate with brighter bulbs or super bright projectors... I prefer to keep things closer to factory myself, but I think it would look better with them matching the back better (or even stock ).

What problems did you have with your original headlights?

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Arrow said:
I had thought / assumed the light output would be diminished but I thought some might compensate with brighter bulbs or super bright projectors... I prefer to keep things closer to factory myself, but I think it would look better with them matching the back better (or even stock ).

What problems did you have with your original headlights?

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The plastic had a reaction with the tinted base I used. I will probably get out tomorrow and strip the coating, clear the lens, sand it down and tint over some fresh clear. That way there is a barrier between the plastic and color coat. If you intend on painting anything go ahead and prepare yourself for things like that lol
 
xtremejustomz- Heh heh, I think you already know that I`m impressed as all get-out by your skills, and that I`m a genuine hater when it comes to tinted lights (of any kind) so I`ll skip that stuff and just say that I myself think the current silver wheels look good on that. IMO if you black `em out it`d look wrong, but OTOH I bet somebody half my age would simply love it.

For some reason that blacked-out grille needs something IMO..again, that`s probably just my old(er) guy sensibilities talkin` but it`s a bit of a black hole to me, like it needs some kind of logo/etc.

Again, 40 years ago I might`ve done the exact same thing...
 
Accumulator said:
xtremejustomz- Heh heh, I think you already know that I`m impressed as all get-out by your skills, and that I`m a genuine hater when it comes to tinted lights (of any kind) so I`ll skip that stuff and just say that I myself think the current silver wheels look good on that. IMO if you black `em out it`d look wrong, but OTOH I bet somebody half my age would simply love it.

For some reason that blacked-out grille needs something IMO..again, that`s probably just my old(er) guy sensibilities talkin` but it`s a bit of a black hole to me, like it needs some kind of logo/etc.

Again, 40 years ago I might`ve done the exact same thing...
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Ha! That`s jealousy talking right there! The problem is that those are silver hub caps. I`ve been looking for a set of factory alloy wheels. Found some aftermarket ones on ebay that look the same as the factory style which I actually like.
 
xtremekustomz said:
Ha! That`s jealousy talking right there! The problem is that those are silver hub caps. I`ve been looking for a set of factory alloy wheels. Found some aftermarket ones on ebay that look the same as the factory style which I actually like.
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Heh heh, I`m so [darn] out-of-touch that I don`t even know what part of my post might`ve indicated jealousy!

What color are the alloys you`re considering? Black, by any chance?!?

Heh heh#2, it`d be one *BORING* world if everybody agreed with my automotive aesthetics!
 
xtremekustomz said:
Stylish?? They are the ones that come on the car from the factory lol
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Well IMO (and heh heh we all know what *my* opinion`s worth, huh? :o ) it`s not like OE wheels can`t be stylish or even *too* stylish for a guy like me. On my Jag, Tahoe, and our current Audis the OE wheels are absolutely perfect IMO, couldn`t possibly look better if I spent a fortune on different ones.

Not like I always feel that way, I loved aftermarket wheels on a few vehicles (and my wife was all about BBS wheels on her previous Audi) so to me it just depends.
 
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