69MyWay
Well-known member
Here is the deal. After hours and hours of painstaking work TZracer's 71 (I have nicknamed Bruiser) is now dressed in base coat clear coat jet black.
Now, we are doing something a little different here. I had to shoot the jams anyway, and have had some concerns about the overall "straightness" of my body mod work on the rest of the car (flares, fitting the nose, aftermarket hood, etc).
So, we wrapped up the rough work, wet the floor down, papered up the car and I shot it in the garage last night. Temps were dropping fast so we had to work quick. Of course it has runs and trash in it, but we laid up two pretty wet coats of clear.
Why you might ask? Well, now the car can go back to Dave's house and little by little get fitted with the new engine, etc. etc. Basically he can go ahead and assemble most of the car. The paint won't absorb grease while doing the engine work, etc.
However, the biggest gain here is we can finally see what other work needs to be done to make the car perfect. So far, it looks darn good. Almost a shame we were not in a booth, because this might have been the final paint job.
Now, it will all get blocked back down with 500 and 600 wet dry after it is running and driving, less the trim parts. We will go back into it with a booth, and lay two more quick coats of black base, then two more heavy coats of clear considering 3/4 of the current clear will get knocked down during the final blocking phase.
GEEEEEEEEEEEEEZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ this thing is shinny!
Now, we are doing something a little different here. I had to shoot the jams anyway, and have had some concerns about the overall "straightness" of my body mod work on the rest of the car (flares, fitting the nose, aftermarket hood, etc).
So, we wrapped up the rough work, wet the floor down, papered up the car and I shot it in the garage last night. Temps were dropping fast so we had to work quick. Of course it has runs and trash in it, but we laid up two pretty wet coats of clear.
Why you might ask? Well, now the car can go back to Dave's house and little by little get fitted with the new engine, etc. etc. Basically he can go ahead and assemble most of the car. The paint won't absorb grease while doing the engine work, etc.
However, the biggest gain here is we can finally see what other work needs to be done to make the car perfect. So far, it looks darn good. Almost a shame we were not in a booth, because this might have been the final paint job.
Now, it will all get blocked back down with 500 and 600 wet dry after it is running and driving, less the trim parts. We will go back into it with a booth, and lay two more quick coats of black base, then two more heavy coats of clear considering 3/4 of the current clear will get knocked down during the final blocking phase.
GEEEEEEEEEEEEEZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ this thing is shinny!
