(Post Crash Chassis Swap) Project Reincarnation / Project Beat Jason

[Panici]

Love the bodywork in the street!
It's a bit of an art, don't beat yourself up too bad for a first attempt.

I am also a bodywork newbie, but is it possible you didn't get enough colour laid down evenly? And we are seeing the primer through the paint?

Or perhaps a chemical incompatibility between types of primer/paint/clear. I've heard that can cause haze.

[max.rodriguezzz]

The man is doing body and paint work in the street. I live for this shit. You are one crazy son of a gun.

I’m impressed by how many pictures you take throughout the process. I don’t take nearly enough progress photos as I’m getting stuff done. I’m usually just in the groove, and totally forget about it. On top of I’m usually covered in some kind of grease/oil/fluid/etc. so I have to wipe my hands real good before I pick up my phone each time.

anyway, you are gaining some invaluable skills with this E30. Be cautious of getting too good. Soon you’ll have all your friends coming to ask you to help them with their project cars.

keep fighting the good fight

Thanks man I appreciate it ! haha its not out of the ordinary for friends to call me up to help with some stuff, I live for that shit too

Its definitely a chore to take photos throughout the process and I'd much rather stay in the groove too, But honestly starting this thread has inspired me so much to document everything I can of this project. I think the effort will be worth it to look back on in the future :)

I certainly will keep fighting the good fight, this e30 needs me and I need this e30 haha

[max.rodriguezzz]

Love the bodywork in the street!
It's a bit of an art, don't beat yourself up too bad for a first attempt.

I am also a bodywork newbie, but is it possible you didn't get enough colour laid down evenly? And we are seeing the primer through the paint?

Or perhaps a chemical incompatibility between types of primer/paint/clear. I've heard that can cause haze.

Thanks man, so many neighbors asked me if I do bodywork as my job/paint cars/could paint their car haha. I told them all no lol

There most certainly is no primer peaking through, I definitely got all the color laid down, the challenging part was getting it down evenly with the same wetness cuz of the wind. In the photos you can see the spots where it was sprayed a little wetter than the rest.

I think chemical incompatibility possibly could be a factor, its just generic black Rust-Oleum rattle can paint, then some clear coat from OReilly's. The fact that the clear dried kinda gritty is what confuses me. Like I said, in the far future when I have a better set up I'll definetly respray the roof and hopefully the whole car. Anyways, I gotta paint match the sunroof panel, which should be a much easier job. I'm gunna find a better environment without the challenge of wind to paint that one in, we'll see if that one comes out hazy or not. If it does probably the paints, if not than it was probably just my abilities

[GasolineJess]

Max, the swap thread is a hell of a read. Respect for doing the bodywork on the street, that takes some nerve.
On the gritty clear: rough-to-the-touch and hazy are two different failure modes, and telling them apart tells you whether to blame the wind or the cans.
- Feels like sandpaper, all over? That is dry spray. The clear half-dried before it landed, and wind flashes the solvent off mid-air. Closer passes, slower, on a still day.
- Smooth but dull, or gritty in patches with flat spots? That is the clear solvent chewing on the enamel under it. Rust-Oleum rattle cans are slow-cure enamel; most parts-store clears are acrylic. Acrylic over enamel that has not gassed out will haze every time. Chemistry, not skill.
Your sunroof-panel test is smart, but keep the paint the same as the roof. Same enamel, same clear, same wait. Change only the environment, or you will not know which variable fixed it. Give the color a full 72 hours to gas out before you clear it, warm the can, spray closer.
And the roof is not dead: after a week of cure, wet sand 1500 then 2000 and buff. Texture sands out. Dullness that will not buff back is the chemistry one.