!!!!My Bro's Electron Blue Pearl Paint Job on a Civic!!!!!Lots of Pics!!!!
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DIY Electron Blue Pearl Paint Job on a Civic !!!!Lots of Pics!!!!
***Pics of My Bro's G2 Integra on Page 3***
We used PPG paint and clear. All the sand paper was 3M. We did the paint job in our garage...hehehe, sounds crazy huh. All this was done for under $400, that doesn't include HVLP spray gun and compressor. We bought 3 quarts of paint and reducers for around $200 and bought 1 quart of clear for around $100. The rest was sand papers, tape, and papers.
Here it was my bro, my bro-in-law, and me sanding down the car with 500 grit 3M sand paper. By the way, we are wet sanding.
Here we are taping up the car and covering the wheels of the car. This is the longest process.
My bro is painting the door jams first, and later will paint the outside all at once.
We didn't wanna take off the doors, but if you like it to be perfect, you can take it out.
He also painted inside the trunk....this was just the first 2 coats...there's no whites at the end.
Here he is painting the roof....sliding down the sun/moon roof so that the inside is painted as well..Not the interior. We taped underneath the sun roof so that no paint will get in.
Now that all jams, trunk, and under hood are painted. he went on and painted the outside.
It gets very foggy in the garage as u can see.
Here is a finish paint of the car without clear coat yet.
Here it is after he painted 3 coats of clear.
We took it outside for a good look, to see if we missed any spots.
Then he painted the bumpers, side skirts, and mirrors.
After all was done, he sanded the car with i think 1500 or 3000 grit sand paper and used some compound to remove little rough imperfections on the surface. And after that, buffed the entire car with 3M polishing compound. I don't have pics of this process.
Here is the finish piece.
Modified by siblue_gzer at 3:44 PM 8/19/2005
We used PPG paint and clear. All the sand paper was 3M. We did the paint job in our garage...hehehe, sounds crazy huh. All this was done for under $400, that doesn't include HVLP spray gun and compressor. We bought 3 quarts of paint and reducers for around $200 and bought 1 quart of clear for around $100. The rest was sand papers, tape, and papers.
Here it was my bro, my bro-in-law, and me sanding down the car with 500 grit 3M sand paper. By the way, we are wet sanding.
Here we are taping up the car and covering the wheels of the car. This is the longest process.
My bro is painting the door jams first, and later will paint the outside all at once.
We didn't wanna take off the doors, but if you like it to be perfect, you can take it out.
He also painted inside the trunk....this was just the first 2 coats...there's no whites at the end.
Here he is painting the roof....sliding down the sun/moon roof so that the inside is painted as well..Not the interior. We taped underneath the sun roof so that no paint will get in.
Now that all jams, trunk, and under hood are painted. he went on and painted the outside.
It gets very foggy in the garage as u can see.
Here is a finish paint of the car without clear coat yet.
Here it is after he painted 3 coats of clear.
We took it outside for a good look, to see if we missed any spots.
Then he painted the bumpers, side skirts, and mirrors.
After all was done, he sanded the car with i think 1500 or 3000 grit sand paper and used some compound to remove little rough imperfections on the surface. And after that, buffed the entire car with 3M polishing compound. I don't have pics of this process.
Here is the finish piece.
Modified by siblue_gzer at 3:44 PM 8/19/2005
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Re: DIY Electron Blue Pearl Paint Job on a Civic !!!!Lots of Pics!!!! (THE PLAYER)
very nice diy......my only concern would be potential theives thinking your car is an si because of the color......but who knows??
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Re: DIY Electron Blue Pearl Paint Job on a Civic !!!!Lots of Pics!!!! (lightsleeper)
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by lightsleeper »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">very nice diy......my only concern would be potential theives thinking your car is an si because of the color......but who knows??</TD></TR></TABLE>
exactly...
exactly...
