Melon's E30 Build.

[White325is]

lots of wet sanding and re clear. Sucks, but it could have been so much worse.

[Melon]

Well, here's the verdict.

I went to the local store, and the PPG Envriobase u94 is $900/gal.
So with good primer, gallon of paint, and another two gallons of clear it came out to $2,300.00.

I looked at starting from scratch, and it came out to nearly the same amount, with substantially less quality materials, so the bullet was bit, lesson learned, and onward I march.

As far as the shitty clear coated parts, I'm not buying more paint to repaint those, they're going on the car as is.
Ultimately, the car is going to be a driver's car, not a show car, and the crappy panels are ones you won't see that much anyway.

[Melon]

Also, don't ever paint a car Fire Orange, for God's sake, just get something close, lol.

[BUDNUNTA]

For that color why not spray it in single stage paint without clear?

it will be much easier to get coverage and can easily be wet sanded to look perfect

[slum dog]

For that color why not spray it in single stage paint without clear?

it will be much easier to get coverage and can easily be wet sanded to look perfect

Yes single stage is so much easier ,perfect start to get used to spraying very easy to hide imperfections runs fish eyes with a little wet sanding and buffing.
Also dam why is clear, paints so expensive, understand it's quality but here in South Africa I can get everything needed for less than 500us dollors backed by a 10year garrentee if everything was done per Par.

Great progress none the less , we live and learn.

[Melon]

For that color why not spray it in single stage paint without clear?

it will be much easier to get coverage and can easily be wet sanded to look perfect

Looking back, I should have gone this route, or with a lesser quality two part system.

[Melon]

Also dam why is clear, paints so expensive,

Great progress none the less , we live and learn.

1) I didn't know any better and bought expensive basecoat, and now need the items to go with it.

2) Thanks! All these issues have taken away some of my enthusiasm, hoping the paint comes out looking nice, at least.

[Melon]

Primer was lacquer based too. Sanded most of it off, starting over with an epoxy primer.

Got some smaller parts painted.

My wheels came in! And I was able to find some 215/50/17 Fallen Azenis RT615k+ for $510 from discount tire direct.









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[Melon]

Got epoxy primer laid down abd the PPG EPC15 over that. Looking really good so far.

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[efficient]

dang. sucks to hear about the paint. your body work looks good though.

[zaq123]

After your first post, I immediately did a little digging into it. There's no reaction between the two paints on the car, but from now on, I'll make sure to keep the two separated when I use them.

Thanks for the info.

sucks to start over but you will be much better off in the long run.
From my previously posted link regarding 2k and self etch (2K Epoxy-Primer Filler must NOT be applied on Acid Primer). Save self etch for alum

[Melon]

sucks to start over but you will be much better off in the long run.

The work was a pain, and it delayed the project, but ultimately I didn't have a lot of heartburn starting over using much better materials from which to build a foundation.

[Melon]

Color going on today.







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[NEOe30]

Oh boy


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[wworm]

oh man ok this is still going to look really good. So I'm a little confused, and also really interested in painting a car one of these days, what paints did you end up going with? I'm a total noob when it comes to this (started researching it last night) so if you could dumb it down for me that'd be great.