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friend totalled her truck nicely
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I'd hit it

 

Yeah single stage is integrated clear. Most people confuse single stage with paints that dont require a hardener which isnt true.

Depending on how much orange peel is in the paint I usually like to start with 1500 and finish it out with 2000 grit. If there is alot of peel or trash in the paint than you can get away with 1000 grit but you have to be careful around the edges or you will burn through the paint. Use a flat sanding block for best results. Also, mix in a little dawn dish soap into a spray bottle for wet sanding, it helps lubricate the paper and wont clog it up as fast. I used to use a bucket for wet sanding but a spray bottle is the way to go.

Are you going to polish the car yourself James?


Modified by mekanism at 5:19 PM 2/19/2007

 

yeah eventually
Mine was two stage if I'm not mistaking with mininal orang peel but enough for my to notice.

I was going to go through and do it when it starts to heat up
It aint all the bad but it aint all that great either

 

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I kinda don't wanna hear the story because its probably gonna involve some asain transvestite in a alley way or something like that </TD></TR></TABLE>

The sad thing is your probally right. ... "i was going the paint store and in the side street some asian girl signals for me...."

A buffer and someone with talent behind that could really make your hatch shine man. I would drop some loot and have some one cut the paint.

 

I was going to take it back to the people who painted but hoping that maybe wetsanding could be included with the paint job since its under warrenty and all and it didn't come out quite like I wanted but they told me it cost another $200 to wet sand. And even then they don't really reccomend it, because its white and you usually don't have to wetsand white because it doesn't show as much like dark colors and orange peel

 

i got my paint today House of color hot pink pearl with a silver base

 

pic or BAN!!

what hell are you serious

what color is the Stripe going to be??

 

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what hell are you serious

what color is the Stripe going to be??</TD></TR></TABLE>

Yes im serious and i dont think im gonna have a stripe if i do it will be black

 

yoouuurrrr crazy dude.

I wanna see you pull this off, decently. One wrong cosmetic mod will ruin the scheme.
Wheels have to match, and everything

for Anit-Cookie Cutter paint job

 

wheels

 

talk about paint...I scratched the **** out of my CRX yesturday Going back for paint in 3 weeks

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by vega_box &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">yeah eventually
Mine was two stage if I'm not mistaking with mininal orang peel but enough for my to notice.

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thats minimal? I should move to cali and paint cars...

 

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thats minimal? I should move to cali and paint cars... </TD></TR></TABLE>
yeah, that's actually quite a bit of orange peel.
Honestly, around here that would be a pretty fly *** paint job...seriously.

 

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got some of those for trade
http://hondamarketplace.com/zerothread?id=1888474

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by vega_box &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">. And even then they don't really reccomend it, because its white and you usually don't have to wetsand white because it doesn't show as much like dark colors and orange peel</TD></TR></TABLE>

cough bs cough cough bs, fuc<U></U>k that, if i paid for it i would bitch a storm at them.

 

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got some of those for trade
http://hondamarketplace.com/zerothread?id=1888474 </TD></TR></TABLE>

wanna sell them?

 

my cousin is 1st in line if i sell them, but for now there only for trade

 

Dont ever plan to sell your car after you paint it pink, noone will buy it!

 

random pics from this weekend

 

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That's funny that the shop doesnt recommend color sanding, its the only way to get a near perfect finish! Sounds like the shop is being lazy!

 

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That's funny that the shop doesnt recommend color sanding, its the only way to get a near perfect finish! Sounds like the shop is being lazy!</TD></TR></TABLE>


carcoa...

 

Looking good Shane! Glad the fenders worked out for you.

 

Thanks for the fenders, one of them is practically flawless and the other one has a small ding near the wheel well, but it can be massaged out by denttime no problem!

 

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Not too bad for a single stage paint!















I ran out of time for doing body work on the front bumper so I had to just concentrate on prepping where the blue paint is. The front didnt turn out too good because I had to rush it. Its ok though becasue I'm really good at doing touch ups! The unpainted trim pieces are being sprayed with SEM bumper texture and sprayed over with SEM trim black. Taping off the grill and trim areas was a royal PITA!

Here is a teaser pic of my new wheels, yes I know the offset is low but I like the look. Thanks Eric for the wheels!

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Fish eye or trash how u get fish eyes in single stage

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by mekanism &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Yeah single stage is integrated clear. Most people confuse single stage with paints that dont require a hardener which isnt true.

Depending on how much orange peel is in the paint I usually like to start with 1500 and finish it out with 2000 grit. If there is alot of peel or trash in the paint than you can get away with 1000 grit but you have to be careful around the edges or you will burn through the paint. Use a flat sanding block for best results. Also, mix in a little dawn dish soap into a spray bottle for wet sanding, it helps lubricate the paper and wont clog it up as fast. I used to use a bucket for wet sanding but a spray bottle is the way to go.

Are you going to polish the car yourself James?


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**** man u better start with some 600 on that