| Size |
Caption |
| 86046 |
What's wrong with this picture? The black side sills make the car look nose heavy. Check out the Racing Beat Type II Nose section to see what led up to this state of affairs. |
| 109996 |
The only real dent in my car...a present from the previous owner. It's plenty shallow enough to fill and isn't very visible from the side of the car at all. |
| 80789 |
Sanding off the old paint and the anti-chip coating is a PAIN! Use a power sander if you have one. |
| 75577 |
I just took it down to the paint underneath since I used a sealer. |
| 103104 |
Here it is well sanded. |
| 92517 |
The masking process is simple, but use FRESH masking tape from an auto body supplier, not K-mart. Use masking paper, NOT newspaper. Don't leave the masking tape on for any longer than you must and never leave it in the sun to dry out. Peel it off back over itself, not pulling straight out. Hmm...that's all I can think of. |
| 55194 |
Finish sanding is with 400 grit and I also lightly sanded up the body sides since I'll have to blend the paint in and reshoot clear over this section. |
| 81904 |
Here it is ready to shoot the primer/sealer. I didn't use surfacer, because the sanded finish was very smooth with no need to fill. |
| 54599 |
Here's the sealer I used. It's part of the DuPont system. |
| 78779 |
The sealer is shot on both to deal with any incompatibilites between types of paint, but in my case to hold out any black color bleeding through. |
| 116041 |
Shooting the base coat is simple, but with metallics you need to practice. |
| 72152 |
It's not as difficult to shoot two-part paints as it is enamel, but hey, I managed to get a slight run anyway! ;-) This is so small the next coats hid it, but any bigger and you have to let it harden and sand it off....NOT fun. |
| 91058 |
Base coat on. |
| 35690 |
Base coat is on the rockers, now I just need to blend it into the sides. |
| 39407 |
What you do is thin the basecoat paint with blender 200%. Then shoot a coat of overlap. This is the first pass. Later you thin more and overlap out. Three blend passes is plenty in my case since the paints were darned close to begin with. |
| 72138 |
Lookin' good! |
| 83450 |
Shoot on the clear coats, let it harden 24hrs, sand with 2000grit, rub with Meguiar's Fine Cut, follow with Meguiar's Swirl Remover, follow with 3M Hand Glaze... |
| 75772 |
I'm very happy with the lowered effect the painted sills impart. |
| 84648 |
Go back and look at the first picture in this set.... Look at this, then look at the next shot. |
| 54934 |
Hakuna now sports an RB Type II nose, painted side sills, and a factory spoiler. Email me if you need more info to do your own.... |