I am currently building a westfield/caterham/locost type car and need some advice on painting.

 

Since this is a low budget track day car only, I am not sending it to a paintshop.

 

I have a 25L compressor which came with a spraygun.

 

I have never painted anything before, so I have some questions.

 

Is it possible to get reasonable quality finish with this kit or should I buy a better quality spraygun? If so which one.

 

Is there anthing different I need to do when painting the steel chassis and bodytub to the glassfibre arches and boot surround? If so what?

 

Does anyone have a guide to painting or any advice for me?

 

Doesn't have to be show standard, as its only a track day car, but I want it to look nice.

I guess if you mix the paint thin enough you can get a nice finish, just be careful of runs, dont put it on too thick.

 

The steel chassis maybe could be painted with shultz? (sp?) or stonechip stuff to keep the rust away.

 

If the finish is not all that good wet flat it with some 2000 wet&dry, go and buy some G6 and a rotary mop ;)

 

HTH?

 

Rob.

 

 

Is it possible to get reasonable quality finish with this kit or should I buy a better quality spraygun? If so which one.

 

 

That all depends on what type of paint you're using. Are you going to paint in 2pk or Cellulose?

As the creator of the fridge who had never fitted a bodykit or painted before I can tell you this....

I started the project with a small compressor and a gun from machine mart. By the end of the project I had bought a big compressor and borrowed a quality gun (binks bullows) and the origional stuff was in the bin. The cheap gun could not give a big enough fan pattern to do big panels keeping the whole panel 'wet' it was like painting it in stripes with an aerosol. Also a small compressor cant keep up and you end up standing waiting for it to build up enough pressure half way through painting something. If its only small parts your painting you might get away with the kit you have if your patient and just build it up in gentle coats.