Finally Painted my E28... Whole process inside!

[BahnE30]

150 hours, for 500 bucks youy might have gotten 10 hours of actual body work which isn't very much, that paint job will last a long time, so what if there's some orange peel, reshoot the clear and buff the hell out of it.... i painted my car in my garage granted i borrowed a body mans 1000 dollar devibliss gun with the new dupont bag inside the cup deally (virtually no overspray) i painted my car with a pint 3 good heavy coats... they're was a little orange peel around the edges and only 2 runs one at the bottom corner of each door jam, buff them out never even know. but seriously for 500 bucks i wouldn't be complaining at all. i didn't even make a booth cleaned the shop out real good wetted the floor down and a painted.

looks damn good ryan

[Chris E30 Cab]

Great job Ryan!! Your 5'er looks amazing man :up:

[M42Technik]

My next big project, painting my car. After I source the rest of my kit and other pieces of course...

What factors would have given you less orange peel? The spraygun, and what else? Still looks fanstastic.

[peteM3power]

Wow is all I can say!

That is absolutely amazing Ryan! Talk about a super nice result!

Fantastic Work!

Pete

[Schnell 318]

so that saab moonroof bolts right in?

does the e30 and e28 share the sunroof panel? :twisted:

[lukasbmw]

Great job bro! I can't believe it looks as good as it does. I don't even see any orange peel, but if there is any, it can sand/buff out.

Ditto for the question above...doesn't the E28 and E30 share sunroof panels? That means the Sabb roof could work on an E30???

[Court M3]

That car is looking real good! Congrats man on a great job!!

[gstuning]

Great job bro! I can't believe it looks as good as it does. I don't even see any orange peel, but if there is any, it can sand/buff out.

Ditto for the question above...doesn't the E28 and E30 share sunroof panels? That means the Sabb roof could work on an E30???

They don´t I found a Original Glass roof in a E28 but it did not fit my E30

[shahe]

ryan looks good! just needs euro lights. Im talking about the large low beam small high beam.

jordans orange looks like a mean face, like the front of the e28.

[M3 Ryan]

I am working on the euro lights...
The E28 sunroof is 1.5" wider than an E30, so NO it will not fit, too bad though...
I got a CF sunroof comming for my M3 so that will be fun :twisted:

[BMWM5LOVER]

Fucking hot is all I can say!!!

[clavinZERO]

wasn't the wet sanding done to eliminate the orange peel? how does the paint look dry? what is causing that? wet sand/polish is supposed to fix that shit right?

[C ///M]

Wow, the 18s look really good on the e28. You should leave those on the e28 and get some different 18s for the m3. I know it's a DD, but they look better on the 5er.

P.S. So you're one of the bastards that got one of the first CF sunroofs... :evil:

Also, the car looks amazing.

[M3 Ryan]

wasn't the wet sanding done to eliminate the orange peel? how does the paint look dry? what is causing that? wet sand/polish is supposed to fix that shit right?

It looked dry before the sanding, now its better but not totally. The clearcoat went on really dry, nothing I can do about it now short of respraying all the clear, which I might do in a year or 2 if it starts tok fade.

I got a CF sunroof from an S14.net member, different than Shahe's GB he had on them. I should have it installed by bimmerfest. :twisted: